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Journalism & Media

Groundbreaking Journalist Dorothy Gilliam Gives BU a Gift of History

February 21, 2025

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Giving

Giving Tuesday: an Opportunity to Help Build a Better World

December 2, 2024

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Higher Education

What Is the Role of Universities after October 7?

October 9, 2024

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Campus Life

This Year’s TEDxBU Talks: Childhood, Privilege—and Fungi

April 25, 2024

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Arts & Culture

New Campus Exhibition Explores What It’s Like to Be “Fat on Campus”

February 20, 2024

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PHOTO ESSAY

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s Civic Summit Draws a Crowd to BU

January 16, 2024

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Watch Now

Video: Stress ReLeaf: Weekly Tea Workshop Offers a Place for Students to Relax, Unwind

September 15, 2023

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DEAN OF STUDENTS

Dean of Students Jason Campbell-Foster Is Rarely at His Desk. And That’s How He Likes It

September 14, 2023

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University News

Howard Thurman Center Taps Veteran Staffer as New Leader

May 23, 2023

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WEEKENDER

The Weekender: March 30 to April 2

March 29, 2023

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Academics

BU Launches New Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Major

October 24, 2022

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BIPOC Wellness Fair

Wellness Fair for BU’s BIPOC Community at Thurman Center Wednesday

February 14, 2022

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Campus Life

Despite Pandemic, Howard Thurman Center Is Still BU’s “Campus Living Room”

April 14, 2021

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Things-to-do

The Weekender: February 18 to 21

February 18, 2021

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MLK DAY

Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. (GRS’55, Hon.’59) amid Tumult in America

January 15, 2021

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#GivingTuesday

BU’s Seventh Annual #GivingTuesday Is Today

December 1, 2020

Portrait of Katherine Kennedy at the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground

Howard Thurman Center

Katherine Kennedy’s Journey from Childhood Sadness to Howard Thurman Center Director

October 19, 2020

Photo of a computer with speakers from Boston University's Day of Collective Engagement to Reflect on American Racism, hosted on Zoom. On screen, Ibram X. Kendi, Paula Austin, Louis Chude-Sokei, and Saida Grundy as they speak during the opening plenary.

Racism

Pain, Anger, and Hope as BU Comes Together to Talk Race and Racism

June 24, 2020

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University News

President Brown: “We Grieve for Our Country”

June 1, 2020

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Howard Thurman Center

Take a Tour of the New and Expanded Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground

January 21, 2020

Take a Tour of the New and Expanded Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground