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Racism

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Safety

New BUPD Chief Brings a Public Health Approach to His Role

September 29, 2023

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University News

As BU Launches Inquiry into Center for Antiracist Research, Interim President Freeman Explains Goal and Reasoning

September 21, 2023

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Student Voices

Why the History of Enslavement on the Freedom Trail Matters

August 29, 2023

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Affirmative Action

Supreme Court Guts Affirmative Action in College Admissions, Provides Scant Guidance for Universities

June 29, 2023

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Maternal Health

US Olympian Tori Bowie’s Death Underscores Maternal Mortality Crisis in the United States

June 26, 2023

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Voices & Opinion

POV: Reflecting on the Lessons of Juneteenth

June 14, 2023

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Books

Ibram Kendi, Joel Christian Gill Team up for New Graphic Version of Kendi’s Stamped From the Beginning

June 5, 2023

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Voices & Opinion

POV: Where’s Antiracism in the BU Hub?

April 28, 2023

Photo: Abdulrazak Gurnah , Professor Muhammad Zaman (left) and Professor Carrie Preston sit at the front of Morse Auditorium on April 24, 2023. (from left) a tan man wearing a light blue collared shirt and navy blue suit looks and writes on sheets of paper, a Black man with white hair and a gray trimmed beard wearing a light blue collared shirt, blue blazer, and dark grey pants is turned to his right as he talks and gesticulates to a white woman wearing a red blazer, black dress, and black tights. They all sit in black chairs in front of a white background. A small table is at the center of them holding small plastic cups of water.

Arts & Culture

Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah Speaks of Migrants and Memory—and That Call from Sweden

April 25, 2023

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Academics

CAS Writing Program Offers New Social Justice Emphasis

April 21, 2023

9/21/22 -- Boston, MA Melisa Osborne leads a multi-disciplinary CAS class taking a look at the racism implicit in science and healthcare and trying to unpack it. Photo by Cydney Scott

Academics

New Fellowship Program Aims to Bring Antiracism into BU Curricula

March 10, 2023

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Black History Month

What “Black Resistance” Means to Me

February 15, 2023

Photo: Melisa Osborne, a woman wearing a blue face mask and floral burgundy dress, leads a multi-disciplinary CAS class taking a look at the racism implicit in science and healthcare and trying to unpack it. She stands in front of a large lecture class room facing the class as she lectures.

Life Sciences

This BU Class Aims to Undo a History of Racism in Science and Healthcare

December 12, 2022

White supremacist nazis hang a sign over the 405 freeway reading "Kanye is right about the jews"

Anti-Semitism

With Anti-Semitism on the Rise, a New BU Course Takes Shape

November 10, 2022

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Teaching History

Ibram X. Kendi Wants Children, and Teachers, to Challenge How History Is Taught

October 30, 2022

Photo: Wooden crosses mark the graves of Izium residents killed by Russian occupiers during exhumation procedures at a mass burial site in Izium that was liberated by the Ukrainian Armed Forces from Russian troops, Kharkiv Region, northeastern Ukraine. Numerous mounds of dirt are marked by crosses in a wooded area. A tape is pulled across the scene, with Ukrainian writing on it.

Academics

BU Launches New Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Major

October 24, 2022

Dawn Belkin Martinez (center), a School of Social Work clinical associate professor, with graduate students Noor Toraif (CAS’16, SSW’23) (left) and Greer Hamilton (SSW’24), who worked with her to create a free online course on structural racism. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi

Academics

School of Social Work Offers Free Online Course for Understanding Structural Racism

October 11, 2022

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Racism

Six Decades after Reverse Freedom Rides, Ugly History Repeats

September 22, 2022

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Voices & Opinion

POV: Antisemitic Mapping Project Likely to Lead to More Anti-Jewish Violence

June 16, 2022

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Community Voices

Two Years after George Floyd’s Murder, What’s Changed? What’s Next?

May 24, 2022

Two Years after George Floyd’s Murder, What’s Changed? What’s Next?