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Music

UPDATE: WTBU Cancels Virtual Benefit Concert for Massachusetts Bail Fund

August 7, 2020

A photo of "House of Koi" by Lillian Li

Books

COM Student Pens YA Novel about Identity, Cultural Conflict, and Malaysian Culture

July 31, 2020

Photo of a group of Chelsea, Mass. residents lined up, many in sweatshirts or jackets, to pick up food at a food pantry. The photo shows a long line on the other side of the street, with a car and a "Resident Parking Only" Sign in the foreground. The photo is black and white.

Academics

MET Class Offers Lessons in the Power of Language to Remake the World

July 29, 2020

A photo of Pygmalion cast members rehearsing via Zoom on July 21

Stage Troupe

BU Stage Troupe Hosts Virtual Summer Festival

July 24, 2020

Composite image headshots for playwrights Melinda Lopez, Kate Snodgrass, and Kirsten Greenidge

Huntington Theatre Company

Dreaming of Boston, When the Pandemic Is Behind Us

July 24, 2020

The Emancipation Group statue in Boston's Park Square. The statue shows Abraham Lincoln towering over a crouched and half-naked formerly enslaved man, Archer Alexander.

Arts & Culture

How a BU Art History Scholar Helped Boston Rethink Its Emancipation Memorial

July 21, 2020

A photo of Gunda Trepp reading at a podium

Arts & Culture

BU’s Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies Hosts Virtual Summer Reading Series

July 21, 2020

A photo of the season four cast of Vanderpump Rules

Film & TV

Can Vanderpump Rules and Temptation Island Still Exist in a Coronavirus World?

July 17, 2020

Portrait of CAS Religion Professor Kecia Ali in an office surrounded by books. She shits in an armchair holding a book, and doesn't wear shows.

Gender

Kecia Ali to Examine Gender Bias in Academia

July 15, 2020

Photo of a lavender cupcake. The cupcake is vanilla with white frosting, and lavender flowers are sprinkled on top. The image is top lit and the background is dark.

Quarantine Cooking

Stress-Cooking and Stress-Baking More These Days? You’re Not Alone

July 15, 2020

Photo of a computer, haggadah, and candles with a seder plate in the background. On the computer zoom call participants are seen.

Documentary Film

Documenting How Pandemic Lockdown Changed Eternal City’s Religions

July 8, 2020

A photo of the middle eastern singers on stage from the Global Music Festival

Arts & Culture

BU Global Music Festival Gets $15K Grant from National Endowment for the Arts

July 2, 2020

Portait of Ibram X. Kendi in a gray suit with his hands on a desk in front of him. Kendi is a leading historian and author of the bestselling 'How to be an Antiracist.'

Accolades

Ibram X. Kendi Awarded BU’s Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities

July 1, 2020

A photo of Adil Najam standing in front of a bookcase in his home with his arms crossed in front of himself

Coronavirus

#WorldAfterCorona—Adil Najam’s Crash Course on the Future

July 1, 2020

Two illustrations of Billie Jean King standing on a platform raising a medal above her head. Next, is an illustration of Alvin Ailey in a white shirt and dark pants dancing with a dance squad behind them.

LGBTQ+ Literature

New Illustrated Book by CAS Alum Introduces Young Readers to LGBTQ+ History

June 30, 2020

Coronavirus

Photographing Boston under COVID-19: A Personal Vision in Black-and-White

June 29, 2020

Photo of Terry Everson, the primary instructor of trumpet performance in CFA's School of Music and how son, Peter pose for a photo at their Framingham home on June 19 ,2020. Terry wears a bright blue and red floral shirt and holds a trumpet, leans and looks towards his son who wears a white shirt and holds a trumpet as well.

Music

Father, Son/Teacher, Pupil

June 22, 2020

Photo taken by Lu Ping (ENG’24) atop a camel in the Sahara Desert in Morocco. A person dressed in blue white a white head covering is seen leading the camel in the orangey desert sand.

Photography

A Dazzling View of the World, Courtesy of the BU Community

June 18, 2020

Composite image of book covers of the following books: Lucy, by Jamaica Kincaid (1990), Aye, and Gomorrah, by Samuel R. Delany (1967), The Women, by Hilton Als (1996), Black No More, George S. Schuyler (1931), The Wine of Astonishment, by Earl Lovelace (1982, Corregidora, by Gayl Jones (1975)

Must-Reads by Black authors

For #BlackoutBestsellerList Movement, Six Must-Read Books

June 17, 2020

Portrait of Myq Kaplan. He wears a blue sweatshirt in front of an orange background.

Comedy

Alum Myq Kaplan Releases New Comedy Album

June 17, 2020

Alum Myq Kaplan Releases New Comedy Album