Boston University

Racism

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Equal Pay

New Wage Gap Calculator Aims to Help Close Earnings Gap

April 19, 2022

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Mass Incarceration

Sociologist Jessica Simes’ New Book Explores the Toll of Mass Incarceration and Its Racial Disparities

February 1, 2022

Social Sciences

How Technology Has Transformed Social and Behavioral Research

December 6, 2021

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Social Justice

Human Rights Activist and Music Educator André de Quadros Recognized for Career Dedicated to Justice and the Arts

November 29, 2021

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Physical Therapy

For Knee Replacement, Physical Therapy Reduces Risk of Chronic Opioid Use

October 27, 2021

Literature

Trent Masiki’s Afroethnic Renewal: Six Afro-Latino Memoirists You Should Know

September 15, 2021

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Environmental Health

As Temperatures Set Records, Heat Exposure Hits Some Neighborhoods Harder than Others

June 25, 2021

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Addressing Inequalities

“Let Us Be the Architects of a New World”: Moms in Academia Speak Out to Address Workplace Inequalities

March 9, 2021

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Talking to Kids about Race

If Babies and Toddlers Can Detect Race, Why Do So Many Parents Avoid Talking about It?

November 9, 2020

A photograph of Constance Duncan, 75, who died of covid-19 in May, was placed by her son, Chris, at the COVID Memorial Project's interfaith memorial service to honor the 200,000 people who died due to coronavirus on the National Mall on Tuesday, September 22, 2020. 20,000 American Flags were placed in the grass to honor those who succumbed to the disease.

DEATH TOLL

Analysis Finds True US Pandemic Death Toll Is Much Higher Than 200,000

October 5, 2020

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Performance Arts

Why Policing the Way Voices Sound Has to Stop

September 17, 2020

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Music Education

How One BU Researcher Is Empowering Prisoners with Music

August 26, 2020

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Racism & Cognitive Health

Experiencing Racism May Damage Memory, Cognition

July 23, 2020

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Antiracism

Striking Out Racist Terminology in Engineering

July 16, 2020

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Wage Gap

Salary History Bans Help Narrow Racial, Gender Wage Gaps

July 8, 2020

Biomedical engineers in BU professor Allyson Sgro’s lab participated in a workshop to develop individualized action plans and then joined up in person with other members of the community. Together, they met up with a #ShutDownSTEM/Black Lives Matter march walking from Roxbury’s Nubian Square to Boston City Hall.

STEM ON STRIKE

BU Researchers #ShutDownSTEM to Combat Racism

June 12, 2020

On Saturday, June 6, people carried signs protesting police brutality at the University of Massachusetts in Boston after the death of George Floyd.

Policing and Racial Injustice

Tapping into the Lived Experiences of People in Black Communities Is Key to Police Reform Efforts

June 10, 2020

Structural Racism

Police Brutality Influenced by Residential Segregation, Not “a Few Bad Apples”

June 2, 2020

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Battling Bigotry

How Bigotry Has Shaped Civil Rights, Marriage Equality, and Now the Coronavirus Pandemic

May 29, 2020

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Climate Change & Coronavirus

In Boston, COVID-19 and Climate Change Are Hitting the Same Communities the Hardest

April 22, 2020

In Boston, COVID-19 and Climate Change Are Hitting the Same Communities the Hardest