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5 days ago | mainepublic.org | Jennifer Rooks |Iselin Bratz |Cindy Han

For Pride Month, we learn about different communities that have played an important role in LGBTQ+ history in Maine. What homes, businesses, neighborhoods and towns have provided places for Maine's LGBTQ+ community to gather, celebrate and survive? How is the current political climate emphasizing the need for safe spaces? We'll also find out about Pride Month events happening across the state.

1 month ago | berkeleybeacon.com | Adri Pray |Iselin Bratz

At its final meeting of the academic year, the faculty assembly on Tuesday voted in a slate of candidates to serve as the body’s officers and committee representatives for the next academic year, approved a list of graduates for the class of 2025, and awarded Chair Nelli Sargsyan with the Faculty Service Award.

1 month ago | berkeleybeacon.com | Iselin Bratz |Izzy Bryars

Boston was the scene of many “firsts” for the United States. From the in the Thirteen Colonies to discovering the inoculation for smallpox, many inventions that modern day Americans enjoy were created in Massachusetts around the time of the Revolutionary War.

1 month ago | berkeleybeacon.com | Iselin Bratz |Bryan Hecht |Sam Shipman

On Monday, the Living Learning Community at Kasteel Well hosted students, politicians, artists, academics, and scientists for the first-ever Kasteel Well Forum in the final days of the spring 2025 semester. An all-day event attended by a crowd of roughly 150, the forum marked the first time in the Kasteel program’s 40-year history that stakeholders from the community of Well and surrounding local areas were invited onto campus to see how students are learning and interacting with Dutch culture.

2 months ago | berkeleybeacon.com | Iselin Bratz |Adri Pray

Anna Feder, former curator of the Bright Lights Film Series, filed a lawsuit against Emerson College on Tuesday alleging that the college wrongfully terminated her because of her “personal political activism.” Feder, who was employed at the college for 17 years before she was laid off with nine other employees over the summer, alleges she was fired after screening the film “Israelism,” a 2023 documentary that tackles how attitudes toward the state of Israel are changing for some young...