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1 week 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.
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1 week 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.
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3 weeks 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...
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4 weeks ago | 
berkeleybeacon.com | Iselin Bratz |Adri Pray |Yogev Toby |Meg Richards
Reiko Hillyer, an associate professor of history at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, gave the keynote address at the EPI conference on Tuesday to discuss the “rise and fall” of access to society incarcerated individuals have nationwide.
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1 month ago | 
berkeleybeacon.com | Adri Pray |Iselin Bratz
A snare drum, several bullhorns, and approximately 70 people amplified the demands of Boylston Students for Justice in Palestine, an unaffiliated Emerson student organization, during a walkout Thursday afternoon to condemn the conflict in the Gaza Strip. The protest began at 1 p.m. at the entrance of the 2 Boylston Place Alley with leaders draped in keffiyehs, masks, and black clothes renouncing the recent violation of a ceasefire in the Middle East.
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1 month ago | 
berkeleybeacon.com | Iselin Bratz |Adri Pray
President Jay Bernhardt unveiled Emerson College’s strategic plan earlier this week, a list of priorities meant to serve as a “roadmap” to guide the college’s mission over the next five years as the institution reaches its 150th anniversary in 2030.
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1 month ago | 
berkeleybeacon.com | Iselin Bratz |Izzy Bryars
The “Blackout Block Party” inside the Piano Row Skybox and the Bobbi Brown and Steven Plofker Gym was filled with friends, faculty, family, games, and food on Feb. 21 for a Black History Month celebration hosted by EBONI, Emerson’s Black Organization of Natural Interests. Senior creative writing major, Stepyhne Weathersby, a member of EBONI who organized the event, said the idea behind the block party was simple.
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2 months ago | 
berkeleybeacon.com | Iselin Bratz |Madalyn Jimiera |Adri Pray
Dozens of protesters affiliated with Boylston Students for Justice in Palestine, a group of students advocating for a free Palestine, demonstrated in front of Emerson College’s Ansin building Friday afternoon immediately after publishing a list of demands that renewed the group’s previous calls for the removal of the interim expression policies, financial transparency, and divestment from Israeli affiliates.
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2 months ago | 
berkeleybeacon.com | Iselin Bratz |Izzy Bryars
A moving MBTA Green Line train struck an out-of-service train sitting at the East Somerville station just after midnight on Feb 9. Five people—four train operators and one passenger—were sent to the hospital. One passenger was admitted and later released with a reported neck injury, the T said in a statement to the Beacon. As the MBTA was scrambling to get shuttle buses replacing service after the crash, thousands of passengers were left figuring out how to get home.
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2 months ago | 
berkeleybeacon.com | Iselin Bratz |Izzy Bryars
The Department of Journalism hosted a screening of “The Palestine Exception” Wednesday, Feb. 19 in the Bright Family Screening Room in Paramount Center. A discussion followed the screening with a crowd of a few dozen students and staff was led by visual media arts professor John Gianvito, journalism professor Doug Struck, and the former curator of Emerson’s Bright Lights Cinema series, Anna Feder.
