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1 week ago | 
mainepublic.org | Ari Snider |Iselin Bratz
The Maine House today narrowly advanced a bill limiting state and local law enforcement's ability to proactively cooperate with federal immigration enforcement, following over an hour of emotional testimony from lawmakers. The bill, which passed by a single vote, generally prohibits state and local law enforcement from stopping, interrogating, or detaining someone based on immigration status alone.
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1 week ago | 
mainepublic.org | Molly Enking |Iselin Bratz
Organizers in dozens of Maine communities held 'No Kings' protests Saturday. The rallies were planned to coincide with Saturday's military parade in Washington, D.C. in honor of the Army's 250th birthday, which was also Flag Day and President Donald Trump's 79th birthday. The protests also come on the heels of the Trump administration deploying the National Guard and Marines to quell protests of ICE deportations in Los Angeles.
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3 weeks 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.
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2 months 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.
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2 months 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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2 months 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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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...
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Mar 26, 2025 | 
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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Mar 20, 2025 | 
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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Mar 19, 2025 | 
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.
