Joel Brown

Newburyport

Writer and Editor at Freelance

Harris/Walz LFG! Fight climate change, war, hatred and rising fascism. Still pissed about the Mookie deal.

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Articles

In "Sinners," Bluesmen and Vampires Face Off

1 week ago | bu.edu | Joel Brown

Two BU faculty unpack Ryan Coogler’s hit horror film, set in 1930s Mississippi Delta Film & TV Two BU faculty unpack Ryan Coogler’s hit horror film, set in 1930s Mississippi Delta Twitter Facebook SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for the movie Sinners. Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is the most talked-about movie of the moment. Coogler (Black Panther)depicts ancient African griots, Mississippi sharecroppers, and Chicago bluesmen as links in the same chain,giving vent to Black joy and...
Inner Strength Gospel Choir Finds Its Way Under New Director

4 weeks ago | bu.edu | Joel Brown

Arts & Culture Spring concert Friday marks capstone of first season for Andrew Marshall Twitter Facebook When the Inner Strength Gospel Choir holds its annual spring concert Friday night at Marsh Chapel, it will be, as it always is, an occasion for music and fellowship. It will also mark the close of the Boston University student ensemble’s first season under its new director, Andrew Marshall. Marshall has “created a welcoming space where we’re not just singing—we’re building relationships...
Sargent College’s OT Program Is Top in U.S. News Rankings for Fourth Consecutive Year

1 month ago | bu.edu | Joel Brown

University News School of Public Health ranked 7th in the nation Twitter Facebook For the fourth straight year, Boston University’s Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences retained its best-in-the-nation spot among occupational therapy (OT) programs in U.S. News & World Report’slatest rankings of best graduate schools, released this week. The 2025 U.S. News rankings also named Sargent’s speech-language pathology program 5th in the nation for the second year in a row. “These...
BU Graduate Schools Rise in 2025 U.S. News Rankings

1 month ago | bu.edu | Joel Brown

Business, education, engineering, and law and medicine’s Physician Assistant program all up in latest list University News Business, education, engineering, and law and medicine’s Physician Assistant program all up in latest list Twitter Facebook Four Boston University schools rose in the latest set of graduate school rankings from U.S. News & World Report, among them the School of Law, which rose 2 places to a tie for 22th overall among law schools. “BU Law has long been home to exceptional...
BU’s Cinema & Media Studies Program Celebrates 10 Years

1 month ago | bu.edu | Joel Brown |Cydney Scott

Film & TV CAS classes take a deep dive into the theory and aesthetics of filmmaking Twitter Facebook Filmmaker Dillon Bentlage says, with a smile, that he might not have been paying enough attention when he decided to major in Cinema & Media Studies at BU a decade ago. “Halfway through my major, I realized I wasn’t taking any classes about screenwriting, directing, or cinematography, and I was eager to start,” Bentlage (CAS’18) said during a small gala to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the...
Can Missy Mazzoli Help Reinvent Opera in America?

1 month ago | bu.edu | Joel Brown

In 2024 alone, the CFA alum, composer, and performer earned rave reviews, won a big prize, was up for two Grammys, and worked on a major commission from the Metropolitan Opera. She’s also committed to widening the path for women in the art form.
BU School of Social Work Makes a “Transformative” Hire for Childhood Equity

1 month ago | bu.edu | Joel Brown

Social Work Nationally renowned researcher Dolores Acevedo-Garcia launches Institute for Equity in Child Opportunity & Healthy Development Twitter Facebook When it comes to helping kids succeed, a handful of factors have been proven to give them the best shot at a happy and healthy life: quality schools, clean air, parks and playgrounds, access to healthcare, families earning sufficient salaries and benefits. So how can it be, in this modern age, that many children still lack those...
Data Days for Good Gets Students to Address Real-World Challenges

1 month ago | bu.edu | Joel Brown |Cydney Scott

MassMutual and BU Spark! collaboration offers hands-on opportunity for Terriers to use their computer and data skills Student Life MassMutual and BU Spark! collaboration offers hands-on opportunity for Terriers to use their computer and data skills Twitter Facebook Crunch time hit just after 1:30 last Thursday afternoon in Room 1148C in MassMutual’s offices high above Boston’s Seaport District. The five BU students on Team Weber gathered in front of a big screen for a final run-through of...
Algae, Disease-Bearing Ticks, Erratic Snowfall, Tainted Oysters, Rising Insurance, Extreme Temperatures—This is Climate Change in New England

2 months ago | bu.edu | Joel Brown

Climate Change Boston University scholars in environment, public health, marine science, and more weigh in.
John Wilson’s Art of Black Humanity

2 months ago | bu.edu | Joel Brown

Arts & Culture MFA offers career retrospective of the late BU professor, complete with a comic by CFA students Twitter Facebook The soul of John Wilson’s work is an insistence that Black people be fully seen in all their humanity. Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson, the largest-ever exhibition of work by the late painter, sculptor, and Boston University professor has just opened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and will be on view through June 22. “Wilson spoke very early on as a...