Meg Richards

3 weeks ago | berkeleybeacon.com | Josie Arteaga |Adri Pray |Meg Richards

The Berkeley Beacon stands with The Tufts Daily. After the detainment in broad daylight of Rumeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University doctoral student arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in front of her Somerville home on March 25, there are no rules. Öztürk was seemingly targeted because of an opinion piece she co-authored in The Tufts Daily in support of Palestine, which chastised the university.

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.

1 month ago | berkeleybeacon.com | Meg Richards |Hannah Hughes

The Tony Award-winning revival of Jason Robert Brown’s musical “Parade” marched into Emerson’s Colonial Theater on March 11. “Parade” was adapted into a musical by Alfred Uhry (book) and Jason Robert Brown (music and lyrics). It premiered in 1998 and got its Broadway revival two years ago. “Parade” tells the story of Leo Frank, who was convicted for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan in Georgia in 1913.

1 month ago | berkeleybeacon.com | Jordan Pagkalinawan |Meg Richards

As March Madness kicks off, all eyes are on the court for the next two weeks—but don’t discount the ladies. These teams are stacked with strong women in this year’s Div. I Basketball NCAA championship game, and you should be watching them, too. With 68 teams in the women’s NCAA tournament vying for the championship, Selection Sunday told us who would be holding the top seed spots across regions, including the no. 1 spot—held by UCLA, repping the SoCal region along with USC.

1 month ago | berkeleybeacon.com | Meg Richards |Izzy Bryars

Pope Francis has been receiving treatment for almost three weeks for bilateral pneumonia in Rome’s Gemelli Hospital. The Vatican’s Holy See Press Office has been updating the public daily on his health status, which based on updates is improving but still being closely “guarded.”As of March 5, which falls on Ash Wednesday this year, the Vatican said the Pope was stable, experiencing no new health crisis, but still recovering.