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CAMBRIDGE — The Cambridgeport Elementary School librarian, who triggered a firestorm of criticism after penning an open letter in which she laid out her political reasons for not accepting a gift of 10 Dr. Seuss books from First Lady Melania Trump, apparently forgot that the Internet has a memory strong enough
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BOSTON — Days after hundreds of National Football League players who took a knee or linked arms during the national anthem helped inject a healthy dose of politics into sports, representatives from New England's five major league sports franchises gathered at Fenway Park to launch a new anti-racism initiative.
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BOSTON — The last time he traveled to Beacon Hill to testify against physician-assisted suicide legislation, Dr. William Lawton spoke as a physician. On Tuesday, he spoke as a patient.
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The United States Military Academy is now oddly linked to former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and the growing trend of National Football League players electing to take a knee during the singing of the national anthem. The West Point connection surfaced this week after a recent graduate posted
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The trend of National Football League players electing to take a knee during the singing of the national anthem, launched last year by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick as a means of protesting alleged racial biases in the criminal justice system, soared to new highs Sunday after President
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The Obama-era "preponderance of evidence" standard used to adjudicate allegations of campus sexual assault — in which the accused is barred from directly questioning his or her accuser — is officially over. On Friday the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights announced the scrapping of
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An English professor at a public Bay State university who recently made headlines after a student shared a series of his expletive-filled anti-Donald Trump social media posts will not be losing his position anytime soon, according to a statement released by Bridgewater State University. "A member of our campus
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Reviews are trickling out of Toronto, where the Hollywood docudrama Chappaquiddick held its first screening, and word is that the film in unflinching in its retelling of the circumstances leading up to and after the drowning death of Mary Jo Kopechne in July 1969. Specifically, prominent critics are claiming that