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BU’s Class of 2020 returned to campus 17 months after graduating for their official Commencement ceremony.

As the Biden administration assembles its growing team, 16 BU alums are either moving to Washington or extending their stay in the area.

The Transcript Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is known as a crusader for civil rights and social justice, and on Saturday, May 15, she called the BU School of Law Class of 2021 to action, telling the graduates that they are the ones who can help build the world anew in the wake of “a global pandemic [that has] exposed the cracks of our fractured society.” That call to action rang out in speeches throughout the University’s Commencement weekend, including in Sunday’s keynote Commencement address to undergraduates by US Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) (Hon.�...

H.B. No. 6657: Connecticut’s remedy to human trafficking Ending human trafficking and protecting endangered children must become a policy priority in Connecticut. This year the judiciary committee introduced H.B. No. 6657: An act concerning human trafficking. This bill raises some important and necessary statutory remedies to issues regarding human trafficking in Connecticut. For many, human trafficking means the sexual exploitation of young men and women. In reality, it is much more than that. Human trafficking is defined as any situation of exploitation that a person cannot refuse or leav...

Twitter Facebook Last Wednesday evening Sarah Sherman-Stokes put her sons, ages five and seven, to bed, logged on to her computer to catch up on work, began scrolling through her Twitter feed—and the news of President Biden’s executive orders (Eos) revoking a number of Donald Trump’s anti-immigration policies, including the “Muslim ban”—and, as she would put it the next morning, she finally exhaled.  She tweeted: “Is this what it’s like to take a breath? (asking for myself).”  Sure, she already had criticisms of the immigration bill Biden was expected to send to Cong...