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Emerson College’s only independent, student-run newspaper since 1947

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Emerson College’s only independent, student-run newspaper since 1947

The Berkeley Beacon

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A group of women dances through the Japan Festival grounds carrying a mikoshi, a portable shrine, on their shoulders on Boston Common on Sunday, April 28, 2024. (Madla Walsh/Beacon Staff)

Photos: Japan Festival returns to Boston

May 3, 2024

The Japan Festival Boston returned to Boston on Saturday and Sunday after a five-year hiatus. Cherry blossom petals swirled in the air around the many...

Student arraignments take place at the Boston Municipal Court House on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, at 9 a.m. (Nick Peace for the Beacon).

Students arraigned Wednesday receive community service for April 25 arrests

May 1, 2024

Thirty protesters arrested on April 25 were arraigned on May 1 at 9 a.m. at the Boston Municipal Courthouse, just some of a series of arraignments since...

Boston City Hall. (Ashlyn Wang/Beacon Staff)

Boston City Council calls for “immediate and permanent” ceasefire in Gaza

May 1, 2024

The Boston City Council passed a resolution 11-2 in support of calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza at its meeting on Wednesday. Councilors Ruthzee...

Eric Alexander, chair of the Board of Trustees, yells “Back the fuck up” at Bryan Edouard, a student speaker at the town hall, on Monday, April 29, 2024. (Rian Nelson/Beacon Staff)

‘History will remember where you stand’: Students, faculty, staff testify at town hall regarding April 25 arrests

April 30, 2024

Members of the Emerson community gathered in the Semel Theater in the Tufte Building for a moderated town hall Monday morning to discuss the events...

Mayor Michelle Wu answers questions after a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the reopening of City Hall Plaza on Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. (Ashlyn Wang/Beacon Staff)

Mayor Wu cancels Harvard event following withdrawal of student sponsors due to Emerson encampment police response

April 28, 2024

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu canceled an event at Harvard University scheduled for April 30 after 11 student affinity groups sponsoring the event pulled their...

Photos of arrests of 118 protesters at Emerson College

Scenes from the arrests of 108 protesters in the 2B alley

April 25, 2024
108 protesters were arrested earlier today in the 2 Boylston Place alley, the same number of individuals arrested at Columbia University that Emerson protesters were expressing their solidarity for. It is not known the exact number of Emerson College students arrested, but officials say that a majority of the protesters were arrested for disturbing the peace.
Boston Police Officers gathered in the Massachusetts Transportation Building on Thursday, April 25. (Nick Peace for the Beacon)

DEVELOPING STORY: The latest on 2 Boylston Place ‘Popular University Encampment’

April 25, 2024

May 1 by 7:00 p.m. - All sticky notes have been removed from Ansin Building May 1 at 4:40 p.m. - Protesters disperse from outside Ansin Building May...

CPLA members during a tour of the State Department in front of the Wall of Flags. (Photo courtesy of Gregory Payne)

CPLA members take on Washington, D.C. for annual trip

April 24, 2024

Members of Emerson’s Communication, Politics, and Law Association (CPLA) took their annual trip to Washington, D.C., from April 11 to April 14, engaging...

Brooke Taylor and additional Girls State participants in Girls State, now streaming on Apple TV+.

Democracy gets a makeover in Apple TV+’s ‘Girls State’

April 18, 2024

When 500 young girls gather in one crowded room and begin to form their government, one might wonder, what could go wrong? Or, most importantly, what could...

He ran the Boston Marathon. His wife found a unique way to support him.

He ran the Boston Marathon. His wife found a unique way to support him.

April 17, 2024

While thousands of runners ran the Boston Marathon on Monday, devoted wife Suzzanne Bright competed in her own race through the city’s side roads and...

2024 Boston Marathon: Stories racing to and beyond the finish line

‘The beauty of Boston’: Thousands experience sunny 128th Boston Marathon

April 17, 2024

With sunny skies and temperatures that climbed to the mid-60s, marathon Monday looked a little different compared to last year’s cool and rainy weather. While...

Team Hoyt cycles

Team Hoyt cycles, runs, and cheers to honor 10th anniversary of last marathon finish for late Rick and Dick Hoyt

April 15, 2024

Today’s 128th Boston Marathon was marked by many important milestones. On its most tender note, the race commemorated the 10th anniversary since the...

Best signs of 2024 Boston Marathon

“Kiss me if you love the Patriots”: Best signs of 2024 Boston Marathon

April 15, 2024

See the Beacon's full coverage on the 2024 Boston Marathon.                      

Emerson faculty and alumni to run the 2024 Boston Marathon for charity

Emerson faculty and alumni to run the 2024 Boston Marathon for charity

April 14, 2024
Tomorrow, Emerson students and faculty will be only a few blocks away from the 2024 Boston Marathon finish line where they can watch the roughly 30,000 registered runners take on the historic course.
Illustration Rachel Choi

Crooke’s Cage: Q1 Grades for the UFC

April 10, 2024

While we all went home for some well-deserved rest after what felt like a hellish midterm season, the UFC continues to push on. As we approach UFC 300...

Illustration Kellyn Taylor

‘We knew the world was never going to be the same’: The trailblazing women of the Boston Marathon

April 10, 2024

In Boston, at the oldest annual marathon in the world, men ran 26.2 miles from Hopkinton to Boylston St for 69 years before the first woman stepped foot...

One of the last exhibits in the WNDR Museum, titled We Are All Artists (If Only We Knew?) by Brad Keywell. The exhibit reminds visitors that they are all artists, creators, and visionaries in their own unique ways. (DJ Mara/Beacon Staff)

WNDR museum cultivates interactive exhibits at Downtown Crossing location

April 10, 2024

The WNDR Museum, one of Boston’s newest attractions, cultivates visitors’ sense of wonder and imagination through a series of interactive and immersive...

Newton family to host ‘Rebuild the Hostage Wall’ following vandalization

Newton family to host ‘Rebuild the Hostage Wall’ following vandalization

April 6, 2024
On Oct. 27, Newton residents Jeffrey and Miriam Kosowsky put up a 100-foot-long wall of the 240 hostages taken captive by Hamas on Oct. 7. After months of remaining intact, their poignant tribute was vandalized last month in what authorities are currently investigating as a hate crime, said Kosowsky.
Members of WEBN-TV Boston, Emerson Colleges student-run broadcast news organization, produce their Mandarin J-Channel shows every Tuesday. (Feixu Chen/Beacon Staff)

WEBN launches new branches of J-Channel show for Spanish and Mandarin-speaking students

April 3, 2024

WEBN, Emerson’s student-run broadcast station, launched two new versions of its J-Channel broadcast show in Spanish and Mandarin.  The new broadcasts...

Olivia Rodrigo “GUTS” world tour in Boston

Olivia Rodrigo brings her paralyzing thrill of ‘GUTS’ to Boston

April 3, 2024
From sequins to seduction, Olivia Rodrigo brought her “GUTS” world tour to Boston for two sold-out consecutive stops at TD Garden.