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

The Berkeley Beacon

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

The Berkeley Beacon

(Nick Peace / Beacon Staff)
Select Markets brings fashion to the people
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An assorted mass clothed in baggy jeans and long jorts lined a sidewalk in Charlestown early Saturday afternoon despite the beating sun overhead. The denim-clad...

(Courtesy of Jacqui Moy)
Happening Now: Teach-In on Sustainability mixes climate discussion with comedy and art
14 hours ago

Emerson's Teach-In on Sustainability began on Wednesday night, launching a multi-day conference seeking to bring comedic storytelling to informative discussions...

Multiple Teams of rowers cruise through the water on the third day of the 2024 Head of the Charles Regatta, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. (Nick Peace/ Beacon Correspondent)
Rowers, rivals, and roars: What to expect for the annual Head of the Charles
17 hours ago

For the 60th year, the Charles River will come alive with the splash of oars and the roar of crowds as rowers from around the world descend on Boston for the Head...

Photo courtesy of Malala Yousafzai
In her new book, Malala finds her way through love, strife, and college life
17 hours ago

For most of Gen-Z, the first introduction to activist-author-multihyphenate Malala Yousafzai was her book I Am Malala, released in October 2013. Written one year...

The Cultural Engagement Center at 172 Tremont St. (Arthur Mansavage / Beacon Staff)
Emerson renamed these offices and positions. Some fear it could weaken diversity

President Donald Trump’s administration spent the last eight months heating up its efforts to eliminate diversity programs in higher education through attacks on university funding....

A Emerson College journalism student works on a story in their dorm room on Monday October, 13, 2025. (Alex Cuozzo/ Beacon Staff)
How Emerson’s journalism department is facing declining enrollment, national distrust in the media, and the digital age
(Graphic by Charlie Desjardins / Beacon Staff)
Government shutdown means dreams on hold for furloughed interns
Officers form a blockade preventing protesters from crossing Tremont Street while others are arrested after a Pro-Palestine protest on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025. (Bryan Hecht / Beacon Staff)
Opinion
Letter to the Editor: Why you should care about the arrests of our students

As has been widely reported across both local and national news fronts, last Tuesday, Oct. 7, amid a...

Graphic Charlie Desjardins
Opinion
The hidden violence of ‘gotcha’ street interviews
Illustration Mia McDermott
Opinion
You don’t need another tote bag
Graphic Josie Arteaga
Op-Ed
Blaming the pandemic is so 2020
(Illustration Lila Reimels)
Opinion
‘Canceled’: A political cartoon
Indigenous activists protest in front of the State House on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025. (Rina Laby / Beacon Staff)
‘We will always be here’: Indigenous people march for state recognition
18 hours ago

When a crowd of nearly 100 craned their heads to look up at the billowing Massachusetts flag on Saturday, they saw a sword dangling over Thomas...

A Emerson College journalism student works on a story in their dorm room on Monday October, 13, 2025. (Alex Cuozzo/ Beacon Staff)
How Emerson’s journalism department is facing declining enrollment, national distrust in the media, and the digital age
13 hours ago

For years, Emerson’s journalism program has been recognized as one of the best in the country. Since the journalism department’s inception...

Multiple Teams of rowers cruise through the water on the third day of the 2024 Head of the Charles Regatta, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. (Nick Peace/ Beacon Correspondent)
Rowers, rivals, and roars: What to expect for the annual Head of the Charles
17 hours ago

For the 60th year, the Charles River will come alive with the splash of oars and the roar of crowds as rowers from around the world descend on...

(Nick Peace / Beacon Staff)
Select Markets brings fashion to the people
13 hours ago

An assorted mass clothed in baggy jeans and long jorts lined a sidewalk in Charlestown early Saturday afternoon despite the beating sun overhead....

Cover Illustration by Fiona McMahon
Hold Still, Please
By Aris Liang, Magazine Contributor / April 16, 2025
Photos by Helen Armstrong. Illustration by Fiona McMahon
The Munchies
By Helen Armstrong, Magazine Contributor / April 16, 2025
Revere Beach
Patriotism swells in the heart of the American bear
By Jack Silver, Magazine Contributor / April 16, 2025
Cover Illustration by Fiona McMahon
An Assassination (or the Act of Brief Movement)
By Jagger van Vliet, Magazine Contributor / April 16, 2025
Cover Illustration by Avary Amaral
Drug use as a stereotype of creatives: How does drug use impact the creative process?
By Avary Amaral, Magazine Editor / April 16, 2025
American Teenager
American Teenager
By Lorca Danziger, Magazine Contributor / April 16, 2025
Jeans d'Or
Jeans d’Or
By Bryan Liu, Managing Editor / April 16, 2025
Cover Photo by Lorca Danziger
What’s with Gen Z’s cannabis habits?
By Savannah Girling, Magazine Contributor / April 16, 2025
Disco ball / Unsplash
Did Disco Demolition Night really kill disco?
By Rylie Burns, Former Operations Managing Editor, Layout Editor & Newsletter Editor / April 16, 2025
Illustration by Rachel Choi
‘Fight, fight, fight’: How Donald Trump went from political pariah to U.S. president
By DJ Mara, Senior Political Reporter / April 16, 2025
Cover Photo by Fiona McMahon
A Mind-Bending Approach to Medicine: How psychedelics are changing mental health treatment
By Fiona McMahon, Magazine Editor / April 16, 2025
"Kent State," by photographer John Filo.
To seek a newer world: youth protest from Vietnam to today
By Meg Richards, Editor-in-Chief / April 16, 2025
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(Arthur Mansavage/Beacon Staff)
Four Emerson alums, hundreds of thousands in debt: The price of an Emerson education
A display on pigments used in medieval manuscript production as part of a an interactive reconstruction at the Museum Van Lymborch Brothers House in Nijmegen (Courtesy / Peter van der Heijden).
‘Feel Van Lymborch’ brings life and sight to medieval manuscripts with the help of Kasteel students
African cultures on display at Boston Common
African cultures on display at Boston Common
Crooke's Cage: John Cena shocks the world with heel turn in Toronto
Crooke’s Cage: John Cena shocks the world with heel turn in Toronto
(Arthur Mansavage/Beacon Staff)
Editorial: The gun doesn’t care who pulls the trigger
People crossing the street outside the Little Building at the corner of Boylston and Tremont streets. (Arthur Mansavage/ Beacon Staff, File)
Letter to the Editor: Advice from an ‘audience’ member
Men's basketball forwards Guillermo Gasset Ruiz (left) and Shay Roban (right) pose with mentees of the College Athlete Network (Courtesy of Guillermo Gasset Ruiz).
‘We want to leave a legacy’: Men’s basketball players establish College Athlete Network to mentor young athletes
Pro-Palestine protesters march down Congress Street in Boston on Oct. 5, 2025. (Riley Goldman / Beacon Staff)
Two years after Oct. 7, Boston activist groups continue to rally for Palestinian liberation
Illustration by Ally Rzesa
Rewiring cinema: What Emerson students can learn from Lynch’s “Blue Velvet”
Graphic by Rina Laby
The WNBA is digging its own grave. Players are trying to claw their way out.
Illustration by Evan Martin
The Jane Collective: The underground force behind the fight for reproductive freedom