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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

Photos: 2025 Head of the Charles Regatta celebrates six decades of rowing in Boston

Photos: 2025 Head of the Charles Regatta celebrates six decades of rowing in Boston

The annual Head Of The Charles Regatta celebrated its 60th anniversary as rowers, spectators, and volunteers banded together to celebrate the sport of...

Tens of Thousands of protesters gather on Boston Common to protest the Trump administration on Saturday, October 18, 2025. (Arthur Mansavage/ Beacon Staff)

Boston No Kings Day protest welcomes differing opinions, education, and creative resistance

By Madalyn Jimiera, Hannah Brueske and DJ Mara / October 22, 2025

Thousands of protesters, dressed in colorful outfits and inflatable costumes, a new symbol of farcical opposition to President Donald Trump, headed toward...

A sign reading “When Cruelty Becomes Normal Compassion Looks Radical,” at the No Kings Protest on Boston Common, Oct. 18, 2025. (DJ Mara/Beacon Staff)

Photos: The signs from No Kings 2.0

By DJ Mara, Senior Political Reporter / October 21, 2025

Tens of thousands of protesters took to Boston Common on Saturday, Oct. 18, as part of the nationwide No Kings movement, with more than 2,700 protests...

Tens of thousands of protesters gather on the Boston Common to protest the Trump administration on Saturday, October 18, 2025. (Arthur Mansavage/ Beacon Staff)

Photos: Thousands fill the Boston Common for ‘No Kings’ protest against the Trump Administration

By Arthur Mansavage, Riley Goldman and Jay Guarino / October 18, 2025

Tens of thousands of protesters gathered on the Boston Common Saturday afternoon for ‘No Kings’ Day as part of a nationwide demonstration against the...

(Nick Peace / Beacon Staff)

Select Markets brings fashion to the people

By Max Ardrey, Dept. Living Arts Editor / October 16, 2025

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...

The Cultural Engagement Center at 172 Tremont St. (Arthur Mansavage / Beacon Staff)

Emerson renamed these offices and positions. Some fear it could weaken diversity

By Bryan Hecht, News Editor / October 15, 2025

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

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

By Iselin Bratz, Content Managing Editor / October 15, 2025

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...

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

By Rina Laby, Dept. City Editor / October 10, 2025

A sea of red, green, and white keffiyehs flooded Government Center last week as hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Israeli Consulate to protest...

Pro-Palestine protesters are held down and arrested following a demonstration on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025. (Bryan Hecht / Beacon Staff)

Pro-Palestine protesters charged with resisting arrest, one charged with assault in Downtown Boston

By Iselin Bratz and Bryan Hecht / October 9, 2025

Thirteen pro-Palestine protesters arrested during a Downtown Boston demonstration on Tuesday, Oct. 7 will face charges of resisting arrest, disorderly...

Notes left by visitors at the Nova Exhibition on October 7, 2025 memorializing the lives lost during the Oct. 7 attacks. (Madalyn Jimiera / Beacon Staff)

Exhibition memorializes victims and survivors of Nova Music Festival and Oct. 7 attacks

By Madalyn Jimiera, Dept. Campus Editor / October 9, 2025

On Oct. 7, 2023, May Hayat and her best friend, Liron Barda, the bar manager for the Nova Musical Festival in Re’im, Israel, arrived early in the morning...

An e-bike delivery driver on Tremont St. on Wednesday, October, 8th, 2025. (Nick Peace/ Beacon Staff)

Will Boston ban e-bikes for food delivery? Community members, Dashers, and students weigh in

By Catalina Mena, Beacon Correspondent / October 9, 2025

At a Back Bay intersection in August, a 64-year-old man was struck by an e-bike that was delivering food near Copley Square. The victim was rushed to the...

Boston Conservatory’s 2025 “Cinderella” finds its magic in performance, even when the glass slipper pinches

Boston Conservatory’s 2025 “Cinderella” finds its magic in performance, even when the glass slipper pinches

By Brooke Lelia, Beacon Correspondent / October 8, 2025

When the clock strikes midnight in the Boston Conservatory’s “Cinderella,” nothing shatters—not glass, not illusion, not even expectation. Instead,...

Jimmy Fund Walk 2025. (Alex Cuozzo/ Beacon Staff)

Annual Jimmy Fund Walk brings together thousands in support of those still fighting and those they’ve lost to cancer

By Lila Reimels, Beacon Correspondent / October 8, 2025

A flood of people overtook Boston Common on Sunday as they walked and volunteered to fundraise for research and treatment at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute....

Feeble Little Horse gallops through Somerville

Feeble Little Horse gallops through Somerville

By Rina Laby, Dept. City Editor / October 1, 2025

An uninhibited energy permeated the air at The Arts at the Armory Monday night as Feeble Little Horse graced the Somerville venue with its unique, raw...

(Bryce Heilmann/Beacon Staff)

Boston gets a taste of Fiji with The Ultimate Survivor Cafe

By Bryce Heilmann, Senior Living Arts Reporter / October 1, 2025

As temperatures cool and skies grow gray for another Boston autumn, a tropical getaway may not be as far away as you think. The Greatest Bar in Boston’s...

Ride for Our Republic, affiliated with the Indivisible movement, meets at Paul Revere Park in Cambridge on the last Saturday of every month since Patriots Day. (Ronan Canzoniero/ for The Berkeley Beacon)

Taking a cue from Paul Revere, a group of bikers ride for democracy to protest Trump

By Sage Jezierski and Ronan Canzoniero / October 1, 2025

Last Saturday, a group of 20 bikers gathered in Paul Revere Park, sporting bright colors and pro-democracy signs for the Ride for Our Republic.  This...

Attendees parade through the Boston Common holding up a banner for MOAR on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025. (Alex Cuozzo/For The Beacon)

Photos: Mass. Addiction Recovery Parade marches through the Boston Common to celebrate recovery

By Alex Cuozzo, Staff Photographer / September 29, 2025

This past Friday, hundreds came together to participate in the Massachusetts Organization for Addiction Recovery (MOAR) parade by the Boston Common Parkman...

The Joint Committee on Veterans and Federal Affairs prepares for a hearing on the Defend the Guard bill at the Massachusetts State House on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025 (C. Scott Morris / Beacon Correspondent).

Amid Trump administration actions, ‘Defend the Guard’ bill seeks to redefine federal deployment powers over the National Guard

By C. Scott Morris, Beacon Correspondent / September 24, 2025

Last Tuesday, the Defend the Guard bill came under scrutiny in the hearing room of the Massachusetts Statehouse. The bill aims to change the deployment...

Hundreds of multifaith individuals advocating for climate change (Riley Goldman/ Beacon Staff)

Photos: Hundreds march through Boston Common for clean energy on “Sun Day”

By Meg Richards and Riley Goldman / September 22, 2025

Last Sunday, hundreds of protesters of all ages marched from Old South Church to the Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial to commemorate “Sun...