Poetry transcends individual identity and serves as a vessel for greater meaning, according to Joy Harjo.
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Hakakian Advocates for Muslim Women’s Rights in Iran
To understand the nature of the women’s rights movement in Iran, one need not look further than the movement’s slogan, “Women, Life, Liberty,” according to Roya Hakakian.
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“Poverty, By America”: Desmond Dissects Increasing Financial Problems in the U.S.
Matthew Desmond’s experiences growing up in poverty prompted him to take a stand as a poverty abolitionist. The Lowell Humanity Series hosted a lecture on Wednesday titled, “Poverty, By America.” Desmond, a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, said watching his family get evicted from their home motivated him to ask why the United States deals with poverty in the way it does.
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Prize-Winning Journalist Eli Saslow Reflects on His Book ‘Rising Out of Hatred’
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Eli Saslow shared how meaningful anti-racist movements can begin on campuses like Boston College’s.
