X. Kendi, the scholar of anti-racism who rose to prominence during the social justice movement that swept the nation after the 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, is leaving Boston University after five years.

Ibram X. Kendi, the founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, will leave the school for a new role at Howard University and BU's center will close.

Author and historian Ibram X. Kendi is leaving Boston University, where he served as founding director of the Center for Antiracist Research, to join the faculty of Howard University in Washington D.C.

Historian and writer Ibram X. Kendi, who wrote the bestseller “How To Be an Antiracist” and led a center on the subject at Boston University, will join Howard University’s faculty.

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When Sherri Miller studied on Northeastern’s Boston campus in the 1970s, there were around 15,000 undergraduate students. Today, Northeastern’s Boston campus is bustling with students.

The No. 1 Boston College Eagles (17-4-1, 10-3-1 HE) men’s hockey team is looking to sweep its cross-town rival the No. 8 Boston University Terriers (13-8-1, 9-4-1 HE) at Conte Forum on Saturday night.

The No. 1 Boston College men completed a weekend sweep of Hockey East rival Boston University. Read more on Boston.com.

As part of our Sense of Place: Boston series, we sat down with Wu to learn more about how Green Line Records puts artists first, how students take a project from start to finish, and what makes a Green Line Records contract very different from those at any other record label.

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The ties to Boston conjured up painful memories for Nathan Birch, a Baltimore skater who grew up training at that very same club. He remembered seeing memorials from the 1961 crash, which killed several Boston club members, on the walls and in an upstairs lounge.

As the recovery mission is still underway in the Potomac, some of the victims' identities have been released following the Jan. 29 late evening crash between a commercial airplane and an Army helicopter.