Broadband internet and mobile data services were cut off across Bangladesh on Monday as anti-government protesters vowed to march to the capital to demand the prime minister’s resignation.
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Chants of ‘intifada’ ring out from pro-Palestinian protests. But what’s it mean?
Chants calling for “intifada” have been a prominent feature of pro-Palestinian student protests. It’s a charged word whose use is perceived differently by people with opposing views of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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He frolicked in forests as a kid. Now he’s saving them from a coal mine plan
Alok Shukla is one of the winners of the 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize. He’s cited for a campaign to keep a company from felling a forest in India to excavate the coal that lies beneath.
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A concentrated dose of history: The class of 2024 looks back
Everyone says you live through history, but “I don’t think anyone prepared us for this much history,” say the students in the Class of 2024.
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Biden is set for the Morehouse graduation. Students are divided
Ahead of Biden’s address at Morehouse, students share their frustrations
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Photos: Campus protests continue, police make arrests and clear encampments
Photojournalists at NPR member stations documented protests at college and university campuses nationwide this week.
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RISD sit-in ends
Yesterday, after RISD President Crystal Williams told students their barricades were a fire hazard and sent in facilities managers and Department of Public Safety security officers to break them down, the students say they made the voluntary decision to leave the building and were escorted out by their supporters. Luca Antonio Colannino, a spokesperson for […]
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Brown University students on how the pro-Palestine encampment came to a peaceful conclusion
Brown University proved to be an outlier at university campuses this past week as police elsewhere broke up encampments and arrested protesters. Pro-Palestinian activists at Brown reached an agreement with their school’s administrators to end an encampment.
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Brown University professors accuse administrators of ‘intimidation, threats, and harassment’
Some professors at Brown University are accusing the school’s administration of surveilling and harassing faculty members who attended a pro-Palestinian encampment at the school’s Providence campus. In a statement put out by Brown’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors, or AAUP, the professors specifically take issue with letters sent to several faculty members […]
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Negotiations on a deal to end Brown University encampment to continue Tuesday
Student protesters are negotiating with Brown University administrators over terms that could end a pro-Palestinian encampent at the school’s Providence campus and meet some of the activists’ demands, according to several students familiar with the discussions. On Monday at 3 p.m., a group of six student activists met with two administrators to discuss an offer […]