For National Hispanic Heritage Month, The Brink celebrates the work of Latinx researchers at BU, while also highlighting issues shaping the Latinx community
A US Supreme Court ruling April 4 in a little-known civil rights case, Thompson v. Clark, was celebrated by BU faculty who had written an amicus brief to the court. In the case, Larry Thompson argued his civil rights had been violated when he was arrested and jailed, but the charges were dropped without explanation.
Geraldine Hines, a former Supreme Judicial Court justice, and Ed Davis, who served as the late Mayor Thomas Menino’s police chief, have signed on to a panel tasked with helping Mayor Michelle Wu choose her police commissioner. The panel is charged with finding the “best candidates no matter where they currently may be working right now,” Wu said during a City Hall press
After a potential juror in the Kimberly Potter trial was struck after she said she did not understand English well enough to follow the case, some observers wondered why the court didn’t offer interpreters for jurors. Worse, some wondered if language was being used as a proxy for race.