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Based in Boston, Massachusetts, opposite the historic Boston Common and in the heart of the city’s Theatre District, Emerson College educates individuals who will solve problems and change the world through engaged leadership in communication and the arts, a mission informed by liberal learning. The College also has campuses in Los Angeles and Kasteel Well, Netherlands. The College has 3,780 undergraduates and 670 graduate students from across the United States and 50 countries. Supported by state-of-the-art facilities and a renowned faculty, students participate in more than 90 student organizations and performance groups. Emerson is known for its experiential learning programs in Los Angeles, Washington, DC, the Netherlands, London, Barcelona, China, the Czech Republic, and more. The College has an active network of 39,000 alumni who hold leadership positions in communication and the arts. For more information, visit emerson.edu.

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Ouvert en 2003, le lycée Averroès de Lille est le premier établissement secondaire privé musulman créé en France. Les élèves y sont autorisés à porter des signes religieux, comme ici, pendant un cours, en 2023. Sameer al-Doumy/AFP

Lycée Averroès : face à l’État, la justice au secours des établissements musulmans ?

Selon une décision de justice, le lycée musulman Averroès doit retrouver son contrat d’association avec l’État. L’établissement, lié à la mouvance des Frères musulmans, avait vu son contrat résilié en décembre 2023.
Algemados e curvados: foto mostra as condições desumanas nas quais os 250 deportados venezuelanos chegaram à prisão em El Salvador. Foto: Presidência da República de El Salvador

Espancamentos, superlotação e fome: Imigrantes deportados dos EUA enfrentam abusos de direitos humanos na mega-prisão de El Salvador

El Salvador já possui a maior taxa de população carcerária do mundo, e o governo dos EUA pretende aumentar ainda mais esse número.
Shackled and bent over – some of the 250-plus deportees arriving in El Salvador. El Salvador Presidency / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images

Beatings, overcrowding and food deprivation: US deportees face distressing human rights conditions in El Salvador’s mega-prison

El Salvador has the highest prison population rate in the world. The US administration intends to increase the number of people behind bars there.
Les mèmes se sont joints à la conversation politique de manière fulgurante lors des dernières élections américaines. (Shutterstock)

Les mèmes sont devenus incontournables en politique. Quels effets ont-ils ?

La culture populaire et numérique joue un rôle de premier plan dans la conversation politique. L’arrivée massive des mèmes doit à cet égard nous interroger.
Students attend a class at the Averroès school in Lille, France, in September 2023. Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP via Getty Images

France’s biggest Muslim school went from accolades to defunding – showing a key paradox in how the country treats Islam

Some of the measures the French government has taken to fight radicalization can do the opposite, three social scientists argue.
Des élèves assistent à un cours au lycée Averroès à Lille, le 28 septembre 2023. Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP

Lycée musulman Averroès : la justice fera-t-elle droit à l’établissement sanctionné par l’État ?

Le lycée musulman Averroès, dont le contrat d’association avec l’État a été résilié en décembre 2023, a contesté la décision de la préfecture du Nord devant la justice administrative. Le jugement a été mis en délibéré au 23 avril.
Residents watch French air force jets fly over a Paris suburb during the Bastille Day military parade on July 14, 2023. AP Photo/Youcef Bounab

French schools’ ban on abayas and headscarves is supposedly about secularism − but it sends a powerful message about who ‘belongs’ in French culture

Catholicism, ‘Frenchness’ and secularism are often conflated in French culture, a scholar writes, while non-Christian traditions are viewed with suspicion.
Only 15% of adults in prison have earned a postsecondary degree or certificate – either before or while being incarcerated. Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images

As Second Chance Pell Grant program grows, more incarcerated people can get degrees – but there’s a difference between prison-run and college-run education behind bars

With the expansion of Second Chance Pell grants, more colleges and universities will soon offer degree programs to students in prison.
#blacktwitter helped mobilize social protests against police brutality across the country, like this one in New York City in July 2020. Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images

Black Twitter’s expected demise would make it harder to publicize police brutality and discuss racism

Black Twitter is often the preferred forum for candid and authentic Black-centered discussions on police brutality. Without it, holding police accountable may become even more difficult.
During the Russian occupation of Luhansk Oblast, 15 kids were allegedly taken from this rehabilitation center and moved to Russia. Wojciech Grzedzinski/The Washington Post via Getty Images

4 plays that dramatize the kidnapping of children during wars

These wartime abductions aren’t specific to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Throughout history, they’ve inflicted trauma on society’s most vulnerable – making them a rich subject matter for the stage.

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