Remembering a Pioneering Politician

Alum Edward Brooke, first black US senator since Reconstruction, has died BU alumnus Edward Brooke, who died January 3, poses as Massachusetts’s attorney general in 1963. Photo by BU Photography. “I never studied much at Howard [University], but at Boston University, I didn’t do much else but study.” Far from resenting BU’s School of Law […]

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National AIDS Policy Director Urges Collaboration on HIV/AIDS

SSW alum keynote speaker at addiction conference in Boston Douglas Brooks (SSW’99) encouraged attendees at last week’s Addiction Health Services Research Conference, sponsored by Boston University, to think of new ways to identify, screen, and attain care for people living with HIV. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Lena Lundgren felt like a “proud mama,” she said […]

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