EVERY SAFETY NET in this country has been stitched with holes just wide enough for many of us to slip through. We’ve recently had a front row seat to this […]
Imari Paris Jeffries
Posted inOpinion
The arc still has time to bend
Dr. King believed in a nation that could transform from the inside out. So the choice remains as urgent now as it was then.
Posted inOpinion
Presidential election is not just about choosing a leader
Many argue that the activism of the global pandemic and the George Floyd racial awakening are over.
Posted inOpinion, Race/Racism
Juneteenth a chance for new customs and rituals
TWO YEARS AFTER George Floyd and just days after the final victims of last month’s racial murders in Buffalo, it’s hard not to reflect on America’s long and painful history […]
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Honoring MLK by turning out at the polls
AS WE LOOK toward next month’s municipal election in Boston, we must mobilize and get out the vote. Reflecting on the past, we remember that on May 17, 1957, Martin […]
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Tax credits: the biggest stimulus no one is talking about
FOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR, there has always been a strained relationship with our tax system, thanks to rules that keep the gap between black/brown and white wealth disproportionally wide. The […]
Posted inOpinion
Minimum guaranteed income = solution to poverty
IN THE WEEKS leading up to his assassination in 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. launched a new chapter of his work, referred to as the “Poor People’s Campaign.” This […]
