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 Luther King addressed 25,000 civil-rights activists gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom. While the location was the same as his […]
Segun Idowu
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The Commonwealth must help businesses of color
PEOPLE OF COLOR are under siege in Massachusetts. The COVID-19 pandemic not only threatens their lives at disproportionate rates, but the economic standstill threatens their livelihood as well. We cannot wait for Congress to act. If we don’t act quickly as a state to address the current longstanding systemic disparities, we could see the deepest […]