Opinion

The least of the Olympics’ concerns should be that of swim caps for black hair. However, the International Swimming Federation of the IOC said the design of the swim caps does not fit “the natural form of the head,” a statement eerily reminiscent of the eugenics movement propaganda to substantiate both black anatomical and intellectual inferiority.

Parents who encourage unprepared or unmotivated students to attend Boston Latin School have not advised wisely.

It started almost the instant that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden announced that California senator Kamala Harris was his VP pick in 2020. The “it” was the sniping, rumor-mongering, and flat-out attacks on Harris.

What kind of people are unwilling to risk a mild case of discomfort rather than the horrid death that more than 600,000 in America have already suffered?

The GOP’s relentless war on alleged rampant voter fraud targets not thousands, as many critics have noted, but millions of eligible voters.

Trump’s vote-fraud claim was the official marching order for packs of GOP governors, GOP-controlled state legislators, GOP house reps and senators, legions of GOP political action groups, conservative talking heads and bloggers to go on the attack.

If Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan broadcast a speech, media would be out in numbers to discredit every remark. But a program to recognize the composer Ludwig van Beethoven is ignored.

Despite America’s great success in business, poverty is still a discredit to the nation. Conservative pundits make the rate of poverty acceptable by creating the fiction that poverty is a Black affliction.

This July 4th, America will celebrate 245 years of independence from British rule. However, when President Joe Biden signed into law Juneteenth as a  federal holiday, it forces Americans to take a sterner look at what this July 4th means.

The GOP’s dead person vote myth, though laughable, has been often trotted out as one of its vote fraud canons. Every claim has been painstakingly investigated to determine if there is anything to the charge.

America’s response to the COVID pandemic underscores the danger of the country’s politically divided atmosphere.

With the appointed School Committee in turmoil, many are questioning whether an elected body wouldn’t run more smoothly.