Editorial

For young basketball fans like my sons, Ja Morant is a symbol of hope, an under-recruited kid out of high school who comes from a two-parent household in the small town of Dalzell, South Carolina.

While it is important to celebrate women’s place in history and all the contributions they have made in the past, it is also important to understand the national observance has activist roots.

History is the way that we remember and come to understand past mistakes, so we don’t repeat them. Our American history, our Black history, isn’t always easy to remember. It is filled with oppression, turmoil, hate and self-loathing. But the future is what we make it.

After 57 years as publisher of the Bay State Banner, it is time for me to step down.

My partner Andre Stark and I have purchased the Banner to preserve its legacy as a voice for people of color and expand its operations to better serve its readers in the 21st century.

No one old enough to have been in Boston during the school discrimination of the 1970s would be likely to support the return of the elected school committee. Back then, the school committee functioned as a bigoted bloc to prevent the mayor from complying with the laws that opposed racial discrimination in education.

To many Americans, the conflict over immigration policy is essentially a race war. Conservatives want to prevent a substantial number of Latinos and Blacks from being granted residency in the U.S., while Blacks and Latinos combat strategies to keep them out.

The recently appointed members of the Boston Reparations Task Force now have the report commissioned by the Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry (UUUM) to guide their inquiry on slavery in colonial Roxbury.

When George Floyd was so brutally and brazenly executed by the police, many Americans became concerned about illicit police violence for the first time.

Now that Donald Trump is back on Twitter and will soon be on Facebook and Instagram, many Americans are concerned about the use of the digital media to communicate fallacies. Of course, what citizens hear from the media companies are vainglorious comments about their commitment to protect the American principle of the First Amendment.

Announcements that Congress must raise the national debt limit create a queasy feeling for some people that the U.S. budget has been breached.

There has been a sharp decline in the rate of child births to teenagers over the past 30 years. This has led to less child poverty and an increase in the opportunity for young girls to prepare for educational advancement rather than to spend their time on maternal duties.