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An unwilling role model
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An unwilling role model
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.
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Herstory: Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day
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Herstory: Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day
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.
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Black history is American history
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Black history is American history
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.
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A farewell
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A farewell
After 57 years as publisher of the Bay State Banner, it is time for me to step down.
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A new beginning
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A new beginning
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.
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An elected school committee would be disastrous
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An elected school committee would be disastrous
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.
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Immigration holds key to America’s economic growth
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.
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Researching a longstanding grievance
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Researching a longstanding grievance
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.
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Police brutality corrupts America’s stature
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Police brutality corrupts America’s stature
When George Floyd was so brutally and brazenly executed by the police, many Americans became concerned about illicit police violence for the first time.
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Stop the political lies on social media
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Stop the political lies on social media
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.
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Debt limit debate obscures conflict over American values
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Debt limit debate obscures conflict over American values
Announcements that Congress must raise the national debt limit create a queasy feeling for some people that the U.S. budget has been breached.
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Postponed pregnancies promote prosperity
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.
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