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Labor rights and civil rights go hand in hand
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Editorial
Labor rights and civil rights go hand in hand
As we look back at this year’s celebration of Labor Day, we must not forget the significant role that our community has played in the fight for labor rights. This holiday serves as a reminder of the long and ongoing struggle for labor rights and civil rights.
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It’s NAACP time
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Editorial
It’s NAACP time
As we welcome the NAACP national convention to our city, I am joyful because America’s oldest civil rights group has chosen to come back to Boston and gather in one of the country’s oldest civil rights cities.
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Thomas I. Atkins: A civil rights champion remembered
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News
Thomas I. Atkins: A civil rights champion remembered
Fifteen years ago this month, renowned civil rights attorney Thomas Irving Atkins lost a 15-year battle to Lou Gehrig’s Disease. He had spent his entire life relentlessly fighting for racial equality and against racial discrimination, expanding his crusade beyond Boston as special counsel and general counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in its New York national office.
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Eric Holder recalls JFK ‘63 civil rights speech
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Black History
Eric Holder recalls JFK ‘63 civil rights speech
As a 12-year-old boy, Eric Holder watched on a small black-and-white television in the basement home of his Barbadian parents in the Queens section of New York City as John F. Kennedy spoke to the nation.
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Organizers get training at Kennedy School
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Local News
Organizers get training at Kennedy School
A group of 16 organizers from around the country came to Boston last week to begin a 20-week training session to advance political, civil, and human rights in their communities.
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Black History: Giants of the resistance
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Black History
Black History: Giants of the resistance
Black history is filled with the names of people who fought against oppression in pursuit of progress.
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Black patriotism undeterred by racial discrimination
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Editorial
Black patriotism undeterred by racial discrimination
The staunch resistance of Blacks to despotism is assuring, but there is still some trepidation that change could come. Who would have anticipated that white radicals would invade the nation’s Capitol building to disrupt the U.S. Congress performing its constitutional duty to certify the results of a presidential election?
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Black woman heads DOJ Civil Rights division
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News
Black woman heads DOJ Civil Rights division
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Biden pledges pandemic relief
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News
Biden pledges pandemic relief
President Joe Biden gave his first address to a joint session of Congress on April 28, promising billions of dollars for infrastructure improvements and education support as well as immigration and civil rights reforms. The president’s proposed initiatives received mixed reactions from community leaders in Massachusetts, who are counting on federal aid to fund projects that are essential to COVID-19 recovery.
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Civil rights groups hail ‘historic’ ruling on exam schools
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Local News
Civil rights groups hail ‘historic’ ruling on exam schools
With white and Asian students over-represented in the city’s three selective-admissions schools, the one-year change was widely seen as a way to broaden the racial and socio-economic diversity in the schools.
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The forgotten Jackie Robinson
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Opinion
The forgotten Jackie Robinson
April 18 is the 75th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s smash of the color line in baseball.
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Editorial
A rebellion to end democracy
Blacks, whites, Asians and Latinos in the same economic class should be united in efforts to gain support for government programs. The refusal of racists to work with others in order to achieve their own objectives demonstrates a serious level of hostility.
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