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December 27, 2020 By JONATHAN RILEY

SPECIAL FOLLOW-UP FEATURE: NUCLEAR FAMILY

For some with personal connections to past mistakes, the consequences of unfettered ingenuity are no more easily ignored than mushroom clouds on the horizon

Filed Under: Environment, Features, Oral Histories, Throwback Tagged With: Boston, Cambridge, features, history, longform, news, news to us, nuclear, nuclear energy, technology, throwback, Waltham

August 21, 2020 By ZACK HUFFMAN

FRAN SWEENEY’S FIGHT AGAINST FASCISTS IN THE 1940S MIRRORS TODAY’S BATTLE AGAINST BIGOTRY

Fran Sweeney

“The object of The Boston City Reporter [was] to tell the public who is using prejudice against entire races and religions for undemocratic purposes—and how.”

Filed Under: Features, Throwback Tagged With: anti-Semitism, Boston City Reporter, Boston Herald, Brighton, Dorchester, fascism, Father Coughlin, Fran Sweeney, Grove Hall, history, Nat Hentoff, Rumor Clinic, South Boston, throwback, throwbacks

February 19, 2020 By GEORGE HASSETT

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF HAKIM JAMAL

Hakim Jamal was a Boston original—an engaging author and activist who identified as a recovering alcoholic and addict. He founded the group that created Kwanzaa. His controversial romances with movie stars and models inspired movies decades later.

Filed Under: Features, Throwback Tagged With: Activism, Black History, Black Panthers, Boston, Boston History, Dead Level, Detroit Red, Hakim Jamal, heroin, Louis X, Malcolm Little, Malcolm X, Michael X, Roxbury, throwback, throwbacks

February 5, 2020 By PATRICK COCHRAN

FROM SPECK TO SPECTACLE: A POLITICAL HISTORY IN THREE NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARIES

At this point in 1952, incumbent President Harry Truman was on the fence about seeking another term, and other big-name Dems were unwilling to succeed his increasingly unpopular presidency.

Filed Under: Manchester Divided, Reports, Throwback Tagged With: Amy Klobuchar, Andrew Yang, bernie sanders, candidates, cannabis, caregiving, Citizens Agenda, criminal justice, Deval Patrick, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, engagement, gun control, guns, immigration, income inequality, Joe Biden, law enforcement, local media, manchester divided, Michael Bloomberg, New Hampshire, Pete Buttigieg, police brutality, politics, primaries, primary, religion, SCOTUS, Shaskeen Pub, Tom Steyer, town halls, voter rights

March 7, 2019 By ZACK HUFFMAN

SANCTUARY STATUS

The eerily familiar tale of Shadrach Minkins and the centuries-old federal threat to our Commonwealth

Filed Under: Columns, Throwback Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Boston History, Fugitive Slave Act, journalism, Shadrach Minkins, slavery, throwback, throwbacks

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