ILLUSTRATION BY SHEA JUSTICE FOR BINJ For more than 50 years, Metco has stood as a hallmark effort to address racial disparities in education. But for the progressive civil rights program to keep pace with the national dialogue around race, … [Read more...]
SIGN UP FOR UPCOMING COMMUNITY JOURNALISM 101 CLASSES
Community Journalism 101 is a series of free, low-barrier journalism workshops, open to community members. They are run by Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism (BINJ), often in partnership withSomerville Media Center. Participants learn how to … [Read more...]
THIS IS U.S.
A community confronts stigmas hurting immigrants in America “In that moment, they said give your son your blessings.” José Oliverio Diaz spoke to audience members at a recent public forum held in Lynn. With a social worker from the Lynn … [Read more...]
AFTER PITTSBURGH
How we defeat the hard right In August 2017, over 40,000 Bostonians marched on Boston Common to tell a small gaggle of nearly incoherent hard-right louts that they were not welcome in our city. Especially in the wake of a white … [Read more...]
STOP BAKER’S ‘MORE SCHOOL COPS AND SURVEILLANCE’ PLAN
Why the Mass budget surplus is better spent on infrastructure needs Having just been handed an estimated $1 billion budget surplus for the 2018 fiscal year, Gov. Charlie Baker was quick to make a proposal last week to divide up the … [Read more...]
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