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July 14, 2020 By GRACE SYMES

PROTESTS AGAINST POLICE VIOLENCE CONTINUE TO GAIN TRACTION AND RAISE OVERDUE QUESTIONS IN WHITE AREAS

Salem Black Lives Matter

“White allyship is basically shutting up for one minute of your life. It’s imperative to have people of color leading chants and leading the movement.”

Filed Under: Features, Reports Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, Boston, BPD, criminal justice, demonstrations, Facebook groups, George Floyd, news, news to us, North Shore, photos, police violence, prison reform, racism, Roxbury, South Shore, suburbs

November 25, 2019 By CLAIRE SADAR

FAMILY TREE

How do you counter a violent racist bent on destroying intercommunal solidarity? With more intercommunal solidarity.

Filed Under: Features, Reporting, Reports Tagged With: anti-Semitism, Boston, Central Reform Temple, hate, hate crimes, Pittsburgh, racism, solidarity, synagogue, Tree of Life, violence, white supremacist

November 20, 2019 By C. SHARDAE JOBSON

ROCK AGAINST RACISM TURNS 40

Here, five individuals associated with RAR share their memories of Boston back then, what they gained from having RAR in their lives, and how, in 2019, we can continue to honor the groundwork RAR laid for a better Boston.

Filed Under: Arts, Oral Histories Tagged With: 1980s, 1984, bboys, bgirls, Boston, Boston Hip Hop, Boston History, Boston rap, BPS, breakdancing, breaking, Dorchester, hip-hop, HONK, Madison Park, oral histories, oral history, race, racism, Rapperteers, Reebee Garofalo, Rock Against Racism, Roxbury, Spiun City Rockers, UMass, UMASS-Boston

February 6, 2019 By JASON PRAMAS

PUBLIC BAD. PRIVATE GOOD?

Boston Herald’s attack on MassHousing highlights double standard in American journalism

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, Columns Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Boston Herald, Braintree, business expense, capitalism, Column, Digital First Media, economy, government, hotel, Jason Pramas, journalism, labor, leased car, Massachusetts, neoliberal, news, newspaper, per diem, politics, public, racism, travel

August 17, 2017 By BRITNI DE LA CRETAZ

LAWMAKERS PUSH TO RENAME THE YAWKEY MBTA STATION

This short feature is a sequel to “The Yawkey Way,” which caused some controversy, raised discussions, spurred subsequent coverage, earned attention from the larger sports and journalism communities, and was ultimately recognized as a notable story in the 2017 edition of Best American Sports Writing. Tom Yawkey has long been considered by some to be a blemish […]

Filed Under: Features, Sports Tagged With: Britni de la Cretaz, Charlottesville, confederate statues, fenway park, lawmakers, legislature, massachusetts state house, MBTA, naacp, racism, Red Sox, station, statues, Yawkey Way, Zineb Curren

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