October 18, 2018
Color of Law
Executive Editor
Republicans know they cannot win with unpopular policies and a minority of voter support. So they have set out to stop people from voting, quell dissent, and rev up their base with appeals to bigotry.
In the late 1960s, the Republican Party embraced what it called the Southern Strategy, an appeal to disaffected white Democratic voters who were resentful of desegregation…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
Few have seen such a disgraceful performance as Kavanaugh's 45-minute diatribe at the Senate Judiciary Committee. More than two thousand law professors said his demeanor was so objectionable that he was unqualified for the court.
I’m mad. So mad that I can spit. Throw stuff. Holla. Make some noise. What is a righteous woman to do? I'm about to throw me…
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Commentary
Columnist
'National security' is used to make the people fearful, to make them bend to the demands of unstable leaders and to make them pliable and pacified. It’s an old story that needs to be changed.
Around the world, atrocities are being perpetrated on a daily basis by governments, by militaries, by death squads, and by other entities, in the name of…
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Commentary
Columnist
public school educators need to organize their votes to ensure that they tip the scales in the Democrats favor, and make it a priority to hold them accountable as they represent the best choices for their future.
Trump held a minstrel, coon show in the Oval Office last Thursday, featuring the seriously mentally ill, bi-polar Kanye West who has infrequently taken his medicine…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Regardless of what ultimately happened to Khashoggi, continuing U.S. arms sales and military support to Saudi Arabia under current circumstances is immoral. Jobs should not be an excuse to arm a murderous regime that not only may be behind the assassination of a U.S. resident and respected commentator but is responsible for thousands of civilian casualties in its three-and-one-half-year military intervention in Yemen—the majority killed with U.S-supplied bombs and combat aircraft and U.S. refueling and targeting assistance.
If the Saudi government is indeed behind the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi there should be consequences—political, military, economic, and reputational. Unfortunately, President Trump begs to…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
How churches feel about transgender people will vary. How Trump’s administration treats transgender citizens must stop. “YES” on Question 3 is doing God’s work which is the work of justice.
Across the country, there are epic battles in many states to either pass or not pass transgender bathroom bills. Here in Massachusetts, the bluest of blue…
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Commentary
Columnist
Part of our internal repair is to consciously understand that “We Are Owed” and that we have a historic responsibility to demand reparations from those forces of white supremacy that continue to benefit from what they did to us and that lingers on as part of the vestiges of our enslavement.
Day-by-day, African people in America are becoming more familiar with the concept of reparations and what it means to our continued struggle in America for self-determination,…
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