March 24, 2022
Color of Law
Executive Editor
If confirmed, Justice Brown Jackson will join the U.S. Supreme Court at a critical time for the court and for the country.
There is a saying that when you’re Black, you must work twice as hard to get half the credit. This is most certainly true, and the…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
One of the reasons we have pay inequality is that employers tend to make salary offers based on what people made in their previous job.
March 15 was National Pay Equity Day. It’s the day when women have to work into a new year to earn the same amount that men…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
In a milieu of anti-Blackness, discrimination doesn’t stop at skin color. It includes our dress style, music, dance, speech and hair, too.
How I wear my hair is my business. Ironically, the commonwealth is deciding it is now legal for me to do so. Last week, Massachusetts lawmakers…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Putin’s once formidable alliance of global sympathizers has been hemorrhaging support by the day.
Many figures on the new right sold their already discounted souls to Vladimir Putin over the last decade. Now, after the invasion of Ukraine revealed Putin’s…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
The belief in the justice and glory of past wars is absolutely critical to the acceptance of current wars, such as the Ukraine war.
Last week I spoke to a very smart class of high school seniors in Washington DC. They knew more and had better questions for me than…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
instead of condemning atrocities committed by the Saudi/UAE invasion, bombing and blockade of Yemen, the United States is cozying up to the leaders of these countries.
The United Nations’ goal was to raise more than $4.2 billion for the people of war-torn Yemen by March 15. But when that deadline rolled around,…
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