Motion over redirecting $4.1M in police funding causes council to explode in anger, accusations
CAMBRIDGE POLS, POLICE COMMISSIONER MELT DOWN OVER BLM DEBATE
Black Lives Matter
EDITORIAL: THREE YEARS OF DIGBOSTON, FIVE OF BINJ
A Wild Ride Gets Wilder… and #BlackLivesMatter
EDITORIAL: WE STAND FOR DEMOCRACY
DigBoston newspaper will resist any attempt to impose martial law on the US
MIT’S COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER HAS HIS OWN CIVILIAN DEATH TOLL
It was MIT’s Commencement Day Friday May 24, a bit of a surreal event for a campus that’s largely been evacuated due the COVID-19 pandemic. By all accounts, this virtual event was a tour de force, with technical gimmicks and congratulations sent from space. But it was also held in the shadow of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and the ensuing protests.
TOO MANY COPS
DISPATCH FROM THE MARCH AGAINST CAGES
Prison reformers protest Baker and Walsh-endorsed corrections conference
Activists from 19 grassroots organizations marched through downtown Boston Sunday afternoon to protest the American Correctional Association (ACA), which was holding its annual conference at the Hynes Convention Center.
The ACA is one of the largest ...
ON THE IMPORTANCE OF POLITICAL ACTIVISM IN AN AGE OF EXISTENTIAL THREATS
ONLY TIME AND TAPE WILL TELL
Will New Bedford finally find out what happened to Malcolm Gracia?
OPEN WOUNDS: ANOTHER BLACK HARVARD MAN ARRESTED
As can be seen in a video that one witness submitted to police, officers repeatedly punched Ohene in his torso. A subsequent CPD report depicts Ohene as being so wildly combative that three cops from Cambridge plus a transit officer were needed to restrain him and to place the perp in handcuffs in order to “avoid further injury to himself.”
‘WE NEED TO BE RECOGNIZED AND LEAD THE WAY’
How inclusive was this year’s Women’s March?
