“The role of art is to continue to show that out of pain comes beauty.”
Black Lives Matter
COLORING BOOK PROCEEDS TO GO TO BLACK INSTITUTIONS, CAUSES
Co-author says “the younger Chinese generation in America should be more political than their parents”
PART OF THE PROBLEM
From racist real estate practices to bigoted laws, the Boston suburbs are largely white for a reason
VIDEO: #BLACKLIVESMATTER BOSTON MARCHES TO #SAYHERNAME
In addition to celebrating Black women, BLM Boston was also gathering to demand the city of Boston redirect the $40.1 million that is budgeted for policing into schools and resources that will benefit the community.
CAMBRIDGE POLS, POLICE COMMISSIONER MELT DOWN OVER BLM DEBATE
Motion over redirecting $4.1M in police funding causes council to explode in anger, accusations
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
Some thoughts about last Saturday’s counterprotest
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 ...