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BLM IN THE BEDROOM. JUST HOW RACIST IS BOSTON’S DATING SCENE?

Written by SAYOU COOPER Posted July 28, 2021 Filed Under: LIFESTYLE, Sex

The exclusion of BIPOC persons causes harm. I know I’m not alone in thinking this.

Filed Under: LIFESTYLE, Sex Tagged With: BLM, Boston dating, dating, Life, sex

DRAINING SWAMPSCOTT: THE PROSECUTION OF A PROGRESSIVE BLACK PROTESTER

Written by SOPHIE YARIN Posted July 20, 2021 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

The prosecution of Ernst Jean-Jacques Jr. on the North Shore is a clear example of a Black Lives Matter activist being targeted by local law enforcement. Without national attention on the case, authorities are playing by their own rules.

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: BLM, feature, features, news, news to us, protesters

OPEN WOUNDS: ANOTHER BLACK HARVARD MAN ARRESTED

Written by IRENE MONROE Posted April 24, 2018 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

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.”

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: arrest, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Cambridge, harvard, Henry Louis Gates, Police, police brutality, Selorm Ohene

PUBLIC SQUARE: ALLIED FORCES

Written by MIKE DESOCIO Posted June 6, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News

Who’s moving the needle on racial justice? Who’s not?

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News Tagged With: allies, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Boston, Mike DeSocio, racial justice, racism

BEYOND BLM HEADLINES: ON SEARCHING FOR MEANING IN FLAME WARS

Written by HALEY HAMILTON Posted August 12, 2016 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical

It was easy to take one look at the headlines, glance through Twitter, and #FTP all over the place.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, BLM, Facebook, flame wars, Korryn Gaines, police brutality, Twitter

ZINN, FERGUSON, AND TRUTH

Written by EMILY HOPKINS Posted March 27, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical, NEWS+OPINIONS

“The truth is damning enough.”

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #blacklivesmatter, Black Lives Matter, BLM, DeRay McKesson, Ferguson, Howard Zinn, Johnetta Elzie, Missouri, newsletter, protests

SCREAMING RADIO

Written by MIKE CANN Posted March 18, 2015 Filed Under: Blunt Truth, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

On the conservative Internets, there’s no such thing as racism ...

Filed Under: Blunt Truth, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #blacklivesmatter, Adriana Cohen, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Boston Herald Radio, Ferguson, Michael Brown, Mike Cann, Politics, President Obama, protests, racism, Tom Shattuck

ON #BLMDIGSOUT AND HELPING ONE ANOTHER THROUGH WINTRY HELL

Written by EMILY HOPKINS Posted February 16, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical, NEWS+OPINIONS

The city is overwhelmed. If we keep acting in support of one another, there’s a chance that we can dig ourselves out.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #BLMDigsOut, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Boston, Boston Snow, Emily Hopkins, shoveling, WInter Snow

GUEST EDITORIAL: AN OPEN LETTER TO THE OPEN MINDED

Written by EROC ARROYO-MONTANO Posted January 26, 2015 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

Why we should stand with those who stand on the highways.

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: #blacklivesmatter, Activism, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Boston, Eroc Arroyo, Frederick Douglas, I-93, Martin Luther King Jr., Occupy

PICS FROM TODAY’S NEWBURY STREET SHUTDOWN

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted January 5, 2015 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS

The protest was rather unique. The horde, relatively large considering the icy temp, shut down Newbury Street.

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Activism, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Boston, Newbury Street, police brutality, Protest

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