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WHY REPARATIONS: AMERICA NEEDS TO PAY UP AND PAY FORWARD

Written by IRENE MONROE Posted August 30, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

Uncle Will’s grandmother, my spouse’s great-grandmother, was born into slavery and died as a free woman at the age of 108.  Sometime during Reconstruction (1863-1877), the great-grandmother accrued a small plot of farmland that now awaits its fate, as her brood scrape together enough money to keep it. 

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: 1619, America, Boston, history, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK, reparations, slavery, throwback, throwbacks

MLK’S ASSASSINATION REMINDS NATION OF UNADDRESSED GUN VIOLENCE

Written by IRENE MONROE Posted April 3, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial

“By our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim, by allowing our movie and television screens to teach our children that the hero is one who masters the art of shooting and the technique of killing, by allowing all these developments, we have created an atmosphere in which violence and hatred have become popular pastimes."

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial Tagged With: DC, guns, history, March for our Lives, Martin Luther King, MLK, Parkland, shootings, throwback, violence

PIMPING KING

Written by IRENE MONROE Posted February 14, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial

Distinguishing between commercializing and communicating MLK’s message

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial Tagged With: advertising, black history month, commercials, Dodge Ram, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK, Super Bowl

CAMBRIDGE NEEDS A KING

Written by IRENE MONROE Posted January 8, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Op-Ed

Our job in keeping King’s dream alive is to be part of a participatory government—local and national—that is feverishly working to dismantle all existing discriminatory laws and practices that truncate full participation of its citizens in the fight to advance democracy.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Op-Ed Tagged With: Cambridge, community, Martin Luther King Jr., Massachusetts, MLK

ABOUT THOSE OUTSIDE AGITATORS

Written by ALEX PRESS Posted June 2, 2016 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical

The flimsiness of this lie was clear to anyone who saw photos of the youth at either walkout, and Walsh was ultimately forced to dial back his remarks to avoid looking too condescending toward the youth of our city. But his administration’s instinctive denial of the organic nature of protests goes beyond these walkouts.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical Tagged With: #blacklivesmatter, Boston, BPS, MLK, outside agitators, police brutality, schools. Marty Walsh

THE I-93 SHUTDOWN CHANGED A LOT, BUT NOT THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT POLICE BRUTALITY

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted January 20, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

The last few days have been a coming out party for closeted Archie Bunkers.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #HowDisruptive, 4 Mile March, Black Lives Matter, Boston Police Department, BPD, Civil Rights, Colleen Garry, Direct action, I-93 shutdown, Martin Luther King Jr., Massachusetts, MLK, police brutality, racism, sports radio

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