
"People are living in the state of almost constant, precarious insecurity."
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Written by KATHRYN CARLEY Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS
"People are living in the state of almost constant, precarious insecurity."
Written by DIG STAFF Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts
“Our goal is to create a beloved community—and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as quantitative change in our lives.”
Written by IRENE MONROE 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.
Written by IRENE MONROE 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."
Written by IRENE MONROE Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial
Distinguishing between commercializing and communicating MLK’s message
Written by IRENE MONROE 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.
Written by ALEX PRESS 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.
Written by CHRIS FARAONE Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS
The last few days have been a coming out party for closeted Archie Bunkers.