Part 1: How do we begin?
opinion
MARKET ORIENTATION, TV NEWS, AND THE AMPLIFICATION OF VIOLENCE
In 2017, we examined CNN and Democracy Now!’s coverage of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests at Standing Rock, North Dakota, to understand how the market orientation of two news organizations influenced the production and distribution of their protest coverage.
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.
GUEST OPINION: GET US OFF THE TOP OF COUNTRY’S ASTHMA DEATH LIST
State legislators have the opportunity to push through two environmental justice bills that emphasize citizens’ constitutional right to clean air and water and encourage stronger enforcement of existing state laws.
IT’S RISKY TO REOPEN PLACES OF WORSHIP, WHETHER MASS ALLOWS IT OR NOT
COVID-19 continues to pose an existential threat to public health and safety, and many of the churches that flouted social distancing guidelines became hot spots in their regions, increasing infection and death rates.
OPEN LETTER TO UMASS PRESIDENT MEEHAN FROM UNIVERSITY UNIONS
Demands job protections, engagement with students, staff, and faculty on reopening campuses
WHAT LOVE OF OUR NEIGHBORS LOOKS LIKE IN THE AGE OF THE CORONAVIRUS
The rapid spread of the coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the inequalities in American society regarding who has access to sustainable and equitable healthcare, which students have strong enough support system in their homes to have an optimum experience with remote learning, which workers have the flexibility to work from home, and which do not.
WITH COVID-19, WE’RE LOSING THE SAME POPULATION THE AIDS PANDEMIC TOOK
Clergy in these communities have been performing non-stop homegoings, and helping families, loved ones, and communities of the deceased through this valley of anxiety, fear, and death.
GUEST OPINION: MASS SHOULD ELIMINATE CASH BAIL DURING THE PANDEMIC
The stakes are far too high to justify such detention. During the pandemic, incarceration puts a person’s life in serious danger.
PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON COVID-19
Lessons to prepare, grieve, console, help, learn, teach, and unite
