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NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES GIVES TALK ON SLAVERY’S LEGACY

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted October 29, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

The 1619 Project's creator will give a lecture at the MassArt Art Mueusem

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Art, lecture, Nikole Hannah-Jones, racism, slavery

OPINION: AFTER JUNETEENTH, WHAT DOES THIS 4TH OF JULY MEAN?

Written by IRENE MONROE Posted July 2, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Juneteenth can no longer stand in the shadows of America’s celebration of independence

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: 4th of July, Independence Day, Juneteenth, patriotism, slavery

RECAP: JUBILEE ON JUNETEENTH: LIBERATING THE PRACTICE OF PENTECOST

Written by CLAIRE SADAR Posted June 21, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

“We can never celebrate without remembering the story of the struggle.”

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: holiday, Juneteenth, Pentecost, race, slavery

CONFRONTING RACIAL INJUSTICE: THE CHARLES STUART STORY

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted June 3, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

The Royall House and Slave Quarters in Medford will host a talk on "white lies and Black lives."

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Medford, racism, Royall House and Slave Quarters, slavery

THANKSGIVING FICTION: WE LIVE IN THE UNIVERSE WHERE THE BAD GUYS WON

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted November 25, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

National Day of Mourning Plaque. Photo by Melissa Doroquez, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://flickr.com/photos/merelymel/3119433076/.

"Americans today live in a very real universe where the functional equivalent of Nazis—European colonists—committed genocide against Native American peoples..."

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: african american, alternate history, America, Apparent Horizon, Book, Column, criticism, Democracy, DigBoston, genocide, holiday, Jason Pramas, Journalism, native american, nazi, Philip K. Dick, racism, review, science fiction, slavery, television, thanksgiving, The Man in the High Castle, United States

BILL O’REILLY ALMA MATER FOOTS BILL TO SECURE SPEECH BY GUY WHO DENIES SLAVERY’S LASTING IMPACT

Written by CARINA IMBORNONE Posted November 20, 2019 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

"BU is not designed for us, and this BU does not belong to us just as our bodies and our minds do not and have not belonged to us since our rights as human beings were stripped away in the wake of slavery."

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Ben Shapiro, boston university, BU, campus, college, demonstration, MAGA, Protest, slavery, Trump

EXCERPT: FROM ‘BLACK LIVES, NATIVE LANDS, WHITE WORLDS: A HISTORY OF SLAVERY IN NEW ENGLAND’

Written by Posted October 9, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Books

The slave quarters standing at 15 George Street is the only freestanding slave quarters north of the Mason-Dixon Line still existing in the United States.

Filed Under: A+E, Books Tagged With: American Revolution, Belinda Sutton, Black Lives Native Lands White Worlds, books, history, Medford, new england, Prince Hall, Royall, slavery, throwback

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

THE EERILY FAMILIAR TALE OF SHADRACH MINKINS AND THE CENTURIES-OLD FEDERAL THREAT TO THE COMMONWEALTH

Written by ZACK HUFFMAN Posted March 7, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston

The guards prepared to fight any slave hunters who entered Boston, and specifically patrolled the streets of the West End and the northern slope of Beacon Hill, which at the time was home to the majority of the city’s black population.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Boston History, Fugitive Slave Act, Journalism, Shadrach Minkins, slavery, throwback, throwbacks

SECRET ASIAN MAN: MISERY HAS COMPANY

Written by TAK TOYOSHIMA Posted January 25, 2015 Filed Under: Comics

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: AIDS, attention span, ebola, famine, genocide, Secret Asian Man, slavery

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