A series of speakers — ranging from musicians to nurses to union organizers — called for equal pay between men and women, noted the disproportionate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mothers and emphasized the need for intersectionality.
It’s important the crowd of mangy white supremacists who broke into the Capitol a few weeks ago are labeled as terrorists. But do the same for the cops letting them into the building and posing for selfies, the cops participating in the insurrection and the cops who engage in acts of terrrorism on the daily.
After unprecedented acts of domestic terrorism on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump Wednesday, Boston University leadership and faculty have responded with unilateral condemnation of the riots.
Regardless of who clinches the presidency in 2020, it will take our nation a very long time to heal from the extreme polarization that has shot to the forefront of all discussion over the past four years. Things may die down, and we might eventually return to a more conventional presidency, but the cracks in our country may never quite mend.
The people, a collective force, are the ones who create change. We come together to protest, strike and vote for progressive action. If we cannot join forces across the spectrum of political ideologies, then this intolerance will only hamper our nation’s growth. We can have no progress without conversation.
If we are able to exorcise Trump from office, your conservative friends will still be conservative, and that’s still gross. Stop being friends with gross people, or at the very least, stop bragging about your email exchanges with them on Twitter.
Last year saw the highest activity on record for white supremacist propaganda in the U.S., with Massachusetts among the states that recorded the most cases.
“There’s two sides to every story,” Joyner Lucas raps, as he concludes a verse in his new song “I’m Not Racist.” He speaks from two opposite perspectives: a Trump supporter and a presumably...
