Many argue that the activism of the global pandemic and the George Floyd racial awakening are over.
Imari Paris Jeffries
Posted inOpinion, Race/Racism
Juneteenth a chance for new customs and rituals
TWO YEARS AFTER George Floyd and just days after the final victims of last month’s racial murders in Buffalo, it’s hard not to reflect on America’s long and painful history of racism and hate. Incidents like New York City Draft Riots of 1863, the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, the 1963 Sixteenth Street Baptist Church […]
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Honoring MLK by turning out at the polls
AS WE LOOK toward next month’s municipal election in Boston, we must mobilize and get out the vote. Reflecting on the past, we remember that on May 17, 1957, Martin Luther King addressed 25,000 civil-rights activists gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom. While the location was the same as his […]
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Tax credits: the biggest stimulus no one is talking about
FOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR, there has always been a strained relationship with our tax system, thanks to rules that keep the gap between black/brown and white wealth disproportionally wide. The tax system was even weaponized against Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was investigated in both Georgia and Alabama, and repeatedly by the IRS, which […]
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Minimum guaranteed income = solution to poverty
IN THE WEEKS leading up to his assassination in 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. launched a new chapter of his work, referred to as the “Poor People’s Campaign.” This campaign illuminated the relationship between racism and economic injustice and advanced a vision of eliminating poverty for Americans of all races. This work sought synergies […]