Powerful piece by Ta-Nehisi Coates on America and black bodies: When Abraham Lincoln declared, in 1863, that the battle of Gettysburg must ensure “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth,”
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Divest Harvard is currently staging a sit-in in Harvard’s Administration building in Mass Hall. Here is the Boston Globe coverage and here is the statement from Divest Harvard. There are extremely strong resonances with the event that just happened, announced in the previous blog post,
From The Daily Climate: President Lyndon Baines Johnson, in a February 8, 1965 special message to Congress warned about build-up of the invisible air pollutant that scientists recognize today as the primary contributor to global warming. “Air pollution is no
Last week a South Carolina judge took the unprecedented step of vacating the 1944 conviction of a black 14-year-old boy, the youngest person executed in the United States in the past century, on the grounds that he, George Stinney, Jr.,
Last week, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Eric Lichtblau spoke at Harvard Law School about his disturbing new book, “The Nazi’s Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men.” The book explores how thousands of Nazis — from concentration