If you just scanned the headlines about a recent study of statewide traffic stop data, you might have been left with a rosy impression of the state of racial profiling on Massachusetts roads. “Traffic stops study finds no racial disparity,” read The Boston Globe’s headline on the front of the Feb. 8 Metro section. “Race .
Bishop Desmond Tutu, part of a generation of anti-apartheid activists and revolutionaries who brought down a South African government built on racism, died on Dec. 26, 2021. As Anglican bishop in South Africa in the 1980s and 1990s, he became known world-wide as the heroic face of peaceful opposition to the apartheid government of South Africa. Massachusetts had a particularly
Recent applications to delay the destruction of the local civil rights landmark in Boston's Grove Hall neighborhood raise the question: is it too late to save the Freedom House?