EASTON House Majority Leader Claire Cronin, who was a top surrogate for President Joe Biden in Massachusetts during the 2020 campaign, could be headed to Ireland as ambassador with one source saying the Easton Democrat is being vetted by the White House and an online report suggesting she was soon to be revealed as Biden s pick.
The possibility that Cronin, who entered the House in 2013, could be headed across the Atlantic had Beacon Hill and social media buzzing on Wednesday, May 19, though the report on the New York-based website IrishCentral, about Irish politics and culture, had not been independently confirmed.
Cronin, an Easton Democrat, climbed to the number two position in House leadership this session under new Speaker Ron Mariano, though in a post-appointment interview with Commonwealth she said, Absolutely not, when asked if she aspired someday to become the first female speaker.
Black Politics After George Floyd
The last decade’s cycle of uprisings and protests has demonstrated more than a confrontation with white supremacy; it has been the most explosive articulation of a crisis in Black politics.
Illustration by Matt Williams
One night last summer, I saw a police van go up in flames, and I allowed myself to feel hope, something that had become quite foreign to me after the year’s many stupefying months. For a number of us who went out in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder and the sacking of the third precinct in Minneapolis, it was the first time we had encountered our friends with bigger fears than our breath. “When someone put their arms around me to pull me out of the way of a swinging baton, that still counts as an embrace,” I joked at the beginning of June. The speed and force with which the rebellions multiplied across the country triggered, surprisingly, an outpouring of support. Faced with a recurring display of police repression
Reclaiming the Power of Rebellion from Boston Review. Activist Derecka Purnell interviews historian Elizabeth Hinton about her new book, ‘America on Fire,’ and about how the label “riot” discredits Black political demands.
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