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It is a common lament that American society has become polarized. Most commentators consider this a harmful development. Problems, they argue, should be solved through compromise, bipartisanship, and civil discourse. But polarization is not always negative. One of the key functions of social movements is to elevate controversial issues, force people to choose a side, and make politicians respond.
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“Understanding and unpacking gender, identity, gender expression, gender roles and masculinities are critical and relevant to all the work we do … especially as educators,” said Vincent Harris, director of Cal State Fullerton’s Male Success Initiative program.
“Consider James Baldwin (a gay Black novelist, poet and activist), Tony McDade (a Black transgender man who was shot by police last summer), Ahmaud Arbery (a Black man shot in Georgia while he was out jogging). How are we seeing Black men? Some Black men such as Bayard Rustin (a leader in civil rights, nonviolence and gay rights) and Billy Strayhorn (Duke Ellington’s composer) did identify as queer or gay. How did their voices give action to the movement?
Millions of Americans Rely on Cars. Insuring Them Shouldn t Be Discriminatory | Opinion Alex Timm
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Over 70 years ago this month, 16 men and women, led by Bayard Rustin, boarded a bus in Washington, D.C., for a two-week Journey of Reconciliation. Their goal was to expose the discrimination people of color routinely faced on America s roads.
While progress has been made since that journey began nearly three quarters of a century ago, there is still much important work to be done to eliminate the inequities that remain entrenched in our transportation economy.
Perhaps no practice is more archaic and more widespread than the use of credit scores to determine car insurance rates.
On finding freedom for every body
By Lauren LeBlanc Globe Correspondent,Updated April 28, 2021, 11:03 p.m.
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A protestor waved a Black Lives Matter flag in front a Nina Simone music video during demonstrations in Portland, Ore., last year. Author Olivia Laing captures a moment where Simone, in conversation with an interviewer, recognizes that the absence of fear is, for her, the embodiment of freedom.Mason Trinca/NYT
Today, long after 9/11, freedom remains an overdetermined concept. Remember âFreedom Fries?â The word itself has been appropriated across the entire political spectrum. Too often itâs co-opted to bludgeon human rights in defense of so-called individual freedom as in the contemporary politicization of mask use during the COVID-19 pandemic. Defused of its meaning, writers like Olivia Laing â in company with Louis Menand (âThe Free Worldâ) and Maggie Nelson (whose âOn Freedomâ is forthcoming this fall) â aim