Together You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation
“Though I am gone, I urge you to answer the highest calling of your heart and stand up for what you truly believe.” Congressman John Lewis asked the New York Times to publish and op-ed on the day of his funeral.
Selma Helped Define John Lewis’s Life. In Death, He Returned One Last Time.
The body of Mr. Lewis was taken across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where, in 1965, he helped guide hundreds of people marching for voting rights. They were attacked by state troopers wielding clubs and tear gas.
You’ve Been Called Out for a Microaggression. What Do You Do?
As a person who wants to be a good ally to your colleagues of color and members of underrepresented groups, how do you apologize after you’ve committed a microaggression? And what’s the best way to ensure that you do better in the future?
A Day of Collective Engagement: Racism and Antiracism, Our Realities and Our Roles
We are in the midst of one of the most significant human rights moments of our lifetimes. It is not a time to stand on the sidelines. As a university dedicated to knowledge and truth, we feel it is the responsibility of our entire community to learn, think, and act in pursuit of social justice. […]
100 Years of Suffrage: A century after women’s suffrage, the fight for equality isn’t over.
Women struggled for decades to win the right to vote, but it’s taken even longer for all to be able to exercise it.
For the Deaf, Social Distancing Can Mean Social Isolation
Masks, enforced social distance and other public health measures intended to slow the spread of the Coronavirus pose unique challenges to the 37 million American adults with impaired hearing.
Ibram X. Kendi, Leading Scholar of Racism, to Join BU and Launch BU Center for Antiracist Research
The new center “will work to transform how racial research is done” and collaborate across the entire University
Caring for Immigrant Caregivers
As the population gets a little older and a little sicker each year, disabled and older Americans rely more and more on home health aides… Nationally, 28% of the direct care workforce and 31% of home health aides are born outside the US.
For Latinos and Covid-19, Doctors Are Seeing an ‘Alarming’ Disparity
The outsized infection rate among Hispanics in some states could hobble efforts to quash the spread of Covid-19, prompting states like Oregon to step up testing and take emergency measures.
How COVID-19 Swept Through a Dense Massachusetts City
North of Boston, the packed city of Chelsea has been hit hard by the coronavirus. Now, as the cases begin to level off, host Robin Young checks in with City Manager Tom Ambrosino. (audio)