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Category: Activism
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A look at one of the activists featured in Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists.
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Banned in Boston: The Watch and Ward Society’s Crusade against Books, Burlesque, and the Social Evil
Neil Miller discusses his new book about the 80-year reign of the Watch and Ward Society, Boston’s moral crusaders.
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While one man and his small group of followers talk about burning copies of Islam’s holy book, America’s secular and religious communities speak up in solidarity.
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Courtney E. Martin explains why her generation is a lot more engaged than the media would have you think.
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John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship winner (2008), Builder Levy has photographed in New York City’s inner city communities where he was a New York City teacher of at-risk adolescents for 35 years; at civil rights and peace demonstrations in the 1960s and the new millennium; in Mongolia, Cuba, and other developing nations; and since…
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American history is an arc toward freedom, dignity and inclusiveness for all. That will include Muslims, sooner or later.
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In this excerpt from Nobody Turn Me Around: A People’s History of the March on Washington, the leaders of the March determine how to acknowledge the death of a leader in the movement for black civil rights.
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The King Institute shared with our blog scans of Martin Luther King’s program from the 1963 March on Washington.
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With the current, heated debates about immigration and religious freedom, we take a look back at a period in Boston’s history when the Irish were the newcomers.
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A look at recent Beacon media mentions.
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