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Category: Activism
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Mary Daly, a world-renowned radical feminist philosopher, died on January 3rd. Two dozen people gathered this week at Harvard Divinity School to honor her memory.
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In honor of Don Belton, whose death on December 27th was a great loss, Beacon Broadside shares this essay from Speak My Name: Black Men on Masculinity and the American Dream.
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The American Law Institute recently abandoned its support of the death penalty, but the author of Executed on a Technicality has doubts about how this will affect the state that accounts for almost half of the executions in the U.S.
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Frederick S. Lane makes an immodest proposal for airline safety in the wake of the failed Christmas Day bombing.
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Cesar Cota was the first in his family to attend college. “Now it’s hard to achieve my dream,” he says, “because the state put higher fees on us, and cut services and classes.”
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A look at how prisons fail the mentally ill from David Chura, author of I Don’t Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine: Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup.
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Michael Patrick MacDonald’s All Souls: A Family Story from Southie, still resonates with readers of all ages ten years after it was first published.
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The United States Supreme Court will consider two cases affecting the lives of juveniles serving life sentences without parole; David Chura looks at why these kids deserve the chance to be rehabilitated.
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How do we define family relationships in regard to giving caregivers leave from work? Nancy Polikoff looks at what she thinks is the fairest option.
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