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Category: History
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Today we remember tireless and beloved public servant, Mayor Tom Menino, Boston’s first Italian American mayor and its longest-serving mayor in history.
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In an excerpt from his latest book, AT HOME IN EXILE, political scientist and religion scholar Alan Wolfe examines why he prefers “a Judaism that is special but not chosen to one that is chosen but not special.”
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This year, in the 40th anniversary of the explosion that was Boston busing, ALL SOULS author Michael Patrick MacDonald says it’s time to be clear: busing wasn’t just about black and white. It was also about green—who had some in their pockets, and who didn’t.
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Cornel West’s Black Prophetic Fire is both a new look at six revolutionary African American leaders and a rousing call for more “fire” in what West calls the Black prophetic tradition, a reframing of the social order in terms of radical justice.
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Though this will be the 32nd annual Banned Books Week, the reality is that book banning is still distressingly common.
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Viktor Frankl, the psychotherapist and author of the hugely influential book Man’s Search for Meaning, died seventeen years ago this week.
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On the 175th anniversary of The Amistad’s capture, historian Marcus Rediker takes us back to a time when the idea of “black pirates” would ignite the imagination of early America and take these 53 Africans on a journey from the holds of a slave ship to the halls of the Supreme Court and beyond.
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