This is the second article in a series on systemic harms plaguing homeless young adults based in Harvard Square “Ever since I was three years old, I knew exactly who I was inside.” Roxxanne says she likes my…
Operation Crossroads nuclear test | Image via Library of Congress For some with personal connections to past mistakes, the consequences of unfettered ingenuity are no more easily ignored than mushroom clouds on the horizon In early February, shortly…
Image via Muslim Justice League With Islamophobic Trump in rearview, Muslims mobilize politically President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team has announced that one of his first acts in office will be to reverse the Muslim ban, a travel and…
As coronavirus cases surge, community members grapple with a housing crisis. “My fellow organizers at City Life / Vida Urbana put it clearly and simply: evictions are death,” said Nicole Eigbrett, the director of Community Organizing at Collective…
In spite of the coronavirus spread, many have experienced an uptick in sales. For Somerville liquor store Downtown Wine and Spirits, more than half of their staff quit in the first few weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, due…
Spokespeople and public officials remain at conflict. The Somerville safe injection site opening has been delayed to 2021, as the city shifts resources to COVID-19. The site would be a place where IV drug users can come and…
Back then, we did what many said couldn’t be done. Now, we’re doing what we said we wouldn’t do.*
