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WILL THE COLUMBUS STATUE RETURN TO BOSTON? WHO WILL DECIDE?

“The park should be a place where everyone feels welcome, not a place where Indigenous people are made to feel uncomfortable, erased and demeaned.”

DANA FERRANTE July 30, 2020

IS PEER INTERVENTION FOR COPS AN EPIC FAIL IN THE MAKING? A LOOK AT THE NOLA PROGRAM HEADED FOR BOSTON.

“They’re designed to punish a few officers or in some of these cases just to stop them from doing bad things before they get there.”

MITA KATARIA July 28, 2020

FROM ONLINE LESSONS TO SPECIAL PRECAUTIONS, MASS COMMUNITY COLLEGES PLAY IT SAFE

“We’re in no rush to bring administrators and staff back to campus because there’s no reason to.”

GRACE SYMES July 20, 2020

PROTESTS AGAINST POLICE VIOLENCE CONTINUE TO GAIN TRACTION AND RAISE OVERDUE QUESTIONS IN WHITE AREAS

“White allyship is basically shutting up for one minute of your life. It’s imperative to have people of color leading chants and leading the movement.”

GRACE SYMES July 14, 2020

UP TO THE CHALLENGE, FOR CHELSEA: DOCTOR EXPLAINS TRIUMPHS, TERROR OF COVID STRUGGLE

“In a community like Chelsea, with many families in one [housing] unit … With a disease as contagious as this one, isolation is the key.”

RICH TENORIO July 6, 2020

ANYWHERE BUT THERE: MEMO REQUIRING SOME STUDENTS TO RETURN TO CAMPUS SPARKS OUTCRY

“There is no care in the way we get this important information and it shows that our work is undervalued by the university.”

ALEX SUMAS July 1, 2020

SPECIAL PHOTO FEATURE: HELPING COMMUNITIES, HOSPITALITY WORKERS, AND FAMILIES

“We live in the United States of America, and to see how many people have issues with food [is] just unbelievable.”

KEIKO HIROMI June 29, 2020

FOR RESTAURANTS FIGHTING WAY OUT OF PANDEMIC, TAKEOUT COCKTAILS COULD BE HUGE HELP

“It’s very reasonable, it’s very measured, it’s not going to stop anyone from getting their favorite vodka or tequila at the liquor store.”

ERIC TWARDZIK June 26, 2020

SILENCE STILL EQUALS DEATH: ACT UP FOUNDERS REFLECT ON AIDS ACTIVISM, TALK COVID AND CURRENT PROTESTS

“Anyone who thinks the Black Lives Matter movement is not doing a very good job should pay attention to the astonishing movement in public opinion. Sometimes you have to scream real loud or use a bad word.”

NOAH SCHAFFER June 24, 2020

PROTESTERS DECRY NONPROFIT LAYOFFS; FOUNDERS RESPOND TO CLAIMS OF UNION-BUSTING, RACISM

“I don’t think we’re a racist organization. I just think the power structure, the culture, is made up of people who don’t look like me.”

JANE REGAN June 23, 2020