The Fine Print: The Black Church’s radical, loving rebellion

“The greatest commandment is to love one another, is to love God and to love your neighbor as you love yourself. And if that’s what we preach, then that’s what we have to live.”

The Fine Print: Confronting the racial wealth gap in Massachusetts

Embrace’s Imari Paris Jeffries traces the Federal Reserve Bank’s recently released estimated racial wealth gap back to its source: redlined lending, restrictive covenants, and a century of policy that determined who was allowed to own something long enough to pass it down.

The Fine Print: Ballot Question 3 and the quest for a competitive democracy

“A democracy that has to answer to all of its people, not just the ones already inside the tent, is the strongest one we can build. Parties and candidates accountable only to themselves get weak, get complacent, stop listening. Accountability is what makes us stronger.”

The Fine Print: How Salsa became a radical tool for resistance

Music has never been just entertainment. For communities pushed to the margins, it has been a way to claim space and survive the constant pressure of othering. The rhythms born on plantations, in barrios, and in public housing projects carried stories that governments tried to erase but could never silence.

The Fine Print: Stopping Stones, slavery, and the radical re-telling of American history

Historic New England, with inspiration from the Stolpersteine memorials in Europe that honor victims of the Nazi regime, has a different mission: immortalize formerly enslaved people, too often voiceless and forgotten, as a way of reminding New England (and America) where we’ve been and how far we have still to go.​
It is in its retelling that history becomes part of public memory—public memory is the successful transformation of history from a static record into a dynamic narrative that circulates among people in the present moment.

The Fine Print: A plea to protect public memory

The 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence has inspired the revisiting of stories from our shared past.
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It is in its retelling that history becomes part of public memory—public memory is the successful transformation of history from a static record into a dynamic narrative that circulates among people in the present moment.

The Fine Print: Building the map to the ballot and beloved community

Now is not the time to bemoan how our votes don’t matter. It’s time to prove that they do, both by showing up just like we did in 2020 and fighting any attempt to stop us.

The Fine Print: Ibram X. Kendi and the Chain of Ideas

For many people, America’s rapid authoritarian turn came out of nowhere.

Not Ibram X. Kendi.

The author of Stamped From the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist shows in his new book Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age that America’s anti-democratic policies are part of a worldwide trend—one that long predates the current administration.

The Fine Print: Ta-Nehisi Coates takes America to task

In an age where fewer Americans trust the government than 70 years ago, Ta-Nehisi Coates reminds us that the road to reestablishing that trust heading into its next 250 years must be bold, consistent, and inclusive.