Julia Mapilisan News Today

A judge recently ruled that a lawsuit filed by descendants of a historically Black neighborhood can proceed after their ancestors were forced to leave their homes in the 1960s and 1970s.

Julia Mapilisan spray paints "Black Lives Matter" on a wall as people gather at Lents Park in Portland, Oregon, on September 5, 2020, to mark the 100th day of protests denouncing police brutality and racism. (Allison Dinner/AFP via Getty Images) Some years ago, I was walking in the Public Garden in Boston with an African American scholar, writer and Unitarian Universalist minister named Thandeka. I had earlier that day introduced her at a conference where she was speaking, I moderating. Our con...