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College students needed spring break for their mental health. Covid-19 took that away. Vox.com 3/15/2021 © Getty Images When videos of college students on spring break in Miami went viral soon after much of the country went on lockdown last March, many Americans raised their eyebrows. Students were recorded beachside saying things like, “I’m not going to let [Covid-19] stop me,” and, “I think they’re blowing it way out of proportion.” Footage showed bars crowded with sunburnt college students blasting music from portable speakers and leaning over tables to share drinks. Those ...

Boston Equity Chief Karilyn Crockett Resigns Karilyn Crockett Crockett, 47, submitted her letter of resignation to Mayor Marty Walsh on Monday. “It has been my pleasure and honor to serve as chief of equity for the city of Boston these last several months,” the Dorchester native wrote, noting her sooner-than-expected departure as Walsh prepares for an expected U.S. Senate confirmation to become secretary of labor. Her resignation comes as sources close to her said that she is weighing whether to enter an already crowded race. Local political observers suggested she might have a ha...

February 24, 2021 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this (© Shutterstock) Before taking office last month, President Joe Biden promised that advancement of racial equity would be one of the top priorities of his administration. We asked several members of the Yale faculty to describe policy changes within their sphere of expertise that could address systemic barriers that have historically denied opportunities to people of color in the United States. Willie Jennings Associate professor of systematic theology and Africana studie...

Library of Congress Early in “The Souls of Black Folk,” the book that established his reputation and remains a classic to this day, W.E.B. DuBois observed of African-American religion: “Few men ever worshipped Freedom with half such unquestioning faith as did the American Negro... In song and exhortation swelled one refrain — Liberty.” DuBois pointedly noted that he was writing precisely 40 years since the emancipation of 3.5 million Black people then enslaved in the Confederacy. He was not only identifying the liberation theology at the heart of African-American Christianity in gen...