Racism in New England
LISTEN: Katharine Morris On Using L.O.V.E. To Tackle Environmental Racism
Cities around New England have declared racism a public health crisis. Scholar-activist Katharine “Kat” Morris is especially interested in the intersection between racism, health and environmental justice — something she talked about in her 2019 TEDxUConn talk . Morris noted that a fifth of Connecticut’s pollution is concentrated in five cities where the majority of…
Read More‘It Just Stays With You’: The Corrosive Health Effects Of Decades Of Anti-Asian Violence
Fear opens with the front door for Lisa Wong. It walks her down the street, and it follows her into the grocery store. Fear is a strange voice calling out from a passing car. It lurks around every corner. Fear is in her Zoom calls when she works as town manager of Winchester. That fear…
Read MoreNew Englanders Bring Targeted Approach To Reparations Movement
People have been making the case for reparations for Black Americans for decades, and there are signs of forward movement. President Joe Biden has expressed support for a federal bill that would study the issue, and the new COVID-19 relief legislation includes several billion dollars to help Black farmers. In New England, some groups are…
Read MoreVirus Of Hate: ‘We Are Not Your Fetish’ — Combating Anti-Asian Racism And Sexism
Police have not said whether the killing of eight people in Atlanta, including six Asian women, was a hate crime. Still, the shooting is troubling many Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Especially women, who reported nearly 70% of hate incidents against the community since the pandemic, according to researchers at STOP AAPI HATE. “In a…
Read MoreLISTEN: Anti-Asian Hate And The Inextricable Link Between Racism And Sexism
Following the killings of eight people in Atlanta, including six Asian women, Caroline H. Lee wrote a commentary for WBUR’s blog Cognoscenti responding directly to news reports that said it was “unclear” whether the killings were motivated by racism. Her commentary is titled, “ Call The Shootings In Atlanta What They Were: Targeted Violence Against…
Read MoreMore Than 12 Angry Men: Creating Diverse Juries In Our State
The Connecticut Supreme Court wants to ensure that jury pools are diverse and representative of our communities. That could mean striking restrictions of who is allowed to serve on a jury. This hour, Chief Justice Richard Robinson joins us to answer our questions and yours about jury duty in our state. When jury trials resume,…
Read MoreMass Audubon Confronts Legacy Of Its Namesake As Nation Reckons With Race
The Massachusetts Audubon Society’s Boston Nature Center in Mattapan offers a home to more than 150 species of birds. And a winter afternoon offers up evidence of a few of them: Three-toed footprints of wild turkeys dot snowy paths like small dinosaur tracks; and in the leafless trees, robins and white-throated sparrows chirp as they flit…
Read MoreGrowing Frustration On Campus Over How Hate And Harassment Incidents Are Handled
Young Black and brown women living in a multicultural dorm at Boston College said they were startled awake in the middle of the night earlier this month as two white students ran through their hall, banging on doors and trashing the place. There’s growing frustration over how that and other incidents have been handled on…
Read MoreIn The Age of Black Lives Matter, New England Faces Its Own Role In Slavery
L’Merchie Frazier says she was not surprised to see her event drowned out by a busy news cycle this fall. During the week of October 12, the U.S. was experiencing dramatic increases in coronavirus cases, Amy Coney Barrett went before the Senate Judiciary Committee to discuss her Supreme COurt nomination, President Trump and Joe Biden…
Read MoreLessons Lost: The Struggle In Some New England Classrooms To Talk About Race
What we don’t learn in school can matter as much as the lessons we do learn. In this fourth and final episode of a special radio series on “Racism In New England,” we talk to teachers and students about the harm of omitting stories and cultures from curricula — and how we can do better.
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