In my mid-20’s, I hit a rough stretch with basketball. My recreation team disbanded as people left Boston. The Nets continued to languish, with little sign of hope for the future. And my burgeoning passion for politics and social justice began to supplant my enthusiasm for sports. But in that process, I developed a newfound appreciation for the league, and the sport, I fell in love with as a kid.
Category: Social Justice
A Preemptive Strike: How the U.S. Government Engineered the Carceral State
In her thorough dissection of the policies that fueled the axiomatic rise in black incarceration in the final decades of the 20th century, Elizabeth Hinton traces the origins of the modern carceral state back to the social welfare programs of the early 1960’s.
A Tale of Two Economies: Why We Need To Talk About Wealth
New figures from the U.S. Census Bureau revealed that income inequality in the United States has reached its highest level ever. Lurking beneath the headline numbers of GDP and unemployment are reminders that the country’s gains have been unevenly distributed.
The Whiter, Wealthier School District Next Door
65 years after Brown v. Board of Education, our suburbs are more racially integrated than in previous decades, but still profoundly segregated from town to town: Low-income and nonwhite families live in communities with fewer white residents and lower-performing schools.