Author: MassCommons

King Day means we all have at least one day a year to reflect on the man, his legacy, and their meaning for our times.  This is a mixed blessing.  On the one hand, it means we have Newt Gingrich calling Barack Obama...

Even more remarkable than the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr’s life is the fact that on Nov. 2, 1983 President Ronald Reagan (yes, this Ronald Reagan, and listen to the crowd’s reaction at 1:22 when Reagan proclaims,...

From our vantage point it can be hard to grasp what an astonishing moment it was in American popular culture when, in the spring of 1969, a gospel song performed by a group of young Black Pentecostals from Oakland, CA broke onto...

I don’t have a prediction for the outcome of the South Carolina Republican presidential primary.  (And I don’t think the results will matter much.  Given Romney’s financial, organizational and...

“All organizing is reorganizing.”  Once a campaign is over, it can’t be repeated.  People change; relationships change; conditions change. Rosa and Raymond Parks moved to Detroit shortly after the bus...