Author: MassCommons

There’s a belief among some activists that marriage is a bourgeois institution that inevitably diminishes people’s progressive beliefs and their willingness to take political action.  That was not Rosa...

There’s a lot of anger these days from progressives on this site and elsewhere directed at President Obama for giving in to Republicans.  I don’t want to get into the specifics of whether people are...

Revolutionary leaders tend to come from the middle-class.  Rosa Parks is one of those revolutionary leaders. Her father, James McCauley, and uncle, Robert, carried on their father’s trade, and were skilled carpenters...

Near the end of his life, David Halberstam returned to the first great story of his journalistic career and wrote about the young leaders of the Nashville civil rights movement in “The Children”.  It’s an...

“Dangerous memories” is a phrase often used by German Catholic theologian Johann Metz.  Metz argues that certain memories are subversive of the status quo, and therefore dangerous to the powers that be....