Kevin C. PetersonBlack Political Power At Stake During Mass Redistricting ProcessAs the battle for voting rights surges across the nation, the contest for electoral justice in Massachusetts is reaching a high pitch. This…Jul 6, 2021Jul 6, 2021
Kevin C. PetersonA Year Later: A Political Elegy For George FloydComments Made During A Global Panel Discussion on the One Year Anniversary of the Lynching of George FloydMay 30, 2021May 30, 2021
Kevin C. PetersonMahalia Jackson BioPic On Lifetime Offers Insight, ResurrectionPrecisely because the current generation of Americans barely recognize the seismic impact of her overarching, protean talent, her name is…Apr 28, 2021Apr 28, 2021
Kevin C. PetersonVoting Rights Threats Call For Expanded DemocracyIf the theory exists that an inevitable advance toward fuller democracy is often offset by periodic reversals that threaten to plunge the…Mar 18, 2021Mar 18, 2021
Kevin C. PetersonParabolic Lessons On Race Emerge From Apparent Victories in GeorgiaPerhaps what we are witnessing in the slow returning aftermath of the yesterday’s double Georgia U.S. Senate run-off electionsJan 6, 2021Jan 6, 2021
Kevin C. PetersonToward the Death of Spiritual Violence in BostonWhat is violence? Is it an obvious thing requiring no deep thinking to define it? Or is it more complex than that — more like a web of…Jan 3, 2021Jan 3, 2021
Kevin C. PetersonCity of Boston Ignores Pleas of Black Activists at Downtown Tourist IconThe city of Boston recently found an opportunity to clear the racially toxic air that hovers over Faneuil Hall and its adjacent Market…Nov 29, 2020Nov 29, 2020
Kevin C. PetersonOBAMA: Black Men Must Vote Despite American DemonizationOn a warm April day in 1899 W.E.B Dubois — the great scholar and Civil Rights advocate — glazed over in distraught as he glared through…Nov 2, 2020Nov 2, 2020
Kevin C. PetersonBoston Mayor Marty Fakes Moves at Real Anti-Racism ReformBoston Mayor Marty Walsh was fooling no one yesterday— especially Blacks in the city — when he stepped to the podium at city hall to…Oct 14, 2020Oct 14, 2020
Kevin C. PetersonPrez Debate Lacked Civility, Truth-TellingLast night’s presidential debate was not a presidential debate at all. Instead it was cacophonous sound and fury signifying nothing. It…Sep 30, 2020Sep 30, 2020
