Kevin C. Peterson·Jul 6, 2021Black 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…
Kevin C. Peterson·May 30, 2021A Year Later: A Political Elegy For George FloydComments Made During A Global Panel Discussion on the One Year Anniversary of the Lynching of George Floyd
Kevin C. Peterson·Apr 28, 2021Mahalia 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…
Kevin C. Peterson·Mar 18, 2021Voting 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…
Kevin C. Peterson·Jan 6, 2021Parabolic 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 elections
Kevin C. Peterson·Jan 3, 2021Toward 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…
Kevin C. Peterson·Nov 29, 2020City 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…
Kevin C. Peterson·Nov 2, 2020OBAMA: 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…
Kevin C. Peterson·Oct 14, 2020Boston 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…
Kevin C. Peterson·Sep 30, 2020Prez 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…
