The struggle to define who is worthy: mass incarceration and mass deportation

I just finished watching an interview with Susan Burton, author of "Becoming Ms. Burton" and founder of A New Way of Life, a re-entry program for women of color who are adjusting to their new lives after prison, and Michelle Alexander, author of "The New Jim Crow," on Democracy Now!. Alexander wrote the introduction to Burton's book, in …

Black lives matter

I went to the Millions March Boston demonstration in downtown Boston today. What an incredible experience. I'd never participated in something like that before: strangers raising their voices in unison to call for justice ("No justice -- no peace!"), an end to racist profiling by police across the country, and solidarity among disparate groups with …