arrests Insurrectionists Storming US Capitol Demonstrates Inequity in Policing #BlackLivesMatter On Wednesday, a violent mob of the president’s supporters besieged the United States Capitol and managed to disrupt a joint session of Congress that was on track to certify the electoral college votes for President of the United States. Mobsters were met with relatively little resistance and managed to
1960s RETRO: Going to Meet the Man Back in 1985, on the morning of November 23 (a cold, wet, gray autumn Saturday), I woke up happy. At that time in my life, nothing could have been more unusual. But I knew that before that day’s sun had set, I was going to meet James Baldwin, whose
1960s RETRO: August 1966: A Siege in Chicago I backtrack in my mind and finally get a fix on the confrontation that happened when I was about to begin my second-grade year at St. Denis . . . It was in the month of August 1966 and I was at Mass with Dad listening to Father Bartholomew give the sermon. That
