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Carl F. Denton
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Restoring the Vote in Massachusetts Prisons
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State Senator Jamie B. Eldridge says the 2000 Massachusetts constitutional amendment is fundamentally anti-democratic. “It’s a disenfranchisement that disproportionately impacts African Americans and Latinos, given the makeup of our prison population,” he says. “So I see it as another form of a sort of modern Jim Crow.”
Sheep Skull Black Metal Beer Science
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‘I’ll let you throw the skulls in, but you cannot throw the whole heads in.'
Revolution, Six Thousand Miles Away
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Amidst the turmoil going on at home, Harvard’s Sudanese students are still trying to finish out this semester. The distance between home and Harvard can feel even farther.
Engineering the Earth
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Year after year, the threat of an impending climate catastrophe looms larger in the public consciousness. David W. Keith, an applied physics professor, is working on a solution.