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CIVIL RIGHTS

Legal Lens documentaries

Law and documentary film may seem far apart, but they actually share many connections. With the guidance of filmmaker and producer Joseph Tovares and support from the Hewlett Foundation, 12 Harvard Law School students from eight countries have worked since January on the Legal Lens project. You can view the films here on BostonGlobe.com.

Jennifer Horn
Trump and the flag of treason
The Lincoln Project cofounder says we cannot be both a great America and a Trump America. This is a time for choosing: America or Trump.

IDEAS | Abdallah Fayyad
Welcome to the new civil rights era
If elected, Joe Biden will have to answer to an antiracist movement that isn't going away.

EDITORIAL
An irrational assault on higher education
A new Trump policy would force some international students in US schools to go home. It's a callous plan that would cause great economic harm.

Barry Finegold and John Lawn
New Mass. law makes voting safer and easier
For the first time in the history of the Commonwealth, Massachusetts will allow early voting in both the primary and general elections.

Martin J. Walsh
Systemic change requires investment in our communities
What we’ve accomplished as a city in the last few months is unprecedented. We’ve worked together, across whatever differences exist among us, in order to help people in need and protect one another.

RENÉE GRAHAM
A ‘wartime president’ wages a race war
Derelict in his presidential duties, Trump clings to his primary role as the public face of aggrieved white supremacy.

JEFF JACOBY
Like the nation’s founders, Americans say: ‘More immigrants, please’
For the first time in 55 years, the share of Americans who favor more immigration has surpassed the percentage who want immigration reduced.

LETTERS
There seems to be no dismantling bias in Boston-area housing market
Readers found a study showing discrimination against Black people seeking apartments to raise a distressingly familiar problem.

Liz Vizza
Monuments and their meanings: Whose story do they represent?
If the images that these monuments portray, the stories they tell, and the accomplishments they celebrate devalue the lives of people of color, we must confront their impact in the public sector.

Andrew Bacevich
Firing BU’s mascot won’t advance racial equality
Targeting an odd-looking canine mascot carries with it the risk of inadvertently trivializing and therefore undermining a worthy cause.