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COMMUNITY VOICES

Black voices now

Globe Opinion seeks to amplify the perspectives and the voices of Black community members, scholars, activists, doctors, teachers, business leaders, students, and parents as op-ed and letter writers, and as innovators and provocateurs featured in Globe Ideas. Here we feature Black voices from the community amid the historic protests following the killing of George Floyd. We aim to amplify yet more Black voices going forward.

EDITORIAL
‘Civilianizing’ police details can be win-win
Thousands of requests go unfilled even as BPD maintains a stranglehold on those lucrative gigs.

LETTERS
As kids, they jammed in the basement — and he heard what would become the Chick Corea sound
"I asked him to play something for me. What I heard was stunning — the touch, the invention, the effortless fluidity."

LETTERS
The concentric circles of Dr. Bernard Lown’s influence
"It really is up to individuals of conscience to believe in their collective power to create a just and livable future."

IDEAS
The ‘dirty secret’ of being a homeless child
A young Bostonian recalls a childhood of homelessness and housing insecurity.

LETTERSWhat did a background check have to do with mourning a shooting victim?
"Do we need to be informed that the victim had no previous wrongdoing in order to open our hearts to the loss of a doting father suffered by his daughter?"

LETTERS
Path to unity begins at the most basic personal level
"We cannot afford to stop working. The Biden-Harris administration alone cannot heal our country."

IDEAS | Victor A. Lopez-Carmen
Where are all the Native American medical students?
One of two Indigenous students in his Harvard Medical School class reflects on the lack of representation of Native peoples in medicine and why it matters.

IDEAS | Shemika Simmons
I knocked on 3,200 doors in Georgia, answering a cry for help
A get-out-the vote organizer in Savannah reflects on the monumental effort that helped turn Georgia blue.

IDEAS | JAS SMITH
How the forests in New England are connected to forests everywhere
‘I’m trying to impart … a glimpse into the magic.’

LETTERS
Good police are the state’s best-kept secret
"Some individuals have tarnished our reputation and damaged the public’s trust. But the people of Massachusetts are well served by the police."