By Michael McQuillan
“I wonder if you can tell us what goes through your mind when people who love this country and believe in you say, regretfully, that you should resign or be impeached?” Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Michael McQuillan
Op-Ed: Have Police-Community Relations Improved From Harlem To Hollis?
By Michael McQuillan
Police officers were friends when and where I grew up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in the Sixties. Continue Reading →
How Is Change Achieved When Protest Ends? A Unique School Sends Teens Citywide Seeking Answers
By Michael McQuillan and Michael Kosciol
The March for Our Lives had a nationwide impact on our thoughts and actions on gun safety issues as hundreds of thousands rallied in New York, Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Denver, Miami and even snow-covered Cincinnati, but how many are now active? Continue Reading →
Op-Ed: What Makes Social Protest Effective? A Unique School Sends Teens Citywide Seeking Answers (Updated)
By Michael McQuillan
In November 1969 I with classmates at the Bronx High School of Science chipped in for a rickety school bus so we could march against the Vietnam War in Washington. Continue Reading →
Op-Ed: Democracy Abroad, Hypocrisy At Home, Have We Learned Nothing From History?
By Michael McQuillan
Having spent $4.79 trillion for our “War on Terror” in the wake of the September 11th attacks through 2016 according to Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs … Continue Reading →
Op-Ed: A John F. Kennedy Centennial Reflection
By Michael McQuillan
Should it surprise us that John Kennedy came late to civil rights? Continue Reading →
Op-Ed: What Colin Kaepernick Protest Accomplished
By Michael McQuillan
Police shootings, school segregation and inner city economic deprivation demand frank talk and hard work across the color line. Continue Reading →
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