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Unless otherwise credited, © 2006, All Rights Reserved, Dorchester Uhuru Project, Inc., Dorchester, MA, USA

Opinions & Essays by Reverend Rivers and other Baker House people:


"The black rebellion against fatherlessness" - Boston Globe Op/Ed by Reverend Rivers, 7/9/2006


An essay on Restorative Justice by former Baker House Executive Director Ken Johnson:

Enemies, Foes, and Retributive and Restorative Justice in the Domestic and International Contexts


Baker House former staff member writes in The Boston Globe on youth and housing: I helped youth see light in Boston - but for what?


Published works in The Boston Review: Boston Review

From April/May 2001: New Democracy Forum: Eva Thorne and Reverend Rivers make the case for a new black political leadership in Beyond the Civil Rights Industry

From the April/May 1999 issue: Silence is Death - Rev. Rivers talks to Eva Thorne about AIDS in Africa

From the Summer 1995 issue: Beyond the Nationalism of Fools: Toward An Agenda for Black Intellectuals by Eugene F. Rivers, 3d

From the Dec. 1994 / Jan. 1995 issue: Boston Freedom Summer '94 brought the spirit of Freedom Summer '64 to inner-city neighborhoods. Did it work?

From October 1992: Reverend Rivers writes On the Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Crack