During the Great Depression, local, state, and federal policymakers refused to cut and invested. Doesn’t the present moment call for similar visionary action for public institutions like CUNY and the people they educate for generations to come?

King and Rosa Parks have once again been transformed into malleable symbols for rampant deployment by people trying to tell protesters and black people today to shut up

Today, to honor the Feb. 4 centennial of the birth of Rosa Parks, the United States Postal Service has issued a Rosa…