Belated nod to the Banner

In my last post I had fun with the Boston media I love to hate, but I completely forgot Boston’s excellent Black-owned and -edited newspaper, the Bay State Banner. And yes, I do attribute this to my own racism—here’s a paper I read every week and respect, but it happened to slip my mind while I was composing a lament for the state of the local press.

It takes a while to get to know a newspaper. That’s part of the compact I was talking about last week: I spend time becoming familiar with your...