On March 17, 1966, farmworkers marched to Sacramento in a procession replete with Stations of the Cross. Jeannine Hill Fletcher seeks to foreground them and others whose land, labor, and lives were effectively stolen in the name of Christ.
At graduation, we faculty members looked at one another across the aisle, wondering which of us would be, in the university president’s words, “pruned and thinned.”
The NFL gambled on fans’ willingness to endure the replacement refs. It was wrong—a good development for whatever ethical margin a football fan might claim.