So much of my life outside of this park requires a clear outcome: Navigate from point A to point B, get C done by D date, writes Christina Ganim. But when your only goal is to eventually end up where you started, exploration becomes the point.

Most observers have viewed U.S. District Judge Arthur Garrity’s order as one that was foisted upon the city from on high, as though no Bostonians wanted the desegregation that he initiated, writes historian Jason Sokol. This view erases years of struggle waged by Black parents and activists.