Lawmakers reflected on the significance of Juneteenth Wednesday, promising that Massachusetts will fight for and support Black Americans facing headwinds from new federal challenges.

Vrabel is the author of “A People’s History of the New Boston,” a fact-laden look at the important neighborhood stories and organizing issues during the1960’s, 70’s, and 80’s. He also published “When ...

Juneteenth falls on Thursday this week. The June 19 holiday commemorates the day in 1865 when Union troops arrived in Texas to spread the news of the end of slavery in the United States. The ...

The owners of the Murphy Funeral Home on Dorchester Avenue filed plans with city officials on June 17 to re-develop their parking lot into a four-story building with 22 units of housing and ground ...

It was the “frugality” piece that gained them neighborhood credibility. Elisa shared that they salvaged lumber from several wooden “shacks” that occupied a then- vacant lot on Bowdoin Street where the ...

The Massachusetts Association of Minority Law Enforcement Officers (MAMLEO) will build a new facility on the site of its long-time headquarters at 61 Columbia Rd. near Blue Hill Ave. The group ...

Officials are putting more definition on possible new tweaks to the admissions policy for the city’s highly coveted public exam schools. A report presented at the Boston School Committee meeting on ...

Jean Dolin, a Haitian immigrant who was raised in Dorchester, is the person behind Boston LGBTQ+ Museum of Art, History & ...

While the construction work is now well underway to renovate White Stadium for use by Boston public school students and a women’s professional soccer team, city officials are hustling to get local ...

The Henderson Upper School on Croftland Avenue has a new and fully accessible schoolyard that was opened last Tuesday (June 10) at a ribbon-cutting ceremony led by Mayor Wu, Council President Ruthzee ...

I proposed ten questions to ask candidates for mayor of Boston in candidate forums. Those questions relate to challenges facing city neighborhoods that are regularly discussed at civic and ...

Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden held a town hall-style meeting at the Codman Square Health Center’s Black Box Theater last Wednesday (June 11) where about 50 people heard him talk about ...