News the city is planning to shutter four Boston Public Schools buildings next year was met with frustration last week as ...

Monday, Jan. 20 is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a celebration and honoring of the work done by the famed civil rights leader.

The grant funding comes as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to reenter the White House, a political shift that advocates worry will have negative consequences for the reproductive healthcare ...

While Pressley said she’d been busy at community events all day, she planned to listen to Trump’s inauguration speech, and paraphrased the words of Martin Luther King Jr. “It’s important that we study ...

“ [Environmental justice] is a civil rights issue,” said Dwaign Tyndal, executive director of Roxbury-based Alternatives for ...

The participatory budgeting process was launched following a 2021 ballot question in which 68% of voters approved the creation of the Office of Participatory Budgeting, alongside other changes to the ...

King would also inspire baseball player Curt Flood, who challenged Major League Baseball’s reserve clause in 1970, bringing ...

Last year, city councilors filed a Home Rule Petition to ask the state to ban the practice of tenant-paid broker fees, and Boston and Cambridge city councilors joined the effort. With Healey’s ...

Governor Maura Healey leaned into the 250th anniversary of the country as she delivered her State of the Commonwealth speech on Thursday, Jan. 16, at the State House, promising reform to Massachusetts ...

First staged in 2023, “Let the Children Sing!” is a collaboration between the Beacon Hill Civic Association and the Museum of ...

As a part of “an effort to diversify their library collections,” the Harvard Library acquired a 1949 international Green Book in March 2024.

Not the distant future — the future that starts on January 20 when Donald Trump returns to the White House, bringing with him the promise of dangerous, retrograde ideas about education, immigration, ...