Despite efforts to ensure the COVID-19 vaccines are distributed equitably across Massachusetts, predominantly Black and Latino communities, where the risk of infection is greatest, still have among the lowest inoculation rates in the state, according to a new analysis. Continue reading →
Tensions are high as this immigrant city faces the beginning of the end of majority-white rule. The old guard is begrudgingly making room for more diverse leadership, and community activists are demanding that city leaders recognize racism as an urgent problem. Continue reading →
Longtime GBH-TV host Emily Rooney apologized Friday for on-air comments she made in response to concerns raised by filmmakers of color about PBS’s decades-long relationship with documentarian Ken Burns. Continue reading →
Ryan Collins created “Happy Hunting” to distract himself and his friends. Now, his intricate puzzles have a growing fan base of devotees who race around the state each month looking for his hidden treasures. Continue reading →
The White House on Friday said President Biden plans to lift his predecessor’s historically low cap on refugees by next month, after initially moving only to expand the eligibility criteria for resettlements. Continue reading →
Hundreds of people marched through the Logan Square neighborhood in Chicago on Friday evening, calling for overhauls to the city’s police department after the fatal shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo by a police officer in March. Continue reading →
Far-right Republicans in Congress are forming an “America First Caucus” that would promote nativist policies, according to materials outlining the group’s goals first obtained by Punchbowl News. Continue reading →
Elected leaders in the Minneapolis suburb where a police officer fatally shot Daunte Wright want officers to scale back their tactics amid nightly protests, leaving some law enforcement called in to assist asking whether the city still wants their help. Continue reading →
Jimmy Lai has skewered the Chinese Communist Party for decades. The 73-year-old founder of a fiercely pro-democracy newspaper in Hong Kong, Lai helped give voice to critics of the city’s leaders and their bosses in Beijing, winning friends in Washington and other places along the way. Continue reading →
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday that Russia would expel 10 US diplomats and blacklist eight US officials in response to US sanctions and expulsions. Continue reading →
Iran began enriching uranium Friday to its highest-ever purity that edges Tehran close to weapons-grade levels, attempting to pressure negotiators in Vienna amid talks on restoring its nuclear deal with world powers after an attack on its main enrichment site. Continue reading →
I support and will defend your right to model what you believe your deity would do in living a religious life. But if you speak for God, then you shut out any discussion. Continue reading →
Ryan Collins created “Happy Hunting” to distract himself and his friends. Now, his intricate puzzles have a growing fan base of devotees who race around the state each month looking for his hidden treasures. Continue reading →
A federal court decision on temporary changes to the admission of students to Boston exam schools is being called historic by civil rights leaders who also say it could lead to a permanent revision of the admission policy. Continue reading →
A former Hudson middle school teacher pleaded not guilty Friday to charges she repeatedly raped a 13-year-old girl a decade ago after meeting her at the school where she worked and where the child was a seventh-grader. Continue reading →
Bob Hamelin, whose contract the Red Sox didn't renew last September, was the scout who clued them in to a potential-laden pitcher with the Yankees' Double-A club. Continue reading →
The Boston Planning & Development Agency board approved plans to replace 253 low-income apartments at the complex and add 425 new units geared at a variety of income levels, as well as a new community center. Continue reading →
The Harvard Club, along with developer Trinity Financial, filed plans with the city to build two buildings on what’s now the club’s annex and a surface parking lot. The Newbury Street project includes housing and a parking garage. Continue reading →
Walter Kaufmann survived the Nazi persecution of Jews and later played a prominent role in the literary scene of Communist East Germany. Continue reading →
Donald P. Ryder, whose firm designed important repositories of Black culture and social history in becoming one of the nation’s most prominent partnerships of Black architects, died Feb. 17 at his home in New Rochelle, New York. He was 94. Continue reading →
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