The Boston City Council last week passed a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Israel’s war on Gaza, with 11 members voting in support and two against.

With Jim Crow still intact in America in the early 1950s, Thurgood Marshall and a group of attorneys took the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case to the Supreme Court, whose verdict — issued 70 years ago next week — changed our country for the better.

Dorchester residents living along the heavily trafficked Columbia Road met last week with city transportation planners and urban design specialists to begin plotting the future look of the key neighborhood connector.

On May 17, 1954, the day the United States Supreme Court handed down its landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision, three men stood outside the Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C., hands joined together in solidarity.

The Massachusetts Biotechnology Council calls its annual gathering the “State of Possible Conference.” To hear it described by newly elected board chair Tamar Thompson, Massachusetts’ booming life sciences sector is now at a moment when many goals once thought unachievable are now in reach.

Ensuring a safe, positive birthing experience for black women: Health information brought to you by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

Brighton High track coach Antonio “Tony” Halliday, an alumnus of the school, has taken only two years to lead his young charges to an undefeated 5-0 record this spring season.

In the newly renovated jewelry gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, delicate tiaras float in glass cases next to ornate brooches and avant-garde necklaces. Viewers are drawn to the shiny metals and bright colors, but underneath each piece, an intricate structure of metal, wood, paint and plexiglass keeps those precious artworks posed in a seemingly effortless manner.

Anyone who owns or works for a small business knows the art of cash flow management.

This is the 20th interview in a weekly series presenting highlights of conversations between leading Black visual artists in New England. In this week’s installment, artist James Perry talks to artist Percy Fortini-Wright.