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City Council passes Gaza ceasefire resolution

City Council passes Gaza ceasefire resolution

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.

May 8th, 2024 >

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Brown v. Board of Education: A reckoning 70 years later

Brown v. Board of Education: A reckoning 70 years later

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.

May 8th, 2024 >

Dorchester residents weigh in on Columbia Road redesign

Dorchester residents weigh in on Columbia Road redesign

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.

May 8th, 2024 >

70 years after Brown v. Board of Education, setbacks in progress cited

70 years after Brown v. Board of Education, setbacks in progress cited

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.

May 8th, 2024 >

New MassBio chair pushes for diversity in booming industry

New MassBio chair pushes for diversity in booming industry

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.

May 8th, 2024 >

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

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Fashion and jewelry are threaded together in ‘Dress Up’ at MFA

Fashion and jewelry are threaded together in ‘Dress Up’ at MFA

Dressing up is steeped both in fantasy and reality. Children dress up as cops and queens and bring their fantasy selves to life with badges and tiaras. In adulthood, sartorial choices tend to be less about play and become more pragmatic.

May 1st, 2024 >

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This is the 19th 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 Rob “Problak” Gibbs.

May 2nd, 2024 >

Black insurance professionals look to increase numbers in industry

Black insurance professionals look to increase numbers in industry

Black insurance professionals meeting in Boston last week vowed to increase minority representation in the industry by ending the pattern of haphazard and accidental entry into the potentially lucrative field.

May 1st, 2024 >

Filmmaker Ava DuVernay on her film ‘Origin’

Filmmaker Ava DuVernay on her film ‘Origin’

Amid the tensions that brewed following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, Ava DuVernay read journalist Isabel Wilkerson’s book, “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” published that summer. The book, DuVernay admitted, had been sitting on her coffee table for a while before she decided to read it.

May 1st, 2024 >

Hunger in Africa as drought hits the south and famine hits Sudan

Hunger in Africa as drought hits the south and famine hits Sudan

Food crises in Africa are putting tens of millions at risk of starvation as drought ravages nations in the Southern Cone and warfare in Sudan exacerbates famine in the country.

May 1st, 2024 >

‘Ethiopia at the Crossroads’ at Peabody Essex Museum surveys 2,000 years of art

‘Ethiopia at the Crossroads’ at Peabody Essex Museum surveys 2,000 years of art

There’s only one country that can claim to be the birthplace of humanity. This country today is home to over 75 ethnicities, and is the only African nation to resist colonial rule. This country is Ethiopia.

May 1st, 2024 >