The city of Boston will direct funding from its budget toward efforts to expand access to fresh food, implement rat prevention measures, and offer rental assistance for Boston youth, among six total priorities selected through residents voting in the city’s inaugural participatory budgeting cycle.

In 1965, the Banner was launched in a local and national atmosphere of hostility from many quarters to Black political and economic empowerment. We once again are living through a time of heightened opposition to Black advancement. President Donald Trump and his lackeys have clearly taken aim at Black, brown and progressive voices, including those in the media.

This year’s change in federal leadership has created new barriers to attempts to further environmental justice efforts across the country.

The Roxbury development proposal that would have converted four parcels near Nubian Square into a birth center, community space, and offices for nonprofits was rejected by the Boston Zoning Board of Appeals last week.

Success is self-reinforcing at the Benjamin Banneker Charter Public School in Cambridge. Principal Sherley Bretous said, “If I knew what the secret sauce was” then “I would give it to the whole world for free.

In his career spanning a half century, Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint treated many patients, from adults and children in private practice to public housing tenants in the country’s first community health center. But to improve the mental health of African Americans, the prominent psychiatrist believed his country needed ongoing treatment too — for the mental illness afflicting all who live in the United States, racism.

As a parent, Maria McKnight wanted to take her young child to a place where they could have a productive play day in her neighbohood of Dorchester, instead of having to travel downtown or other out of the way locations.

Haitian artist Fabiola Jean-Louis teased her power during her 2023 exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum “Rewriting History.” Now, back in full force, she’s taken over three gallery spaces in the museum for a masterpiece exhibition, “Waters Of The Abyss: An Intersection of Spirit and Freedom.”

The name is Lucas Andrade. It is one that should be locked into the minds of track and field enthusiasts for the present and immediate future. The 5’11” senior from Brockton High School set the track record of 7.22 seconds in the 55-meter indoor hurdles event at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center. 

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