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

While much of the legacy of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is focused on things like workers’ rights, access to quality ...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu joined BPS Superintendent Mary Skipper last week to announce the closure of Excel High School in ...

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

In recent years, the work done by organizations such as Embrace Boston has been targeted by anti-DEI advocates. This has ...

This week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule to remove medical debt from consumer credit reports, which will take effect in about two months. Advocates say the change will make ...

Sixty years ago, the NAACP demanded that the Boston School Committee admit to the de facto segregation of BPS. The U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment protects us from segregation. Boston’s NAACP ...

These monuments to King must not be the only ones. I had the pleasure of being honored at Twelfth Baptist Church in Roxbury as the new publisher and editor of the Bay State Banner, along with my ...

Called “the silent killer” because it often arrives without warning, a stroke is typically defined as the disruption or ...

Lyle Ashton Harris returns to New England for his first solo show in over two decades with an exhibition at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University. “Lyle Ashton Harris: Our first and last love” ...

This characterization has often been a response to the brutal realities of slavery, segregation and systemic racism. In an attempt to survive the unimaginable, Black women were forced to endure ...

State legislators passed two bills at the end of the legislative session that, if signed by Gov. Maura Healey, would add new health care reform in Massachusetts.