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Ahead of the Trump administration, state pursues action to protect reproductive healthcare
The grant funding comes as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to reenter the White House, a political shift that advocates worry will have negative consequences for the reproductive healthcare ...
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Activists push back on BPS closings
News the city is planning to shutter four Boston Public Schools buildings next year was met with frustration last week as ...
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Ayanna Pressley channels MLK Jr.’s legacy to call for resistance to Trump
While Pressley said she’d been busy at community events all day, she planned to listen to Trump’s inauguration speech, and paraphrased the words of Martin Luther King Jr. “It’s important that we study ...
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Free museum admission and more events in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Monday, Jan. 20 is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a celebration and honoring of the work done by the famed civil rights leader.
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Voting begins for first round of participatory budgeting process
The participatory budgeting process was launched following a 2021 ballot question in which 68% of voters approved the creation of the Office of Participatory Budgeting, alongside other changes to the ...
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Environmental justice is ‘another branch on the civil rights tree’
“ [Environmental justice] is a civil rights issue,” said Dwaign Tyndal, executive director of Roxbury-based Alternatives for ...
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and sports inspiration
King would also inspire baseball player Curt Flood, who challenged Major League Baseball’s reserve clause in 1970, bringing ...
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Healey’s plan to eliminate broker fees met with approval and caution
Last year, city councilors filed a Home Rule Petition to ask the state to ban the practice of tenant-paid broker fees, and Boston and Cambridge city councilors joined the effort. With Healey’s ...
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Actors’ Shakespeare Project tackles loss and light with August Wilson’s ‘The Piano Lesson’
Jade Guerra with Daniel Rios Jr. in rehearsal for August Wilson's The Piano Lesson. Photo: Courtesy of Actors' Shakespeare Project. Through his iconic American Century Cycle, a collection of 10 plays ...
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To resist Trump 2.0, look to Florida — and organize
Not the distant future — the future that starts on January 20 when Donald Trump returns to the White House, bringing with him the promise of dangerous, retrograde ideas about education, immigration, ...
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‘Let the Children Sing!’
First staged in 2023, “Let the Children Sing!” is a collaboration between the Beacon Hill Civic Association and the Museum of ...
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The Final Four in football is set
The race for Super Bowl LIX has come down to a four-team race with the two-time defending champion Kansas City Chiefs, Buffalo Bills, Washington Commanders, and the Philadelphia Eagles. These superb ...