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Mayor’s Youth Summit hopes to engage Boston’s future leaders
The 2025 Mayor’s Youth Summit will take place on Saturday, February 22. The summit is targeted toward youth throughout the city and gives them a forum to showcase their talents and build community.
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Along the Neponset, advocates look to balance remediation work with potential future use
In a statement to the Banner, a DCR spokeswoman was noncommittal about what work might take place at the site following the remediation work but said the department looks forward to collaborating with ...
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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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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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‘The silent killer’ that nearly claimed Jamie Foxx
Called “the silent killer” because it often arrives without warning, a stroke is typically defined as the disruption or ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Dominican Festival Parade
Emilio Echavarria holds up a corner of a large Dominican Flag. Spectators line the parade route as it passes Mozart Park. City Councilor Tito Jackson at the Dominican Festival parade. Suffolk County ...