The new members are Christina Miller, a Suffolk University Law School assistant professor and former chief of district courts and community prosecutions with the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office; Meredith Paige Shih, a Harvard Law School...

Council President Kim Janey finalized this year’s council committee assignments during last week’s meeting. The assignments put women in charge of some of the body’s most powerful committees, including Government Operations, chaired by Lydia Edwards; Education, chaired.

Today, he is the executive director of the Center for Teen Empowerment, an organization that helps low-income teenagers inspire their urban communities and advocate for change. Forrester helps these teenagers recognize their self-worth and envision crime-free communities.

The city of Boston’s $102 million sale of the Winthrop Square garage provided the funding for the park’s planned renovation. The details of that renovation, however, are yet to be worked out. The Jan. 28 meeting was the first in a series of planned meetings to develop a new master plan for Franklin Park.

Iowa is a small, Midwestern state with a total population of only about 3,118,102. With a white population of 90.6% of the total, it is not racially diverse. And it has only one large city, Des Moines, with a population of 682,877. Iowa is by no means representative of the majority of America’s electorate.

Carter G. Woodson, a black alumnus of Harvard University, established Black History Week in 1926. The objective was to record the history of blacks in America, many of whose roots had been lost in the experience of slavery. He stated, “If a race has no history, it has no worthwhile tradition.

Berklee College of Music has named Yoron Israel chair of the Percussion Department. Israel, a drummer, composer, bandleader, vibraphonist, percussionist and author, previously served as the department’s interim chair, and has held faculty positions at Rutgers University William Paterson University, and the Mannes School of Music at the New School.

No matter who you are or where you live, there’s a central concern that links consumers all over the country: the ever-rising cost of living. For many consumers, the combined costs of housing, transportation, food and utilities leave room for little else from take-home pay.

A Fairmount Line pilot program will commence in May of this year, adding eight trips per day to the commuter rail line, which runs through Mattapan, Dorchester and Roxbury. The project is aimed at providing increased frequency and greater accessibility and permitting CharlieCard usage.

Boston Higher Education Resource Center Executive Director Samuel Acevedo, Boston Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius, and Vanessa Calderón- Rosado, CEO of Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción enjoy a moment during a reception held for Cassellius by the Greater Boston Latino Network at Morgan Lewis.

The new program adheres to many of the City of Boston’s environmental goals, including to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Frank Mruk, the executive director of the Center for Smart Building Technology, said that the world is facing a climate crisis.

Scholar and historian Carter G. Woodson chose the second week in February, as it contained the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, to bring awareness to African Americans’ role in shaping U.S. history. President Gerald Ford decreed Black History Month a national observance in 1976.

“Voter suppression is real, and it is a threat to our entire society,” said Tiiu Lutter, a writer for CompareLifeInsurance.com who frequently works as a poll watcher and vote counter in local elections in Philadelphia. “Voting demonstrates our agency and is the one way we all are equal.

This month marks the 55th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader Malcolm X. Gunned down on Feb. 21, 1965 at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City before an audience that included his wife, Betty Shabazz, and his children, the man known as Malcolm X was murdered at the age of 39.

ianne Reeves, whose voice exemplifies the heart and soul of jazz, arrives in Boston on Saturday, Feb. 8 for one show at the Berklee Performance Center at 8 p.m.

Creating a play about a secondwave feminist icon, even one as spectacular as Gloria Steinem, is an endeavor rife with pitfalls. The era of feminism when Steinem rose to fame is known for being exclusive to people of color and other minorities.