Cullinane will not run again in 12th
So far, two possible candidates have emerged: attorney Jovan Lacet, who ran for the seat in 2018, coming within 420 votes of Cullinane; and first-time candidate Donovan Birch Jr., who has raised more than $25,000 but says he’s not sure whether he’ll run.

Black vote looms large in primary
After early-voting contests in the cornfields of Iowa and the snows of New Hampshire, the 2020 Democratic primary race now turns to states where black voters could decide who will carry the party banner into the November showdown with President Donald J.

BPS officials detail new funds, parents list cuts
The budget includes funding for 64 additional teaching positions, including arts, music and physical education; 94 additional paraprofessional positions to facilitate the expansion of so-called inclusion classrooms, where students with disabilities...

Trotter institute gets new director, budget reduction
On the negative side, university officials have further cut budgets at the Trotter Institute, the Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy, the Institute for Asian American Studies and the Institute for New England Native American Studies.

Deval Patrick bows out
The former Massachusetts governor entered the race in November, more than a year after most Democratic candidates had launched their campaigns, and struggled to gain a foothold, never qualifying for high-profile national debates and lagging in fundraising.

Let’s change the nature of the nation’s police work
Governors and mayors do not generally warm to the task of closely monitoring the police. Their reluctance is understandable, since police departments usually have a well-disciplined political action apparatus. All-out opposition from the police would be a serious re-election hazard.

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IN THE NEWS
Harry J. Elam, Jr., vice provost for undergraduate education at Stanford University, has been selected as the 16th president of Occidental College. As Stanford’s vice provost for the past decade, Elam has been responsible for nearly all policies and programs relating to the university’s 7,200 undergraduate students.

ROVING CAMERA
The Boston Police Department was the first police department. They were probable the first to be corrupt. It’s deep-seated, but I have confidence that the current administration is doing more about it than ever before..

White House cuts HUD
From higher education to a repeated attack to deny the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau its full funding and financial independence from the annual congressional appropriations process, the budget reflects efforts to increase support to businesses and retreat from programs that citizens have come to rely upon.

A 19th century photo album comes to life
A rare collection of 19th-century photographs, belonging to a slavery survivor, abolitionist and Underground Railroad conductor, are now available online through the Boston Athenaeum. With one click, people from all over the world can now view Harriet Hayden’s historic portrait albums.

Transport COO aims to go green
DPV Transportation Worldwide, a multi-million dollar company specializing in luxury transportation for corporate employees, has grown enormously in the last three years. With close to $11 million in assets, COO Jose Perez is making big plans for the company’s future.

Boston’s BLACK Apollo
Last week, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum made Boston art history with the opening of their show “Boston’s Apollo: Thomas McKeller & John Singer Sargent.” Running through May 13, this is the first show in the museum’s 117-year history that has centered on images of a black man.

The love blues
If Tchaikovsky and Duke Ellington had transcended time, space and race to meet for a drink, “Swan Lake in Blue: A Jazz Ballet” would have been the result.

‘Colored People Time’
“Colored People Time: Mundane Futures, Quotidian Pasts, Banal Presents,” running at the MIT List Visual Art Center through April 12, explores the history of slavery and colonialism in the United States and the way it continues to impact the lives of black Americans in a modern world.

Grammy-nominated singer Carolyn Malachi headlines Gardner Museum concert
The Grammy-nominated R&B singer is a full-time independent artist who has been able to design the life of her dreams. It hasn’t been all glitz and glamour, though.