Needham cops hit with lawsuit
The only thing he had in common with the man captured on the store’s security footage is his skin tone, leading to a very public arrest on the town’s main street, a handcuffing, and an unconstitutional search of his person, according to the lawsuit filed by Lawyers for Civil Rights.

Racial violence returns to Greater Boston area
Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins last Wednesday released excerpts of Allen’s diary entries, which included often violent screeds espousing hatred for Black people and referring to whites as “apex predators.”.

BPS deliberating use of federal funds
Citing wait lists for summer programs and school buildings with no air conditioning, District 4 City Councilor Andrea Campbell held a press conference last Wednesday calling on the Boston Public Schools to accelerate their release of millions of dollars in federal COVID relief funding.

Edwards wants ZBA out of cannabis decisions
Boston City Councilor Lydia Edwards held a hearing July 6 on two ordinances that mainly bring zoning decision-making for marijuana businesses under the authority of the Boston Cannabis Board (BCB), which was created in 2019 to facilitate the licensing of these businesses and maintain equity during the process.

DOC criticized for solitary confinement changes
The change, announced June 29, is a result of the Falcon report, an independent study into Mass DOC’s confinement practices.

An elected school committee isn’t the answer
Strong supporters of democracy hope that citizens will instinctively back the wisest course of action if it is well publicized and properly presented. However, the success of Donald Trump has raised serious questions about the reliability of the political strength of sound ideas.

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Creating God
If we peer through the mists of time to the earliest organized societies, we find that tribalism steered religious iconography for millennia. Seemingly alone and frightened in a world they did not understand, ancient humans envisioned a kindly and protective deity that would shelter them and make sense of their world.

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He is a director of technical operations, analytical, at Vertex Pharmaceuticals in Boston. A native of Greensboro, North Carolina, Daughtry is a cum laude graduate of Morehouse College and holds a Master of Science degree in Inorganic Chemistry from the.

The GOP plot to take back the White House and more
The GOP’s relentless war on alleged rampant voter fraud targets not thousands, as many critics have noted, but millions of eligible voters.

Redistricting committee looks at 7th District
When that district was redrawn during the 2010 redistricting process, it became a socalled majority-minority seat, one in which Blacks, Latinos, Asians and other people of color outnumber the whites who make up the majority population of Massachusetts.

Building a network of support for women leaving incarceration
The door to the house stood wide open. It’s a barn-red Victorian structure, wise with age and situated on a quiet street in Roxbury. A sun-bathed backyard was visible from the wraparound front porch. The ground floor was spacious yet cozy, and a cheerful bouquet of flowers sat on the spotless granite kitchen counter.

Nubiana ’80s Hip Hop event
Artists at work during Black Market’s Nubiana ’80s Hip Hop event. Nubiana is an open-air Gallery and Black-Owned Marketplace powered by Black Market and hosted on the Blair Lot behind Black Market July–Oct..

Little oversight on physical restraints in BPS
In BPS, the larger story of physical student restraint, like the David Ellis student’s story, remains incomplete, concealed behind a dysfunctional bureaucracy that hides trouble spots and curbs accountability, increasing risk of student mistreatment..

Kahlo captured
Art lovers are used to seeing Frida Kahlo depict herself in her deeply intimate self-portraits. In “Frida Kahlo: POSE” at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Kahlo is depicted through the lens of other artists, photographers who flocked to her striking image and natural manner in front of the camera.

RCC ceremony celebrates the legacy of artist John Wilson
ohn Wilson’s dynamic sculpture “Father and Child Reading” has sat on the Roxbury Community College campus since 1990. The college commissioned the piece in 1985 and it’s been a symbol of the power of education and interpersonal relationships for decades.

Audrey Lopez takes over Greenway public art program
Lopez was formerly the public art and engagement curator at the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts & Culture and the curator of community engagement at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santa Barbara.

Biden signs bill to curb predatory lending
In recent years, consumer finance protections withered through a series of harsh attacks that either outright rejected or significantly diminished financial guardrails in the marketplace.