Boston rallies in support of Haiti
Chants of “lapè pou Ayiti” (peace for Haiti) filled Our Lady of Mount Carmel during a solidarity vigil at the former St. Angela Merici Parish in Mattapan Sunday.

Mayoral candidates take stands on housing
Andrea Campbell announced in a press conference last Wednesday that, if elected mayor, she plans to take action to develop more affordable housing in Boston, including selling 100 vacant lots owned by the city in her first 100 days in office..

Green light for new exam school policy
The Boston School Committee voted last Wednesday in favor of a new policy for entrance to the city’s three exam schools in which students will be selected from eight tiers, divided by socio economic factors including income of families in a...

District 7 candidates stake positions in forum
English language learners and those obtaining their high school certification, as well as working on public health issues ranging from suicide prevention, older adult falls prevention, intimate partner violence, youth violence prevention and...

Fourth annual Roxbury parade
The event was founded four years ago by Roxbury resident Toye Burton. During an awards ceremony prior to this year’s march, prominent Roxbury residents were recognized, including performer Michael Bivins, whose award was received by No Books, No Ball founder Anthony Richards, Sr.

Maintain the highest standards
Parents who encourage unprepared or unmotivated students to attend Boston Latin School have not advised wisely. To succeed at BLS students must be prepared to spend five hours every evening to complete their homework assignments. A child unwilling to do that is not a failure.

Only a united front can defeat COVID
When the Bay State Banner was launched in 1965, the motto was “Unity, progress, let’s do it ourselves.” There was this sense that Blacks could not prosper at a significant level from the opportunities created by the new 1964 Civil Rights Act without working together.

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The bias against black hair at the Olympics
The Olympics begins this week in Japan. There is a lot on the International Olympic Committee’s docket to be concerned about in this pandemic: 83% of the Japanese citizenry oppose holding it; its population is roughly 10% vaccinated as of May;...

IN THE NEWS
The Boston Foundation announced that Catherine T. Morris, the founder and executive director of Boston Art & Music Soul (BAMS) Fest, has been hired as the next Director, Arts and Culture for the foundation. Morris will begin her new role on September 7.

The GOP watchword on Harris: attack, attack, attack
It started almost the instant that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden announced that California senator Kamala Harris was his VP pick in 2020. The “it” was the sniping, rumor-mongering and flat-out attacks on Harris. The knock on her was that she was the perennial “angry Black woman.

Local, national church battle over real estate
For local members of the Mount Calvary Holy Church of America in Roxbury, their church at 9-19 Otisfield Street is a property meant to serve its neighborhood through religious services and other community programing.

Arroyos endorse Kim Janey’s mayoral bid
Suffolk County Register of Probate Felix D. Arroyo, the first Latino to win a citywide seat on the Boston City Council, and his son, Ricardo Arroyo, the District 5 councilor from Hyde Park, delivered their backing to the acting mayor during a spirited rally in Cleary Square.

Euka Holmes
Organized by Meghan Melvin, the MFA’a curator of design, the exhibition presents about 40 works created over the past decade by Ekua Holmes. On view through January 23, the show features free-standing artworks by Holmes, a lifelong Roxbury resident, as well as her award-winning children’s book illustrations.

An undersea realm at ICA Watershed
The ICA Watershed has returned to the reopening art world with a bang, or rather with a bubble. Dominican artist Firelei Báez’s spellbinding 2021 site-specific sculpture pulls the depths of the ocean up through the museum’s industrial concrete floors and into our sightlines.

Sold!
Skinner auctions has partnered with Artists for Humanity to host their first grassroots, no buyer’s premium auction, a philanthropic initiative titled “Art. Action. Auction.” Running July 22-August 3, proceeds from the donated 79 lots will go towards Artists for Humanity with an additional $25,000 match from Skinner.