Janey backs Wu, Annissa reaches out to Black voters
Following the preliminary election, unions and elected officials have begun declaring their support for one of the two finalists set to face off in November. However, their impact remains unclear as campaigns set their sights on undecided Black voters.

Is receivership in the cards for BPS?
BPS Superintendent Brenda Cassellius in March of 2020 signed a memorandum of understanding with the state, agreeing to take actions to improve instruction and conditions in the 34 low-ranked-schools and districtwide. After a year-long pandemic pause, that MOU is again in force, with district officials reporting progress.

No answers on cops’ overtime caper
Last year, police reform activists found more than 120 instances of Boston Police Department officers claiming overtime for court appearances while the department’s records showed them making traffic stops and arrests, often miles away from the nearest courthouse.

Families seek answers in deaths of inmates
The group, comprised of family members of the deceased, as well as community leaders and activists, chanted and shared speeches while demanding an independent investigation into the deaths of Rashonn Wilson, Ayesha Johnson, Edward “Jay” Isberg and Carl “Chuck” Rabouin, who all died in recent months –– the latest, Rabouin, on Sept.

The Black vote counts only if Blacks vote
Discrimination on the basis of race or religion violates the American creed. Nonetheless, there is a continuing inequality against Blacks. As a result, Blacks have to engage in a constant battle to improve their opportunities for justice and affluence. One strategy is to win elections and acquire political power in.

Democracy is in danger
People tend not to hold politicians to the highest standard of candor and integrity. Personal ambition is necessary to be willing to expose one’s private life to the intense inquiry that public officials must endure.

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IN THE NEWS
Following a nationwide search, GBH has named Lee Hill the first executive editor for GBH News. An award-winning journalist with a deep background in public media, Hill is the executive producer for “The Takeaway” at WNYC in New York, overseeing...

Treatment of Haitians is not just an American disgrace, but a world disgrace
I’m still haunted by the heartbreaking scene I and a group of other American visitors witnessed at a small beach town in Northern Haiti some years ago.

Men and Boys Commission
Acting Mayor Kim Janey last week signed into law an ordinance sponsored by Councilor Julia Mejia (right) creating a Commission on Black Men and Boys, a 21-member group that will advise the mayor on issues relating to that community. Joining Janey and Mejia is former Councilor Tito Jackson (left).

MBTA ridership rebounds, somewhat, from pandemic
Data from the report shows some expected patterns — the number of searches for directions using walking, driving and public transit all dropped in March following the start of the pandemic and began a more sustained rise in February 2021 as vaccine access began to increase across the country — but Stacy Thompson, executive director of the.

Bostonians protest expulsion of Haitians
Photos of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents on horseback chasing down migrants as they crossed the river drew outrage last week. Some of the photographs showed agents on horseback appearing to use their reins as whips, which some politicians and activists likened to images of slavery.

Report: Blacks, Latinos hit hard by evictions
“Evictions are violent, devastating and dangerous in our communities, but nonetheless, well over 3,000 evictions have been filed in Boston during the pandemic and over 20,000 evictions have been filed in Massachusetts during the pandemic,” Matthews said.

Queens Girl meets Boston
Jasmine M. Rush is making up for lost pandemic stage time in “Queens Girl in the World,” running at Central Square Theater through October 31. Playing the protagonist, Jacqueline Marie Butler, in the one-woman show, Rush embodies 12 different characters over the course of the two-hour production.

Big voices on the big stage
Boston Lyric Opera returns to the stage with “Cavalleria Rusticana,” playing Oct. 1 and 3 at the large outdoor Leader Bank Pavilion. The classic tale of love, betrayal and high stakes in the Italian countryside will play out in full drama at the waterfront pavilion.

Moving fashion forward at Museum of Fine Arts
“theo’s curatorial practice, which rests at the intersections of fashion, race, gender, class, identity and sexuality, is ideally suited to further the department’s goal of developing broad and inclusive narratives that consider various media and...

COVID’s effects worsen America’s racial wealth gap
It is both a challenge and an opportunity for leadership in the Biden Administration, Congress, the Federal Housing Finance Agency and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, along with the private sector, to effect policies and practices that reverse the nation’s still-growing racial wealth gap.