Passing of the torch: Banner changes hands
Melvin B. Miller, the founder, owner, editor and publisher of the influential Boston-based weekly for the last 57 years, sold the paper to a group headed by veteran WBZ-TV video journalist Ron Mitchell and filmmaker Andre Stark, who has produced news-magazine and documentary features for WGBH-TV,.

Council probes BPS on restorative justice
Ten years after Boston Public Schools adopted a new code of conduct that included a framework known as “restorative justice,” which seeks among other things to resolve disputes without punitive discipline, the BPS Office of Restorative Justice team...

No answers on cop’s court overtime
“It should not take over two years to verify whether individuals were in two places at once,” he said. “Our officers deserve a process that is conducted in a timely manner and the public deserves findings. Failure to provide them in a timely manner unnecessarily.

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Youth groups rally for jobs at State House
“I want them to give kids opportunities, youth jobs, so they can help their families,” she said of the legislators she and other teens were preparing to petition. “I know a lot of people who want jobs but have a hard time finding work that works with their school schedule.

A new beginning
My partner Andre Stark and I have purchased the Banner to preserve its legacy as a voice for people of color and expand its operations to better serve its readers in the 21st century. Both of us were born and raised in the Boston area. We both have decades of experience in journalism and multi-media production.

CFPB aims for crackdown on junk fees, late charges
Amid still-rising interest rates, most families remain financially challenged to make household needs fit into their budgets. For Black Americans, whose wealth on average amounts to 25 cents for every $1 of white family wealth, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St.

A farewell
Civil Rights Act. We believed that a federal law against racial discrimination in employment, education and places of public accommodation substantially expanded economic opportunities for Blacks, but an effective communications medium was essential to facilitate social change.

IN THE NEWS
Isaac Newsome of Boston has been hired as North Shore Community College’s (NSCC) director of Community Standards. The director of Community Standards is responsible for administering the college’s student code of conduct and proactively addressing community standards.

Wu appoints director of Nightlife Economy
“I want to thank Mayor Wu for allowing me to be in a position that’s a really innovative and exciting approach to her overall vision and this administration’s overall vision to creating generational wealth, to creating a stronger business community and just a better Boston, a more inclusive Boston,” Reynolds said.

Starting a business?
Even if your start with the basics, this document is a blueprint for how to build and maintain your company, which is helpful to have on hand once you begin to get into the nitty-gritty of getting your operation off the ground. This 5-steps checklist can help you take important actions before you open.

Councilors debate Wu’s rent stabilization petition
Under Wu’s proposal, about 55% of all rental units citywide would qualify for rent control, according to figures provided by her administration.

Gov. Healey unveils $742 million tax relief plan
Healey’s plan shares common ground with the tax proposal former Gov. Charlie Baker could not get over the finish line his final year in office, and it features some other measures that have been kicking around Beacon Hill for years, like a new live theater tax credit and changes to the way locally produced hard cider is taxed.

Nonprofit seeks reboot of Mass. democracy
Using a series of 10 indicators of democracy health, the report, titled the Massachusetts Democracy Scorecard, also found the state lacking in racial parity in voter turnout and the number of contested elections that provide voters with multiple choices of candidates.

Kindred spirits
Famed contemporary artist and assemblage creator Betye Saar and 19th-century museum founder Isabella Stewart Gardner may seem like unlikely artistic fellows.

Castle of Our Skins pays homage with music
Castle of Our Skins, a Boston-based Black arts institution, is celebrating its 10th year of shining a light on Black composers. The group recently released a debut album of classical music written by five Black composers from Africa and the African diaspora.

Respect for the ‘Queen’
Aretha Franklin’s legacy will be honored in the only appropriate way this month, with a full-fledged tribute concert and dance party. “R.E.S.P.E.C.T — A Celebration of the Music of Aretha Franklin,” at the Emerson Colonial Theatre March 17 and 18, brings powerful vocals and essential history to the stage.

Debate over school committee student vote
What you may not know: She recently signed a separate piece of legislation that would make Boston an outlier in a new, different way by giving voting power to the school committee’s student representatives. The Boston School Committee currently has one non-voting student representative.