Oscar-winner and Springfield native Ruth E. Carter discusses life and career
Turner told Carter why the twopiece costume the designer made for actress Angela Bassett wasn’t something Turner would normally wear. The singer had a short torso and long legs, so she’d only wear one piece in order to elongate her torso.

Brockton school deficits and layoffs leave some students without a teacher
Layoffs caused by budget deficits in the Brockton Public Schools and subsequent hiring delays have left students during some class periods without a teacher or with a teacher aide in charge.

New ‘Bioversity’ aims to diversify biotech workforce
The training program joins at least three other freestanding ones in operation or development designed to diversify the industry’s workforce in the Boston area.

Claudine Gay becomes Harvard’s first Black president
Claudine Gay was inaugurated as president of Harvard University on Friday, Sept. 29. See page 16 for more..

Bill would create state panel on reparations
Massachusetts joins a number of states moving to take up the reparations issue. Connecticut, New Jersey and others have considered legislation to create commissions.

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Millions in home equity taken under unfair state tax foreclosure law
As I sat in a recent listening session of Governor Maura Healey’s Advisory Council on Black Empowerment, I heard many community members request assistance from the state government in many areas.

West Roxbury: No place for a public high school
Mayor Michelle Wu and Superintendent Mary Skipper have proposed moving the John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science to the West Roxbury Education Complex (WREC).

It was a great day in Roxbury
Sometimes, all it takes is someone without any quit in them to get things done. Ruth Batson was one of those people. Batson, a former Boston School Committee candidate and mother of three, was one of the key figures fighting for better education for the city’s Black children.

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Most recently executive director of the Lenny Zakim Fund, Esteves there raised significant funds and grew the organization’s revenue with a creative approach to cultivating a donor base.

Before filing lawsuit, Black leaders pressed for better schools in 1960s
Before federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity’s school desegregation order in 1974 led to an explosion of white opposition in some Boston neighborhoods, Black leaders had spent about a decade trying just about everything they could to secure a better education for their community’s children.

Health care institutions get tough critique at RCC forum
“We have power, we have agency and we need to use it. It has to come from us. They’re not going to make any changes without pressure,’’ said RCC President Jackie Jenkins-Scott.

An equitable clean energy transition starts with the Future Grid
With aggressive, nation-leading climate change, clean energy, and equity goals set by states like Massachusetts, we cannot wait to begin building for the future.

Real estate summit explores minority equity part nerships
For many years, people of color from smaller development firms in Boston have attempted to cement partnerships with bigger companies in order to narrow the diversity gap in commercial real estate projects.

Panel aims to balance clean energy impact
The commission includes a diverse collection of 30 representatives with expertise in varied fields from climate and land use to electric utilities, housing and environmental justice in an attempt to balance competing priorities while moving the state closer to its renewable energy goals.

Funding for regional policing center stirs debate in Boston City Council
Among those in opposition was Michelle Wu, who ran for mayor on a progressive platform. Now Wu finds herself standing in opposition to an array of civil rights groups, councilors of color and criminal justice reform advocates as she seeks approval from the city council for a three-year, $3.

Riding Fairmount Line to be free during repairs on Red Line
“The upcoming work on the Ashmont branch and Mattapan Line is critical to addressing and improving safety and reliability along this stretch of the Red Line, and the complete closure of these lines allows us to accomplish vital work in 16 days.

Point guard Jrue Holiday will join Celtics
There was mild surprise over the Celtics making this move. But in the final analysis, the Celtics picked up one of the premier point guards in the NBA. The downside is that they had to let go of Brogdon and Williams.

Red Sox family keeps hope alive for next season
With the death to brain cancer of 57-year-old, 17-season Red Sox knuckleballer Tim Wakefield on Oct. 1, the last day of their season, the focus of the team playing in Baltimore against the Orioles was not on what happened on the field.

Harvard’s first Black female president
The Stanford graduate, who is the daughter of Haitian immigrants, earned her Ph.D. from Harvard in 1988. Her past political research focused on the role of neighborhoods in shaping the racial and political attitudes of Black Americans and how poverty shapes the political attitudes of people and their commitments to politics.

Bay State Banner launching Virtual Art Gallery
The Bay State Banner has announced plans to launch the Bay State Banner Virtual Art Gallery, featuring New England’s leading Black visual artists.

Inspired by fatherhood, Jamal Thorne explores what it means to raise a Black boy and be a Black man
Jamal Thorne’s intricate mixed-media artworks are collages of color, paint and tape exploring themes of trauma, race and memory. Throughout his career, Thorne has frequently pulled on history and current events depicting snippets from the Civil Rights Movement and instances of police brutality.

Boston Ballet’s My’Kal Stromile debuts ‘Form and Gesture’
Boston Ballet company dancer My’Kal Stromile has an impressive stage history. He’s received The Juilliard School’s Choreographic Honors three years in a row, won the Hector Zaraspe Prize for choreography in 2018 and has been executing immaculate work with the Boston Ballet for five years.

Immerse yourself in African American history
Inspired by immersive installations like “Beyond Van Gogh” that surround visitors with larger-than-life digital images of an artist’s work paired with music, Jackson and Thomas created a similar feeling with large-scale projections of work by locals artists Paul Goodnight and Lou Jones.