June 25, 2021: Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is sentenced to 22 years in prison for murdering George Floyd.
November 2, 2021: In Boston: Michelle Wu becomes the first woman and person of color elected mayor of Boston.
February 24, 2022: Russia invades Ukraine, its neighbor to the west.
May 23, 2022: In Boston The state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education declares the Boston Public Schools to be underperforming.
June 24, 2022: The Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, erasing a woman’s constitutional right to have an abortion.
November 8, 2022: Former Boston city councilor Andrea Campbell becomes the first Black woman elected attorney general of Massachusetts.
January 13, 2023: In Boston: Embrace sculpture honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King unveiled on Boston
March 1, 2023: In Boston: Ronald Mitchell and Andre Stark purchase the Bay State Banner from Melvin B. Miller, co-founder and longtime editor and publisher.
March 28, 2023: The Supreme Court bans the consideration of race as a factor in college admissions.
September 19, 2023: In Boston: Mayor Michelle Wu proposes upgrading White Stadium in Frankin Park to accommodate a new women’s professional soccer team and high school sports.
October 7, 2023: Hamas launches a surprise attack on Israel, killing nearly 1,200 people and taking more than 240 hostages.
August 15, 2024: The Democratic National Committee selects Kamala Harris as the party’s nominee for president after Joe Biden withdraws from the campaign.
August 31, 2024: In Boston: Carney Hospital in Dorchester closes.
November 5, 2024: Donald Trump elected president, and Republicans secure a majority of seats in the Senate and House. Massachusetts voters end the requirement high school graduates pass the MCAS exam.
January 3, 2025: A record 67 Black members take their seats in Congress, 62 in the House and five in the Senate.
January 21, 2025: President Donald Trump revokes an executive order in place for 60 years to ensure federal contractors do not discriminate in hiring.
March 27, 2025: Donald Trump issues executive order to remove so-called “divisive, race-centered ideology” from the National Museum of African American History and Culture and other Smithsonian museums.
May 21, 2025: The Justice Department announces plans to abandon consent decrees with cities whose policing practices violated civil rights.
August 4, 2025: The Justice Department ends consent decree in a 1979 job discrimination case that ended testing to screen applicants for most federal jobs.
