In 2010, she heard about a gathering representing several African countries celebrating their 50th year of independence. This led to her co-creating the African Festival of Boston as both a collective ...

Health centers eye potential impacts of federal cuts National Health Center Week celebrations balanced by pending financial challenges ...

The 2025 Broadway tour, directed by Schele Williams, blends the songs and narrative of the 1978 film with that of the original Broadway production. It makes a few tweaks to appeal to a contemporary ...

There are moments in history when silence is not neutral. When pretending not to know is the most violent thing a nation can do. We are standing at such a moment now. I was there in 2009, when the ...

60 years ago, during the civil rights movement, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, outlawing discriminatory voting practices. That landmark bill, signed into law by President Lyndon ...

Banner Sports Sponsored by the Patriots Foundation Suppose you were traveling past the Ray and Joan Kroc Community Center on August 5 and saw hundreds of young people on the field directly across the ...

Byron Barnett, the renowned former Boston 7News reporter died last Sunday, Aug. 3. He was 69. Originally from Minneapolis, Barnett graduated from the University of Minnesota’s Hubbard School of ...

Victoria Mboko and Ben Shelton became the rare duo of Black tennis players to win championship matches on the same day. Mboko vaulted into the glitterati of the pro women’s tennis circle by her ...

The third annual Neighborhood Summer Block Party for Dorchester (Shawmut, Melville, St. Mark’s and Codman) begins this Saturday at 1 p.m. at 41 Sharp St. in front of the Epiphany School. This free ...

Every day, more than 100,000 Americans wait for an organ transplant that could save their lives. Despite over a decade of reaching record donor and transplant numbers in the United States each year, ...

The Boston Athenaeum wants to turn back time, and it needs the help of Bostonians to do it. In 2026 the historic private library in Beacon Hill will launch an exhibition of photographs by Constantine ...

Of the Boston Foundation’s new grant funding, announced Aug. 5, $1 million will go to supporting operations at the Greater Boston Food Bank. PHOTO: BANNER FILE A new effort from the Boston Foundation ...