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Mountains of research show that in Boston and other US cities, poor and working class people of color are disproportionately harmed by climate change and pollution. That inequality is by design, but a new report says it can begin to be undone.

The next pandemic with which the U.S. will have to contend is widespread and untreated trauma, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley said Tuesday. Pressley met with Boston Marathon bombing survivors at a community health center in Dorchester to discuss the Post Disaster Mental Health Response Act, which Pressley and other lawmakers filed in 2021 after conversations with marathon

Pressley met with Boston Marathon bombing survivors at a community health center in Dorchester to discuss the Post Disaster Mental Health Response Act, which expands federal mental health support for survivors of natural disasters, domestic terrorist attacks and other crises that are declared designated emergencies by FEMA.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley said Tuesday, alongside survivors of the Boston Marathon bombings, that widespread and untreated trauma is the "next pandemic" the U.S....

Across the country, people are increasingly relying on mutual aid — cooperative assistance adherents describe as “solidarity, not charity” — to get through climate-related disasters.

Across the US, communities are relying on mutual aid as a safeguard against extreme weather

The St. George Interfaith Council is hosting its annual "CROP Walk" on Saturday, inviting the public to come help raise money and combat hunger.

The 39th iteration of a charity walk to fight hunger and poverty returns to Andrews Park Sunday afternoon.

The program will, according to a statement from Mass. Interfaith, "call each other to faithful action on issues of climate and environmental justice."

For more than 35 years, Karen Carstensen and her son, Tim, have taken extra steps to help people in need.