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As more than 15,000 executives, investors, and promoters from around the world arrive at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, industry leaders are bracing for multiple challenges even as they trumpet their triumphs.

In honor of Juneteenth, MassLive is spotlighting emerging Black leaders in Massachusetts throughout the month of June. First on the list: Attorney General Andrea Campbell.

The state needs an approach that puts the burden and the responsibility not only on government but on all of us as concerned citizens.

Gov. Maura Healey and the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center announced $24.4 million in tax incentive awards Tuesday that they expect will help 43 life sciences companies create nearly 1,600 new jobs, and officials teased more "exciting" life sciences news around the corner as the BIO International Convention lands in Boston next week.

More than 1,000 of the job commitments are outside of Boston and Cambridge, including Modernas Norwood facility, which received $3.135 million.

Five life science companies with significant operations in Central Mass. were among the 43 firms across Massachusetts chosen to split $24.4 million in tax incentive awards.

Aided by favorable state tax policies, the growing life sciences sector in Massachusetts now features 132,000 jobs and a new report predicts another 42,000 new jobs will come online in the industry over the next decade.

“No one would confuse the current day Legislature with a New England town meeting or an Athenian hillside,” said Secretary of State William F. Galvin, a former lawmaker himself.

The New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal became the landing site this week for parts of a massive turbine for the Vineyard Wind offshore wind development.

New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell and other officials celebrated the present, and looked to the future of offshore wind.