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Bees Deluxe, the British/American acid blues band, embarks on a mini-tour to promote their new album, Hallucinate. Learn more here!

“It’s an honor to serve as a police officer and serve the citizens of Boston, but to this day, I don’t feel like I have been completely accepted,” said Larry Ellison, a Black Boston police detective who’s been with the department for nearly 40 years. “The problem is we turn a blind eye and then when things explode, we try to do things piecework and we try to do symbolic things.” The need to have police departments look like the communities they patrol has come under renewed focus ...