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The Quincy School Committee will decide if the city's public schools will observe Lunar New Year with a day off from classes in 2025.

“There are haves and have-nots in the nonprofit journalism space. And this isnt right.”

A Massachusetts educator has just become the first Black male teacher to win the state’s Teacher of the Year award. De’Shawn Washington, who teaches fourth grade at Maria Hastings Elementary School in Lexington, Massachusetts, received the honor at a rally in front of his students and colleagues. “You’ve made the work joyous for me over the… Continue reading De’Shawn Washington Becomes The First Black Man To Receive Massachusetts’ State ‘Te...

"People in Massachusetts once had more journalism available; they’ve lost more, they have grieved more; they have hungered for what they had. So, they now have been quick to embrace a rebirth of journalism that matters."

Nieman Lab is adding two new staff writer positions: One focused on local news, the other on the intersection of generative AI and journalism.

Brian MacQuarrie of The Boston Globe has an overview of efforts to sell the Portland Press Herald of Maine and its affiliated daily and weekly papers. Back in April, I wrote about the establishment of a nonprofit organization, the Maine Journalism Foundation, known as MaineJF, which was hoping to purchase the papers from owner Reade…

In 2019, Haoyang Yu, a former Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) engineer residing in Lexington MA, was indicted by federal prosecutors on allegations relating to

The nation’s ninth vice president had an enslaved wife Julia Chinn died nearly four years before Richard Mentor Johnson of Kentucky took office, but because of controversy over her, Johnson is the only vice president in American history who failed to receive enough electoral votes to be elected. By Ronald G. ShaferThe Washington Post Share She was born enslaved and remained that way her entire life, even after she became Richard Mentor Johnson’s “bride.” Johnson, a Kentucky congressma...

The nations ninth vice president had an enslaved wife Ronald G. Shafer, The Washington Post Feb. 7, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3Richard Mentor Johnson became vice president in 1837.Library of CongressShow MoreShow Less 2of3This political cartoon was a racist attack on Richard Mentor Johnson because of his relationship with Julia Chinn.Library of CongressShow MoreShow Less 3of3 She was born enslaved and remained that way her entire life, even after she became Richard Mentor Johnsons "bride." ...