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Celebrating the 40th birthday of the Dorchester Reporter has transported me back to 1983, when Ed and Mary Forry began publishing their newspaper. I was still early in my tenure as executive director of the Codman Square Health Center, which took several years to start up operations after being organized in 1974. In those days, we had appointment books that we kept for telling
We spoke to a range of writers, academics and historians to learn about the titles that inform them on key parts of Boston's history: from the Indigenous inhabitants to the American Revolution; from notorious political leaders to the busing crisis of the 1970s.
Violence erupted in the wake of an order to desegregate Boston public schools in 1974 — and a long struggle for educational equity preceded it. On PBS, "American Experience" tells the story.
In the coming weeks, voters will get a chance to make their choices in the first round of balloting for the open seat for the City Council’s District 3 as seven candidates vie to replace Frank Baker. The longtime councillor, first elected in 2011, isn’t running for another two-year term on the 13-member body. Open seats don’t come along often: Before Baker, Maureen Feeney
The issues up for consideration on the penultimate day of the NAACP’s National Convention in Boston could influence the association’s political moves at the local, state, national, and even international levels.