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For six years now, it has existed as a dream project, but just beyond the grasp of the people who conjured it up in the first place. But now, the ambitious plan to build a $70 million state-of-the-art indoor facility to house athletic fields, practice courts, and other programs for city kids and teens is finally within grasp, with hopes of an actual groundbreaking before the
The Boston School Committee voted unanimously on April 10 to change the name of the merged BCLA/McCormack 7-12 school on Columbia Point to the Ruth Batson Academy in honor of the Roxbury woman who fought for equitable education in Boston through the 1960s and 1970s. Principal Ondrea Johnston said the school community, which began its merger in 2021, settled on the name Ruth
Batson is just the latest in her generation of Black Boston activists to be honored by a BPS school. The district’s McKinley schools were rededicated to Mel King last year.
Talks about the Garisson decision of the Supreme Court that ordered desegregation in Boston and the busing crisis that followed, studying what happened and its legacy.
Marcelo Suárez-Orozco will be officially installed as the ninth permanent chancellor of UMass Boston this Friday (April 5) in a ceremony that will be held, in part, on a newly built campus Quad. Hailed as the new “centerpiece” of the Dorchester Bay campus, the walking paths and green space have replaced what was once the university’s hulking red-brick Science Center and a