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In honor of the one year anniversary of the tragic death of Henry Tapia in Belmont, Jan. 19 to be Henry Tapia Memorial Day.

Nearly three dozen people rallied for racial equality in Belmont’s Waverley Square Sunday evening, more than three months after a man of color was allegedly killed by a white man in a road rage incident in the town.

Joanna K. Tzouvelis/Wicked Local The No Override Now campaign celebrated a victory with 56% of voters in Belmont's annual town election voting "no" on the $6.4 million override. Newcomers Jamal Saeh and Meghan Moriarty were the winners in the School Committee race. Incumbent Anne Mahon won the Housing Authority seat and newcomer Dr. Adrienne Allen won the Board of Health seat. The voter turn out was 47%. The "no" vote won in every precinct except Precinct 6 with 61 to 65% of the votes in Precincts 2, 4 and 8 and 51 to 57% of the votes in Precincts 1, 3, 5 and 7. The restults in Precict 6 w...

© Blavity, Inc., 2020 Municipal guards set up road blocks on all accesses to Copacabana beach during New Year's Eve on December 31, 2020 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. / Photo Credit: Photo by: Buda Mendes Massachusetts Man Charged With Hate Crime In Hit-And-Run Death Of Black Man A road dispute turns deadly after Dean Kapsalis uses racial slurs and runs Henry Tapia over with a vehicle. January 25, 2021 at 9:15 pm Candlelight vigils are being held in a quaint Massachusetts community after a beloved Black father was killed in a racially-motivated hit-and-run attack, WBUR reported.  Dean Kapsalis...

Hundreds gathered in Cushing Square in Belmont to honor the memory of Henry Tapia, two days after he had an altercation with a man who reportedly yelled racial slurs and then drove over him, ultimately killing Tapia. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) In an ideal world, 34-year-old Henry Tapia, a father of three, would have spent Thursday night playing video games with his friends or his kids. Instead, this Thursday, Tapia's kids held a sign that read "I miss my Dad! Mommy won't let me forget you!" while dozens coped with the cold in Belmont's Cushing Square and sang "Amazing Grace." They gathered to hold a ...