Here's where Boston reparations task force stands
The earliest that Black Bostonians might get to weigh in on this process will be 2025, meaning that reparations might not materialize for years to come.
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The earliest that Black Bostonians might get to weigh in on this process will be 2025, meaning that reparations might not materialize for years to come.
An edited sample of online readers' reactions to Joan Vennochi's piece in the special Ideas section "Blueprints for a new downtown Boston."
Photographer Stanley Forman captured a desegregation protest at City Hall Plaza that roiled the nation.
Research teams from Northeastern University and Tufts University attended a Boston Task Force on Reparations meeting Feb. 6 to announce their research partnership examining Boston’s history and legacy of slavery. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu first announced the research teams Jan. 24 to document the city of Boston’s “role in and ties to the transatlantic slave...
On Jan. 16, the College of Social Sciences and Humanities held a session of its “Civility Series” titled “Northeastern Reflects: The State of Affirmative Action, the State of Belonging” to “discuss and debate creative paths forward on diversity, equity, and belonging.” The event, which discussed how the university would move forward after the Supreme Court...