Archive for ‘December, 2006’

Historic African Meeting House celebrates its bicentennial

Governor-elect Deval Patrick and Mayor Thomas Menino joined African American community leaders yesterday to remember Boston’s role in the abolitionist movement and celebrate the African Meeting House, one of Boston’s national landmarks, on its bicentennial.

Biolab developments through 2006

Though activists have vehemenently opposed the construction of Boston University’s Level 4 Biosafety laboratory in Roxbury — the most densely populated region to receive such a lab — a similar lab in a less-populated Atlanta suburb was met with little resistance when built a half-century ago.

Editor compares bloggers to protest writers of the ’60s

Historian Zoe Trodd declared blogs the modern equivalent of 1960s protest literature last night as she promoted her new anthology of protest writing, drawing a small crowd despite a last-minute cancellation by speaker Howard Zinn. Trodd, the editor for American Protest Literature, said the anthology examines the genre of protest literature to show how different movements and works build off one another.

Harvard Crimson leaked list of 30 pres. candidates

The Harvard Crimson Tuesday released the names of 11 candidates apparently under consideration by the university’s Presidential Search Committee — a development experts say could cause problems in the college’s search and even jeopardize the named candidates’ current jobs.

City Council: Guns, violence and the Citgo sign

After focusing on an array of issues spanning from youth violence to rubber sidewalks in 2006, the Boston City Council spent its third-to-last meeting yesterday debating restrictions on liquor licenses, which some councilors said inhibits the growth of new business.