Andover teachers and staff returned to work Wednesday, ending five days of negotiations and strikes, but a battle to legalize educators’ right to strike will continue in Massachusetts.
Local progressive groups rallied to show their commitment to fighting for workers’ rights, climate justice and racial equity long after ballots were counted. About 50 people showed up in the 30-degree weather, bundled in coats and masks and bumping elbows to greet one another.
A group of high school students from Boston, Malden and Quincy published an open letter Sept. 21 demanding educators and superintendents take action against rising anti-Asian sentiments.
“Tonight is more than just a celebration of the movement. It is a reaffirmation of the need to have a movement. A progressive movement of young people demanding radical change, demanding justice.”
Puppets take the stage and act out a white man’s eulogy regarding the death of his black friend, unfolding as a series of vignettes and memories about his life before it was brutally taken by the Ku Klux Klan. The small figures bring to life part of the United States’ dark, racist past.
Do you keep seeing the acronym FYSOP but have no idea what it stands for? Wonder no longer — FYSOP is the First-Year Student Outreach Project, a weeklong community engagement program for first-year students, including freshmen, transfer students and, this year, students entering Boston University as part of the BU-Wheelock College merger.
As transgender protections increasingly come into question in Massachusetts, most recently with the transgender anti-discrimination veto referendum set to appear as a question on next year’s...
In honor of the one year anniversary of the shooting of Terrence Coleman, a silent, “take a knee" protest was held Sunday afternoon in front of the State House.
Based off of NFL player...
Approximately 500 people gathered outside the First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain on Thursday night for the Vigil in Support of Black Lives Matter.
The silent vigil, which was the main focus of the...
By Sarah Wu and Haley Fritz
Approximately 200 protesters gathered in the snowy Boston Common Wednesday afternoon to stand in solidarity with those affected by President Donald Trump’s controversial...
Mayors of 14 municipalities around Greater Boston signed a Climate Mitigation Commitment, which pledges that their communities will collaborate to halt the progress of climate change, according to a...
