The state’s Black and Latinx populations each suffered 10 percent more COVID-19 cases in the first half of 2020 and saw a death rate three times that of white residents.
“We know that the climate crisis of course is a public health crisis, and that the investments we need to make in resiliency and sustainability are opportunities to improve health and the economic well-being of our residents," Campbell said.
COVID-19 has overwhelmingly affected families of color at disproportionately higher rates. How will these divisions in racial equality change politics this November?
The petition will ask the Massachusetts Supreme Court to force a lower court judge to accept Rollins's motion to drop the charges against the counter-protester.
Recently elected Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins said Thursday that she plans to follow through on her campaign stance to decline prosecuting 15 crimes. The list of crimes includes relatively...
Although the retail sale of recreational marijuana was set to be legalized July 1 in Massachusetts, Suffolk County, where Boston is located, has yet to issue a local permit to any recreational marijuana operator.
Over 500 Massachusetts residents flooded Copley Square Sunday to support the upholding of statewide protections for transgender individuals in the Commonwealth.
Rachael Rollins, a former prosecutor and the first person of color to serve as the general counsel for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, won the Massachusetts Democratic primary election on Sept. 4 for the Suffolk County district attorney seat.
At least 932 people in Massachusetts died from an opioid-related overdose in the first nine months of 2017, according to a report by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. In light of the ongoing...
