The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Dr. Erica Schwartz as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the ...

To push forward the city’s supplier diversity goals, the  Office of Economic Opportunity and Inclusion and the Department of ...

A new 127-unit affordable senior housing facility in Mattapan is aiming to be an intergenerational village that combines ...

Greater Boston has had a long and persistent racial wealth disparity. A 2015 study found the median net worth of Black Bostonians is eight dollars, compared to the median white net worth of $247,500, ...

The pope’s first public comments on his ancestry reignite questions about race, identity and representation in the Catholic Church. Since his election last year, Pope Leo XIV sidestepped one of the ...

Seaport A caipirinha is a classic Brazilian cocktail made with cachaça, sugar, lime and lots of ice. At Alma Gaucha they come in several flavors (kiwi, passionfruit, coconut, pineapple) and are a ...

Like other harsh sentences in a racially unfair criminal justice system, in this state and many others, the evidence available indicates life without parole lands more often on Black offenders and ...

Supported by funds from the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Action Fund, five buildings across five states will share $750,000 in planning support. Boston’s contribution to the cohort is ...

Rebecca Rausch, sponsor of the legislation protecting journalists from being subpoenaed to reveal confidential sources. COURTESY PHOTO In 1998, then-Boston Globe journalist Richard Knox faced a choice ...

A July report from The Sentencing Project, a national advocacy nonprofit, explores how felony murder laws serve as an on ramp ...

It’s the most delicious time of the year once again: for two weeks, restaurants participating in Dine Out Boston will offer ...

“Is the American dream dead?” grimly asks the venerable civil rights and urban advocacy organization in the title of its latest report.