It is time, once again, to revisit the adequacy and equity of our school funding system,” argued Lewis, last session’s education chair. New committee appointments will be announced in weeks. While ...

Currently on the body are three councilors who were elected after serving in the Wu administration: Sharon Durkan, Enrique Pepén and Henry Santana.

Successive governments of Jamaica had called for Garvey to be pardoned for 40 years, making the first appeal to Ronald Reagan and the last to Biden. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Garvey’s ...

The support is part of $64.2 million in affordable housing funding announced at an event at the Harvard Ed Portal in Allston, Jan. 22. The funding will support the development or preservation of 637 ...

The participatory budgeting process was launched following a 2021 ballot question in which 68% of voters approved the creation of the Office of Participatory Budgeting, alongside other changes to the ...

In a statement to the Banner, a DCR spokeswoman was noncommittal about what work might take place at the site following the remediation work but said the department looks forward to collaborating with ...

The 2025 Mayor’s Youth Summit will take place on Saturday, February 22. The summit is targeted toward youth throughout the city and gives them a forum to showcase their talents and build community.

While Pressley said she’d been busy at community events all day, she planned to listen to Trump’s inauguration speech, and paraphrased the words of Martin Luther King Jr. “It’s important that we study ...

Last year, city councilors filed a Home Rule Petition to ask the state to ban the practice of tenant-paid broker fees, and Boston and Cambridge city councilors joined the effort. With Healey’s ...

The grant funding comes as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to reenter the White House, a political shift that advocates worry will have negative consequences for the reproductive healthcare ...

In 1970, the pastors of Boston’s St. Cyprian’s Episcopal Church  and  Union United Methodist Church came together to create the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast. This year, the annual ...

As a part of “an effort to diversify their library collections,” the Harvard Library acquired a 1949 international Green Book in March 2024.