Mamie spent the 1920s at Edward David’s knee. She listened to his stories, absorbing lessons in resilience and leadership. As she became an adult, she became a teacher, then an organizer and then a ...

From the African Grove Theater , founded in 1821 by William Alexander Brown in New York City, to today’s Broadway, Black artists have continually transformed American theater, even when America tried ...

Setti Warren was the mayor of Newton, Mass. from 2011 to 2018. COURTESY PHOTO Former Newton Mayor Setti Warren is being remembered as a joyous presence who infused the often cynical business of ...

Chief of Mashpee Tribe of Wampanoags Earl Mills Jr. (left), addresses attendees as a translator signs for the hearing impaired. PHOTO: AXIE BREEN More than 1,000 people gathered at Newton North High ...

(Left) Portrait of Lydia Maria Child ca. 1866-1869, PHOTO: John A. Whipple, Library of Congress (Right) Portrait of Maria Weston Chapman, Daguerreotype ca. 1846 PHOTO: Courtesy of the Boston Public ...

The Fields Corner Main Street organization is gearing up to host its annual fundraiser cocktail party, better known as Dotini ...

Crite is well known for his paintings depicting daily life in the Black community of Boston’s Lower Roxbury and South End ...

The common factor in this soccer sojourn, Ribeiro said, has been Mario Semedo, the longtime Cabo Verde Football Federation ...

Judge Harris began there as a lawyer. In 1989 he represented Alan Swanson and other defendants wrongfully arrested after the ...

After being an ironworker for many years, Maria Storms decided to step out on faith and start her own construction business, ...

When disaster strikes a neighbor, good neighbors help out. In this case, that means governments, expatriates and charitable citizens. Contributions of relief from all of those donors have started.