New England was exploding with World Cup excitement. It was the first afternoon of Boston’s FIFA Fan Festival on City Hall Plaza, one day before the opening match in Foxborough between Haiti and Scotland. The moment was already…


New England was exploding with World Cup excitement. It was the first afternoon of Boston’s FIFA Fan Festival on City Hall Plaza, one day before the opening match in Foxborough between Haiti and Scotland. The moment was already…

Tucked into the maze of Mattapan and its concrete and blacktop urban infrastructure lies an unexpected block, brimming with plants and vegetation like green-oblong bitter melon, or the leafy, hearty callaloo. Among the power lines and tightly quartered…

Yazi Ferrufino sensed that there was a creative soul around every corner in Boston. In 2024, they even started walking along Newbury and Boylston, asking passersby, Do you have a friend who makes music? A simple video of…

For some time, Linda Pinkow, the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism’s excellent development director, has been encouraging our editorial staff to start including a letter at the top of our BINJ.News Weekly Newsletter where we can let readers…

The Boston City Council held a hearing last week on in-custody deaths at South Bay House of Correction, with a focus on the case of Shacoby Kenny. Kenny was a pretrial detainee held on $2,500 bail who was…

A few weeks ago, I promised BINJ.News readers that I would be writing a more in-depth article on why the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism joined 59 other independent news publishers to file a mass-action lawsuit against tech…

A few weeks ago, I promised BINJ.News readers that I would be writing a more in-depth article on why the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism joined 59 other independent news publishers to file a mass-action lawsuit against tech giants OpenAI and Microsoft for taking large numbers of our copyrighted articles