Charlie Rosario earned his BA behind bars in 2022. As he explained in a recent interview, he was part of the first Emerson Prison Initiative (EPI) college cohort, at the time located at MCI-Concord, which closed in 2024.…


Charlie Rosario earned his BA behind bars in 2022. As he explained in a recent interview, he was part of the first Emerson Prison Initiative (EPI) college cohort, at the time located at MCI-Concord, which closed in 2024.…

Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #65 and #66. ARTS Arts Feature: The Museum of Modern Renaissance — The Urgency of Preserving a Living…

Protesters rallied outside South Bay House of Correction last Friday, calling again for justice in the December killing of Shacoby Kenny. (Read prior BINJ coverage here). Kenny’s death was ruled a homicide by the state medical examiner’s office…

We started the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism at a dreadful time for investigative reporting. Not only had the news landslide begun to erode institutions once considered teflon, but many publishers had given up on the deep and…

Over the summer, careful readers may have noticed that I’ve mentioned an upcoming funding crunch on and off. That in itself wouldn’t be worthy of note given the economic crisis now faced by the entire journalism industry, nonprofit…

There is a civil war within the Democratic Party. The establishment is fighting off an insurgency for the soul of the party. As with any war, the victims are everyday working people, caught between factions who claim to…

Back then, we did what many said couldn’t be done. Now, we’re doing what we said we wouldn’t do.*