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Boston international students coronavirus

“ALL OF A SUDDEN, YOU’RE LIKE A CRIMINAL: ‘WE DON’T WANT YOU HERE'”

Frustrated, some international students distance from US

SHIRA LAUCHAROEN August 11, 2020

WILL THE COLUMBUS STATUE RETURN TO BOSTON? WHO WILL DECIDE?

“The park should be a place where everyone feels welcome, not a place where Indigenous people are made to feel uncomfortable, erased and demeaned.”

DANA FERRANTE July 30, 2020

Washington Street, Newspaper Row (in Boston a century ago)

HELP SAVE LOCAL NEWS! ASK YOUR MA STATE REP TO BACK AMENDMENT #40 TODAY!

[W]e’re asking all readers who are concerned about the collapse of local news media to contact your state representative and ask them to cosponsor Amendment #40 of H. 4879. The more cosponsors the amendment has, the more likely House Ways and Means will pass it. If that happens it has a good chance of making it through the full legislative process for this session. And becoming a law. Which would be a promising outcome for the future of local news in the Commonwealth.

JASON PRAMAS July 26, 2020

SHOCKING DISCRIMINATION: RESEARCHER BEHIND NEW BOSTON HOUSING STUDY EXPLAINS BIAS, BIGOTRY BLACK RENTERS FACE

“The results of this study are deeply troubling and further reinforce the immediate need to address the longstanding injustices Black people face in every aspect of their lives.”

RICH TENORIO July 21, 2020

FROM ONLINE LESSONS TO SPECIAL PRECAUTIONS, MASS COMMUNITY COLLEGES PLAY IT SAFE

“We’re in no rush to bring administrators and staff back to campus because there’s no reason to.”

GRACE SYMES July 20, 2020

PROTESTS AGAINST POLICE VIOLENCE CONTINUE TO GAIN TRACTION AND RAISE OVERDUE QUESTIONS IN WHITE AREAS

“White allyship is basically shutting up for one minute of your life. It’s imperative to have people of color leading chants and leading the movement.”

GRACE SYMES July 14, 2020

EVICTION FIGHT ENDURES AS END TO MASSACHUSETTS MORATORIUM LOOMS

Speakers presented a new report created by researches at Massachusetts Institute for Technology and City Life, which revealed that 70% of evictions in Boston are in communities where the majority of the population are people of color—Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan.

SHIRA LAUCHAROEN July 13, 2020