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…


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…

UPDATE (Aug. 12): On Aug. 12, the Governor's Council voted to approve the nomination of Kaityln O'Leary to the Parole Board in a 6-2 vote. Voting in the affirmative were Councilors Civil, Dolan, Ferreira, Iannella, Kennedy and Ziegler.…

The Muslim Justice League has been active around Greater Boston for about a decade. As Executive Director Fatema Ahmad describes its mission, the organization “focuses on everything that's come out of the war on terror, which we're in…

Pretty wild that the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism is about to start the fourth year of publishing our weekly newsletter next week! And my BINJ colleagues and I figured that milestone would be a perfect excuse to…

At the time of this writing, nearly 50 beaches in the Bay State are closed due to harmful bacteria and algae. The official term is “posted,” meaning marked with a “No Swimming” advisory sign, and the news comes…

When we make our occasional entreaties for support from Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism readers, we often mention our “Intern Army.” We say that having dozens of reporting interns every year is one of the main ways we…

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