Dorchester Archives

Struggles In Reentry: A New Chapter For New Beginnings

Dorchester service provider for recently incarcerated individuals shifts from residential to day programs in the face of funding challenges

JEAN TROUNSTINE April 3, 2025

FOLLOW-UP: ALLEN CURRY

Subject of BINJ feature who was victim of 1981 attack by fellow firefighters one step closer to full pension We started the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism in 2015 to report stories that weren’t being told about people who were often ignored by big media. That’s become the leading cliché

CHRIS FARAONE August 14, 2023

FRAN SWEENEY’S FIGHT AGAINST FASCISTS IN THE 1940S MIRRORS TODAY’S BATTLE AGAINST BIGOTRY

“The object of The Boston City Reporter [was] to tell the public who is using prejudice against entire races and religions for undemocratic purposes—and how.”

ZACK HUFFMAN August 21, 2020

PROTESTERS DECRY NONPROFIT LAYOFFS; FOUNDERS RESPOND TO CLAIMS OF UNION-BUSTING, RACISM

“I don’t think we’re a racist organization. I just think the power structure, the culture, is made up of people who don’t look like me.”

JANE REGAN June 23, 2020

THE COUNCILOR WHO RESPONDED TO HATE WITH HOPE AND HELPED THROUGH THE PANDEMIC

With her first 100 days in office coinciding with the COVID-19 crisis, Boston City Councilor Julia Mejia perseveres in the interest of most vulnerable, disconnected populations

IÑAKI ESTÍVALIZ April 30, 2020

ROCK AGAINST RACISM TURNS 40

Here, five individuals associated with RAR share their memories of Boston back then, what they gained from having RAR in their lives, and how, in 2019, we can continue to honor the groundwork RAR laid for a better Boston.

C. SHARDAE JOBSON November 20, 2019