Historical Society hosts virtual talk on ‘Boston in 50 Maps’
November 13, 2026
Historians and an archeologist who have examined Boston’s history with slavery discussed possible paths forward after the city opted not to use a Tufts University study on slavery in Boston.
Back in April, when youth activists were protesting a cut to the city’s year-round youth jobs program, Mayor Michelle Wu pledged to raise private funding to pay for up to 2,000 such positions.
Monday’s hearing focused on allegations of beatings, sexual assaults, and 20 deaths over the last seven years at the Suffolk County House of Correction.
The hearing of the Council’s Committee on Civil Rights was billed as a discussion of “transportation equity in access to rapid transit and the evaluation of a potential Orange Line extension along Blue Hill Avenue.”
A Virginia-based anti-marijuana nonprofit has Massachusetts’s cannabis dispensaries in its crosshairs and advocates of legal weed in the Bay State are girding for battle over Question 8 on the ballot on Nov. 3.
Boston Municipal Research Bureau is calling attention to the challenges facing the nearly 14,554 BPS students who attend the district’s 31 open enrollment high schools.
Councillor Ben Weber’s amended ordinance was filed last Wednesday with all but one councillor signing on in support.
Funding is tight in Boston’s public schools (BPS), with budget cuts forcing layoffs for more than 500 teachers as rising costs, flat revenues, and the loss of federal funding has put a hole in the city’s budget.
For the third year in a row, the Boston Police have acquired and deployed social media surveillance technology without obtaining approval from the Boston City Council in apparent defiance of a 2021 ordinance requiring them to do so.
Mayor Michelle Wu and other city officials discussed their latest approach to managing traffic and parking in and around Franklin Park and White Stadium at a public meeting in Roxbury on Tuesday evening.
Thousands of union members turned out in Boston’s Back Bay on Monday morning for a Labor Day parade and rally in Copley Square. Traditionally, union officials placed more focus on the annual Labor Day breakfast, a formal affair that typically takes place at the Park Plaza Hotel and features speeches from elected officials, while SEIU locals, which represent security guards, janitors and other service workers, have taken to the streets to bring attention to strikes and ongoing labor disputes.
Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden won a decisive victory on Tuesday as he fended off challenges from former staffer Linda Champion and Rachael Rollins, his predecessor.
Jordan has been the chief of staff in the city’s Department of Innovation and Technology.
Asked last week about the delayed implementation, Mayor Michelle Wu said city officials are still working on a new detail assignment system.
On Sunday, the 41st annual Dominican Festival parade went past Mozart Park on its way to the Playstead in Franklin Park, where it drew thousands of spectators, writes Yawu Miller.
