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Election guide to September 6 Massachusetts primary

Here's a breakdown of the upcoming democratic and republican state primaries. More »

Black History: Before the NAACP, the Niagara Movement fought for equal rights

By the time the Niagara Movement hit Boston for its annual conference in late August 1907, W.E.B. Du Bois was poised for battle. The Movement had inched along the prior three years, and the strain of running an organization plagued with chronic infighting, limited resources and an almost insurmountable goal of attaining racial equality within turn-of-the-century America was a daunting task. More »