LOCAL NEWS
At Roxbury Reunion, memories of a safer timeOnce again, the gangs took over Franklin Park last weekend, blasting music, grilling burgers and drinking beer in their annual summer celebration. More » |
Election Day registration bill stalled in state SenateIn the midst of an election season that looks to attract record voter turnout, state legislators are considering a new measure that would allow thousands of previously unregistered citizens to cast their ballots on Election Day. More » |
Acceptance grows for multiracial AmericansRachel Lerman is the embodiment of melting pot citizenry: Born in 1967 in Boston to a blonde, blue-eyed, Roman Catholic white woman and a black man from Nigeria, she was placed in foster care and shortly thereafter adopted by a white couple and raised Jewish. More » |
NATIONAL NEWS
Texas re-enactment focuses Juneteenth on life in slaveryDALLAS - One weekend each year, Esudele Fagbenro and Safisha Hill transform a Texas farm into an 18th century African village, replete with thatched huts, craftsmen and rites of passage into adulthood. More » |
WORLD NEWS
Caribbean tourism industry feeling pinch as prices riseSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Expensive jet fuel and a soft American economy are threatening to sink Caribbean tourism as airline ticket prices soar and flights are sharply reduced, choking the flow of the vacationers that many tiny islands depend upon. More » |
