No trials yet for FBI's civil rights initiative
WASHINGTON - Flanked by officials from the NAACP and the Southern Poverty Law Center, FBI Director Robert Mueller last year announced with considerable fanfare a new partnership between his agency and civil rights organizations. More »
Hennigan youth hoops league gets kids active
Robert White had a problem. "I saw a lot of these children hanging out during open gym time, not doing anything," said White, athletic director of the Hennigan Community Center in Jamaica Plain. "[I] figured they needed something to do." More »
Wellesley exhibit looks at the black woman's body
From the "Hottentot Venus" of the 19th century to the video vixens so prevalent in hip-hop music videos today, pop culture renderings of the black female form have been debated - and often decried - for years, by social critics and ordinary people alike. More »
