LOCAL NEWS
Cambridge youth talk about race, violence, past, futureA youth-led event to mark the culmination of Black History Month provoked in-depth discussions about history, race and identity in Cambridge on Saturday. Taking as its starting point a quote from Langston Hughes' "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," an array of singers, dancers and speakers reflected on the idea that "my soul has grown deep." More » |
Hub group works to help residents claim tax creditsIt's 7:15 p.m. on a Thursday night in February, and at the intersection of Washington and Ruggles streets, the Roxbury Resource Center is packed. More » |
Winning isn't everythingThis is a fact: Roger Calero has absolutely no chance to become president of the United States. He is still running nevertheless, and while his campaign has not triggered a single blip on the national political radar, his lack of name recognition is not the real reason his campaign is doomed from the start. More » |
Liberty Mutual to open office in Springfield with 300 jobsSPRINGFIELD - Liberty Mutual Group announced plans last week to hire up to 300 people for a new Springfield office, the second business to announce recent expansion plans in the city. More » |
Patrick senses casino support building despite jobs disputeHouse Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi criticized Gov. Deval Patrick?s casino gambling proposal on Monday, just hours after the governor said he sensed building legislative support despite a dispute about the number of construction jobs it would create. More » |
Patrick evasive as Obama chides health care mandateIllinois Sen. Barack Obama is no fan of the individual mandate that has been central to the successful launch of the Massachusetts universal health care law. He likes to cite its foibles as he criticizes his Democratic presidential rival, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, for including a similar mandate in her national health care plan. More » |
NATIONAL NEWS
Affirmative action opponent faces hostile crowd in Neb.LINCOLN, Neb. - A hostile crowd of mostly students jeered as a national figure battling affirmative action stated his case for barring race and gender as factors in public hiring and college admissions decisions. More » |
Obama still fighting false links to Islam, FarrakhanWASHINGTON - For Barack Obama, it is an ember that he has doused time and again, only to see it flicker anew: links to Islam fanned by false rumors, innuendo and association. More » |
U.S. presidential exit polls defy conventional wisdom about raceWASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton can bank on the support of women. Conservatives will never trust John McCain. Southern white men won't vote for Barack Obama. More » |
NAACP Legal Defense Fund prez joins Columbia LawTheodore M. Shaw, director-counsel and president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, has returned to his alma mater and joined the faculty of Columbia Law School, the school announced Tuesday. He will be a professor of professional practice, teaching classes in civil procedure and constitutional law. More » |
