LOCAL NEWS
Projects piling on for Dudley squareThrough decades of promises, plans and projects, the revitalization of Dudley Square has been an elusive dream. Now, signs suggest revival is around the corner. More » |
Several black newspapers operated in Lower RoxburyBack when the city's dailies were clustered along Newspaper Row in the heart of downtown, another Newspaper Row existed in Lower Roxbury, where at least five weeklies serving the black community were published. More » |
Sweet!Julius Johnson no longer starts work at 4 a.m., as he did in the first years of his baking career. These days, the 30-year-old Dudley Square resident and executive pastry chef at Boston Common Coffee Company has a crew to do that. More » |
The MFA's closer look at African American ArtThe Museum of Fine Art's recently launched self-guided tour of African American art allows museumgoers a glimpse into the lives of black artists from the 19th century until today. More » |
NATIONAL NEWS
An apology ceremony we need to publicizeOn February 26, an apology ceremony took place in California. The state apologized to approximately 400,000 people of Mexican ancestry who were deported in a spate of ethnic cleansing that gripped the United States during the Great Depression. More » |
Obama urges governors to invest more in educationNo issue will have a bigger impact on the future performance of our economy than education. In the long run it's going to ... determine whether businesses stay here. It will determine whether businesses are created here, whether businesses are hiring here. More » |
Drop in black unemployment rate stirs hope, anxietyThe latest unemployment figures are music to Usama Robert's ears. Out of work more than two years, the Riverside, Calif. manufacturing supply chain manager is among the 243,000 Americans who found work in January 2012 - far exceeding expectations of about 150,000 new jobs. More » |
Saul William's new album 'Volcanic Sunlight'Poet and actor Saul Williams is a gifted storyteller who expertly mixes rhymes and rhythms on his newest album "Volcanic Sunlight." The New York native rose through the ranks of poetry fame when he was crowned the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam champion in 1996. Later he co-wrote and starred in the Cannes and Sundance award winning film "Slam." More » |
WORLD NEWS
We're already paying a 'War Tax' at the gas pumpIt's hard to miss the higher cost of gas every time we fill up our cars these days, but the media doesn't do a very good job of explaining why. Financial press and oil industry sources claim we're paying extra for gas because of rising tensions in the Middle East and the scare over a possible U.S. or Israeli attack on Iran. More » |
