On July 17, delegates from the National Urban League’s 92 affiliates gathered in Cleveland for the 2025 National Urban League Conference, focused squarely on assessing and responding to the urgent conditions outlined in the latest “State of Black America” report.

In alliance with his compliant foot soldiers on Capitol Hill and emboldened by a Supreme Court majority bending to his wishes, Donald Trump is using his second term in office to create an upside-down Alice in Wonderland government where civil rights become civil wrongs and the strength of diversity becomes a weakness.

In a major victory for President Trump, Congress has approved a rescission package clawing back $9 billion in federal funds for priorities he deemed wasteful, including $1.1 billion previously appropriated for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which helps fund PBS and NPR and member stations like GBH.

A sweeping omnibus bill at the State House would target widespread health reform, looking to change how the public and private entities across the state approach health care access, insurance and workforce.

Success is self-reinforcing at the Benjamin Banneker Charter Public School in Cambridge. Principal Sherley Bretous said, “If I knew what the secret sauce was” then “I would give it to the whole world for free.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, the actor and musician who rose to fame as a teenager playing Theo Huxtable on NBC’s groundbreaking sitcom “The Cosby Show,” has died at the age of 54.

At Roxbury Community College, a new initiative is reimagining what a community college can be — not just a steppingstone to a degree, but a launchpad for economic mobility, small business ownership and systemic change.

When Boston artist and social activist Dana Chandler Jr. died on June 9 at the age of 84, he left not only the legacy of his art. He created an institution in 1978 that also lives on: the African American Master Artists-in-Residence Program (AAMARP), in affiliation with Northeastern University.

With hundreds of names on the 2024-25 Boston Globe All-Scholastic awards list, we highlight the following young men and women from that list. Our sincere apologies to any of the athletes who aren’t mentioned in this article.

As a solution for her husband who has many allergies, Laurette Ndukwe made the decision to begin to cook healthy meals at home for her family, changing their diet. 

On May 30, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts gained its first poet laureate, joining 46 other states and the District of Columbia in designating an emissary to further the appreciation of poetry.

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