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A texting hotline to connect homeless youth to services. Turning an unused part of campus into a new green space for students. A playbook guide for hosting gun violence awareness panels.

A new law went into effect Monday that allows Massachusetts tenants to ask the state to seal their past eviction record, making it no longer publicly available electronically or in paper form.

After almost 10 years of working to diversify the Boston tech startup workforce, Hack.Diversity plans to shut down this summer.

Kayla Tabb was recently named chef-in-residence at the Nutrition Lab at the Roxbury Branch of the Boston Public Library.

The recently founded Banner Institute for Community News is a not-for-profit organization established with a mission to drive the sustainability of Black and Brown multimedia community news outlets.

Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation is preparing to launch its HubHustle Collective Program during Small Business Week, May 4-10.

For kids with autism, the risk of drowning is 160 times higher than their neurotypical peers.

On April 24, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a preliminary injunction blocking the enforcement of a certification requirement from the U.S. Department of Education that threatens schools with a loss of federal funding based on harmful misinterpretations of civil rights laws, threatening Black students’ equal access to a quality education.

Affordable housing, historic preservation, and open space in Boston will get a $38 million boost through the approval of 52 projects to receive funding through the Community Preservation Act.

When Janice V. Johnson lost her brother to violence in 2006, she felt lost. Soon after, she found the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute (LDBPI) and their Walk for Peace.

He installed the first Black cardinal in Washington, D.C., connected with America’s first Black president and appointed three Black men who are in contention to succeed him. He condemned racism as a “sin,” visited poor Black communities and ministered to imprisoned Black men.

Target’s decision to scale back its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives has sparked a nationwide backlash that is taking a visible toll on the retailer — so much so that the head of Target recently sat down with Al Sharpton to see how he could right the sinking ship.