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Kyra Tyler used to work as an admissions official at Brandeis University, a private college in Waltham with a long social justice streak, advocating behind closed doors for underrepresented students of color. After all, she had been hired in the early 2000s specifically to recruit them.

Frank Baker won’t be appearing on the ballot this year. After 10 years in office, the District 3 City Councilor from eastern Dorchester is calling it quits. But you wouldn’t know it by his presence in last Sunday’s Dorchester Day Parade, where he practically jogged the three-mile route, zig-zagging from one side of the street to the other, shaking hands. Why?

The Massachusetts Teachers Association is continuing its push for legislation that would remove MCAS exams as a graduation requirement, end state receiverships of underperforming school districts and implement performance-based assessments.

A new $25 million academic building in this capital city was dedicated last month in the memory of the late Michael L. Kennedy Sr., a former Boston energy executive who helped launch Angola’s first private university.

The city has awarded more than $700,000 in grants to 15 nonprofits in Boston to provide additional legal services to immigrants.

The MBTA has appointed Gabrielle (Farrell) Mondestin as its first chief communications officer, becoming a member of the senior leadership team at the mass transit agency.

More than a dozen Democratic candidates have entered the special election race for the Rhode Island congressional seat vacated by Rep. David Cicilline. who announced his resignation June 1 to run the Rhode Island Foundation. 

David Delmar Sentíes is fed up. The Jamaica Plain resident has labored for years so that tech companies would have every opportunity to diversify their workforces. He founded Resilient Coders in 2014 to train minority software engineers for lucrative careers in the major growth industry.

Five years ago, the Boston School Committee voted to close the West Roxbury Education Complex, citing city reports that the school building was unsafe. Now, the city is proposing a new life for the complex, and for two of the city’s high schools.

It is one thing to speak of historical figures you have researched but did not see with your eyes. It is entirely another to talk of legendary figures whose exploits you witnessed through the collective lenses of your own eyes.

fter what can only be labeled an out-of-control, roller-coaster NBA season, the 2022-23 Boston Celtics crash-landed by virtue of an embarrassing 103–84 defeat at the hands of the Miami Heat at the T.D. Bank Garden on May 29.

Accolades continue to pour in from all parts of the globe honoring the late great Tina Turner, who after a long illness died May 24 at age 83 at her home near Zurich, Switzerland.