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Black history is filled with the names of people who fought against oppression in pursuit of progress.

Ordinary Boston residents will likely have new ability to shape a portion of the city’s roughly $4 billion operating budget starting this year, via a process known as participatory budgeting

Ekua Holmes was honored with a Massachusetts Book Award by the Massachusetts Center for the Book during a ceremony at the State House last week.

A report published Feb. 2 found students in higher education programs in Massachusetts facing a complex financial aid system with limited resources available.

Boston Public Schools Superintendent Mary Skipper announced a $1.4 billion budget for the 2023-2024 school year — an increase of $65 million over the previous year.

Members of the City Council are preparing to vote to reestablish an elected school committee in Boston for the first time in more than 30 years, since the elected committee model was abolished and replaced by a mayor-appointed committee in 1991, and more than a year after Boston residents voted overwhelmingly in favor of an elected committee in a non-binding ballot referendum

A new report about the First Church of Roxbury, released Monday, brings new historical perspective about the presence of people of color and enslaved people in colonial Massachusetts.

Boston hosted the world’s top track and field tour this week for New Balance’s Indoor Grand Prix. For its first 24 years, the elite pro event was held at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center (RLTAC) at Roxbury Community College. But that run is over, likely never to return to Roxbury.

After a three-year delay, Comfort Kitchen restaurant and café opened to the public in a renovated historic building in Upham’s Corner on Jan. 25.

While Boston was declared a so-called majority-minority city following the 2000 U.S. Census, the Wu administration marks the first time people of color make up more than a third of cabinet positions in a mayoral administration.

Weeks after the fatal shooting by Cambridge police on Jan. 4 of Sayed Arif Faisal, a 20-year-old Cambridge student and member of the city’s Bangladeshi immigrant community, city residents, elected officials, and community activists continue to grapple with myriad questions around Faisal’s death.

Ayele Shakur started a new role as President of the Redstone Family Foundation.