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On September 21, Marvin E. Gilmore Jr. marked his 100th birthday during a surprise celebration given by his family. The event was attended by Gilmore’s family, friends and colleagues to celebrate the World War II veteran and Boston legend.

Salem is the latest Massachusetts city to try to stabilize the lives of some of its lowest-income residents by providing monthly cash payments, with no strings attached.

You’ve seen them all around the city, and according to the statistics, you may have ridden one.

With homes washed away, persisting power outages and impassable roadways from consecutive hurricanes, organizations are racing to deploy help to those who were in the path of first Helene and then Milton.

For Black Americans, mental well-being is always complicated by racism, which has been identified as a public health threat. And few venues present more complexity and angst for Black individuals, women and marginalized groups than the workplace

Visual media artist and Brown University professor Anthony Cokes was recently named as a recipient of the 2024 Genius Grant Fellowship, given by the MacArthur Foundation.

Since its first installment back in 2019, the Mass Black Expo has provided a space for Black business owners and entrepreneurs to network and showcase their work.

Last month, the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education heard MCAS scores trended down. Better data was expected following a recent cash infusion kicking-in and the end of the pandemic.

Visitors to Omni and Hilton hotels in Boston are being met by 24-hour picket lines as more than 1,200 local workers strike as part of a national push for better wages.

A new Boston-based research project is looking at the intersection of chronic pain and early cognitive decline in older Black adults in the Boston metro area.

Representatives for the attorney general and town of Milton delivered arguments in front of the Supreme Judicial Court Oct. 7 about the attorney general’s ability to compel the municipality to adopt new zoning rules under a state law that would create more multifamily housing near public transit.

In 2023, Anna Montana had been looking for a third place, a space for social interaction outside of work and home. She was working a part-time job and had found herself bored. That’s when a friend introduced Montana to The Loop Lab, a media arts nonprofit that started in Cambridge but has since expanded to Boston and beyond.