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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.

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.

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.

Kenia “KJ” Grubbs has recently been appointed the new executive director of the Berkshire Partners Blue Hill Boys and Girls Club.

When Carla Gualdron was a sophomore in high school, she sometimes felt like she was spinning her wheels in English class.

For juniors at the Edward M. Kennedy Academy of Health Careers, spring break offered more than just a chance to relax from their academics.

On a rainy day in late April 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the Boston Common bandstand and addressed a crowd of 20,000 people who had marched with him from Roxbury. Sixty years later — on a similarly rainy day — thousands gathered at Trinity Church in the Back Bay and marched to Boston Common in commemoration of that monumental event.

In the wake of the closure of Carney Hospital, behavioral health, access to emergency medical services and social elements that support health are among the key recommendations for how to best support health in the community the hospital previously served.

As Massachusetts aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and meet 2050 net-zero goals, the state’s high schoolers are being targeted as a key group to fill pending gaps in the state’s clean energy workforce.