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FHA increases housing affordability for borrowers
Beginning March 20, a recent move by the Biden Administration will make owning a home more affordable for current and prospective homebuyers.
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An unwilling role model
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An unwilling role model
For young basketball fans like my sons, Ja Morant is a symbol of hope, an under-recruited kid out of high school who comes from a two-parent household in the small town of Dalzell, South Carolina.
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Opinion
One year later, what did we learn from ‘the slap’?
In one dumb and embarrassing split-second, Will Smith and Chris Rock managed to reinforce a couple of the worst stereotypes about Black males.
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Herstory: Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day
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Herstory: Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day
While it is important to celebrate women’s place in history and all the contributions they have made in the past, it is also important to understand the national observance has activist roots.
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The scrutiny of Kamala Harris
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The scrutiny of Kamala Harris
After two years in office, Harris struggles to carve out a lane for herself, and she feels the weight of being the first Black and Asian American to be the nation’s VP.
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Black history is American history
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Black history is American history
History is the way that we remember and come to understand past mistakes, so we don’t repeat them. Our American history, our Black history, isn’t always easy to remember. It is filled with oppression, turmoil, hate and self-loathing. But the future is what we make it.
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CFPB aims for crackdown on junk fees, late charges
Amid still-rising interest rates, most families remain financially challenged to make household needs fit into their budgets. For Black Americans, whose wealth on average amounts to 25 cents for every $1 of white family wealth, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the challenge is especially daunting. 
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The limited efficacy of body cameras
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The limited efficacy of body cameras
Many advocates for the use of body cameras on police were quick to credit them for outing the cops that bludgeoned Tyre Nichols. Without the body cameras and the relatively speedy release of the grotesque footage of the Nichols assault, the five cops that beat him almost certainly would have walked free. This is a false hope.
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An elected school committee would be disastrous
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Editorial
An elected school committee would be disastrous
No one old enough to have been in Boston during the school discrimination of the 1970s would be likely to support the return of the elected school committee. Back then, the school committee functioned as a bigoted bloc to prevent the mayor from complying with the laws that opposed racial discrimination in education.
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Opinion
It’s time to rethink our relationship with the College Board
While many headlines will hand-wring over the College Board’s decision to eviscerate its African American Studies curriculum, we as BPS teachers have seen the writing on the wall. Boston families on all sides of the political spectrum should be wary.
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Editorial
Immigration holds key to America’s economic growth
To many Americans, the conflict over immigration policy is essentially a race war. Conservatives want to prevent a substantial number of Latinos and Blacks from being granted residency in the U.S., while Blacks and Latinos combat strategies to keep them out.
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Researching a longstanding grievance
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Researching a longstanding grievance
The recently appointed members of the Boston Reparations Task Force now have the report commissioned by the Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry (UUUM) to guide their inquiry on slavery in colonial Roxbury.
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