Cape Verdean

Lisbon-based singer Sara Tavares’ recent passing has left a void in Afrobeat and world music and a deep melancholy among her international fan base.   

Boston’s Black population is more diverse than much of the United States, according to a new report, “Great Migration to Global Immigration: A Profile of Black Boston,” released April 6.

Mayor Michelle Wu appointed Alize Cabral liaison to the city’s Cape Verdean community.

Boston’s Irish and Cabo Verdeans share a history of Catholicism, three-decker living and colonizing Uphams Corner. Most significant to the menfolk might be the celebratory pints at nearby Dublin House. You can now add soccer star Roberto “Pico” Lopes to that affinity.

As the results from precincts across District 7 trickled into her Nubian Square campaign office, Tania Fernandes Anderson took to the stage to acknowledge what had long seemed like a forgone conclusion: she handily defeated perennial candidate Roy Owens, the unconventional Roxbury minister whose anti-Muslim rhetoric failed to sway voters.