Cape Verdeans

Gunga Tavares remembers July 5, 1975, as an unusually hot day when thousands of Cape Verdeans made their way through the streets of the capitol city of Praia to the Estádio da Várzea to celebrate independence from 500 years of Portuguese colonial rule.

Attorney General Maura Healey, who is running for governor, met with Brockton-area residents at the Cape Verdean Association of Brockton, Monday.