racism in Boston

A June 26 double murder of a Black woman and man in Winthrop and the attempted murder of a rabbi in Brighton on July 1 brought a national wave of racially motivated violence to the Greater Boston area.

A vocal group of parents are up in arms as Boston Public Schools officials are on the verge of releasing a new admissions process for the city’s three exam schools.

Images and symbols long derided by people of color as racist, demeaning or outright treasonous, like Confederate flags and statues revering the traitorous generals of the South’s “Lost Cause,” are being furled or removed at a pace unthinkable just a few years ago.