Well before dawn last Friday morning, Karyn Alzayer snuck a group of miniature cages into Boston’s Public Garden via “a couple different vehicles.” The Malden artist had fashioned the tiny…Continue Reading →
More than 60 people gathered in Watertown Square last night for a vigil remembering the 74th anniversary of the United States dropping nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima…Continue Reading →
“Sometimes it feels inevitable, but it’s not inevitable,” Steve Meacham, an organizer for the housing advocacy group City Life/Vida Urbana, told the crowd at a rally this afternoon to support…Continue Reading →
On Thursday, Marilyn Artus brought her national “Her Flag” women’s suffrage centenary celebration to Boston. To mark the hundredth anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which guaranteed the right to vote…Continue Reading →
“Keep abortion safe and legal” people chanted at a “Stop The Abortion Ban” rally at the Massachusetts State House in Boston at noon today. Hundreds of women and some men…Continue Reading →
At the end of Amherst College’s Eli Marsh Gallery in Fayerweather Hall is Macon Reed’s recreation of the White House Press Briefing Room—podium, presidential seal, American flag, facing rows of…Continue Reading →
“A lot of people tried to talk us out of it,” Pirkle Jones told The New York Times in December 1968 when an exhibition of photos of the Black Panther…Continue Reading →
Mo Willems has won Caldecott Honors three times for his picture books for children—beginning with 2003’s “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!”—and Emmys six times for his previous work…Continue Reading →
“That could have been me. That could have been my brother. That could have been my own family,” Farida Moustafa told the hundreds of people gathered outside Cambridge City Hall…Continue Reading →
“Hey, hey, ho, ho! Climate change has got to go,” chanted hundreds of people at the Youth Climate Strike at the Massachusetts State House in Boston at midday today. Predicted…Continue Reading →