It was terribly depressing when Humphrey Street Studios in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood was put up for sale in 2019—and seemed to be doomed to displace some three dozen artists. Sculptor…Continue Reading →
“Everyone we lost,” Nigel Griffith said, “..it is because of them we’re still here keeping up this fight.” He was kicking off the 34th Annual World AIDS Day Vigil at…Continue Reading →
Update Feb. 3, 2024: Striking Newton public school teachers won increased pay, increased family leave, and increased mental health supports for students in a tentative contract deal with the city…Continue Reading →
“The Age of Roe: The Past, Present, and Future of Abortion in America” at Harvard Radcliffe Institute Schlesinger Library’s Poorvu Gallery in Cambridge from Oct. 24, 2022, to March 4,…Continue Reading →
“This work is really about the capacity for each of us to be enveloped in love, and I feel enveloped in love every time I hear the names and see…Continue Reading →
Was an Instragram post by Wee The People the reason Westwood Public Schools cancelled anti-racism workshops it had scheduled by the social justice education group? Francie Latour, co-founder and co-director…Continue Reading →
“Earth Day 2022, Time to Panic! The art of protest in the age of climate crisis” at Storefront Art Projects, 83 Spring St. Watertown from April 9 to 30, 2022,…Continue Reading →
Honk, the annual festival of activist street bands, returned yesterday, after taking a year off from live performances to help stem the spread of covid. Bands from around greater Bsoton…Continue Reading →
Today is the 10th anniversary of the beginning of Occupy Boston at Boston’s Dewey Square, opposite the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston, on Sept. 30, 2011. It was one of…Continue Reading →
A flag celebrating the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which ensured women’s right to vote within the United States Constitution, will be displayed on the New…Continue Reading →