The cardboard pickup truck drives through the audience, blinding people with its headlights, in Tarish “Jeghetto” Pipkins’s puppet show “Just Another Lynching,” which will be performed at Brookline’s Puppet Showplace…Continue Reading →
“I wanted to start this festival because Boston has this lack of education about people of color even though we constitute a huge majority of the population,” the Boston dancer…Continue Reading →
Late last month, Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum installed a new public artwork, a giant banner hanging down the facade of its building by Boston artist Steve Locke. It’s titled…Continue Reading →
Tens of thousands gathered this morning for “Together and Free: Rally Against Family Separation,” which began with speeches at on Boston City Hall Plaza then marched to Boston Common for…Continue Reading →
A “State House Action To Protect Immigrant Families In Massachusetts” attracted thousands of people to the Massachusetts State House in Boston at noon today to protest the Trump Administration’s policy…Continue Reading →
In 1970, nearly 70 percent of Boston’s population was white. But according to a 2014 Boston Redevelopment Authority Report, these days, whites account for 47 percent of Boston’s residents—making it…Continue Reading →
Graffiti on bench in lobby of Malden Center MBTA Station, April 30, 2018. Photo copyright 2018 Greg Cook.Continue Reading →
On Friday afternoon, in the rain, Cedric Douglas and two collaborators stood out on Boylston Street, along the Boston Common, and handed out roses to passers-by. Attached to each stem…Continue Reading →
“Thank you. You people are part of a movement,” Maurice Emmanuel Parent said as he stood on a chair in the lobby of Cambridge’s Central Square Theater last night, glass…Continue Reading →
Brown University has cancelled plans to exhibit the home in which civil rights pioneer and American icon Rosa Parks lived in Detroit after her iconic 1955 protest that sparked the…Continue Reading →