When the Boston Foundation presented its 2024 annual Greater Boston housing report card at an event Nov. 12, the results weren’t particularly positive.

Every year many families gather around the table for a Thanksgiving meal. For some it’s a time to reconnect and reflect about what they can be hopeful and happy for. For others, it’s a way to think about and seek out the less fortunate while discovering how to give those people a way to enjoy the day.

Roxbury’s NuSquare Life Science Training Center has recently received $50 million to support training Franklin Cummings Tech students, most of them of color, and other college students and adult workers to enter the major growth industry locally.

As families convene for the holidays and people stress over what their more eccentric relatives might decide to say at the dinner table, others worry about how their budget can make this holiday season cheerful for the whole family.

The Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts recently announced its Holistic Health Access Initiative, which will allow citizens 60 and older to access five free Lyft rides with the intention of using the ride for health and wellness-related errands and activities.

On November 28, a high school football tradition renews as the Boston Latin High School Dragons battle the Boston English High School Eagles at Harvard Stadium. This high school football game is one of the oldest Thanksgiving games in the United States.

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When Dianne Austin was diagnosed with breast cancer, she never imagined having a hard time securing natural and textured wigs for herself for her medical hair loss in cancer center boutiques. Out of this difficult lived experience, she and her sister, Pamela Shaddock, decided to disrupt this health care disparity and become the co-founders of Coils to Locs.

Relocation, resettling and assimilation are components of the African diasporic experience that have significantly impacted the artists in “States of Becoming,” an exhibition of contemporary African artists at the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College. 

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At Park, we intentionally call Grades 5 through 8 the “Upper Division.” Unlike at schools where the spotlight shines mainly on the efforts of high school students, students in Park’s Grades 5-8 are the leaders of the school – growing in confidence and accomplishment, finding joy in challenge.