In Revere, a mile-and-a-half stretch of the six-lane-wide Squire Road cuts past clusters of shops, a couple of grocery stores, and rows of residential streets. Hidden behind those six lanes, a shopping center and some broad asphalt parking lots is the Rumney Marsh Reservation, and, beyond it, the ocean. But the roadway, with its dark surfaces and extensive pavement, traps heat and makes it hard for anyone outside of a car to traverse from one end to the other or to get to the natural resources on the other side, said Tom Skwierawski, the city’s chief of planning and community development.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the nation’s most highly selective four-year universities, announced last week that its incoming first-year class is less diverse than in previous years, attributing the change to the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ban.

The closure of Carney Hospital leaves significant gaps in the health services available in Dorchester, Boston’s largest neighborhood and one where a majority of residents are people of color, creating an emergency and urgent care desert in the neighborhood.

Massachusetts residents with an income below 200% of the federal poverty level can now apply for reduced MBTA fares under a new program launching this week.

Dashes of static flash across the bottom of a black screen. An upbeat song begins and an enthusiastic voiceover booms. “Live from Roxbury, Massachusetts…” the announcer’s voice echoes. The black screen disappears, and in its place, the camera pans across a room full of teens dancing to the beat.

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Towering 10-foot sculptural figures draped in intricate fabric garments dominate the “Tau Lewis: Spirit Level” exhibition, newly opened at the ICA. This is the Jamaican-Canadian artist’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States.

For the first time since the Boston Ujima Project formed, the group is becoming financially independent, a step the group’s leadership said comes at a moment of maturation for the seven-year-old group.

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The 2024 college football season opened this week with No. 1-ranked Georgia blasting its way past No. 14-ranked Clemson with a final score of 34-3 in Atlanta. The Bulldogs are on a revenge mission following their “getting jobbed” out of the college football playoffs last season. I use the word “jobbed” to describe what happened, because that’s what the NCAA Selection Committee did as it denied Georgia a chance at a third-straight national college football championship.