The Bay State Banner wants to hear your questions about the climate and environment. This article was produced as part of a new project called Encyclopedia Climatica, in response to a reader-submitted question.

Sarah-Ann Shaw, the pioneering Boston journalist who died last year at age 90, believed deeply in the power of education to change lives and uplift communities.

Gunga Tavares remembers July 5, 1975, as an unusually hot day when thousands of Cape Verdeans made their way through the streets of the capitol city of Praia to the Estádio da Várzea to celebrate independence from 500 years of Portuguese colonial rule.

When Karen Mejia migrated to the United States from Somalia as a high schooler, she struggled to connect with the language and the culture.

Success is self-reinforcing at the Benjamin Banneker Charter Public School in Cambridge. Principal Sherley Bretous said, “If I knew what the secret sauce was” then “I would give it to the whole world for free.

Visitors gathered at the Museum of African American History (MAAH) in Boston last Monday to see the unveiling of their newest exhibit titled “Black Voices of the Revolution.”

Anthony Samuels didn’t set out to create one of the state’s largest janitorial firms. He initially just wanted to make enough money to start a new company after he sold it.

This is the story of a young man from the streets of Dorchester named John “Doomsday” Howard, who rose from the hardscrabble streets of his community to gain an international name for himself in the field of mixed martial arts.

Since fall 2024, theaters around Boston have been hosting the nine-play Ufot Family Cycle by playwright Mfoniso Udofia. The fifth installment, “Kufre n’ Quay,” is performed almost entirely by Black and brown Boston Arts Academy students, many appearing in a professional production for the first time.

Now in its fifth year, Boston While Black is preparing to host its annual Family Reunion community event on July 26.

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