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Ngugi wa Thiong’o stands as a towering figure in African literature, a writer whose prolific career has been inextricably linked with the political and cultural struggles of his native Kenya and the broader African continent.

When rain hits the asphalt, surface chemicals and pollutants rush straight to the nearest body of water. But a state grant is funding an effort to reduce that contamination in six municipalities across the metro Boston area.

Target’s decision to pull back on its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) commitments comes with a price tag, not just to its public image.

Keith Stokes of Newport, Rhode Island, head of Rhode Island’s diversity office, has been named the state’s second historian laureate.

Chef Nathalie Lecorps grew up in the kitchen of her parents’ Miami restaurant pressing plantains and smelling the savory Haitian spice mixes frying with each dish. Now she’s spreading her love of Haitian cuisine to Boston with the opening of her first brick-and-mortar restaurant Gourmet Kreyol in Mattapan.

With an abundance of free time during the COVID-19 pandemic, Shironda White turned her passion for baking for her friends into a sweet career pivot.

According to the Boston Public Health Commission, opioid overdose deaths dropped by 38% in 2024 across the city compared to the year before, according to a new data released May 29. 

As colleges and universities across the Boston area celebrated the completion of degrees for their students, a cohort of local organizations celebrated a different kind of graduation — all in the name of climate justice.

A federal judge issued an emergency order Sunday blocking federal immigration authorities from transferring an 18-year-old Milford High School student of Brazilian nationality out of Massachusetts for at least 72 hours, court records show.

On May 21, Selwyn Jones appeared at a Massachusetts State House press conference and rally to mark the fifth anniversary of the May 25, 2020 murder of his nephew, George Floyd. He hasn’t stopped fighting for justice since that dark day.

The whirring sounds of a metal 3D printer fill a small factory floor. Just blocks away are the boarded-up brick mill buildings in an old industrial neighborhood of Worcester, once the home of some of the country’s leading manufacturers.

Charles Bernard Rangel, the former congressman from Harlem and the last remaining founder of the Congressional Black Caucus, has died at age 94.