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On the night before Juneteenth, hundreds of members of the Black community and their allies commemorated the 72nd wedding anniversary and the civil rights legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King and honored local leaders committed to building a more racially just and equitable city.

The daughters of two associates of Martin Luther King Jr. from his Boston years recently unveiled a plaque in Roxbury where he attained membership in the nation’s oldest Black collegiate fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha.

When two white men entered Joseph Clash’s North End barbershop on Feb. 2, 1863, he probably thought little of their arrival. A well-known figure in the neighborhood where most Blacks lived in Boston at the time, Clash had made a career of catering to the needs of whites in his various enterprises, which included a restaurant, a dance hall, a catering business and, for a short time, a brothel.

Kanessa Alexander has put up a Juneteenth flag celebrating her business, Perfect 10 Salon, for years. But this year, her father is nervous for her to display the symbol of support for Black-owned businesses outside of her West Roxbury salon’s door, believing it might make her a target.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its proposals, this month, for how to deal with contamination in the Lower Neponset River Superfund site.

Madison Park Development Corporation (MPDC) is pleased to announce that Dr. Ingrid Tucker has been appointed as its new CEO.

When Giselle Byrd received the news that she was chosen to be the next executive director of The Theater Offensive, she was so shocked that she kept telling the search firm that they were lying.

The first time I saw Sly Stone perform live was at White Stadium in Dorchester, during one of the unforgettable “Uptown in the Park” concerts produced by the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts. It was 1974, and soul music was hot.

As a military commander for the African Party for the Independence of Guinee-Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGCV), Pedro Pires thought he understood what it meant to be a revolutionary. He had spent time with revolutionary leaders in Algeria, Cuba and the Soviet Union.

As Boston trudges through the first heat wave of the summer, surviving high temperatures is top of mind for residents across the region.

Crowded into her ceremonial office with Black leaders from across the state, June 18, Gov. Maura Healey drew their attention to the Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial on the Boston Common below.

The NAACP Boston Branch is calling on the administration of Mayor Michelle Wu to halt demolition on White Stadium, citing the projects displacement of BPS students from the facility, negative community impacts on parking and traffic, what it says is the city’s failure to meet equity standards, and a lack of transparency in the community processes that led to the city’s decision to lease the stadium to a professional soccer team.