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A crowd of more than 40 protesters demonstrated in front of Gov. Maura Healey’s Arlington home Monday morning at 5 a.m., calling on her to end a Massachusetts Department of Correction (DOC) cooperation agreement with ICE.

Community-based organizations across the state are receiving over $1 million in grants from the biopharmaceutical company Sanofi.

Every day, the senior center at the Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers in Cambridge offers an assortment of activities. About 40 participants play dominoes, color in coloring books, take exercise and dance classes and eat lunch together every day.

The Education Department has warned colleges that they will lose funding for any admissions programs that “favor one race over another.” The Trump administration has gone after several prestigious colleges for promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.

As this year’s new college grads receive their sheepskins and throw their caps into the air, jubilation can turn very quickly to trepidation.

Nancy S. Kirkpatrick has been selected as dean of libraries at Smith College.

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.

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.”

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

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.

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.

In her fifties, Benadette Manning made the decision to be a triathlete. She began focusing on her training, which included running, biking and swimming. However, when she began going to triathlons, she noticed that there were rarely any other Black people or people of color besides herself in attendance.