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The Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Boston is set to become a crucible of transformative ideas July 18 and 19.

In Boston’s Chinatown, community members are worried about losing their homes and businesses to displacement.

Dave Madan, who started the Builders of Color Coalition in 2017, is now back running the nonprofit under a new name and a broadened mission.

Every year since 2015, Massachusetts has pledged to boost the value of state contracts going to veteran-owned businesses. The goal is 3% of state agency discretionary budgets. But every year since 2015, the state has fallen far short of that pledge.

This summer on Howard University’s campus, there is a group of high school-aged Black youth from the DMV, Roanoke, Va., and New York City who are settling into one of the dorms for the next six weeks to learn, serve, and bond as part of a very special brotherhood.

Gov. Maura Healey has appointed Dr. Kiame Mahaniah as the state Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Patrick Targete lives by a piece of advice that his mother gave him when he was just 15 years old: Make sure you own where you live.

The Fiscal Year 2026 budget that Gov. Maura Healey recently signed has a consequential provision: The state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education must study municipal contributions to the public schools.

Under the terms of a 2022 ordinance passed by the City Council, the Boston Police Department is required to seek approval from the body before acquiring and deploying new surveillance technology.

Advocates gathered last week at the Massachusetts GOP headquarters in the West End to protest President Donald Trump’s proposed 2026 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, which would cut funding in housing for low-income families.

Under the theme “The Fierce Urgency of Now,” the NAACP opened its 116th annual convention on July 12, with the intent of both safeguarding and advancing the civil rights gains and social justice efforts under ruthless federal attack.

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.