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New EVs aren’t the only driving factor here. Sales figures for used EVs soared in 2024, growing 61.3% year over year in November, while sales of new EVs rose by 13.6% within a similar time frame.

After trying to figure out what his next step in life should be in 2013, Andrew Alicea decided to open his own barbershop right in his own neighborhood.

Ayanna Lott-Pollard took the reins of the nonprofit organization Resilient Coders from longtime leader David Delmar Sentíes in 2022. And the past two years were, to use her words, “a whirlwind.”

One of the first minority- and woman-owned agencies in the Northeast has recently announced its internal sale to two of the firm’s senior leaders.

According to the Bipartisan Policy Center, the housing crisis for Black people in the United States is “characterized by disproportionately high housing cost burdens, entrenched patterns of segregation, concentrated poverty, and distinct challenges accessing homeownership and building family wealth.”

During its January 2025 annual meeting, the Urban League’s Eastern Massachusetts president, Rahsaan Hall, shared some of the new changes happening within the organization, along with its 2024 accomplishments.

“I almost died when I opened that envelope,” said Sherry Peterson of Mattapan. Her quarterly bill increased by $500, or 40% more than she paid at the same time last year.

At the beginning of each new year, many make new personal goals to become the best version of themselves. Chef Jesse Perez is no different, except she wants to help her students reach their goals of becoming culinary arts professionals with love and compassion.

When the Eaton Canyon fires roared through Altadena and Pasadena on January 7, the historic Black community of Altadena, a beacon of resilience and Civil Rights-era progress, faced near-total devastation. Among Los Angeles County’s hardest-hit areas, the unincorporated San Gabriel Valley town — home to 42,000 residents — saw over 1,000 structures destroyed, at least five lives lost and thousands displaced.

As a part of “an effort to diversify their library collections,” the Harvard Library acquired a 1949 international Green Book in March 2024.

Increasing private investment in lower-income and underserved communities takes more than a few well-heeled supporters, says a new report from Boston Impact Initiative, a nonprofit impact investing fund.

Shortly before Tyler Verrier turned 18 years old, a block of wood fell on his foot during an accident at home. He spent months receiving treatment and physical therapy for the injury.