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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.

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.

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.

The Newberry Library, one of Chicago’s most historic cultural institutions, has presented its Newberry Library Award to Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the Alphonso Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University. The annual award recognizes outstanding achievement in the humanities.

Several dozen activists marched from the JFK Federal Building to the Israeli consulate in Park Square to call on U.S. lawmakers to push for a de-escalation of hostilities after Israel bombed Iran Thursday evening, hitting nuclear enrichment facilities and apartment buildings in the suburbs of Tehran.

Dozens of high-achieving students in Boston were invited to Fenway Park Tuesday to participate in the second annual Honor Roll Kickball Game.

In January, the federal administration was not the only one that shifted. Locally, the Boston branch of the NAACP saw a changing of the guard, as it welcomed new members to its executive committee.

When health leaders gathered, June 11, for the Health Equity Compact’s annual trends summit, it was a conversation overshadowed by a changing landscape under the federal administration of President Donald Trump.