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Clean energy home improvements can be costly, and even with rebate programs, access for low- and moderate-income homeowners can feel out of reach.

Salespeople might stop people outside of grocery stores or call on the phone or knock on a front door. They’ll say they’re working with the utility company and want to make sure a customer is paying the right rate. When they determine the customer isn’t, they offer to sign them up for the right one, where they’ll pay less.

As a young girl growing up in the west side of Chicago, Chaz Ebert was most notably two things: a voracious reader and a precocious entrepreneur. Both her mother, who worked at a publishing company at the time, and one of her sisters, who shaped Ebert’s reading tastes, were bookworms, and Ebert followed in their stead.

Boston’s own Proverb Agency brings color to the ad industry with their uniquely successful approach to branding and design for campaigns centered around equity, commerce, innovation and community.

In 2020, the Boston Business Journal profiled several small businesses that were struggling to survive the pandemic. Four years later, we’re checking back in with some of them to find out what’s happened since.

With the play-in games behind us, the National Basketball Association now steps into the more serious stage of its postseason competition.

A new database aims to shine more light on how energy infrastructure impacts public health, including the disproportionate impact on communities of color.

Concord Town Meeting members earlier this month overwhelmingly voted in favor of renaming the middle school after local educator and Civil War era abolitionist Ellen Garrison, a Black woman.

Cécile Fromont has been appointed as a new professor in Harvard University’s Department of History of Art and Architecture and the first faculty director of the Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art at the Hutchins Center.

In his 30th season as head tennis coach at Roxbury Latin School, Ousmane Diop can look back on his journey from Senegal, West Africa to America and the opportunities he took full advantage of.

In recent years, Massachusetts youth have faced increasing levels of homelessness, and the state has struggled to keep up.

For Black communities, and especially Black men, mental health can often be a taboo subject, but actor Courtney Vance is fighting to bring the issue out of the shadows.