Brockton

On June 13, with the sun shining bright in downtown Brockton, a boxing legend’s legacy took on a new shape. Before a crowd of over 300 people, Brockton Mayor Robert Sullivan unveiled the bronze statue of the late Marvelous Marvin Hagler, the Undisputed World Middleweight Boxing Champion from 1980-1987.  A tree honoring Hagler’s mother, Ida May Lang, stands just a few feet away from the statue of her famous son, a place where her memory belongs.

Brockton, citing financial hardship over the last year, has left more than a thousand public school students without teachers for one or more periods a day. These students are overwhelmingly Black and brown.

With second-place finish, Khrystian King becomes first Black vice chair of Worcester City Council

Attorney General Maura Healey, who is running for governor, met with Brockton-area residents at the Cape Verdean Association of Brockton, Monday.

For Boston’s communities of color, the redistricting process for the Massachusetts House and Senate offers a chance to advocate for better representation. Under maps expected to be approved Wednesday, the state Legislature would add 13 new majority-minority districts — districts in which the larger share of population is not white — in the House and three new ones in the Senate, resulting in a total of 33 House districts and six Senate districts that are majority-minority.