Mayor Michelle Wu

When Mayor Michelle Wu welcomed a dozen new members to Boston’s Black Men and Boys Commission last week, she called it a milestone in the city’s effort to make equity more than an aspiration.

It was 2013, and longtime Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino decided not to run for office again. What emerged was a diverse group of candidates — from different backgrounds, with different ideas and ideologies — all presenting competing visions for the future of Boston. It was an incredible moment. Democracy was alive and well.

In a lopsided victory that underscores the power of incumbency in Boston, Mayor Michelle Wu bested challenger Josh Kraft with a 48-point lead, winning 71% of the preliminary vote in unofficial results posted by the city’s Election Department.

Just days before Boston’s preliminary mayoral election, Mayor Michelle Wu and challenger Josh Kraft outlined their visions for the city in NBC10’s “Final Word” forum on Sept. 3.

The legendary Boston-born R&B group New Edition is synonymous with its hometown, and this weekend Mayor Michelle Wu will make it official by declaring August 30 as “New Edition Day” in the City of Boston and celebrating accordingly.

The City of Boston will participate in a $12 million federal grant, despite a requirement that 10% of the funds be dedicated to “supporting collaboration between state and local law enforcement and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),” Mayor Michelle Wu said Friday.

When Josh Kraft kicked off his campaign Feb. 4 at the Prince Hall Grand Lodge in Grove Hall, the significance of the venue was not lost on the largely African American crowd that turned out.

$500,000 in city grants will go to community-based organizations to support Black men and boys across Boston in a spate of new awards announced last week.

Mayor Michelle Wu kicked off her campaign for reelection Saturday with a speech that took aim at the Trump administration’s antagonism toward Boston and her opponent Josh Kraft’s business-friendly candidacy.

Border czar Tom Homan, who had promised to “bring hell” to Boston, said he made the visit to the city last Tuesday. This comes after months of contentious flame-throwing between him and Mayor Michelle Wu, who sat before Congress to defend her city’s support of immigrants.

At a time when executive orders, political appointments and changes to government offices are hitting the news cycle at a rapid pace, the citizens of Boston are likely to have some questions.

Once a year, the elected chief executive of Boston delivers a speech about the state of the city and how as mayor she or he plans to move it forward. This year, Mayor Michelle Wu gave the annual speech at a time Boston has been the target of hostility from the Trump administration for the city’s support of immigrants who live here and for their communities.