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You read so many stories about professional athletes giving back to the neighborhoods from which they came. I know there are many stories I see regularly, checking in on these fantastic men and women who remember their roots and give their time and money to try and improve the lives of the people they grew up with. Shabazz Napier is one of those special people.

The city of Boston and Boston Unity Soccer Partners (BUSP) have created a public-private-community partnership to revitalize White Stadium for the neighborhood, BPS student-athletes and our city’s new National Women’s Soccer League team. This co-investment of more than $100 million will renew a community jewel and bring White Stadium back to prominence.

On a spring afternoon, Pamela Saucer-Richardson stood in a grassy vacant lot on Erie Street, a block from Franklin Park in Dorchester, and remembered when her father owned the property more than 30 years ago.

$50 million in state funding for life sciences training in Nubian Square hangs in the balance of legislative negotiations on an economic development bill.

For six neighborhoods across Boston, this summer marks an opportunity to celebrate local businesses and community organizations as the city converts roadways into public space in its annual Open Streets events.

On Hutchings Street, a relatively tranquil residential roadway off Humboldt Avenue in Roxbury, stands an old, fenced house with a light blue facade and darker blue accents.

When the Southwest Expressway plans collapsed in the early 1970s, the corridor between Roxbury and Jamaica Plain was already scarred. Decades of diligence by Urban Edge, an affordable homebuilder, have been healing the divide.

After closing in January for use as a shelter, the Melnea A. Cass Recreational Complex in Roxbury is set to reopen this summer with significant upgrades on the horizon.

Community Music Center of Boston, which provides youth music training to about 400 students and is one of the largest external providers of arts education to Boston Public Schools, announced April 4 that it plans to open a new space in Nubian Square on Washington Street, in the old home of the Nubian Gallery.

As heavy rains poured down in Boston last Thursday, a celebration for the concluded renovation of the historic Lenox Apartments in Lower Roxbury moved indoors.

Glorya Fernandez grew up in a Caribbean household in Cambridge where cooking was obligatory. Her family is West Indian from Barbados, and she was raised by an aunt who “could make spam taste like steak.”

A Suffolk County Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday to put the Edgar Benjamin Healthcare Center into receivership after community members took matters into their own hands in an attempt to stop the center’s pending closure.