Sen. Ed Markey

Inside the 219-year-old African Meeting House, where Frederick Douglass once thundered against slavery and Black families built their own schools as acts of defiance, community leaders gathered this week to warn against what they call an effort to erase America’s full history.

Local, state and federal officials gathered Monday at the Ausonia Apartments in the North End to celebrate the allocation of $1.75 million in federal funding to the apartments, a public housing complex for the elderly and people with disabilities.

U.S. Sen. Ed Markey and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu jointly praised the United States Senate’s approval of a bill that will boost efforts to combat global warming and cut back demand for fossil fuels through an unprecedented $350 billion in clean energy tax credits, among other measures.

U.S. Sen. Ed Markey announced Saturday that he was endorsing Boston City Councilor Lydia Edwards in her bid for state Senate.

Massachusetts elected officials gathered Wednesday to advocate for the inclusion of funds for housing-related provisions in the Biden administration’s Build Back Better reconciliation bill.