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‘We will not be erased’: Boston leaders defend Black history
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‘We will not be erased’: Boston leaders defend Black history
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.
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Whitewashing the past: The Trump administration’s challenge to Black history
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Editorial
Whitewashing the past: The Trump administration’s challenge to Black history
The Trump administration’s approach to history, particularly its challenge to a truthful Black history, represents more than a disagreement over facts. It is a part of a larger ideological battle over national identity.
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The problems with the recent Trump-Putin-Zelenskyy meetings
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Editorial
The problems with the recent Trump-Putin-Zelenskyy meetings
By hosting Putin on U.S. soil, President Trump extended a level of diplomatic validation that most critics argued was misplaced. After years of isolation from most of the Western world, the elaborate red-carpet welcome and a fly-by by U.S. fighter jets offered Putin a significant public relations victory.
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The misguided use of the National Guard in Washington, D.C.
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Editorial
The misguided use of the National Guard in Washington, D.C.
The deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C., by the Trump administration signals another controversial and, ultimately, unjustified action. While framed as a necessary measure to combat a “public safety emergency, and help reestablish law and order,” it has no justification in fact or law.
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NAACP regroups to fight Trump at national convention
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News
NAACP regroups to fight Trump at national convention
As NAACP members gathered from across the country, the efforts of the second administration of President Donald Trump loomed over their 116th national convention, held in Charlotte, North Carolina, July 12 through 16.
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‘A seismic event’: GBH president  and CEO Susan Goldberg on rescission and its aftermath
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Local News
‘A seismic event’: GBH president and CEO Susan Goldberg on rescission and its aftermath
In a major victory for President Trump, Congress has approved a rescission package clawing back $9 billion in federal funds for priorities he deemed wasteful, including $1.1 billion previously appropriated for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which helps fund PBS and NPR and member stations like GBH.
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National Urban League’s ‘State of Emergency’ report calls us to action
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Editorial
National Urban League’s ‘State of Emergency’ report calls us to action
In alliance with his compliant foot soldiers on Capitol Hill and emboldened by a Supreme Court majority bending to his wishes, Donald Trump is using his second term in office to create an upside-down Alice in Wonderland government where civil rights become civil wrongs and the strength of diversity becomes a weakness.
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Opinion
American democracy is at a pivotal moment and none of us should be silent
None of us should be silent about the recent use of federal agents by this administration to bully, arrest and investigate political opponents. Just as none of us should accept as normal or okay its use of the military against Americans exercising their First Amendment rights. 
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Two steps backward
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Business
Two steps backward
Kanessa Alexander has put up a Juneteenth flag celebrating her business, Perfect 10 Salon, for years. But this year, her father is nervous for her to display the symbol of support for Black-owned businesses outside of her West Roxbury salon’s door, believing it might make her a target.
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Hundreds in Boston protest ICE raids in Los Angeles and arrest of union leader
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Local News
Hundreds in Boston protest ICE raids in Los Angeles and arrest of union leader
Hundreds of residents, Boston City Councilors and local labor union members gathered in Boston’s Circle Plaza, condemning the recent raids carried out by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Los Angeles.
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The ‘disgusting abomination’ Trump Budget Bill is wrong in every way
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Editorial
The ‘disgusting abomination’ Trump Budget Bill is wrong in every way
When Elon Musk called President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” a “disgusting abomination,” he was right for the wrong reasons.
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Cruel, but not unusual for Trump
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Editorial
Cruel, but not unusual for Trump
Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement have removed from the quiet streets of exurban Milford an 18-year-old who is an honors student at the town’s high school, brought from Brazil by his parents more than a decade ago.
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