Boston Mayor Kim Janey

Boston Acting Mayor Kim Janey is expected to announce a vaccination requirement for city employees Thursday.

In the absence of state or city mandates, a small but growing number of Boston-area restaurant owners are devising their own plans to make indoor dining safer. Acting Mayor Kim Janey has said she does not support requiring diners to show proof of vaccination before eating indoors. But some local restaurants are implementing mandates, the Boston Globe reports. At The...

Boston Mayor Kim Janey joined Kwani Lunis to talk about the city’s new initiative to provide free transportation on certain bus lines, why she’s running for mayor and what she’s been listening to lately.

The parade begins on Malcolm X Boulevard before making its way down Washington Street to Malcolm X Park.

For years, the Roxbury Unity Parade has celebrated Black culture and excellence as the only parade in Boston to do so. The event returns Sunday, with festivities set to kick off with a block party here at Madison Park High School at 10 a.m.  Mayor Kim Janey and congresswoman Ayanna Pressley will make remarks at the Opening/Awards Ceremony at noon before the...

Boston Mayor Kim Janey is among those scheduled to attend an event featuring community artists and leaders Saturday afternoon in memory of George Floyd. A little more than a year after his death on May 25, 2020, the “We Are Resilient: Rally for George Floyd” is scheduled for 1 p.m. Saturday at Nubian Square in Roxbury. The rally will be…

Figures released by the Boston Police Department indicate that Black people were far more likely than white people to be the subject of street investigations by Boston police in 2020. Black people were the subject of 62% of last year’s field interrogation and observations in the city, where they comprise less than a quarter of the population, The Boston Globe...

A day after the conviction of Derek Chauvin in George Floyd’s murder, people across the nation hit the streets to push for police reform.

Boston Mayor Kim Janey has tapped Reverend Mariama White-Hammond to become the city’s chief of environment, energy and open space. White-Hammond is the founding pastor of New Roots AME Church in Dorchester and a fellow with the Green Justice Coalition. In a statement, Janey praised her for her work connecting “ecology, immigration, climate change, energy policy and environmental justice.”...

Boston and Massachusetts officials are condemning the shooting death of a grandmother in Dorchester, who was shot and killed on her porch.