Brookline High School

Hundreds of students walked out of class Wednesday in Brookline, Massachusetts, upset after several recent racist incidents. Two widely-circulated social media videos are among the issues that have bothered Brookline High School students. “The videos made me feel like I didn’t mean anything to them, like they could say anything they want to the Black community,” Darius Grant, a...

A sea of students held a protest outside Brookline High School in response to what they say is a lack of attention to racist incidents on school grounds.

Students in Massachusetts and across the country walked out of class Friday to protest anti-queer legislation in Florida and Texas. The students say the government actions alienate young members of the LGBTQ community, and they fear the hate could soon spread to other states. Senior Oliver Slayton helped organize the walkout at Brookline High School, where hundreds of students participated….

High school students across the country walked out of class Friday to take a stand against recent legislation they say alienates queer youth.

The longest-serving Black teacher at Brookline High School is raising concern with how well issues surrounding race are taught to students. “For white teachers, the ones who put in that work, the kids know. And they know every time,” said Malcolm Cawthorne. The work Cawthorne is referring to involves educators educating themselves on the issues in ways that allow them…

Malcolm Cawthorne, Brookline High School’s longest serving Black teacher, is raising concern with how well issues surrounding race are taught to students.

Residents of Brookline, Massachusetts, have voted to shorten the hours of a pot shop. The town voted at a Thursday meeting on whether New England Treatment Access, the Boston area’s first recreational marijuana dispensary, should be required to close two hours earlier. Residents also took up the issue of whether customers should be required to make appointments.

Voters in Brookline opted to limit the hours of operation for the town’s recreational pot shop, but to continue to allow walk-in sales.

It’s mid-May and the summer fun is starting to heat up in and around the city. This week brings you everything from HarpoonFest to the opening of the Boston Harbor islands ferry, the 5th Annual Revere Beach Kite Festival and a whole lot more. Check out our picks for the week ahead:

Students at schools across the country walked out of school to rally for changes to gun laws.

For the second day in a row, students at some Massachusetts schools staged walkouts Thursday calling for action on gun control.

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The walkout by students at Brookline High School was organized by members of the African-American and Latino scholars program who say they don’t feel safe and claim the administration didn’t move quick enough to deal with the issue.

Hundreds of students at a Massachusetts high school walked out of classes for a second time Thursday in support of a classmate who was the target of a racist slur in at least two Snapchat videos.

School officials in Brookline, Massachusetts, say they have identified the suspects who allegedly used racist slurs towards another student in some Snapchat videos.

Alkenly Ortiz, a senior at Greater Lawrence Technical School, has been named a 2017 Presidential Scholar.