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Boston City Councilor Matt O’Malley co-sponsored a hearing order Wednesday that would set up a program to have both white and minority testers go out and see what happens when they apply for the same apartment. “Housing discrimination is real,” O’Malley said. He described the idea as “a secret shopper program.” O’Malley and other councilors proposed it after last...

Boston officials are taking action when it comes to housing and equality.

The mayor of Melrose, Massachusetts, apologized Wednesday after an electronic sign displayed the message, “The safety of all lives matter.” The sign was likely changed sometime overnight or early Wednesday morning, prompting complaints to city hall. “I immediately informed the chief to take that sign down,” said Melrose Mayor Paul Brodeur. “We are now in the process of finding out…

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said Wednesday his administration has “no tolerance for intolerance,” but said it was too soon to decide whether Steven Florio, the commissioner of the state’s Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, should lose his job over a report that he dressed in Ku Klux Klan robes and made Nazi salutes while a member...

‘We were kids. Why would you have a gun in a kid’s face?’

The coronavirus pandemic has made it even more difficult to manage chronic diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure, diseases that disproportionately affect Black people.

A famous Boston church that was renowned for its place at the center of Paul Revere’s famous midnight ride is reckoning with its discovery that its 18th Century congregation was a gathering place for slave traders. Today, the Old North Church & Historic Site is shining a light on its dark history.

You get really frustrated because you know you didn’t do anything. You’re guilty before you’re proven innocent, so now you have to prove your innocence.

Kel Smith, 37, is a mental health counselor who lives in Norfolk, Virginia. As a Black man, he’s known since he was a teenager that he was more likely to get pulled over by the police while driving – and that every stop had the potential to be fatal. He recalls one night as a college student in California when...

Boston, Philadelphia and San Francisco are teaming up to help form a pilot effort patterned after South Africa’s post-apartheid truth and reconciliation commission to confront racism in the criminal justice system

Each year, hundreds of people die after encounters with the police.

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany responds to questions about President Donald Trump not directly condemning a video he retweeted that showed one of his supporters saying “white power.” Trump removed the retweet.

Many companies have been tweeting support of Black Lives Matter, but one in four companies still has an all-white executive suite. Jamillah Bowman Williams, an associate professor at Georgetown Law, says companies need to do a “culture check” and talk directly to their black employees about racism in the workplace.

Boston University is considering renaming its school mascot because its nickname is tied to one of the main characters of “Gone With the Wind,” a novel and movie adaptation that glamorizes slavery. A committee has been formed to consider renaming the mascot, Rhett the Terrier, University President Robert Brown said in an email to the community. The name “pays tribute…

A caught-on-camera dispute between neighbors over work being done at a northern New Jersey home this week sparked a brief anti-racism protest march after video of the confrontation gained widespread attention on social media. Fareed and Norrinda Hayat, who are Black, say they were confronted by a white woman outside their Montclair home on Monday about noon. They say the…

A woman recorded part of a concerning encounter after she says a man followed her in a car in Groveland, Massachusetts. Twenty-one-year-old Julia Santos began taking video after picking up dog food from someone offering it on a town page. She was just five minutes from her home. “I left and I saw you follow me all the way here,…

A Black woman recorded a confrontation with a white man she says followed her in his car.

In the latest move to change U.S. place names tied to racist groups and ideas, leaders of Orange County’s Democratic Party are pushing to drop film legend John Wayne’s name from the county’s airport because of his racist and bigoted comments

A prestigious private school in New Jersey has vowed to become “an inclusive and anti-racist community” after recent graduates appeared in a racist Snapchat video and current and former students of color started an Instagram account to share their experiences at the school.

The owner of a North Carolina speedway advertised “Bubba Rope” for sale on a social media marketplace page days after NASCAR found a noose in the garage stall of Black driver Bubba Wallace