BOSTON-Kevin Hogan, an English teacher at Mystic Valley Regional Charter School in Malden has been placed on leave after investigators from Fox 25 Boston confronted him about gay pornographic movies he starred in. Hogan who performed under the name Hytch Cawke was also a coach and the chair of the school’s English department. Fox 25 […]
BOSTON—Step into the sanctuary of the African Meeting House and you will walk on the same ancient floorboards where Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison and other prominent abolitionists railed against slavery in the 19th century, and where free black men gathered to shape the famed 54th Massachusetts Civil War regiment. Following a painstaking, $9 million […]
BOSTON-The nation’s oldest existing black church building, where the abolitionist movement gathered steam in the 19th century and where the first black Civil War regiment had its roots, is nearing completion of a restoration project done with the help of $4 million in federal stimulus funds. Virginia Starts Slave Database So Descendants Can Trace Ancestory […]
BOSTON-A group of friends are suing a Boston bar, Peggy O’Neil’s for discriminating against them due to their skin color. The men, Cape Verdean a Hispanic and an African American claim that they were denied entry in to the bar they were going to to celebrate a friend’s birthday. The Huffington Post Reports: Later that […]
BOSTON – The National Urban League will host its annual conference this year in Boston, a city that carries a racially tense history stemming back to the 1970s, in which a court ruled that Black and white students would have to attend schools in different neighborhoods. The ugly race reality in Boston has stained its […]
BOSTON — Boston’s City Hall Plaza has been chosen as the site for a proposed statue of Celtics basketball legend Bill Russell, Boston Mayor Tom Menino and other officials announced Monday. Three artists were named as finalists to design the statue. They will present their designs to Russell himself and the Bill Russell Legacy Committee […]
BOSTON – After 16 long years, the arrest of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger appeared to end a long, frustrating manhunt that had embarrassed the FBI and raised questions about its efforts to find one of its most wanted fugitives. But Bulger’s capture could be only the beginning of a new scandal for the […]
BOSTON – According to reports on Twitter and on Boston Hip Hop forums Boston Emcee, Akrobartik has had a heart attack and is in a coma. Akrobatik, real name Jared Bridgeman is from the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston and has had his music featured on “The Wire” and the video game “NBA Live” and has […]
BOSTON — The Harvard University Police Department passed over a black officer for a number of promotions and superiors routinely made racist remarks about blacks and Latinos, according to a federal lawsuit. The complaint by Officer George Pierce, a veteran patrolman who is black, said he applied for open sergeant positions a number of times […]
BOSTON—Kenya’s Geoffrey Mutai won the Boston Marathon in 2 hours, 3 minutes, 2 seconds—the fastest anyone has ever run the 26.2 mile distance. The previous best of 2:03:59 was by Haile Gebrselassie in Berlin 2008. Because Monday’s race had a strong tailwind on a downhill course, Mutai’s run is not recognized by track’s international governing […]
BOSTON — A recent article in The Boston Globe discusses the city’s rising number of African-American playwrights, actors, and performances that are hitting the stage at an increasing rate. ALSO READ: HelloBeautiful.com’s 25 Women To Know BOSTONGLOBE.COM REPORTS: When “Broke-ology’’ opened last week at Lyric Stage Company, with an all-black cast performing a work by […]
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