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By adamg - 12/19/16 - 4:40 pm
The Globe reports: Yes, they took a victory lap around Wellesley College, no, they didn't spit at anybody or yell slurs.
By adamg - 12/11/16 - 6:27 pm
Our own Ron Newman shows us the packed seats inside the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization's "Out of Many, One" rally at the Islamic Society of Boston in Roxbury tonight. Among those who spoke: Sen. Warren and Mayor Walsh, as Mark Smith shows us: Read more.
By adamg - 12/10/16 - 12:21 pm
Greg Cook photographed a small vigil in front of the State House last night to protest impending cabinet appointments in Washington.
By adamg - 12/8/16 - 10:32 am
Cambridge Day reports on swastikas and other unspecified "hateful language" that appeared in three boys' rooms at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School this week.
By adamg - 12/5/16 - 5:23 pm
Outside the State House.
About 250 demonstrators - split between BPS and college students - marched from the Common to the State House and City Hall today to urge Gov. Baker and Mayor Walsh to formally declare sanctuaries for not just undocumented immigrants but other minority groups, including lesbians, gays and transgender people as we move into the Trump era. Read more.
By adamg - 12/3/16 - 11:24 am
Wicked Local Brookline reports on the incident at the Lincoln School and the reaction of school officials.
By adamg - 12/2/16 - 7:26 pm
BPS high-school students are organizing a walkout on Monday that could see students rally on the Common at 2 p.m. before marching on the State House and rallying in front of City Hall: Read more.
By adamg - 12/2/16 - 1:03 pm
Gedalia Pasternak captured three people showing support for members of the Islamic Society of Boston on Prospect Street in Cambridge around 12:30 pm. The guy in the back is a mosque member who was rushing over to give them a hug.
There will be a vigil in front of the Islamic Society of Boston mosque at Roxbury Crossing at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 11.
By adamg - 12/1/16 - 9:09 am
Greg Cook braved the rain for last night's anti-Bannon, anti-Nazi protest outside the Kennedy School in Harvard Square.
By adamg - 11/30/16 - 11:00 am
Boston Magazine reports on Scott Brown's allegations during his "monthly on-air spongebath" on Herald radio. Of course, Brown might be the one person able to recognize Mass. voters filling in ovals north of the Merrimack - since he uniquely lost a Senate race here, then traveled north to lose a Senate race there.
By adamg - 11/29/16 - 1:58 pm
Cambridge Day reports city officials are resolute: They're not giving up the city's sanctuary status, and will work with neighboring Somerville (which could lose $6 million) and Boston ($250 million) to figure out ways around the loss of money.
By adamg - 11/27/16 - 9:55 pm
A group of Roslindale residents meet on Wednesday to figure out how to keep the neighborhood inclusive, including, if it comes to it, how to "protect ourselves and our neighbors from harmful federal policies."
The meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. at the Roslindale Congregational Church, 25 Cummins Highway.
By adamg - 11/24/16 - 9:00 am
The East Boston Times-Free Press reports on what a non-Hispanic student at East Boston High told his largely Hispanic classmates what they could do with themselves after the election. BPS says it was an isolated incident.
By adamg - 11/22/16 - 4:46 pm
The note to Sanford Levinson is every bit as charming as you'd expect. Mailed from England.
By adamg - 11/22/16 - 4:23 pm
Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone posts a statement:
Somerville will stand with you regardless of your race, creed, color, sex, nationality, legal status, religion, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
By adamg - 11/21/16 - 10:58 pm
WGBH reports:
In Springfield, a Puerto Rican couple woke up to have their door keyed, ‘go home.’ In Attleboro, we saw graffiti in the schools, the N-word and the KKK. Last week, there were Ku Klux Klan newspapers dropped on doorsteps in the town of Milford. We had reports of a black woman and her daughter who claimed to have been run off the road - literally, they were in their car.
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