Workers from Boston-based Starbucks locations as well as local coffee chains Pavement, Darwin’s Ltd. and others gathered and marched through Cambridge on Sunday to support coffee shop unions and stand…

Visual artists have long been using their craft to call for social and racial justice. Now, the time has come for institutions to answer.

Visual art is a forum for the public to come together to evaluate…

Hundreds of people showed up at Boston Common and then marched down Newbury and Boylston Streets on Sunday in an act of solidarity for Ukrainian citizens and condemning Russia’s recent unprovoked invasion…

Two years since the last public Lunar New Year celebration was held throughout Chinatown, festivities once again returned to the neighborhood, and so did an exuberant crowd of people, despite the snow.

On…

An estimated 3,500 people from all over New England celebrated Tết in Boston on Sunday, ringing in the Vietnamese Lunar New Year and marking the start of the Year of the Tiger.

Guests were entertained…

After over six months of pressure from immigrant detainees and their families, advocacy groups and attorneys, Senators Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren have issued a request to the Department of Homeland…

On Nov. 30, at 8:30 in the morning, Heather O’Brien pulled out her laptop and logged into a packed Zoom call.

The participant list included attendees from every neighborhood on the Boston Harbor….

Kester Messan, 23, didn’t come out as gay until he arrived at Williams College in 2017.

Born in Togo, he and his family moved to Boston when he was six years old, first settling in Roxbury, then Cambridge….

Four immigrant justice organizations have detailed how immigrant detainees at the Plymouth County Correctional Facility face “patterns of mistreatment” — including lack of appropriate and timely…

Legislatures across the nation, including Massachusetts and New Jersey, continue to advocate for bills outlawing the act of “stealthing,” the nonconsensual removal of a condom during intercourse, prompting…

Thompson, Conn., resident Peter Coyle thought his osteoarthritis was cured for good when he underwent hip replacement surgery in 2005.

To ameliorate the pain and stiffness of his degenerating hip, Coyle,…

Content warning: The following articles makes mention of transphobic and intimate partner violence. 

On Saturday afternoon, a vigil was held in honor of Transgender Day of Remembrance at Simmons University….

Documentary filmmakers at the Upstander Project have become deeply committed to a different way of filmmaking, according to the Boston-based nonprofit’s co-founder and director Adam Mazo. Central to…

In August of 2020, Jen Millis, Octavia Bennett and Jen McMahon were searching for a safe place to skate in Boston.

“We needed flat ground that was decently paved with some light,” said Millis, who…

When Melissa Hamel bought her Jamaica Plain home in 1991, she could finally adopt a dog as she had always wanted. As a renter, she had not been able to own a dog in Boston, given that most landlords don’t…

The 36th annual AIDS Walk and Run Boston took place at Carson Beach on Sunday.

Over $360,000 was raised in support of HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention.

AIDS Action and community health center Fenway…

Being Jewish at Gann Farm is unlike being Jewish in a synagogue or classroom. It means muddied knees, singing in open air and connecting with the land — a chance for youth to do as their forebears did.

The…

Content warning: The following story briefly recounts experiences involving harm and sexual violence endured by the subject. The editorial staff worked with the author to maintain the integrity of this…

To give the children of Greater Boston an opportunity to let their creative juices flow, All Dorchester Sports and Leadership joined forces with Brain Arts Organization.

All Dorchester Sports and Leadership,…

At first glance, the Dorchester Food Co-op could be any other business in a wave of gentrification hitting the majority low-income, Black and Brown neighborhood of Dorchester in Boston. But co-op members…

In a highly competitive field in which careers are more finite than most, it’s rare for classical ballet dancers to stop moving. But when the pandemic hit last year, things changed.

For Chyrstyn Fentroy,…

In one way, the establishment of mass vaccination centers across Boston took Black organizers by surprise. The vaccine was ready much faster than most people expected. But in another, it felt like Deja-vu….

In a small basement apartment in Mattapan, Massachusetts, Symone Crawford and her husband raised three daughters while working full time. When Crawford set out to secure the stable home that her family…

Amid growing attention and demand for climate action, the Green New Deal proposes a plan to address climate change and economic inequality. Among the many proclaimed shortcomings of the Deal, including…

When Ariel Brown texted her longtime friend, a doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital, asking how she could help as he battled COVID-19 from the front lines, she wasn’t planning on starting a non-profit…

Boston might have had its first snow in October, but residents shouldn’t get used to it, as climate change is causing rising temperatures around the planet. Experts say heat has been a critical danger…