Outside of the Boston Celtics’ two NBA titles, the 1970s marked a dark decade in the city’s history. The Boston desegregation busing crisis led to a series of racial protests and violent riots that ...
Part 3 of the nine-part “Celtics City” documentary on HBO premiered on Monday night with a focus on the 1970s Celtics amid a period of turmoil in Boston amid desegregation busing. The episode begins ...
BOSTON (AP) – Last fall, Ginnette Powell traveled from her home in Boston’s Dorchester section to her old middle school in South Boston _ a journey of just two miles, but one that covered a huge ...
Kevin Hagan White has died, the Boston Globe reports. The former Boston mayor was 82, and had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease ten years ago. His tenure ran 16 years, from 1968 to 1984, during ...
Boston marked the 50th anniversary of the busing crisis in 2024, but today a different kind of crisis is unfolding. Fewer than 50,000 students attend the city’s schools, compared to more than 90,000 ...
Boston’s buses are costly, late, and a perpetual political albatross. Will our leaders try anything different or bold this budget season? Karl Marx famously wrote: “History repeats itself, first as a ...