A second man charged in connection with a mass shooting in Boston last year that left five people injured, including a young brother and sister, has been ordered held on $2 million bail, officials said.
Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola and Bing Broderick envision a place for the people of Dorchester, Boston’s largest neighborhood, to gather and be inspired.
The father of two children injured in a shooting at the Franklin Field housing complex last week says his 15-year-old daughter who was shot in the head continues to fight for her life but is taking "baby steps" toward recovery.
The history starts with a dream and becomes a nightmare, only to reawaken as a halting voice of trauma or equanimity steeped in regret. Such was the “moral arc” of Boston’s “long road to school desegregation” in the PBS “American Experience” documentary, “The Busing Battleground,” which premiered Monday night before 150 people at the Community Academy of Science and Health in
Dennis Lehane’s “Small Mercies” begins with a hint of dread: an electrical outage in the tenacious predawn heat of September 1974. The setting is South Boston, and the whole neighborhood is bracing for a collision. With a daughter on the cusp of her senior year in high school, Mary Pat Fennessy expects to show up at a rally of white parents against the beginning of school