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A play at Newton North High School planned for later this school year excludes white actors, a federal civil rights complaint alleges. Newton North's "Theatre Ink" program is putting on a play called Lost and Found: Our Stories as People of Color. In-person auditions will are
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Today is Columbus Day, but not in Salem, Massachusetts. Salem eliminated Columbus Day in September 2020 and replaced it with Indigenous Peoples Day. Salem mayor Kim Driscoll, the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, led the push.
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Columbus Day supporters in Westford are planning a community celebration of the holiday on Monday, in anticipation of a town vote on whether it should continue. Italian music, talks on the history and importance of the holiday, and a display of a replica of the flag that flew on Christopher
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Kris Mineau died on September 3rd. A heroic pilot during the Vietnam war, a missions pastor at his church, and the leader of Massachusetts Family Institute for 15 years, Mineau was the embodiment of what the famous missionary Eric Liddell in the movie Chariots of Fire called "muscular Christianity.
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Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. By Alex Brown Amid nascent efforts from state lawmakers to help minor league baseball players earn better wages, a majority of players have voted in favor of joining the union representing their major league counterparts.
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The Fort: A Novel of the Revolutionary War by Bernard Cornwell HarperCollins 2010 Bernard Cornwall, the author of The Fort, is the current undisputed master of historical fiction. He has written more than 40 historical novels, including twenty in the famed Richard Sharpe series, chronicling Sharpe's rise in
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The federal Supreme Court's overturning Roe v. Wade sadly didn't eradicate abortion in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 1981 invented the right to abortion under the Massachusetts Constitution. The court ruled that the Declaration of Rights in the state constitution "affords a greater
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We Have Been Harmonized: Life In China's Surveillance State by Kai Strittmatter HarperCollins September 2020 We Have Been Harmonized is a must-read for those who want to comprehend the totalitarian state that China's President Xi Jinping has created since assuming power in 2012. Former Chinese leader
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