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A former Harvard professor is running for president of the United States. Cornel West, who taught African American studies at Harvard from 1994 to 2002 and again from 2016 to 2021, is running as a member of the People's Party, a left-wing minor political party.
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The First Congregational Church of Spencer, which dates from the 19th century, was destroyed by a fire on Friday, June 2 — the likely suspect a bolt of lightning. "For a lot of folks its a death in the family, for folks who have gone through life milestones here from
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UPDATE (2:00 p.m., Tuesday, June 6, 2023): Mary Ellen Siegler from Massachusetts Family Institute provided the following statement to NewBostonPost by email on Tuesday, June 6: Drag queens are adult sexual performers and should not be given a platform to influence minors nor should they be held up
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A Massachusetts school district asks parents to provide their children's preferred pronouns on its pre-kindergarten registration forms. If parents want to enroll their kids to attend public school in the city of Salem, they must fill out a form that asks them to provide their student's
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A family Pride event with three drag queens took place in Waltham over the weekend, organizers said. "Waltham Pride," a collective of residents from Waltham, put on the event on Saturday, June 3.
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After flirting with a run, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu has announced he won't seek the Republican nomination for president in 2024. Sununu made the announcement in an op-ed column in The Washington Post published on Monday, June 5.
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A lesbian who has self-identified as "a big ol' dyke" gave the graduation speech last week at Fontbonne Academy, a Catholic preparatory school run by a Catholic religious order, telling graduates that "conformity" is "exceptionally overrated and usually boring." Andi Lyons, a professor
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Environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has some backing in the Democratic presidential primary. Kennedy received 16 percent support in the latest Fox News Democratic primary poll; that put him in a distant second place behind President Joe Biden, who had 62 percent in the poll. That's a