Tape defaces black professors’ Harvard Law portraits

Tape defaces black professors’ Harvard Law portraits

CAMBRIDGE – Harvard University police on Thursday began investigating whether strips of black tape placed over portraits of black Harvard Law School professors adorning a wall outside a lecture hall was merely vandalism or something more sinister.

Images of the taped-over portraits surfaced on social media Thursday morning, a day after dozens of student activists marched along Massachusetts Avenue to Porter Square to meet with fellow demonstrators from Tufts University in Medford as part of a rally to show solidarity with black activists on other campuses.

Healey outlines sports wagering regulations
Maura Healey

Healey outlines sports wagering regulations

State House News Service

BOSTON — Individuals under the age of 21 would be prohibited from playing the relatively new form of sports wagering known as daily fantasy sports, under regulations outlined Thursday morning by Attorney General Maura Healey.

The regulations would also ban fantasy sports games in Massachusetts that are based on NCAA college sports and ban advertising for such games at high school and college campuses.

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