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Janey announces programs aimed at tackling city contract inequity

Sam Trottenberg April 12, 2021
The new Boston Contracting Opportunity Fund will grant up to $15,000 to companies looking to bid.
cars on harvard avenue in allston

Master Plan hatched for Allston-Brighton

Greye Dunn April 12, 2021
Activists said the City Council failed to protect residents against rent hikes and gentrification.
babam musician plays a tuba at an aclu march

Boston remains soundtracked by protest

Jesús Marrero Suárez April 8, 2021
The Boston Area Brigade of Activist Musicians draw inspiration from New Orleans street bands.
demonstrator holds a stop the hate sign at a stop asian hate rally in boston common

State lawmakers call for clearer definition of hate crimes

Colbi Edmonds March 30, 2021
A proposed bill looks to create a clearer definition and punishment of a hate crime in the state.
kim janey is sworn in as boston mayor at city hall

Mayor Kim Janey sworn in as Boston’s first woman, first Black Mayor

Anna Stjernquist March 26, 2021
Janey noted racial and economic disparities difficulties “laid bare” by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King

MLK, Coretta Scott King memorial planned for Boston Common

Olga Benacerraf March 25, 2021
Installation of the abstracted bronze figure is expected to take place in October of 2022.
demonstrators at a stop asian hate protest in boston common

Activists rally against racists attacks on Asian Americans

Madison Mercado March 15, 2021
The protest joined a growing list of rallies across the country. Spectators and protesters gathered around the Parkman Bandstand painting cardboard signs with messages such as “Stop Asian Hate” and “I am not a virus.”
Citizens Bank location in Boston

City expands Bank on Boston program with free checking accounts

Madison Mercado March 8, 2021
The City’s Bank On Boston initiative partnered with USALLIANCE Financial to provide a basic free checking account for unbanked and underbanked city residents.
reggie lewis track and field center at roxbury community college

Mass vaccination site opens at Roxbury Community College

Isabella Abraham March 3, 2021
CIC’s operations opened with an initial dosage capacity of 800 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccinations per day, with plans to increase that number to 2,500 daily appointments in a month’s time —half will be reserved for local residents.
playground at James H. Roberts Park

Allston park renamed to honor Black WWII veteran, City employee

Madison Mercado March 1, 2021
An Allston-Brighton park was formally renamed to memorialize James H. Roberts, a Black WWII veteran, following a 50-year delay in the process brought on by a clerical error.
The Boston Public Library, a registered Boston landmark. A proposed update to the Massachusetts Constitution would extend landmark preservation privileges to buildings significant to Black and immigrant communities. CHLOE GRINBERG/ DFP FILE

Councilors call for expansion to City’s ‘landmark’ definition

Madison Mercado February 9, 2021
The change — proposed late January — would make it easier for sites significant to Boston’s Black and immigrant communities to be made city landmarks.
Apartment List found in a national survey that 30 percent of renters were unable to make their January rent payments on time as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect housing affordability. SERENA YU/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

National rent debt highlights racial inequities, Boston no exception

Ashley Soebroto January 28, 2021
The pandemic has destabilized the social and economic foundations of the world, and housing is no exception. Thirty percent of renters in the United States were unable to pay their January rent on time, according to a national survey done by the Apartment List.
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