The continuing dispute over whether to rename Yawkey Way, a street near Fenway Park named after late Boston philanthropist and alleged racist Tom Yawkey, was given new wind by a letter written by the Jackie Robinson Foundation urging the city to keep the name as is.

Approximately 50 community members gathered at the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts Saturday morning for a town hall meeting about violence in the city of Boston. Monica Cannon, a Roxbury resident...