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Protestors outside of Attorney General Andrea Campbell’s office. The Franklin Park Defenders held a protest against the demolition and privatization of White Stadium, which would limit free park access for Boston Public School students and locals. PHOTO BY ELI PEKELNY

Demolition, privatization proposal of White Stadium prompts protest

Eli Pekelny March 3, 2025
Civil rights leader Jean McGuire stood in front of Attorney General Andrea Campbell’s office while others besides her held signs that read, “Save Franklin Park.”
Runners in front of White Stadium in Franklin Park. White Stadium will be renovated ahead of plans for a new Boston team in the National Women’s Soccer League for 2026. SEAN YOUNG/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

White Stadium will host new pro-women’s soccer team

Crystal Yormick October 2, 2023
The City of Boston announced plans to welcome the 15th team in the National Women’s Soccer League, along with renovations of what will be the team’s home stadium, on Sept. 19 at a press conference at City Hall Plaza.
Junior Will Loggia reaching the end of the 5K race at the Coast-to-Coast Battle in Beantown on Sept. 23. Boston University men’s cross country finished at sixth place among the fourteen other collegiate schools. 
ELIZA NUESTRO/DFP STAFF

Men’s XC regular season wraps up, led by young talent

Gracie Davenport October 21, 2022
With the men's cross country season coming to a close this past weekend, Gracie Davenport looks back on the team's growth throughout the season, which has prepared them to make noise in the Patriot League Championship.
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Monica Cannon-Grant reminds us a movement is more meaningful than its mastermind

Editors March 17, 2022
What was for Cannon-Grant a few thousand in unreported income is now being used to discredit nonprofits and perhaps even the Black Lives Matter movement as a whole. 
GALLERY: 2021 March and Vigil for Black Trans Lives

GALLERY: 2021 March and Vigil for Black Trans Lives

Jasmine Li June 14, 2021

In the second annual march and vigil organized by Trans Resistance MA, demonstrators marched from Nubian Square to Franklin Park Playstead Saturday for Black transgender lives. Participants gathered afterward...

Boston University’s school of Theology hosted the webinar “The Queer Art of Reading and Resilience: Uplifting BIPOC Trans Life and Spirit” Thursday, which included six BIPOC transgender panelists. COURTESY OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY

STH celebrates resilience of transgender communities

Julia Furnari November 6, 2020

LGBTQ individuals experience higher rates of violence and death than their heterosexual peers, and this reality can take a toll. To celebrate trans resilience and address topics such as transphobia...

Khloe Mitchell leads the crowd in arguing for their demands to be heard by police. ANGELA YANG/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Third round of protests yield progress after riots

Angela Yang June 3, 2020
Several police kneeled before the crowd at the Boston Police Headquarters, and in Jamaica Plain, officers approached protesters to facilitate a conversation.

Free music festival highlighting marginalized artists is coming to Boston

Armand Manoukian February 15, 2018

The Boston Arts and Music Soul Festival, meant to provide equal access to music and the arts, will be coming to Boston in late June. Catherine Morris, the founder, curator and executive director of...

EDITORIAL: Winthrop Square Tower is exception, must cast last shadow

Editors April 11, 2017

For the past several months, Boston officials have been fighting with city conservancy groups and advocates for the Boston Public Garden and Boston Common. What caused it? Shadows. The Winthrop Square...

Mattapan citizens ask questions during the Imagine Boston 2030 presentation at the Mattapan Community Health Center Monday night. PHOTO BY LEXI PLINE/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Imagine Boston 2030 week closes with discussions of data trends, growing workforce

Natalie Carroll December 6, 2016

  Fifteen Boston residents gathered in the Mattapan Community Health Center Monday evening for the last event of Imagine Boston 2030’s weeklong series, where residents could provide feedback...

Boston residents participate in a walking tour of Allston Saturday afternoon for Imagine Boston 2030 Week, an engagement effort by Boston Mayor Martin Walsh to share plans for the city. PHOTO BY ASHLEY GRIFFIN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Weekend walking tours engage residents in Imagine Boston 2030

Daily Free Press Staff December 4, 2016

4.2-mile walk lets community leaders, residents discuss Emerald Necklace plan By Abigail Freeman Approximately 50 people walked from Franklin Park to Joseph Moakley Park Saturday morning to learn about...

Mayor Menino expected to sign smoking ban in public parks

Daily Free Press Admin December 4, 2013

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino is expected to sign an ordinance in the coming weeks voted on by the Boston City Council that would ban smoking in all public parks owned by the City of Boston. Nick Martin,...

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