The Hub’s most elite high school has been under growing scrutiny for its apparent neglect to properly address a culture of racial intolerance. While federal investigators probe that issue, this story of a former Boston Latin School student with special needs raises additional points of concern about another minority population at BLS.
Non-fiction
SPECIAL REJECTION: ELECTION OFFICIALS CAN’T STOP THIS EAST BOSTON ACTIVIST FROM RUNNING FOR STATE SENATE
“As immigrants, as a working community, every day is a challenge for us—whether with work, or with school, or anything else. It’s always a battle.”
SPECIAL FEATURE: OF BOLIVAR AND BOSTON
Social and economic insecurity in Caracas has a significant impact on Venezuelans in Massachusetts
SPECIAL FEATURE: LITTLE HOUSE EMISSARIES
From Martha’s Vineyard to Boston to Los Angeles, the small home movement struggles for acceptance at the end of the road
SPECIAL AUTHOR INTERVIEW: THIS BOY’S KNIFE
"Keeping people behind bars for longer and longer periods of time does not help."
SPECIAL FEATURE: BOSTON’S MARATHON APOCALYPSE
In hashing out what happened on that dark day three years ago, it’s important to consider the Bay State’s history as an apocalyptic ground zero
EXCERPT: ‘TRACKING THE WILD COOMBA’
A passage from Tracking the Wild Coomba: The Life of Legendary Skier Doug Coombs by Robert Cocuzzo. Mountaineers Books, 2016.
COCUZZO AND THE WILD COOMBA
On the 10th anniversary of the death of iconic Mass skier Doug Coombs, a Q&A with his biographer
THE DISAFFECTION OF TIBETAN ELECTIONS
Part III in ‘A Higher Allegiance: The Rise of a Transnational Identity in Boston’s Immigrant Communities,’ a BINJ series
THE THIRSTY GAMES: ROUND II – AN EXPLORATION INTO THE QUESTIONABLE FUTURE OF BOSTON’S MODERN PROHIBITION
Has the city’s complicated, problematic, and historically corrupt liquor licensing process guaranteed that Boston will never have a normal or equitable social life? Could lifting the cap on the number of licenses fix it?