"The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) began to play an open role in the organized opposition to the busing–in part through harassing Black and Latin residents of Columbia Point, a housing project near South Boston."
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IN ATTUCKS COMMEMORATION, NATIVE AMERICANS NOTE INJUSTICE THEN AND NOW
“There’s a lot of money being thrown at the Harbor Islands now—they want to put hotels there and all kinds of things, but there were burials all over there, so that’s a battle we’re going to have.”
SPECIAL BOSTON THROWBACK: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF HAKIM JAMAL
Friday marks 55 years since the assassination of Malcolm X, and the complexities of his life and his death are increasingly being examined from different angles. A lesser-known but fascinating character in Malcolm X’s life is Hakim Jamal, his “cousin” who, like Malcolm X, transformed from a Roxbury hoodlum to an author and activist.
FUNDAMENTAL CIVICS: HOW A BOSTON TEEN CHANGED THE WAY TEACHERS APPROACH IMMIGRATION HISTORY
“Our job as educators is to learn about our students and where they come from. We create lessons that will interest them, lessons about their life experiences."
STILL SPINNING: HUB VINYL ICON SKIPPY WHITE AND THE TUNES BOSTON HAS HUMMED SINCE THE ’60S
"Skippy’s been around since, what, 1961? Skippy is Boston history."
IN FEAR OF LOSING THEIR VOICES, BOSTON FREEDOM TRAIL GUIDES UNITE AND SPEAK UP (WHILE THEY STILL CAN)
“If I had a dime for every meal or cup of coffee I’ve generated in the North End, I’d have a boat by now.”
BOSTON RADIO ICON CHARLES LAQUIDARA RAPS HUB HISTORY AHEAD OF FAREWELL ENGAGEMENT
There’s a debate about what was the golden era of BCN. Was it ’68 to ’72, when announcers were turning people on to music?
EXCERPT: FROM ‘BLACK LIVES, NATIVE LANDS, WHITE WORLDS: A HISTORY OF SLAVERY IN NEW ENGLAND’
The slave quarters standing at 15 George Street is the only freestanding slave quarters north of the Mason-Dixon Line still existing in the United States.
WHY REPARATIONS: AMERICA NEEDS TO PAY UP AND PAY FORWARD
Uncle Will’s grandmother, my spouse’s great-grandmother, was born into slavery and died as a free woman at the age of 108. Sometime during Reconstruction (1863-1877), the great-grandmother accrued a small plot of farmland that now awaits its fate, as her brood scrape together enough money to keep it.
DIRTY OLD BOSTON: MISSING JIMMY’S
Jimmy’s, which first opened as the Liberty Cafe and was eventually renamed after its owner, had little competition until 1963, when Anthony’s Pier 4 was opened by restaurateur Anthony Athanas.