The guards prepared to fight any slave hunters who entered Boston, and specifically patrolled the streets of the West End and the northern slope of Beacon Hill, which at the time was home to the majority of the city’s black population.
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HALEY HOUSE TO SUSPEND CAFE OPERATIONS, PLANS TO REVIEW CONCEPT AND REOPEN LATER THIS YEAR
"While the Cafe’s restaurant operations are paused, our catering and wholesale baking operations will continue, as well as our Take Back the Kitchen Program."
A LOT OF LIGHTBULBS TO CHANGE
“Water is always going to be important to people ... As our landscapes change over time, our systems have to change to adapt.”
DIRTY OLD BOSTON: THE HUB’S WAR ON SATAN
Looking through old newspapers, it’s clear that there have always been unscrupulous cult leaders in Mass. For the most part, they’ve worked for Christian churches.
SOUL SURVIVORS: A DEEP LOOK AT THE HUB’S OBSCURE DISCO SCENE
"It took a lot of patience. It wasn’t an easy three years to get the records I wanted before I could start making the actual mix."
THROWBACK: IS HOMELESSNESS WORSE IN BOSTON NOW THAN IT WAS A CENTURY AGO?
Boston’s most infamous homeless shelter was established only a few years later, in 1915, under Mayor James Michael Curley, who was as well known for his corruption as he was for being a friend, however superficially, to the downtrodden.
PUBLIC TRANSIT IN BOSTON HASN’T GOTTEN VERY FAR IN 130 YEARS
We pulled more than 1,000 words from the episode’s transcript, replaced (a minimal number of) dated terms like “horses” with more neutral or contemporary ones, and excerpted it below for you to have a good laugh (and/or cry) as you read this on an un-air-conditioned Red Line on the hottest day of the summer.
DIRTY OLD BOSTON: HOW HUB MEDIA COVERED KOREA 100 YEARS AGO
But even before North Korea was ruled by some certifiable madman or another, back when the North and South were united, the intrigue coming from the West—including here in Boston—was of a similar fashion, underlined by apprehension over perceived threats, however valid.
REMEMBERING THE MAY DAY RIOTS
As tensions grew between authorities and socialist types, one infamous standoff in Roxbury in 1919 showed just how grisly things could get. At Monroe Avenue and Humboldt Street, activists and Boston cops fought hand to hand until police backup led to more than 100 arrests.
WAKE UP THE EARTH: A SHORT HISTORY OF BOSTON RESILIENCE AND CELEBRATION
In order to make such a corridor for motor vehicles possible, housing would have had to be demolished. As the city saw in the West End and other neighborhoods, “the consequential displacement would affect thousands of longtime residents,” Vrabel said.