These are the men of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment — the first all-Black battalion enlisted during the Civil War after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. A new mural, “Pride of the ...

The NAACP’s Juneteenth events on Sunday honored the legacy of local Black Civil War soldiers and celebrated community and ...

At a time when the nation remembers the liberation of the last enslaved people in the United States, the city Sunday ...

Several families from around western Massachusetts have an historic and personal connection to the Civil War and Juneteenth, ...

Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River Raid" at the Gibbes Museum celebrates the abolitionist's heroic military feat.

The evening ceremony was held at the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) plot sponsored by the William E. Carter American Legion ...

Weaving together history, activism, and local voices to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community, the Massachusetts Design Art & Technology Institute (DATMA) unveiled its “Being Seen: Celebrating Pride in ...

BOSTON — The African Meeting House located in Boston’s Beacon Hill area is facing some tough budget cuts, but a second grade class is trying to help save it.“We are in an amazing historic space.

The regiment of which Prime was a member was the 54th Massachusetts Colored, one of earliest regiments of its kind and commanded by Col. Robert Gould Shaw, a member of a prominent Boston family.

— A Massachusetts high school student who was arrested by immigration agents on his way to volleyball practice has been released from custody after a judge granted him bond Thursday.

BOSTON (AP) — Crowds wearing white packed the stands of a Massachusetts high school gymnasium Tuesday to support an 18-year-old volleyball player detained by federal immigration authorities.

BOSTON, June 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- For the sixth consecutive year, Points of Light, named Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (Blue Cross) an honoree of The Civic 50, a ...