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On American Juneteenth, the Royal Mint has issued a new design of 50p (£0.50) coin to commemorate Windrush Day on June 22, 1948. That was when the ship Empire Windrush landed carrying Britons from Jamaica to find their fortunes in the “Mother country”....
by Lib Dem FoP
on Mon Jun 19, 2023 at 04:22 PM PDT
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In a rare judicial defeat for President Joe Biden, the White House is expected to soon withdraw the nomination of � Michael Delaney � for the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, ...
by Associated Press
on Thu May 18, 2023 at 04:19 PM PDT
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ICYMI, the right wing frenzy machine has been going bonkers because a pandemic-era rule�restricting immigration at the Southern U.S. border has�been lifted. There has been claims that the border is ...
by xaxnar
on Fri May 12, 2023 at 07:40 PM PDT
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A Massachusetts Air National Guardsman accused in the leak of � highly classified military documents � appeared in court Friday as prosecutors unsealed charges and revealed how billing records and ...
by Associated Press
on Fri Apr 14, 2023 at 02:09 PM PDT
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My friend and mentor Mel King died at the age of 94 on March 28, 2023. I first met Mel when he was a MA State Representative in the mid-1970s. It was in a State House hallway after a hearing on food and agriculture issues. He was a big man, 6 foot 5...
by gmoke
on Wed Apr 12, 2023 at 03:11 PM PDT
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*Note: Publishing this story a few hours early due to planned site downtime tonight.
Mary Lou Lord started off playing guitar and singing in Boston subway stations and Harvard Square. Some Jingle ...
by Al Dorado
on Thu Mar 16, 2023 at 06:01 PM PDT
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On January 23rd, Adolfo Molina Burgos, who works as an Uber driver, was driving with a friend on Interstate 93 to pick up a fare at Boston’s Logan International Airport. The snow was falling and the road was icy, but the driving was even slower going...
by Tevye
on Sat Feb 04, 2023 at 02:29 PM PST
with 225 Recommends
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Trevor Noah is gone, and rather than name a permanent host right away, The Daily Show will feature a string of guest hosts. On Tuesday, Saturday Night Live cast member Leslie Jones was the first up. Her commentary about former President Donald Trump,...
by Rebekah Sager
on Wed Jan 18, 2023 at 08:07 AM PST
with 149 Recommends
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In 1974, Boston implemented a forced busing plan to address educational inequity. Nearly 50 years later, the issues remain.
by Kio Herrera
This article was originally published at Prism
Kim ...
by Prism Guest Writer
on Fri Jan 20, 2023 at 08:15 AM PST
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In Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1892), Douglass described waiting at Tremont Temple Baptist Church in Boston on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 1862 for President Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. Waiting there was symbolic...
by Alan Singer
on Wed Dec 28, 2022 at 01:53 PM PST
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38-year-old Matthew Jordan Lindner of Comfort, Texas was arrested by the FBI Friday morning. Lindner, the owner of Lindner Ammo, left a message in the voicemail of a doctor who works at the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Centre, which is based in...
by OK Dodo
on Sun Dec 04, 2022 at 03:51 PM PST
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Universities depend on graduate student workers’ labor but won’t provide adequate pay without the pressure of collective bargaining efforts.
by Sravya Tadepalli
This article was originally ...
by Prism Guest Writer
on Tue Nov 15, 2022 at 08:15 AM PST
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Content warning: depictions of racial and emotional abuse We’ve seen time and again how we as a nation have failed to protect people with special needs, especially those who are young. A stark example of that failure played out this past weekend when...
by Darrell Lucus
on Mon Nov 07, 2022 at 05:08 PM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, annetteboardman, jck, Rise above the swamp, and Besame.
by annetteboardman
on Fri Oct 21, 2022 at 09:01 PM PDT
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When taking away abortion rights, anti-choicers hide behind the fig leaf of rationalization that there will be exceptions when a pregnancy is life-threatening. As we’ve been warning all along, ...
by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
on Sat Oct 22, 2022 at 05:00 PM PDT
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Tonight’s selections from the Pixies third LP, Doolittle .
Doolittle is their most famous album and for understandable reasons. It's more even keel than Surfer Rosa and better mannered, too, ...
by Al Dorado
on Thu Oct 13, 2022 at 09:01 PM PDT
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by Kio Herrera
This article was originally published at Prism .
In 2019, when Elliot Rivera became executive director of Youth in Action , which empowers young people ...
by Prism Guest Writer
on Fri Sep 30, 2022 at 08:15 AM PDT
with 28 Recommends
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CREW [Communities Responding to Extreme Weather] Climate Preparedness Week Throughout the week of September 24th-30th, CREW will be hosting (or co-hosting) a variety of events that will spotlight the invisible effects of climate change....
by gmoke
on Fri Sep 23, 2022 at 07:26 PM PDT
with 11 Recommends
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Tonight’s selections from the Cure’s seventh album, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me . This was released 35 years ago!
In the first half of the '80s, the Cure (particularly Robert Smith ) was the ...
by Al Dorado
on Thu Sep 08, 2022 at 09:00 PM PDT
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Daily Kos recently covered the disturbing threats of violence—including an actual bomb threat—folks at Boston Children's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, faced because of extremist right-wing hysteria over trans rights. The hospital offers safe,...
by Marissa Higgins
on Thu Sep 01, 2022 at 01:52 PM PDT
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