RACE

For the current school year, 55%of students of color who applied to a vocational program in Massachusetts were admitted, compared to approximately 69% of white students.

As states like Florida continue to avoid teaching children about the historical impact of people of color, Connecticut began requiring that every school district offer high school students a Black and Latino Studies course.

Boston officials say the killing of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols in Memphis underscores the importance of moving forward with police reforms here. Community advocates say there’s much more work to do.

People can experience symptoms of PTSD after being exposed to videos with violence and death. Those symptoms can show up immediately or weeks later.

Harvard University museums recently completed the legal repatriation process for the remains of 313 Native people from eastern Massachusetts.

Christopher Hood, as well as another member of NSC-131, face racially motivated trespassing charges for allegedly displaying a banner on a highway overpass last July.

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, volunteers painted primer on sheetrock inside a two-family home that is under construction by Central Berkshire Habitat for Humanity.

While the election results of two Massachusetts House lawmakers from the eastern part are reviewed, most lawmakers are getting down to business.

Clennon King, who shares no relation to the civil rights leader Coretta Scott King, believes that she was severely impacted by the bigotry she experienced at Antioch College in Keene, New Hampshire.

A collaborative study of plea bargains by the Wilson Center at the Duke Law School and the Berkshire District Attorney's office found some racial disparities in convictions, but not in sentencing, in Berkshire District Courts.