RACE

Racial justice leaders spoke about the dangers and fears that people of color face in New Hampshire.

It's been 25 years since Rhonda Anderson, a Iñupiaq - Athabascan Native American, began advocating to remove Ingenuous people as mascots from Massachusetts public schools.

A recent study found college president terms are shrinking. Sarah Willie-LeBreton recently became the 12th president of Smith College in Northampton.

The Media Lab is interviewing western Massachusetts authors of books for young readers. Next up: Kaliis Smith, co-author of "Sir Morien: The Legend of a Knight of the Round Table."

The MLK Community Presbyterian Church located in the Springfield’s Mason Square neighborhood is currently trying to rebuild after what prosecutors call a hate-crime related arson in 2020.

Edward Wright has been in prison for four decades. In his sixth petition for a new trial, his lawyers claim new DNA evidence and signs of official misconduct.

Following the murder of George Floyd, residents of the town of Amherst passed a resolution calling for an end to structural racism and to achieving racial equity for Black residents. The work of the town's reparations committee has just concluded.

The Trustees of Reservations has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize record books of a family that enslaved Black people, including Elizabeth Freeman. Freeman sued for her freedom and won in 1781.

With intensive academic instruction and pre-college counseling, Thrive Scholars is on a mission to see its students — overwhelmingly students of color from low-income households — win seats at the nation’s top schools.

In his new book, "The Confessions of Matthew Strong," Ousmane Power-Greene draws on his academic background to craft a crime story about a Black philosophy professor who fights back against the scheme of a white supremacist.