Boston needs to do more to provide more affordable housing in order to solve issues of racial segregation, according to the Greater Boston Housing Report Card for 2019 by The Boston Foundation, the ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Boston’s public schools are becoming resegregated, according to ...

Maurice Emmanuel Parent (foreground) and members of the cast of "Common Ground Revisited "at The Huntington Theatre Company's Wimberly Theatre. (Courtesy T Charles Erickson) Breathing new life into an ...

The increase in segregation of the Boston Public School system — decades after court-ordered busing strove to help diversify the city’s schools — will worsen divisions among families along racial and ...

Almost 50 years ago, Boston public schools were in near chaos as the City faced backlash for its attempts to desegregate schools. The school system bused students out of their districts to ensure more ...

Segregation. Homelessness. Income inequality. A new Boston Foundation report finds nearly all these things are getting worse in Greater Boston — and, to a large extent, they all trace back to housing.

What would Rosa Parks see if she boarded a bus in Boston today? Parks now symbolically rides every MBTA bus. Thanks to a law signed last month, a decal or LED sign on every bus will permanently ...

Boston is the latest city that is facing resegregation in its school system, an issue that many education advocates and experts say can intensify stark racial and economic divisions in the city. A new ...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu received a lot of heat recently after her office sent around an invitation to every member of the City Council for her holiday party. The problem? The invitation was only ...

The United States Commission on Civil Rights yesterday opened two days of public hearings here on racial imbalance in Boston schools. The hearings are part of a study of racial isolation that the ...