AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/boston-ri-state-wire-ma-state-wire-race-and-ethnicity-virus-outbreak-5738fc904a6b29118e63a5d762f48791Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/boston-ri-state-wire-ma-state-wire-race-and-ethnicity-virus-outbreak-5738fc904a6b29118e63a5d762f48791Click to copyRelated topicsBOSTON (AP) — When Mahdi Hashemian was looking for a bicycle for his 7-year-old daughter Zeynab last week, the Cambridge, Massachusetts, resident decided to skip his local cycle shops in favor of a Black-owned one a few miles away in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood.At Spokehouse, a bike shop...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/boston-ri-state-wire-ma-state-wire-race-and-ethnicity-virus-outbreak-5738fc904a6b29118e63a5d762f48791Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/boston-ri-state-wire-ma-state-wire-race-and-ethnicity-virus-outbreak-5738fc904a6b29118e63a5d762f48791Click to copyRelated topicsBOSTON (AP) — When Mahdi Hashemian was looking for a bicycle for his 7-year-old daughter Zeynab last week, the Cambridge, Massachusetts, resident decided to skip his local cycle shops in favor of a Black-owned one a few miles away in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood.At Spokehouse, a bike shop...WW…

AdvertisementPlimoth Plantation changing its name in effort to be more inclusiveHide TranscriptShow Transcriptafter finding Provincetown unsuitable, the Pilgrim's settled in Plymouth. Their 17th century journey can be experienced today with a visit to the Mayflower to Captain Peter Aren Stan. Our ship is a reproduction ship that was built in the 19 fifties. There was a cooperation between then just founded for implantation remaining war Charlton in England. He was thinking of Mayflower in terms of a grand thank you just to the American people after World War Two on the scale of the Statue...…AdvertisementPlimoth Plantation changing its name in effort to be more inclusiveHide TranscriptShow Transcriptafter finding Provincetown unsuitable, the Pilgrim's settled in Plymouth. Their 17th century journey can be experienced today with a visit to the Mayflower to Captain Peter Aren Stan. Our ship is a reproduction ship that was built in the 19 fifties. There was a cooperation between then just founded for implantation remaining war Charlton in England. He was thinking of Mayflower in terms of a grand thank you just to the American people after World War Two on the scale of the Statue...WW…

AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/recreational-marijuana-marijuana-us-news-ri-state-wire-boston-1925de6dce7896585104c31ef0952b56Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/recreational-marijuana-marijuana-us-news-ri-state-wire-boston-1925de6dce7896585104c31ef0952b56Click to copyRelated topicsBOSTON (AP) — Boston’s opened Monday, marking the first recreational marijuana store to open in a major East Coast city.Pure Oasis is also among the few retail stores in the country owned and operated by people of color, who experts say have struggled to break into the industry. Massachusetts’ aimed at...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/recreational-marijuana-marijuana-us-news-ri-state-wire-boston-1925de6dce7896585104c31ef0952b56Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/recreational-marijuana-marijuana-us-news-ri-state-wire-boston-1925de6dce7896585104c31ef0952b56Click to copyRelated topicsBOSTON (AP) — Boston’s opened Monday, marking the first recreational marijuana store to open in a major East Coast city.Pure Oasis is also among the few retail stores in the country owned and operated by people of color, who experts say have struggled to break into the industry. Massachusetts’ aimed at...WW…

AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-boston-racial-injustice-massachusetts-crime-2bfa3fa87bf5447b1b13fcceec9cf7b1Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-boston-racial-injustice-massachusetts-crime-2bfa3fa87bf5447b1b13fcceec9cf7b1Click to copyRelated topicsBOSTON (AP) — A bail fund in Massachusetts that’s among many nationwide flooded with donations amid the country’s reckoning with racism is defending itself after freeing people facing serious crimes, including a convicted rapist who has since been charged with a new rape.The Massachusetts Bail Fund said...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-boston-racial-injustice-massachusetts-crime-2bfa3fa87bf5447b1b13fcceec9cf7b1Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-boston-racial-injustice-massachusetts-crime-2bfa3fa87bf5447b1b13fcceec9cf7b1Click to copyRelated topicsBOSTON (AP) — A bail fund in Massachusetts that’s among many nationwide flooded with donations amid the country’s reckoning with racism is defending itself after freeing people facing serious crimes, including a convicted rapist who has since been charged with a new rape.The Massachusetts Bail Fund said...WW…

AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-ri-state-wire-ma-state-wire-massachusetts-u-s-news-7d34acca2fa93f5aa6b9db83159e68dfClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-ri-state-wire-ma-state-wire-massachusetts-u-s-news-7d34acca2fa93f5aa6b9db83159e68dfClick to copyRelated topicsA house party attended by restaurant workers in a picturesque beach town in Massachusetts has led to more than a dozen new coronavirus infections.On the western side of the state, a Springfield hospital is dealing with an outbreak of at least 40 cases traced to a hospital staffer who recently...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-ri-state-wire-ma-state-wire-massachusetts-u-s-news-7d34acca2fa93f5aa6b9db83159e68dfClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-ri-state-wire-ma-state-wire-massachusetts-u-s-news-7d34acca2fa93f5aa6b9db83159e68dfClick to copyRelated topicsA house party attended by restaurant workers in a picturesque beach town in Massachusetts has led to more than a dozen new coronavirus infections.On the western side of the state, a Springfield hospital is dealing with an outbreak of at least 40 cases traced to a hospital staffer who recently...WW…

AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-massachusetts-c54f6419bf59017ab28956d35981a55eClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-massachusetts-c54f6419bf59017ab28956d35981a55eClick to copyRelated topicsAMHERST, Mass. (AP) — Professor Edwin Driver arrived in Amherst in 1948 as one of the first Black teachers hired at a flagship state university in the country.But the 23-year-old sociology instructor at what would become the University of Massachusetts Amherst says he was denied pay raises for decades, despite being one of its most published professors.Driver and...…AP NEWS https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-massachusetts-c54f6419bf59017ab28956d35981a55eClick to copyhttps://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-massachusetts-c54f6419bf59017ab28956d35981a55eClick to copyRelated topicsAMHERST, Mass. (AP) — Professor Edwin Driver arrived in Amherst in 1948 as one of the first Black teachers hired at a flagship state university in the country.But the 23-year-old sociology instructor at what would become the University of Massachusetts Amherst says he was denied pay raises for decades, despite being one of its most published professors.Driver and...WW…

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