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Experts discuss impacts of Boston busing 50 years after landmark civil rights decision

The Boston Desegregation and Busing Initiative organized a panel discussion Thursday at the John J. Moakley Courthouse in Boston to discuss the landmark busing decision issued on June 21, 1974.

Two former Boston police officers sentenced for OT fraud
The two were among several officers charged as part of a widespread investigation into overtime fraud at the department’s evidence warehouse.

Man charged with enticing minors at Hingham beach
Benjamin Hirtle, 27, approached two children under age 16 at Bathing Beach last week and allegedly asked them to perform a sex act, Hingham police said in a statement Thursday.

Man charged with enticing minors at Hingham beach
Benjamin Hirtle, 27, approached two children under age 16 at Bathing Beach last week and allegedly asked them to perform a sex act, Hingham police said in a statement Thursday.

James Nicolson, who brought late-blooming virtuosity to harpsichord and early music, dies at 90
Turning to harpsichord in his early 30s, Mr. Nicolson became a leader in Boston's early music community.

Jurors hear Karen Read’s voice messages to John O’Keefe at trial
Read’s seething anger and accusatory tone were captured in eight voicemails investigators recovered from O’Keefe’s phone and prosecutors played for jurors in Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham.

T funding crisis solutions abound, study shows. Political will, not so much.
Challenge for the MBTA: how to fill its $700 million operations funding gap by next summer.

Ricardo M. Urbina, trailblazing Latino judge in capital, dies at 78
As a young man, he was a track star in college and challenged on racial grounds his rejection by an influential track club.

‘John I [expletive] hate you.’ Series of voicemails Karen Read left for John O’Keefe played at trial.
Specialists from the medical examiner's office also testified Thursday about John O'Keefe's injuries and his autopsy.

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With new busing curriculum, BPS tackles its own history. But will all students get a chance to learn?

Meet the families whose lawsuit forced BPS to integrate

Broken Promises, Unfulfilled Hope

They sued Boston’s public schools for better education for Black children. Instead, they got busing.

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THE GREAT DIVIDE

Los latinos casi fueron olvidados en el mandato judicial para integrar las escuelas de Boston.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

In the order to integrate Boston schools, Latinos were an afterthought. They’re still fighting for equal education today.

Boston School Committee votes to close its last middle school, rename Burke High

Marcela García

El juicio de Karen Read y la polarización en TikTok

Obituaries

Elliott Gould, Justin Trudeau, Helen Mirren, and more mourn Donald Sutherland

Donald Sutherland, prolific actor whose career spanned ‘M.A.S.H.’ to ‘The Hunger Games,’ has died

James Nicolson, who brought late-blooming virtuosity to harpsichord and early music, dies at 90

Ricardo M. Urbina, trailblazing Latino judge in capital, dies at 78

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THE GREAT DIVIDE

With new busing curriculum, BPS tackles its own history. But will all students get a chance to learn?

For decades, BPS students have learned more about southern integration battles in schools than they have about Boston's own. Now, the district will roll out new lessons on the city's busing history – but it won’t mandate teaching it.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

Meet the families whose lawsuit forced BPS to integrate

Some of the plaintiffs behind the 1974 decision to desegregate Boston’s schools were shielded from the limelight and never publicly spoke of their reasons for signing on to the lawsuit – until now.

Broken Promises, Unfulfilled Hope

The Boston Globe explores the legacy of Boston’s busing era.

Tell us: How has Boston busing affected you or your family?

We want to hear from students of the 70s and beyond.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

They sued Boston’s public schools for better education for Black children. Instead, they got busing.

In their quest for better neighborhood schools for Black children, Earline Pruitt and 13 other families, including 43 children, inadvertently landed at the center of one of the most contentious civil rights battles in Boston’s history.

Today in History: June 20, Queen Victoria takes the throne

Today is Thursday, June 20, the 172nd day of 2024. There are 194 days left in the year.

THE GREAT DIVIDE

At Boston’s independent schools, parents offer their own solutions to city’s education gaps

In the decade before desegregation, schools opened as alternatives for Black students failed by BPS, each formed by residents who had decided to take their children’s education into their own hands.

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Inside the forgotten story of Chinatown mothers who mobilized during the Boston busing crisis

The story of Boston’s busing crisis, the one memorialized in books, films, and podcasts, is typically characterized as a Black and white struggle. What is less known is the story of the Chinese immigrant women who organized a three-day school boycott in 1975 that would change the balance of power in Chinatown for decades to come.