Boston Racial Justice Protests

Tanisha Sullivan, President of Boston’s National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, reflects on the last year since George Floyd’s murder.

Multiple rallies, marches and other events will be held in Boston, Massachusetts Tuesday, marking one year since the death of George Floyd.

Protesters gathered in Boston’s Franklin Park Wednesday night, calling for justice in the case of Breonna Taylor after it was announced earlier in the day that police officers in Kentucky will not face charges in connection to her shooting death.

Calls for racial and social justice continued Sunday across Massachusetts, one week after 29-year-old Jacob Blake was shot seven times in the back by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin. About 150 people attended a rally Sunday night at Nubian Square in Roxbury where they demanded justice for Blake and other victims of police shootings. “The Party for Socialism and Liberation condemns…

As the Boston Red Sox are set to resume play Friday and honor Jackie Robinson, players across all Boston sports leagues continue with a historic strike denouncing racial injustice. Each player will wear the number 42 in honor of Robinson, the first Black man to play Major League Baseball, when the Sox host the Nationals. Additionally, 100 current and former…

In a call to end systemic racism, activists are gathering in Boston Friday amid the coronavirus pandemic and social unrest over police abuse of power. A demonstration scheduled for Friday afternoon is intended to highlight social justice issues including police reform, voter suppression and bigotry, according to organizers, mirroring Friday’s Commitment March in the country’s capitol. Commemorating the March...

In a call to end systemic racism, organizers, activists and social justice groups will march from the Parkman Bandstand in Boston Common to the State House steps Friday.

The City of Boston delivered nearly $5.8 million in overtime pay to police in connection with shifts associated with the wave of protests in May, June and July where thousands gathered to object to police brutality and systemic racism.

House Speaker Robert DeLeo and top Democrats plan to seek a vote Wednesday on police reform legislation that makes good on the promise leaders made to Black and Latino lawmakers following the death of George Floyd, proposing a new system to license cops and enforce limits on the use of force, like chokeholds and tear gas. The bill, which was…

The Massachusetts Senate passed a police reform bill to ban choke-holds, limit the use of tear gas, license all law enforcement officers and train them in the history of racism in an overnight session.

The Senate overcame a difficult roll-out and several false starts to pass a far-reaching reform of policing in Massachusetts on Tuesday that would ban choke-holds, limit the use of tear gas, license all law enforcement officers and train them in the history of racism. The vote in the upper chamber now shifts the focus of the debate over racism and…