Commentary

The goal is to train at least 300 students and adults to swim and hire and train 60 young people as new lifeguards at YMCA locations in Roxbury, Dorchester and Hyde Park.

Go to the polling booth to honor those bloodied in the civil rights struggle, and to have a say in your city's leadership.

The social media giant may change its name. But unless it stops amplifying disinformation and hate speech, either voluntarily or through government action, the problems documented in recent weeks will remain.

The controversial former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was a lauded member of the larger family of African American ‘firsts.’

Among the wide web of enablers who kept justice from being served: self-serving Black Christian leaders.

This isn’t a matter of political commentators gaming out how murder plays with undecided voters in swing states. This is as serious as it gets.

The guilt of the Boston Marathon bomber is not in question. But the course of justice raises uncomfortable questions.

A lot of purchasers deliberately seek out special rose-colored products as a way to support breast cancer awareness and research. Few know how much — or more likely, how little — of the purchase price actually goes to research and treatment.