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After raising NBA Championship Banner No. 18, the most in NBA History, the Boston Celtics opened their 2024-25 regular season campaign by making a team record twenty-nine three-point shots enroute to their 132-109 victory over the New York Knickerbockers at the T.D. Bank Garden. October 30th, 2024 >.
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Historic wins, bitter divides: The year in Boston politics. At the dawn of 2023, Massachusetts politicians were celebrating the historic electoral victories of Maura Healey, the state’s first woman governor, and Andrea Campbell, the first Black woman elected statewide in Massachusetts history. December 27th, 2023 >.
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Advocates: youth homelessness remains urgent, far-reaching issue. In the winter, Alan Mack, 27, will begin his undergraduate studies at Berklee College of Music, taking the next step toward fulfilling his dream of working in music production. But, just five years ago, Mack’s life was in limbo, derailed in an attack that left him partially ...
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The Bay State Banner is an African American owned news weekly that reports on the political, economic, social and cultural issues that are of interest to African American and English speaking Latinos in Boston and throughout New England. In addition to our weekly newspaper, we have daily updated content on our digital platform, as well as the ...
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A veteran’s life well lived: General ‘Woody’ Woodhouse. In honor of Veterans Day, the Banner spoke to one of our most famous veterans, Brigadier General Enoch “Woody” Woodhouse. He is an Air Force veteran and a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, one of the most famous all-Black regiments in our armed services history. November 6th, 2024 >.
Remembering MLK: ‘The Embrace’ sculpture marks a milestone
Jan 10, 2024 · King returned to the city as a civil rights leader, most notably on April 23, 1965, when he led a march from Carter Playground in Lower Roxbury to the State House and delivered an address to an estimated 22,000 people on the Common. “The Embrace” — a 22-foot-tall, 25-foot-wide, 38,000-pound bronze sculpture depicting huge arms locked in a ...
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Passing of the torch: Banner changes hands - The Bay State Banner
Mar 1, 2023 · A younger but seasoned generation of journalists is leading the Bay State Banner into its second half century in the wake of its sale Feb. 28 to a new Black ownership team. Melvin B. Miller, the founder, owner, editor and publisher of the influential Boston-based weekly for the last 57 years, sold the paper to a group headed by veteran WBZ-TV ...