‘Parks are the new lunch counters’: Boston leaders warn of Black history erasure amid Trump cuts

Ari Zorn remembers a very different Boston, one riven by racial tensions and a historic dispute over busing. It was one where, if you were young and Black, and leaving a Red Sox game, “you didn’t walk, you ran.”

Boston tour highlights fight to preserve African American history amid ‘whitewash’ fears

Massachusetts officials and civic leaders, criticizing what they called the Trump administration’s efforts to “whitewash” the stories the nation tells about itself, celebrated Boston’s rich African American history on Monday with a walking tour of some of the city’s iconic sites.