Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people.

Harvard University has agreed to give up ownership of photos of an enslaved father and his daughter who were forced to be ...

According to the Massachusetts Legacy Tree Program, the Endicott Pear Tree – a European pear tree named Pyrus communis – was planted between 1632 and 1649 by the first governor of the Massachusetts ...

Fundamentalism is a quintessentially American form of religious expression, but one we associate almost exclusively with ...

The Massachusetts State House will soon install a bust of Elizabeth Freeman, the formerly enslaved woman whose 1781 legal ...

The Toussaint Louverture Cultural Center of Massachusetts — an homage to Boston's Haitian community — opened this week in the ...

Sonequa Martin-Green (Star Trek: Discovery) is joining the cast of Boston Blue, CBS’ universe expansion of the long-running Blue Bloods. Martin-Green will star opposite Donnie Wahlberg in the ...

RECOGNIZING ITS FASTEST RESIDENTS IN 129TH BOSTON MARATHON. ERIC LINDEN WAS THE FASTEST MAN. HE FINISHED IN TWO HOURS, 21 MINUTES, 25 SECONDS. IT WAS HIS FIRST BOSTON MARATHON. THE DATA SCIENTIST ...

Four locals are set to be celebrated after beating out their fellow city residents for the honor of “Fastest Bostonians” at the 129th Boston Marathon this year. “The theme for the 129th ...

There were several familiar faces among the 30,000 runners in the 129th Boston Marathon. Here's a look at who was scheduled to run and how they finished. The former Boston Bruins defenseman from ...

MARCEL HUG OF SWITZERLAND IS CELEBRATING HIS EIGHTH BOSTON TITLE, HIS FIFTH IN A ROW, CLOCKING IN ONE HOUR 21 MINUTES, 34 SECONDS. HE’S SO GOOD. THERE WERE NO MISHAPS THIS YEAR. MAYBE YOU ...