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GivingTuesday – a global generosity movement aimed at harnessing the spirit of the season – is poised to make a difference in Beantown.

In 1869, Douglass delivered a speech in Boston, condemning anti-Asian discrimination and calling for all races to enjoy equal rights

The pressure is on! Not only are you searching for the perfect gift, it has to get there on time to make it under the Christmas tree.

This October, the bronzed brood of Robert McCloskey’s Make Way For Ducklings celebrate 35 years in the Boston Public Garden.

Footsteps in empty hallways, ghostly apparitions, lights flickering on and off and things that go bump in the nights.

Flu season has already started and two top physicians from St. David’s Health Care suggest protecting yourself from the virus. Stat.

Small business owners in Boston, and by extension the entire Bay State, need help now more than ever – and they are about to score big time.

In 1847, Oliver Chase of Boston patented a machine that produced coin-shaped “hub wafers,” which are now known as NECCO wafers.

“The Obama Portraits Tour” visits its seventh and final stop at the MFA Boston to celebrate both history and legacy through exceptional art.

At Cradles to Crayons, the organization is driven by a single goal: to make life better for children in need – which, at this time of the year, equates to helping local children feel safe, warm, ready to learn and valued.

Lighthouse ArtSpace Boston (130 Columbus Ave.) – home to the largest display of immersive art in the city of Boston – is partnering with local nonprofit School on Wheels of Massachusetts for a special back-to-school supply drive.

Bay Staters are well-versed in acts of riotous rebellion.

Boston’s oldest continuous Italian festival, the Fisherman’s Feast, will be celebrated in the city’s North End Aug.

WWII-era duck boats have been transporting tourists (and championship sports teams) through Boston since 1994.

“Headscape,” the new memoir by digital marketing and public relations executive Chris Schroder, has scored more than a dozen five-star reviews on Amazon since its May 2022 release.

Read one man’s journey from bold to bald, and back again. “Headscape” meanders through two marriages, several states and various jobs, ending with revealing his new youthful look.

Enjoy our picks for the best open-air farmers markets to patron around Boston this growing season as we support buying local.

With ever-changing street names and no concrete city grid, navigating the streets of Boston is not for the faint of heart.

Contrary to popular belief, the Fig Newton isn’t named after famed physicist Isaac Newton, but was actually named after a small city outside Boston, Massachusetts.

As we adjust to the deep structural changes the pandemic has wrought upon industry economics, perhaps none is more of an existential threat than the Great Resignation.

I’m charmed by lighthouses and ate my weight in lobster in Portland, Maine.

Joseph Warren was a Bostonian leader during the early American Revolution.

Gift giving can be extremely rewarding, especially at Christmastime, but just imagine how good you would feel if your friends and loved ones weren’t the only ones benefitting from your selections.

Lawyers say picking a jury is the most important part of a trial.

Founded in 1630, Kings Chapel Burial Ground is the oldest cemetery in Boston – and believed to be one of the city’s most haunted places.

Returning to its first in-person conference following a 2.5-year break, the executive committee of PRSA’s Counselors Academy was looking for a new idea to build momentum and community for its September 2021 Nashville event.

Christopher Swann wanted to be a writer since age 13 and claims he’s “late to the writer game.” But he plays that game with success.

Boston native “Marvelous” Marvin Hagler, who passed in March 2021, was one of the most accomplished middleweight boxing champions of all time.

Interested in Freemasonry due to its ideals of liberty, equality and peace, former slave Prince Hall and 15 other Black men from Boston were initiated into Masonry by members of the Grand Lodge of Ireland in 1775, after having been turned down for admittance to the all-white Boston Saint John’s Lodge.

“Don’t Pave the Cowpath.” The meaning of this colorful phrase? Quite simply, it’s an encouragement not to blindly accept the way things have always been done without examining other, better options.