By adamg - 9/4/24 - 10:36 pm

A federal judge today sentenced John Sullivan, 78, to 18 months in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to attacking a man of Vietnamese origin he didn't know with both his mouth and his car, screaming at both the man and his family he would kill them all and that they should go back to China before hitting the accelerator and ramming the man twice outside a Quincy post office. Or as prosecutors put it: Read more.

By adamg - 2/13/24 - 11:05 am

So a couple of white teens think nothing of going into a cosmetics store and doing some blackface. Oh, right, but it's really 2024.

Sephora responds to the video: Read more.

By perruptor - 6/29/21 - 9:38 am
A study by researchers at UC Berkeley titled The Roots of Structural Racism has ranked US cities according to how segregated they are.
By adamg - 4/4/21 - 9:16 pm

A Cedar Grove resident filed a 311 complaint about the "Hate / racist propaganda" complaining about "anti-whiteism" that got put on cars on his street today. Link has a photo of the thing.

By adamg - 3/31/21 - 9:41 am

The Daily Free Press reports on a Boston University forum on anti-Asian racism, and includes this account:

By Fenway Park, just over a week ago, Yeh said he was walking back from Northeastern University around 8:30 p.m. when a maskless middle-aged white male approached him, called Yeh a racial slur and told him to "go die."

By adamg - 3/14/21 - 12:08 pm

The Dig reports on a rally at the Parkman Bandstand yesterday.

By adamg - 9/25/20 - 12:20 pm

Mayor Walsh told people heading to Nubian Square for a planned Breonna Taylor protest at 6 p.m. that they best way to protest is peacefully. Read more.

By adamg - 4/16/20 - 7:57 pm

Forbes interviews Dr. Lucy Li, an anesthesia resident at Mass. General, about what happened one night earlier this pandemic after she left work and a man ran across the street and began screaming epithets at her and and blaming her for coronavirus - and continuing to follow her until she finally ducked into a store that happened to be open.

Torli Krua Prepares To Raise Liberian Flag In Boston
By uhrinews - 12/28/19 - 11:42 am
For Immediate release: DECEMBER 25, 2019 Press Statement On Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness Law Christmas Gift From America To Refugees Is Panacea For US Racial Reconciliation President Trump, Senator Reed & Rep Ciciline Invited To P
African American Children Rescued By US Marines Abandoned By Democrats & Republicans For 17 Years and Counting Because They Are Black
By uhrinews - 12/11/19 - 10:38 am
Cats & Dogs in America are protected but African American Children Abandoned For 17 years under Democrat Obama and Republicans Bush and Trump. Kattie(not her real name), an American Citizen, was only one year old when she boarded a US Marines Helic
By adamg - 3/10/19 - 5:49 pm

A contingent of Boston Arts Academy students traveled up to Durham, NH, yesterday to perform at an annual UNH jazz festival. Sandra Marcelino reports what happened while they were eating lunch (AirDrop is an application that lets iPhone users exchange photos and other files): Read more.

By adamg - 11/20/16 - 11:09 am

WBUR reports on Mayor Walsh's racism forum yesterday - which had actually been in the works for a couple of years.

The city of Boston has a lot of work to do to truly address its racial divisions - that's a clear sentiment that emerged from many people taking part in the opening session of a city-wide dialogue on race organized by Mayor Marty Walsh.

You can watch a video of the forum.

By jenn g - 6/27/16 - 12:56 pm
The recent issues at BLS being reported by the media are indicators of a larger problem within the City of Boston, and it's time for constituents of Boston's legislators and officials to hold those truly responsible accountable for their inaction.
By speakingouthere - 12/16/14 - 7:17 pm
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By JohnAKeith - 4/8/11 - 7:02 pm

State Representative Byron Rushing says he believes that "lingering racism" in Boston is to blame for the loss of Black/African American residents in the city between 2000 and 2010.

By Stewart - 11/12/10 - 1:13 am

Gawker just posted a link to a truly appalling YouTube video supposedly secretly filmed by a postal carrier in Hingham as he's being verbally abused (and at one point, physically assaulted) by a middle-aged woman who honestly seems flat-out unhinged.

By adamg - 8/12/08 - 2:32 pm

Dirty Water is in Chicago, where he reports on a black couple he met at last night's Red Sox/White Sox game:

... They are from Randolph and ardent Red Sox (and especially Coco) fans. I asked if they get to Fenway often and their reply stunned me. They don't go to Fenway *NOT* because they can't get or afford tickets but because they fear for their safety because of their race. ...