Honor the past, celebrate the present, shape the future. Happy Juneteenth! Five years after the first time, the nation is celebrating Juneteenth as a national holiday. The annual commemoration of the liberation of the last Black slaves, in Texas, results from federal legislation that President Joe Biden signed in 2021. Since then, June 19, or the closest workday, has seen …

In hopes of finding a way to keep her language alive, Windy Pham took on a personal mission through bilingual children’s books… During her freshman year at Colby Sawyer College in New Hampshire, Windy Pham, Class of ’15, frequently hopped on a bus with an empty suitcase in hand and headed down to Dorchester. There, some 8,000 miles from her …

VietAID’s second large affordable housing project on Bowdoin Street will receive $3.3 million in city funding to move forward, Boston housing officials and Mayor Wu announced last week. Hollins Park, a 33-unit, all-affordable building will rise four stories at 190 Bowdoin St., a space that currently includes a vacant home that dates to 1810.  The overall price tag for the …