Boston councilors met to talk over progress on following new police reform measures. City police did not attend.
Segun Idowu is the executive director of BECMA. He is a descendant of a local civil rights leader, and helped outfit Boston Police with body cameras. He is rising to the moment, and tackling the economic and racial injustice that the coronavirus and COVID-19 pandemic and the recent unrest has laid bare.
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BOSTON, MA - 2/12/2021 RN Claire Karas administers the COVID-19 vaccine while working at a CVS in East Boston. Some CVS locations began to offer COVID-19 vaccinations to eligible recipients beginning Feb. 12 at select locations in Rhode Island and Massachusetts through a new partnership with the federal government, the company confirmed Thursday. Erin Clark/Globe Staff TOPIC: 13CVSvaccines
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Travelers on the Orange Line's Forest Hills station.
WHAT THE DEVIL?
Transit police kick man off Orange Line who said he was Satan in an attempt to get woman's number March 3, 2021 | 6:10 PM
Jeff Turco, Democratic nominee in the 19th Suffolk District special election.
Politics
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In this Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, rioters storm the Capitol, in Washington.
Capitol threat
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Roxbury-02/23/2021 Jefferson Mateo Rosario gets a pcr COVID test by nurse Stefanie Sampson on Tuesday at the Children's Services of Roxbury. Photo by John Tlumacki/Globe Staff (metro)
Daily #s
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In this June 2, 2014, file photo, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, left, D-N.Y., speaks with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, right, during a press conference in New York.
Andrew Cuomo
Cuomo addresses harassment claims, vows to stay in office March 3, 2021 | 4:55 PM
Politics
Dems tighten relief benefits, firm up support for virus bill March 3, 2021 | 4:45 PM
Natick, MA. - February 24: Antonio Loffa of Natick gets his COVID-19 vaccine at a mass vaccination site at the Natick Mall on February 24, 2021 in Natick, Massachusetts. POOL PHOTO (Staff Photo By Matt Stone/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
vaccination #s
Mass. reports 587,167 people have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 March 3, 2021 | 4:06 PM
Vaccine websites
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Hugo Castro leaves crosses at the scene of a deadly crash in Holtville, Calif., Tuesday, March 2, 2021.
CALIFORNIA CRASH
SUV in deadly California crash came through hole in border fence March 3, 2021 | 2:42 PM
President Joe Biden arrives in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, Feb. 22, 2021, to speak about the Paycheck Protection Program.
STIMULUS CHECKS
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RIDESHARE CARJACKINGS
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REOPENING
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Politics
Senate Finance panel OKs Tai as top U.S. trade negotiator March 3, 2021 | 11:41 AM
BMC
BOSTON STABBING
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Boston's Financial District in March 2020.
National
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South Carolina Sen. Greg Hembree, R-Little River, speaks in favor of a bill that would add the firing squad to the electric chair and lethal injection as execution methods in the state on Tuesday, March 2, 2021.
DEATH PENALTY
South Carolina Senate adds firing squad option for inmates who don't want electric chair March 3, 2021 | 10:21 AM
Snow plows clear a street Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014, in St. Cloud, Minn., a day after a strong winter storm dropped a about a foot of snow. Forecasters say round two of the storm will bring frigid temperatures which should stay below freezing for the remainder of the week. (AP Photo/St. Cloud Times, Kimm Anderson)
National
F. Salt Fitzgerald and Snowbi Wan Kenobi will plow Minnesota. Sorry, Luke Snowalker. March 3, 2021 | 9:58 AM
Amazon logos
Hitler's Mustache?
Amazon tweaks logo after people compare it to Hitler March 3, 2021 | 9:43 AM
Stairwell collapse
1 worker killed, another injured after stairwell collapse in Cambridge garage March 3, 2021 | 9:31 AM
Luciano Caruso and Martin Sylvester work on the restoration of the The Robert Gould Shaw 54th Regiment Memorial at Skylight Studios in Woburn.
54th Regiment Memorial
Boston's Black soldiers monument returning after $3M restoration March 3, 2021 | 9:27 AM
Oct. 6, 2016 - Author Cornel West at the WEB DuBois medal ceremony in Cambridge, Mass. Photo Credit: Justin Saglio for the Boston Globe. Section: Arts. Slug: 07namesGrierNorman.
Cornel West
Cornel West is in a fight with Harvard, again March 3, 2021 | 9:19 AM
Politics
GOP takes aim at Biden's health care pick on abortion rights March 3, 2021 | 12:10 AM
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Andrew Cuomo
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BOSTON, JAN. 7, 2021 -- Senate President Karen Spilka and House Speaker Ronald Mariano chatted before a bill-signing ceremony for the policing reform law got underway at the State House. (Photo: Sam Doran/State House News Service)
KAREN SPILKA
Massachusetts Senate president calls on Charlie Baker to set aside vaccine doses for teachers March 2, 2021 | 7:11 PM
Insects’ remarkable acrobatic traits help them navigate the aerial world, with all of its wind gusts, obstacles, and general uncertainty. Such traits are also hard to build into flying robots — but MIT Assistant Professor Kevin Yufeng Chen has built a system that approaches insects’ agility.
TECH
Bee bots: MIT professor develops tiny durable drones that behave like insects March 2, 2021 | 7:02 PM
This undated file photo provided by the Santa Rose County Jail in Milton, Fla., shows Joseph Maldonado-Passage, also known as Joe Exotic.
Joe Exotic
Attorneys say Joe Exotic of 'Tiger King' wants new trial March 2, 2021 | 6:33 PM
A small porcelain bowl bought for $35 at a Connecticut yard sale that turned out to be a rare, 15th century Chinese artifact worth between $300,000 and $500,000. The bowl will be offered in Sotheby's Auction of Important Chinese Art, in New York, on March 17.
Bought for $35
Conn. yard sale find turns out to be artifact worth up to $500,000 March 2, 2021 | 6:11 PM
Politics
Myanmar coup crisis grows after years of US neglect March 2, 2021 | 5:34 PM
FILE - In this April 23, 2020, file photo, Team Rubicon volunteer, EMT Hannah Tellier, from Boston, holds a COVID-19 test in the emergency room of the Kayenta Health Center on the Navajo reservation in Kayenta, Ariz. Across the nation, Native American tribes are working to protect their oldest members from the coronavirus. The effort is about more than protecting lives. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
Daily #s
Mass. reports 980 new COVID-19 cases, 37 new deaths March 2, 2021 | 5:16 PM
President Joe Biden speaks about efforts to combat COVID-19, in the State Dining Room of the White House, Tuesday, March 2, 2021, in Washington.
Coronavirus
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