June is Pride Month for LGBTQ+ communities across the country — and this year, Boston’s turns 50.

Rev. Irene Monroe has officiated 37 funerals for victims of COVID-19. After a recent memorial, all she wanted was a hug from her wife.

Rev. Irene Monroe has officiated 37 funerals for victims of COVID-19. After a recent memorial, all she wanted was a hug from her wife.

Places of worship have now been allowed to conduct in-person religious services in Massachusetts for over a week, under the first phase of the Baker administration’s four-phase reopening plan during the coronavirus pandemic.

For Bay Staters hoping for the return of a Kennedy to the Senate like his grand uncle Ted or to the presidency like his grand uncle John, Rep. Joe Kennedy III is positioning himself to be the next in line. 

Every Democratic presidential hopeful wants my vote. As an African American woman voter, I’m part of the powerful voting bloc the DNC chair, Tom Perez, calls the “backbone” of the party. However, they’ll need to earn it.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley has revealed she has the autoimmune disorder “alopecia areata,” which has rendered her hairless.

A year before the Mayflower arrived in 1620, the first group of enslaved Africans depicted as “20 and odd Negroes” arrived sometime during the final week of August to the Virginia colony of Jamestown.

The first time I heard the racial trope ‘go back to where you came from’, I was getting off of a school bus in a white section of town in Brooklyn, New York.

Morehouse College — the jewel of black academia and male leadership — will admit transgender male students in 2020.  

While I will continue to argue that the African American community doesn’t have a patent on homophobia, it does, however, have a problem with it.

First Lady Michelle Obama swept into Beantown on Saturday as part of the national book tour promoting her memoir “Becoming” that was held at the TD Garden.

Thanksgiving is an excellent time to give a closer look at the rising escalation of hate crimes in America- its origin and its legacy.

With 40 years since the Jonestown massacre, a more disturbing image of the Rev. Jim Jones’ treatment toward his LGBTQ parishioners emerges.

Across the country, there are epic battles in many states to either pass or not pass transgender bathroom bills.

With October being LGBTQ History Month, it allows the LGBTQ community to look back at historical events — and Matthew Shepard’s murder is one of them.

Sesame Street’s famous duo of Bert and Ernie first appeared in 1969, the same year as the Stonewall riots, which to the nation’s surprise catapulted the LGBTQ liberation movement.

Catholic Bay Staters highly respect Cardinal Sean O’Malley. He’s viewed by many as a no-holds-barred cardinal when it comes to addressing clergy sex abuse.

When you love yourself enough to quit settling for too little, you can take the gift of your life seriously,” said the Rev. Irene Monroe.

Papa Johns is the latest to use the n-word and then apologize.