The Toussaint Louverture Cultural Center (TLCC) of Massachusetts invites the greater Boston community to its inaugural Ayiti Twoubadou Festival on Sunday, August 17th, 2025, from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM, at Lovejoy Wharf, located at 131 Beverly Street in downtown Boston.
This exciting cultural celebration highlights the soulful sounds of Haitian twoubadou music, featuring two live local bands: Bingo Twoubadou and Gig Mizik.
Election chief: 'Poll pads' will be used to check-in voters for the first time at all precincts
The city of Boston’s board of Election commissioners has approved the sites for early voting in the city’s preliminary election, which will begin on Sat., Aug. 30 at multiple locations across the neighborhoods.
The early voting will be held over six days at ten locations ahead of the official preliminary election.
Voters will go to the polls at all 275 precincts across the city on Tuesday, Sept. 9 from 7 a.m.- 8 p.m.
Above: Former Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry speaks in the Great Hall on July 17, 2025. Ella Adams/SHNS photo
The Caribbean community in Massachusetts will stand tall in the midst of "the callousness and the aggression" aimed at them by the federal administration, a former longtime Boston lawmaker told a crowd at the State House on Thursday.
Boston Police say two men have been arrested and will face charges related to a shooting that took place inside Fete on Kingston in downtown Boston last weekend. According to a BPD account, police were called to the restaurant and bar at 25 Kingston St. just after 12:20 a.m. for a report of a person shot and found an adult male victim being treated by EMTs. He was later transported to a nearby hospital with what police say are "non-life-threatening injuries."
Prezidan Comer , Manm Klasman Connolly , ak manm Komite a,
Mwen rele Michelle Wu.
Mwen se pitit fi imigran, e depi Novanm 2021, mwen gen onè pou m sèvi kòm majistra Boston.
Mwen fyè pou mwen isit la nan non vil nou an—ofisye lapolis yo, premye sekouris yo, ak travayè vil yo... lidè relijye yo, pwofesè yo, paran yo, ak vwazen yo—ki mete ansanm chak jou pou fè Boston gwo vil ki pi an sekirite nan nasyon an.
A civil rights organziation filed a lawsuit in federal court in Boston on Monday that seeks to block the Trump administration's accelerated roll-back of protections for Haitian and Venezuelan immigrants who are living in the US legally with Temporary Protected Statues (TPS).
Lawyers for Civil Rights says it is taking the action "on behalf of three immigrant advocacy organizations—Haitians Americans United, Inc. (HAU), Venezuelan Association of Massachusetts (VAM), UndocuBlack Network (UBN)—and four affected individuals."
Rep. Chynah Tyler (left) is shown with Black Restaurant Challenge supporters Marty Walsh, Boston's former mayor and the former US Secretary of Labor, Nia Grace of Grace by Nia, and Segun Idowu, the city of Boston's chief of Economic Opportunity and Inclusion.
Black History Month takes on a tasty dimension in Greater Boston, thanks in large part to State Rep. Chynah Tyler of Roxbury, who started the Black Restaurant Challenge in 2018 as way to elevate Black businesses and cuisine in her neighborhood and beyond.
Danielle Legros Georges, a writer and teacher who was born in Haiti and served as Boston's poet laureate under Mayor Martin J. Walsh, died on Feb. 11 at her home in Dorchester, according to a post made by her family today.
"Her partner Tom Laughlin and her brothers Gerard, Bernard, and Stephan were with her," according to a statement made on her Instagram page. Her family asked for donations in her name be made to the Mass General Cancer Center.
