Police: Two arrests made in shooting at Boston nightspot

Staff

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."

Mayor Wu in opening remarks: 'A land ruled by fear is not the land of the free'

Read this speech in English here.

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.

Lawsuit seeks to block Trump's TPS order for Haitians, Venezuelans

Reporter Staff

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."

Restaurant challenge offers flavorful way to celebrate Black History Month

Sherri Cajuste, Special to the Reporter

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.

Boston's former poet laureate Danielle Legros Georges has died

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.

Editorial: One way to resist? Stop trafficking in rumors

Bill Forry, Executive Editor

By Bill Forry, Executive Editor

Feeling overwhelmed by the onslaught of bad news and scuttlebutt about detentions and “mass” deportations?

Join the club. Or even better: Don’t.

From this vantage point— roughly ten days into the second Trump presidency— too many people are feeding into the frenzy by parroting half-truths or outright falsehoods about “reports” of federal agents rounding up people in city neighborhoods. 

It just flat-out isn’t happening here. At least, not yet.

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