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.

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.

Above: Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, left, and Council President Ruthzee Louijeune conferred during a council ceremony in Jan. 2022. Chris Lovett photo