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Chris Burrell

Reporter · US

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Sep 9, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Chris Burrell

    Father and son file lawsuit claiming school bullying on Cape Cod linked to suicide attempt (opens the original)

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    A Cape Cod father and his teenage son are suing a local school district, alleging school leaders failed to protect the boy from months of racial bullying — contributing to an attempted suicide in 2024. The Nauset Regional School District faces a federal lawsuit, seeking unspecified damages, in a legal claim that was filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court by Lawyers for Civil Rights, a Boston-based legal nonprofit. The lawsuit — filed by the father, Damion Walker, and his son — claims that the

  2. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Chris Burrell

    ‘A testament to the power of the progressive movement’: Markey beats Moulton in US Senate primary (opens the original)

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    Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey defeated Rep. Seth Moulton in a sharply contested Democratic primary Tuesday. The incumbent senator will face Republican John Deaton in November. While Moulton made generational change the focus of his campaign — he is 47, and Markey is 80 — Markey won by casting himself as a champion of the party’s younger, left-leaning activists. “Tonight is a testament to the power of the progressive movement of our nation,” Markey said in his victory speech in downtown Boston. “I

  3. Article · Aug 12, 2026 · Chris Burrell

    Boston Fed updates oft-cited 2015 report finding median Black wealth in Boston was just $8 (opens the original)

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    A new and groundbreaking survey of wealth in Massachusetts paints an overall healthy economic picture but highlights wide gaps for Black, Hispanic and some Asian families. The report is the first update to a frequently-cited, 11-year-old study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston called The Color of Wealth in Boston. That report also documented wide racial gaps in the amount of wealth different families have in the Boston area. One of its specific findings — that the median net worth of U.S.-bo

  4. Article · Aug 6, 2026 · Chris Burrell

    Boston parks rediscover centuries-old gravestone of a free Black man (opens the original)

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    Historical preservationists from the City of Boston have rediscovered the gravestone of a free Black man who died nearly three centuries ago. The marker, located in the famed Granary Burial Ground near Park Street, is likely one of the oldest of a free Black person in the U.S., city officials said Thursday. “For the city of Boston, finding something like this, it’s truly remarkable,” Suzanne Segura Taylor, executive director of the Freedom Trail Foundation, told GBH News Thursday. “To be able to

  5. Article · Aug 4, 2026 · Chris Burrell

    Cambridge city council reverses course, brings back controversial gunfire detection technology (opens the original)

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    Cambridge is restarting its use of a controversial technology aimed at detecting gunfire on city streets. After significant input from the public and debate among lawmakers, city council on Monday voted 6-3 to bring back ShotSpotter temporarily, less than three months after the board voted to end its contract with the company. But councilors also plan to create a panel of residents to consider whether the city should continue using the technology in the long run. The decision came a month after

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