On the 50th anniversary of the federal court decision to integrate Boston schools, a group of 20 people stood on the red brick walkway in front of the Massachusetts State House at one of the first ...

This map contains some images and descriptions of violence. Discretion is advised. Massachusetts was the first state in the nation to outlaw segregation in public schools. Yet for years, the Boston ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To many outsiders, Boston Public Schools’ court-ordered integration campaign of the 1970s and ‘80s was an unqualified failure that ...

Coverage of the 50th anniversary of a federal judge’s ruling that led to mandatory busing in Boston to desegregate schools is produced through an editorial partnership between WBUR and The Emancipator ...

Fifty years after Boston’s court-ordered busing plan was implemented to desegregate the city’s public schools, Boston continues to grapple with the fallout of the controversial decision. For Kim Janey ...

Good morning. It’s been a lovely first week (newsletter- and weather-wise). Our inbox is back up and running, and we’re grateful for your comments, ideas, and critiques. For example, reader Amy (and a ...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the North’s worst episode of school desegregation–related racial violence: Boston’s busing riots. Mobs hurled rocks at buses filled with black students newly ...

In the 50 years since the court decision that finally desegregated Boston’s public schools, praise for U.S. District Judge Arthur Garrity’s ruling in Morgan v. Hennigan has been scant. Shortly after ...

Fifty years to the day since yellow school buses first rolled Boston toward a desegregated future, some of the players from the era’s historic events returned to the scene and reminisced about how ...

BETTER QUICKLY. ON TOP OF HIM BEING ON AN IEP, HE’S ALSO AUTISTIC. CHERYL BUCKMAN TOLD US THE START OF SCHOOL HAS BEEN A BUSING NIGHTMARE FOR HER SON. HE WAS OVER 25 MINUTES LATE ON DAY ONE. HE GOT ...

BOSTON - A Boston mother wants answers after her first grader was left on the school bus for several hours. Ronda Johnson and her two kids just moved to Massachusetts last month. "I have really high ...