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During a press conference Wednesday proclaiming March 5, the anniversary of the event, to be Crispus Attucks Commemoration Day in Boston, Wu noted that many have historically overlooked Attucks ...
A new statue may be coming to Downtown Boston sooner than later, with a city councilor looking to create a monument in honor of Crispus Attucks, a sailor of African and Indigenous descent who was ...
Advisory: This story includes descriptions of violence, abuse and oppression of Black and Indigenous people that were the norm in colonial-era Boston. Every tour of Boston's Freedom Trail stops at the ...
Boston City Councilor Brian Worrell on Monday issued a call for the creation of a standalone statue in the city honoring Crispus Attucks, who was killed in the Boston Massacre. Attucks was one of ...
This is an opinion column. Of course, I know Crispus Attucks. You probably do, too. As the first to die in the Revolutionary War — at the Boston Massacre, on March 5, 1770, Attucks was the first of ...
March 5 has been known as the anniversary of the Boston Massacre in the City of Boston. But on Sunday, the city marked the day as Crispus Attucks Commemoration Day in honor of the man who is ...
Honoring an Afro-Native man killed in the Boston Massacre, Mayor Michelle Wu signed a proclamation Thursday afternoon at City Hall officially naming March 5 Crispus Attucks Commemoration Day.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu plans to sign a proclamation announcing Crispus Attucks Commemoration Day. Attucks was a former Framingham slave.He is the first man to die in the Boston Massacre ...
The City of Boston will be commemorating Crispus Attucks on March 5, the mayor's office said. Mayor Michelle Wu will be signing a proclamation announcing Crispus Attucks Commemoration Day at 1:30 ...
Friday’s hometown heroes are a group of young men about to start great jobs and the people who helped them get to that point.
The Attucks Theatre on Church Street ... “The fire curtain is painted with a scene of the Boston Massacre, showing British redcoats firing on Crispus. On that day, five people were killed ...
A Boston City Councilor wants the legacy of Crispus Attucks to be immortalized in the city.Councilor Brian Worrell is calling for the city to put up a standalone statue in Attucks' honor.He was ...