Many in the Black Lives Matter movement are invoking Crispus Attucks — an African American gunned down by a British soldier in the Boston Massacre of 1770 — as a symbol of entrenched white-on ...

As we mark the 253rd anniversary of the Boston Massacre — and 165 years since Black abolitionists in Massachusetts first marked March 5 as “Crispus Attucks Day” in 1858 — how much do you ...

Ask people and they’ll usually give a vague answer. He’s someone from the American Revolution, they say. Or, wasn’t he a Black man who died years ago? Actually, not much is known about this ...

Crispus Attucks is believed to be the first ... The Bostonian Society is organizing exhibits, a temporary art installation and other activities to commemorate the anniversary of the Boston Massacre, ...

A Boston City Councilor wants the legacy of Crispus Attucks to ... put up a standalone statue in Attucks' honor.He was the first man to die during the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770, sparking ...

with a city councilor looking to create a monument in honor of Crispus Attucks, a sailor of African and Indigenous descent who was the first person killed during the Boston Massacre. Tuesday ...

Crispus Attucks was the first person killed in the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770—and became known as the first fatality in the fight for American independence. In a poem memorializing the ...

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.

Mayor Michelle Wu will be signing a proclamation announcing Crispus Attucks Commemoration Day at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday. Attucks was the first person killed in the Boston Massacre which sparked the ...

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 ...

Crispus Attucks in American Memory. Professor Kachun explored how and why Attucks, a former slave who was killed at the Boston Massacre, has sometimes been celebrated and other times forgotten or ...

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 ...