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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

FRAMINGHAM — Crispus Attucks, a Framingham resident of African American and Native American descent, is generally regarded as the first person killed on the night of the Boston Massacre ...

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 ...

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 ...

Crispus Attucks’ dramatic death made him a polarizing figure in 1770. On March 5th of that year, the infamous Boston Massacre claimed his life and left a legacy over which the emerging nation ...