Boston City Councilor Brian Worrell on Monday issued a call for the creation of a standalone statue in the city ... adorns a memorial on Boston Common. “Crispus Attucks is a historical Boston ...

A new statue may be coming to Downtown Boston ... Common along with the names of the four other men killed in the conflict. A childcare center in Dorchester also bears Attucks’ name as the ...

buried him alongside the fray’s white victims within a common grave. The Crispus Attucks Monument (an ornate, statue-laden column) was erected in the Boston Commons 118 years later. Who was 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 ...

Thursday morning I saw a tweet suggesting Tennessee replace Confederate statues ... answers are Crispus Attucks (a Black and Native American man and first casualty of the Boston Massacre ...

Crispus Attucks was the first person killed in the Boston Massacre on March 5 ... his Knees nearer together than common.'" 2. Crispus Attucks became a whaler. Attucks is thought to have joined ...

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 ...