In 2009, Ayanna Pressley became the first Black woman elected to the Boston City Council. She made history again in 2018 as the first Black woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from ...

After a marketing flop last fall, Boston’s new professional women’s soccer team will change its name, the club announced at a ...

Thousands of people took to the streets in Boston for the Women's March on International Women's Day. "Today is the mission ...

We’re in a “relationship recession,” but many women are doing great ... B-Side members get a free single beverage with any $65+ purchase. Image: Charles Krupa/Associated Press.

A Boston man is recovering after a vicious dog attack. David Goldman says he and his dog Cosmo were in Peter’s Park in the ...

Organizers of the march said they were "taking to the streets to fight back against the fascist takeover," as well as ...

Unlike much of the country, women in Greater Boston experience homelessness at higher rates than men, in part because there ...

A Roxbury woman pleaded guilty to stabbing three people and hurting a fourth person in a Boston hotel in 2023 and was sentenced to prison on Wednesday, Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin ...

Bobbi Gibb was told women couldn’t run the Boston Marathon. So she hid in bushes near the starting line and ran it anyway.

The stories of Black women in colonial Boston have long been overshadowed by those of the white men who enslaved them; including well-known figures like John Hancock. Yet these women were not ...

Roberta Gibb was the first woman to run the Boston Marathon. That was back in 1966 at *** time when the most prestigious race in the nation was for men only. I hid in some bushes and I could see ...