But on race, the city was stuck ... Bob Dean/Globe Staff/file Boston, MA - 6/2/1967: Boston Police officers wearing riot helmets and carrying batons arrest rioters in Roxbury on June 2, 1967.

In Boston’s immigration story ... “Always.” In 1984, a race riot erupted in Lawrence, when a blue-collar neighborhood erupted into multiple nights of violent turmoil. The spark was believed ...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the North’s worst episode of school desegregation–related racial violence: Boston’s busing riots. Mobs hurled rocks ... effectively segregated the “projects” ...

For the crime novelist Dennis Lehane, southern Boston is a muse ... “I believed from a very young age that all race warfare is essentially class warfare,” Lehane once told an interviewer ...

As the city of Boston faces a historic race for mayor, there's evidence that ... a bitter election and a riot at the U.S. Capitol, all of which caused many people to tune out of politics.

Boston University economics professor Robert ... of Racial Inequality,” but we sought him out for his work on the race riots of the 1960s, and their long-term economic effect.

and anger were boiling up in the streets of Boston, a city that has played host to both abolitionists and vicious race riots. At Boston University, Black students demanded action to address campus ...