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by Jonathan Adams | 26 Jul 2013 - 11:26pm

BOSTON/South Boston - Mark Jones is still claiming his innocence for his part in the Roxbury shooting death of Brian Cropper in 1981 when he was aged just 19 years old.

by Jonathan Adams | 26 Jul 2013 - 11:12pm

BOSTON/South Boston - Outeke Kakooza has filed a lawsuit after his sacking from his job at Panera Bread alleging that he was wrongfully terminated, was the target of racial and disability discrimination, and wasn’t paid in full.

by Jonathan Adams | 26 Jul 2013 - 9:36pm

BOSTON - In this first installment of Open Media Boston's new Open Court Project -- former FedEx drivers were wrongfully classified as 'independent contractors,' Maraj fails to pro

by Tate Williams | 24 Jul 2013 - 4:13am

Cambridge, Mass. - The climate movement is a unique one, longtime activist Bill McKibben told an audience in Cambridge Sunday night, because it doesn’t gain its strength from a few powerful advocacy groups or high-profile leaders.

by Jason Pramas | 19 Jul 2013 - 11:58pm

Regular Open Media Boston viewers take note ... after many months of work on my thesis and accompanying artwork, I got my MFA in Visual Arts from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University in late June.

by Jonathan Adams and Sarah Betancourt | 15 Jul 2013 - 4:13pm

BOSTON/Roxbury - A mix of disbelief, anger, a loss of faith in the justice system, and resilience were on display Sunday as Boston reacted to the verdict in the Florida trial of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.

by Jonathan Adams | 15 Jul 2013 - 3:22am

Brockton, Mass. - Officers of the Brockton Police Department are due in court this week in a lawsuit that comes from their handling of a noise complaint in 2008.

by superuser | 11 Jul 2013 - 2:55pm

DAY ONE

by Tate Williams | 28 Jun 2013 - 11:26pm
Cambridge, Mass. - It was right here on the steps of Cambridge City Hall, on May 17, 2004, where it all started. To the cheers of a crowd waiting eagerly outside, Cambridge opened its doors at the stroke of midnight on the day Massachusetts became the first state to cross the federal law of the land and allow same sex marriage. 

by The Members of the Bangladesh Workers Solidarity Network (Independent) | 24 Jun 2013 - 7:42am

Local efforts to challenge global capitalism and worker exploitation

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