Ralph Boston, the Olympic long jump champion who broke Jesse Owens’ world record, then had his mark eclipsed by Bob Beamon’s record-shattering leap at the Mexico City Games, died Sunday. He was 83.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A police officer escorts a handcuffed Albert DeSalvo in February 1967.Ollie Noonan/The Boston Globe/Getty Images In the early ...

Drawing on her recent book, The New Bostonians, Johnson will discuss how immigrants have helped transform the Boston metropolitan area since the 1960s as it evolved from an declining manufacturing ...

For decades, a singular photographic collection has lain nearly unseen in the Somerville home of photographer Charles Daniels — a half century’s worth of undeveloped film crammed onto shelves, stuffed ...

Several former players have talked about how Boston in the 1960s was a completely different environment—especially for Black athletes. The crowds were hostile, the atmosphere was intense, and the city ...

Boston City Hall is brutal. It’s imposing, but — in the eyes of the architects and urban planners who designed it — signifies the importance of local government in our daily lives. Lizabeth Cohen ...

Author Brian Coleman returns with the second volume of Buy Me Boston, a curated collection of local ads and flyers that takes longtime Boston residents back to life between the 1960’s and 1980’s.

BOSTON >> Longtime Boston television personality and entertainer Frank Avruch, who was the star of the popular children’s TV program “Bozo the Clown,” has died. He was 89. Avruch died Tuesday at his ...