gbhnews , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

🌞 Good morning #fediverse! This is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 58F at Logan Airport and visibility is 2.5mi.

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley calls the latest round of student debt relief "life-changing" as the Biden administration continues to find ways to eliminate some segments of it.

Harvard says it will resume requiring standardized tests for applicants.

On this day in 1861, the U.S. Civil War began. #histodons

gbhnews , 7 months ago to random

Psst!

we got more GBH people on the #fediverse!!

pls give a warm welcome @amarchivepub and introduce them to all the #library folk and and #histodons

@amarchivepub is a collaboration between the Library of Congress and GBH dedicated to preserving the historical record of public media

tune in for all those PBS deep cuts!

gbhnews , 9 months ago to random

🌞 Hello #fediverse! This is GBH News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 78F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10 mi.

It's Sunday and so I am bringing you a few notes from the newsroom.

Our investigative team researched the history of Boston's Freedom Trail that isn't generally mentioned on the historical tours that draw thousands each year. It's the history of Black people, including enslaved people. There's an online, interactive map here:

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2023/07/19/the-history-of-enslavement-at-bostons-freedom-trail-sites-is-beginning-to-be-told #histodons