Meghan Smith
Producer and Reporter at GBH News (Boston, MA)
Producer/reporter for @GBHNews, Boston's local NPR, covering disability and accessibility. Mainer. She/her | Tips: meghan_smith(at)wgbh(dot)org
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1 week ago |
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Regional News Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Meghan Smith / GBH NewsTamara Lanier, left, holds a photo of her great-great-great-grandfather Renty, and talks with attorney Ben Crump, center, and Susanna Moore, the great-great-great-granddaughter of the Harvard professor who took the photos.
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wgbh.org | Meghan Smith
May 28, 2025 Harvard University will give up ownership of historic photos of enslaved people, following a legal fight with Tamara Lanier, a descendent of one of the people who was photographed 175 years ago. The settlement was announced by Lanier and her lawyers today. Lanier says she is the great-great-great-granddaughter of Renty Taylor, who is pictured in the black-and-white daguerreotypes along with his daughter Delia.
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2 weeks ago |
wgbh.org | Meghan Smith
May 21, 2025 Across Massachusetts, there are thousands of unmarked graves holding people who lived and died in the state institutions that housed people with mental, intellectual and developmental disabilities beginning in the mid-1800s. Many of the residents are buried in cemeteries that are deteriorating and unmaintained. And because of how the state handles records from those facilities, thousands of family members don’t know where their loved one is buried.
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3 weeks ago |
wgbh.org | Meghan Smith
May 13, 2025 Hundreds of seniors from around Massachusetts gathered at the State House in Boston Tuesday to meet with lawmakers and advocate for funding for housing, in-home care, nutrition, mental health and more. Organizers said the annual Older Adults Lobby Day is more important than ever, amid funding threats to federal programs that support seniors and their caregivers.
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3 weeks ago |
wgbh.org | Meghan Smith
May 12, 2025 When Mary MacDonald’s mother, Margaret, was diagnosed with dementia, her life was turned upside down. “I was 35 at the time, and I didn’t know anything about caregiving,” MacDonald said. What followed was a journey she describes as an “avalanche.” She left her corporate job to care for her mother as her cognitive and physical abilities deteriorated.
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