Nathan Metcalf

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Nick Stoico |Nathan Metcalf |Jade Lozada

Organizers with Boston Pride For The People say the theme of this year’s Pride parade and festival is “Here to Stay,” a message “of resilience and defiance in the face of increased political attacks on LGBTQIA+ Communities and People.”This year’s Pride arrives at a time of conservative backlash against LGBTQ+ Americans, particularly the transgender community.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Niki Griswold |Nathan Metcalf

Chants of “Free David now!” filled Boston City Hall plaza Monday afternoon, as hundreds of union members protested ICE immigration enforcement actions across the country and condemned the detention of a top union official who was arrested while protesting workplace immigration raids in Los Angeles.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Danny McDonald |Billy Baker |Nathan Metcalf

Local rabbis and Jewish residents are reacting with shock and horror to a climate of increasing antisemitic violence across the nation, the latest incident coming last weekend at a Colorado demonstration that injured a dozen people. The demonstrators there were calling for the release of Israeli hostages remaining in Gaza.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Camilo Fonseca |Nathan Metcalf

“It seems like science fiction, or a horror movie,” said Julie Shields, mother of a Harvard Law graduate, walking out of the Harvard Coop on Tuesday. “It proves that what happens somewhere else — it can happen here.”Shields, an attorney originally from New York, said it had been “frightening” to see the pressure campaign unfold against one of the most prestigious and respected institutions in the country — even more so knowing that it could affect her daughter’s education and career.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Jason Laughlin |Neena Hagen |Nathan Metcalf

Since the start of the Trump administration, the NSF cut 251 grants to Massachusetts institutions worth $249 million, federal data showed. That accounts for a lion’s share of the $265.4 million in NSF grants lost at 40 institutions across New England. The cuts could mean lost jobs and hundreds of research projects abruptly halted without a clear path forward.