BOSTON (AP) — It’s time for the Blessing of the Animals at Boston ... Formally part of Christ Church in the City of Boston, the church is home to an active Episcopal congregation.

Activists in Boston are asking for $15 billion in reparations for slavery from the city and “white churches ... among some of those churches, into the black community,” Peterson added.

The Boston Task Force on Reparations called on "White churches" to step up and pay the Black community back for ... was established through a 2022 Boston City Council ordinance and made up of ...

The Boston Task Force on Reparations called on “white churches” to step up and pay the black community back for ... established through a 2022 Boston City Council ordinance and made up ...

This story was produced by the Globe’s Money, Power, and Inequality team, which covers the racial wealth gap in Greater Boston ... on supporting the city’s Black churches.

Today, Boston Globe Reporter Tiana Woodard joins The Common for a look at the factors driving some Black churches out of the city, and how these moves are impacting faith communities.

More than 100 congregants at the annual Martin Luther King Jr., convocation in Boston ... city that now has several black elected officials, many speakers highlighted. Held at Twelfth Baptist ...

“Many of the well-known white churches in downtown Boston are connected to the slave trade and the proliferation of what was a ‘slavetocracy’ in our city,” said the Rev. Kevin ...

Following Boston’s appointment of a reparations task force in 2023, religious leaders in the city have formed ... dollars among some of those churches—into the Black community,” he said.

What a blessing ... in that Boston neighborhood. (Courtesy of Candler School of Theology, Emory University) She goes on to note that, "In an otherwise highly segregated city and church, St ...