The Royall House & Slave Quarters is co-sponsoring the Confronting Racial Injustice Series of five monthly programs hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society and Northeastern University Law School's Criminal Justice Task Force. Join community activists and urban planners as they discuss Boston's history of redlining and discriminatory housing policies, the complicity of the banks and …

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The Royall House & Slave Quarters is co-sponsoring the Confronting Racial Injustice Series of five monthly programs hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society and Northeastern University Law School's Criminal Justice Task Force. Today's topic is "Boston School Desegregation through the Rearview Mirror." In 1972, a group of African American parents sued city and state officials …

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The Royall House & Slave Quarters is co-sponsoring the Confronting Racial Injustice Series of five monthly programs hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society and Northeastern University Law School's Criminal Justice Task Force. Today's topic is "The War on Drugs in Massachusetts: The Racial Impact of the School Zone Law and Other Mandatory Minimum Sentences." In …

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The Royall House & Slave Quarters is co-sponsoring the Confronting Racial Injustice Series of five monthly programs hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society and Northeastern University Law School's Criminal Justice Task Force. For today's event, which concludes the series, the topic is "The Charles Stuart Story." Charles Stuart, a white man, murdered his wife and …

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Kyera Singleton, executive director of the Royall House & Slave Quarters on George Street in Medford, will be a panelist at the Massachusetts Historical Society Program "Challenging Assumptions in Telling Underrepresented History." Too often public history organizations have believed that there were not enough records to give voice to enslaved people and other underrepresented voices …

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