It's been 50 years since the Boston Busing Crisis. It was a period where Boston Public Schools were under court control to desegregate through a system of busing students between predominantly white ...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the North’s worst episode of school desegregation–related racial violence: Boston’s busing riots. Mobs hurled rocks at buses filled with black students newly ...

Boston marked the 50th anniversary of the busing crisis in 2024, but today a different kind of crisis is unfolding. Fewer than 50,000 students attend the city’s schools, compared to more than 90,000 ...

BOSTON (AP) – Last fall, Ginnette Powell traveled from her home in Boston’s Dorchester section to her old middle school in South Boston _ a journey of just two miles, but one that covered a huge ...

Fifty years after Boston’s court-ordered busing plan was implemented to desegregate the city’s public schools, Boston continues to grapple with the fallout of the controversial decision. For Kim Janey ...

To many outsiders, Boston Public Schools’ court-ordered integration campaign of the 1970s and ‘80s was an unqualified failure that stoked more racial discord than it solved, turning “busing” into a ...

To Sin Wah Lee’s family, she’s known as a “warrior mom,” someone who fights for her children. Back in the 1970s, Sin Wah Lee and other Chinatown mothers organized a three-day bus boycott at the start ...

Donald Wong, a South Ender who was bused to Charlestown, shares his story of busing – fifty years since the desegregation order took effect in September 1974. A school bus carrying only a few ...

BOSTON – Fifty years to the day since yellow school buses first rolled Boston toward a desegregated future, some of the players from the era’s historic events returned to the scene and revisited how ...

Outside of the Boston Celtics’ two NBA titles, the 1970s marked a dark decade in the city’s history. The Boston desegregation busing crisis led to a series of racial protests and violent riots that ...