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Former Mass. commissioner of the deaf sues Baker, charging he was fired to give governor ‘political cover’

In a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday against Governor Charlie Baker, Steven Florio charges that he was fired as the state's chief advocate for the deaf to give Baker “political cover” after controversy erupted around Florio's time in Kappa Gamma Fraternity.

EARTH DAY 🌎
The Babson College World Globe on the Wellesley campus commissioned by Rodger Babson in 1947 to "impress upon students and other viewers an appreciation of the world as a whole."
How green are you? For Earth Day, check your habits against this list of planet-friendly choices
As individuals, we may not be able to save the polar bears or stop the fires and hurricanes, but there are some simple ways we can step up. Here’s a beginner’s guide to climate responsibility.

At ‘moment of peril,’ Biden opens global summit on climate

Can I take a pain reliever? Should I avoid alcohol? Here’s what experts say you can do right after you’ve received a COVID-19 vaccine

For those who have yet to get their injections: Is it okay to take over-the-counter medicine right after? What should you do if your arm is feeling sore? Here’s what the experts say.
It’s rare and expected, but some fully vaccinated people are catching COVID-19 Study says Johnson & Johnson vaccine effective against COVID-19 More COVID-19 vaccine news and resources
THE GREAT DIVIDE

While most Boston schools remained closed, one opened its doors. Yet almost no one came

The low attendance rates speak to the difficulty of compelling students who already disliked school to attend when it’s optional. Even before the pandemic, the neglected schools struggled to entice high school students to attend class.
Entry of the Faraway Nantucket hotel.
CHRISTOPHER MUTHER

This summer, Nantucket is getting a ‘sexy’ hotel

Faraway hotel will be Paris-meets-New York-meets-London, but located on Nantucket.
A new book highlights Boston's oldest buildings, including the George Middleton House at 5 Pinckney St., Boston

A new book to dig into — and a fresh look at Boston’s oldest buildings

City archeologist Joe Bagley documents the antiquated Top 50, from Dorchester’s Blake House, built in 1661, to Charlestown’s Salem Turnpike Hotel, built around 1794.
A woman places flowers at a memorial in George Floyd Square in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

After Facebook post critical of George Floyd appears on Fall River police department page, chief considers disciplinary action

The Fall River police chief on Wednesday said he’s considering disciplinary action after a person who manages the department’s social media shared a Facebook post critical of George Floyd on the department’s official page.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelos joined Del. Eleanor Holmes-Norton, D-D.C., left, at a news conference ahead of the House vote on H.R. 51, the Washington, DC Admission Act, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
D.C. statehood approved by House as Senate fight looms
A decades-long movement to reshape the American political map took a further step Thursday as the House of Representatives approved a bill to make the nation’s capital the 51st state.

Incoming Peabody Essex Museum director Lynda Roscoe Hartigan with curator Dan Finamorne in a museum gallery in 2019.
Peabody Essex Museum announces new director
Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, who takes over on Aug. 23, will be the first woman to hold the top job at the museum, whose roots date to the 1799 founding of the East India Marine Society.

Suzannah Omonuk, a first year student at Harvard University's Divinity School, wrote a poem in honor of one of the four enslaved people owned by the university's presidents in the 18th century.
Harvard Divinity student crafts poem reflecting on university’s legacy with slavery
Suzannah Omonuk’s poem, entitled “The Story of Venus," takes a look at what life might have been like for the young woman centuries before her. She said she was motivated to explore the project because of the personal resonances with her own journey as a Ugandan immigrant to the US.

George Clinton performed with Parliament Funkadelic at the 2018 Newport Jazz Festival at Fort Adams State Park in Rhode Island. After last summer's cancellations, the jazz and folk festivals will return this year at reduced capacities, but with added days.
That faint sound you hear? It’s the eventual return of live music
Here in New England, the outdoor festivals of summer are beginning to stir. Indoors, some venues have begun to schedule intimate, reduced-capacity shows.

Dinner with Cupid
Tess and Stefan on their Zoom blind date.
Blind date: ‘Very cool glasses, suggests she’s much cooler than me’
Will a love for classic Calvin and Hobbes bond these daters?

Burton will serve as guest host on the game show "Jeopardy!"
LeVar Burton will guest host ‘Jeopardy!,’ and fans are over the rainbow
After a social media campaign to get Burton into a guest-host slot, the show announced Wednesday that he would indeed step up in the last week of July.

Opinion

Air fresheners tied to a fence in front of the police station in Brooklyn Center, Minn., on April 15, hung by protesters after Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, was fatally shot by an officer during a traffic stop. Wright's encounter with police was spurred, in part, by an air freshener hanging from his rearview mirror.
Kimberly Atkins

Chauvin verdict brings sense of justice, but doesn’t erase the fear

The verdict doesn’t quell the fear so many of us, particularly Black people, have of interacting with police.
Washington, D.C., police cadets, officers, and recruits on the front lines of demonstrations following the police killing of George Floyd gather to meet with then-Police Chief Peter Newham and police leadership at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in 2020.
Joan Vennochi

Who wants to be a police officer?
President Joe Biden in the Treaty Room of the White House on Wednesday, April 14, 2021. Biden announced his plan to bring all US forces home from Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
IDEAS | STEPHEN KINZER

In Biden’s pledge to withdraw from Afghanistan, the prospect of turning an imperial tide
George W. Bush arrives at the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden in January.
SCOT LEHIGH

The Republican establishment strikes back
A crowd celebrates in George Floyd Square following the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial on April 20 in Minneapolis.
LETTERS

The verdict is in. The work continues.

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Globe Magazine
Illustration of a house, key, and outdoor activities to go with a story about how the pandemic has affected the real estate market, causing people to want more space and outdoor space in particular.
Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2021
Even amid a pandemic, these 24 communities saw the biggest leaps in house prices north, south, and west of Boston, plus in the city itself.

JENEÉ OSTERHELDT

This isn’t justice — George Floyd is still dead

This country is many things. Just is not one of them. George Floyd should still be here, instead of being made a martyr for social change.
RENÉE GRAHAM

Being Black isn’t exhausting. Racism is exhausting.

I will not perpetuate a narrative that tries to define Blackness as inherently broken or burdensome.
dan shaughnessy

A huge victory for soccer fans, a huge setback for John Henry

The outrage over the Mookie Betts trade paled in comparison to what the Red Sox owner heard from Liverpool loyalists in response to plans for a Super League.

Boston police interactions known as FIOs decreased by 30 percent, but racial disparities persist

The number of people involved in the interactions — known as field interrogation and observations — fell almost 30 percent, according to BPD statistics. But stark racial disparities, a longtime target of criticism by civil rights advocates, remained.

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Governor Charlie Baker spoke during a COVID-19 vaccination update at the Hynes Convention Center. (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff)

Watch live: Baker gives an update on COVID-19 vaccinations

Governor Charlie Baker is set to give an update on COVID-19 vaccinations in Massachusetts from the Berkshire Regional Collaborative vaccination site in Pittsfield on Thursday afternoon.

Former Mass. commissioner of the deaf sues Baker, charging he was fired to give governor ‘political cover’

Volunteers add flower-filled planters at restaurants throughout Newton as outdoor dining returns

Sports

Watch: ‘I just have to be grateful to even play.’ Inside Brockton football’s COVID-altered season

COVID-19 has upended life as we know it — including high school football. In Brockton, getting a chance to play is better than not playing at all.
documentary

Watch: ‘I just have to be grateful to even play.’ Inside Brockton football’s COVID-altered season

‘I just have to be grateful to even play.’ Inside Brockton football’s COVID-altered season

business

Diners and strollers on Newbury Street enjoy the spring weather.

US jobless claims dip to 547,000, another record low since the start of the pandemic

After a year of WFH, many workers will soon face a new challenge: learning to be around colleagues again
Larry Edelman

At this gym, ‘There’s no such thing as an autism-specific exercise’

politics

House Speaker Nancy Pelos joined Del. Eleanor Holmes-Norton, D-D.C., left, at a news conference ahead of the House vote on H.R. 51, the Washington, DC Admission Act, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

D.C. statehood approved by House as Senate fight looms

D.C. statehood faces a crossroads with congressional vote

House votes to restrict future travel bans, moving to undo Trump’s legacy

Living Arts

Actor Leslie Jordan poses for a portrait at Pan Pacific Park in the Fairfax district of Los Angeles on Thursday, April 8, 2021 to promote his new book "How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived."

Leslie Jordan parlays Instagram fame with new book and album
TRAVEL

Need some post-pandemic rejuvenation, stat? These spas have you covered
TRAVEL

Feeling good vibrations at Shou Sugi Ban House

education

The McKinley schools were some of the very few to be open since November in Boston Public Schools. But most students have stayed home.
THE GREAT DIVIDE

While most Boston schools remained closed, one opened its doors. Yet almost no one came

USDA extends free school meals through June 2022

Rock star Van Zandt helping Connecticut students re-engage

rhode island

Providence, R.I., Mayor Jorge Elorza
RHODE MAP

Providence to get more aggressive about reducing pesticides
RI CRIME

‘The pain is always there’: Families gather to mourn victims of violent crime
RI BUSINESS

In R.I., you may have to look for work to stay on unemployment

Newton

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Comfort Zone

Authors Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka's latest YA novel, "What's Not to Love" is out April 20 from Penguin Random House, following two high school seniors vying for a coveted spot at Harvard.
YA authors Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka on Harvard and high school love
The real life couple discuss their latest book, filled with hyper-competitive Ivy League longing.

The summer season at Jacob's Pillow will include a performance of “joyUS justUS" by CONTRA-TIEMPO.
After a lost summer, Jacob’s Pillow will return for a full season in 2021
The June 30-Aug. 29 season will also offer unprecedented online access to most festival programming.

COMFORT ZONE
Safiya Leslie
This musical journey around the globe comes once a month in a box
Berklee grad Safiya Leslie — a singer/songwriter and entrepreneur — is giving world music fans a chance to explore the sounds of a different country each month through her Safiya’s World Music Tour Playlist subscription boxes.

COMFORT ZONE
People in Boston and beyond can grab a free BlueBike to reach their vaccination site starting April 19.
Take a free Bluebike to your COVID-19 vaccine appointment
The complimentary trips will be available in Arlington, Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Newton, Revere, Somerville, and Watertown.

COMFORT ZONE
Volunteer Coordinator Carol Carlson will read “Carl and the Meaning of Life” by Deborah Freedman and “Trees Make Perfect Pets” by Paul Czajak and Cathy Gendron at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
Eight Earth Week events for the whole family
From your backyard to your favorite trail, enjoy these virtual (or socially distanced) events that make you proud to be an earthling.

Special Projects

Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.
See the full project Follow @abeautifulresistance on Instagram

On the Street

A man repacked the food he got from a food pantry on Broadway in Chelsea. Chelsea has been one of the places in Greater Boston hardest hit by the pandemic.

In tackling the pandemic, Chelsea finds new strength
A mural on the side of the Mayor Bill Carpenter Garage in Brockton.

Brockton offers a gateway to a new generation
Evening light sets upon stores and restaurants on Hancock Street in Quincy Center.

This time, Quincy Center’s revival looks legit

See more from our business series ‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

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PROJECT TAKEOUT | DEVRA FIRST
The Globe launches Project Takeout, an effort to help restaurants make it to the other side of this pandemic.
Get takeout. It’s your civic duty.
Ordering dinner will help small local businesses survive the pandemic. But that’s just the start.

Boston Globe launches ‘Fresh Start’ initiative: People can apply to have past coverage about them reviewed
Similar to “right to forget” programs that have cropped up across the country, the undertaking is meant to address the lasting impact that stories about past embarrassments, mistakes, or minor crimes, forever online, can have on a person’s life.

Boston Globe Spotlight Report
Boston’s hospital chiefs moonlight on corporate boards at rates far beyond the national level
Hospital chiefs and trustees defend this as boosting public-private partnerships, but critics say these board positions — some paying millions of dollars — raise troubling issues of conflict of interest and hospital priorities.

Opinion, ideas, and commentary

People celebrate as the verdict is announced in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin outside the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis on Tuesday. Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd in a case that roiled the United States for almost a year, laying bare deep racial divisions.
RENÉE GRAHAM

We knew Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd. But Black people never expect justice
"Happiness — at least the pandemic version — is a group video call with all microphones on."
IDEAS | MARISSA CONRAD

Unmute that Zoom call
Children pass members of a Taliban unit in the Alingar District of Laghman Province in Afghanistan, March 13, 2020.
JEFF JACOBY

Biden’s blunder in Afghanistan
People gathered after a guilty verdict was announced at the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin for the 2020 death of George Floyd at City Hall in Philadelphia on Tuesday.
EDITORIAL

A first step, but justice means far more
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny stands inside a glass cell during a court hearing at the Babushkinsky district court in Moscow on Feb. 20, 2021.
EDITORIAL

Saving Navalny and the movement he spawned
ideas

The Future of Work

STAT

Road ahead illo
The Road Ahead: Charting the pandemic over the next 12 months — and beyond
In this project, STAT describes 30 key moments, possible turning points that could steer the pandemic onto a different course or barometers for how the virus is reshaping our lives.

Ahoskie Mayor Weyling White, left, and Hertford County Magistrate Deborah Morrison, right, pose for a portrait on railroad tracks that divide the predominantly White and predominantly Black parts of town in Ahoskie, N.C., Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. (Photo © Landon Bost 2020)
From a small N.C. town to big-city hospitals, how software infuses racism into U.S. health care
The racial bias can produce huge differences in assessing patients’ need for special care to manage conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, or depression, a STAT investigation found.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 12: People walk through the snow and sleet in Manhattan on February 12, 2019 in New York City. New York City, in a winter that has been light on snow this season, is expected to receive two inches of snow before the storm moves later this evening. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Covid-19’s wintry mix: Dry indoor air helps the virus spread
The worry is not just that people might mingle more closely inside, but that the air they breathe will make the virus more dangerous.

Boston, MA -- 06/04/2020 -- Yoldana Desir displays a photograph of her late sister, Marie Deus, who died of Covid-19, after contracting it as a food service worker at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston, Massachusetts. (Kayana Szymczak for STAT)
In the Covid-19 death of a hospital food worker, a microcosm of the pandemic
The hospital's first employee to die of Covid-19 was a kitchen worker named Marie Deus — and her illness sparked a question. Why weren't bedside clinicians getting sick at the highest rates?

magazine
Illustration of a house, key, and outdoor activities to go with a story about how the pandemic has affected the real estate market, causing people to want more space and outdoor space in particular.
On the Cover

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2021
Person wearing a "Hello I am ... bored" sticker on their shirt.
Perspective

Dear Grads: Don’t believe the myth that work has to be a slog

Caramelized pork with orange and sage.
Cooking

Oranges shine in 4 savory recipes, including a beef stir-fry
Drawing of a young girl with a net trying to capture butterflies or something.
School Vacation

15 last-minute ideas for things to do with kids on school vacation

sports

Ja'Marr Chase opted out of last season at LSU, but in the 2019 campaign, he caught 84 passes for 1,780 yards and 20 touchdowns.

2021 NFL Draft: The top wide receiver prospects to know

NFL’s instant replay officials have new powers, but owners weren’t interested in other major rules changes

Garrett Richards mostly relied on one pitch, and that didn’t play against the Blue Jays

metro

Suzannah Omonuk, a first year student at Harvard University's Divinity School, wrote a poem in honor of one of the four enslaved people owned by the university's presidents in the 18th century.

Harvard Divinity student crafts poem reflecting on university’s legacy with slavery

Providence to get more aggressive about reducing pesticides

Revere wants 70 percent of city residents vaccinated by July 4

Nation

Police stood guard inside the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City following the explosion in 2017.

Man whose New York City subway pipe-bomb fizzled gets life in prison

D.C. statehood approved by House as Senate fight looms

Daunte Wright to be eulogized at Minneapolis funeral

World

Relatives of COVID-19 patients waited for refill of their oxygen cylinders in New Delhi, India.

India reports global record of 314,000 new coronavirus cases

Biden preparing to declare that atrocities against Armenia were genocide

Putin says any nation that threatens Russia’s security will ‘regret their deeds’

politics

President Biden spoke about COVID-19 vaccinations at the White House on Wednesday.

White House offers new tax credit to help spur COVID-19 vaccinations

Watch live: President Biden speaks about COVID-19 vaccines

Dems push $25b to electrify school buses, a Biden priority

business

Gus Malezis, president and CEO of Imprivata.

Imprivata moving headquarters to Waltham

Floyd killing forces business to reexamine its record on race relations

Netflix’s subscriber growth, stock zapped as pandemic eases

lifestyle

Entry of the Faraway Nantucket hotel.

This summer, Nantucket is getting a ‘sexy’ hotel

Interest in wellness travel continues at a healthy pace

A new book to dig into — and a fresh look at Boston’s oldest buildings

marijuana

Former Boston mayor Martin J. Walsh hands a pen to then-City Councilor Kim Janey after signing the new marijuana licensing ordinance she drafted at City Hall in 2019.

On 4/20, Boston’s acting mayor turns to marijuana industry for campaign cash

US House passes marijuana banking bill with bipartisan support

With marijuana legal in New York, and other states close behind, will Mass. dispensaries along state borders survive?

opinion

Starting a trickle of justice

The uprising

In Biden’s pledge to withdraw from Afghanistan, the prospect of turning an imperial tide

food & dining

Wulf’s Fish, a seafood company, Deluxe Brunch Set for Mother’s Day.

Wulf’s Fish can ship you a lavish brunch, caviar and all

Recipe: Spoon a medley of sauteed mushrooms on crunchy crostini with creamy whipped burrata

Occo delivers spices in smaller amounts — and with recipe ideas

travel

Encore Spa lobby.

Need some post-pandemic rejuvenation, stat? These spas have you covered

Feeling good vibrations at Shou Sugi Ban House

Iceland is now open to fully vaccinated Americans. Here’s what to expect if you go

Books

Actor Leslie Jordan poses for a portrait at Pan Pacific Park in the Fairfax district of Los Angeles on Thursday, April 8, 2021 to promote his new book "How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived."

Leslie Jordan parlays Instagram fame with new book and album

Philip Roth’s Biographer Is Accused of Sexual Assault

Michelle Zauner on navigating grief, with food as comfort and guide

Movies

Andrea Braein Hovig and Stellan Skarsgard in "Hope."

Love, mortality, and ‘Hope’

‘Street’ smarts, ‘Towns’ team, Down East dispatches

So happy ‘Together Together’? Maybe

Television

Burton will serve as guest host on the game show "Jeopardy!"

LeVar Burton will guest host ‘Jeopardy!,’ and fans are over the rainbow

For this ‘Romeo & Juliet,’ stars Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley were aligned

Comedic and complex themes merge in ‘Rutherford Falls’

music

Tom Jones's new album, "Surrounded by Time," is his fourth collaboration with producer Ethan Johns and contains songs by Bob Dylan, Todd Snider, Tony Joe White, and the Waterboys.

What’s new, Tom Jones? Plenty, it turns out

That faint sound you hear? It’s the eventual return of live music

Making the BSO NOW online concerts less BSO THEN

Theater/Dance

The summer season at Jacob's Pillow will include a performance of “joyUS justUS" by CONTRA-TIEMPO.

After a lost summer, Jacob’s Pillow will return for a full season in 2021

Theater without theater

Huntington Theatre announces a full 2021-22 season of indoor productions

globe local

A volunteer places flowers in a planter in Newton Centre April 7.

Volunteers add flower-filled planters at restaurants throughout Newton as outdoor dining returns

Newton-based group showcases women playing jazz from around the world

Nathaniel Allen House undergoes transformation into a center for arts and culture in Newton

Obituaries

Mr. Steinman was inducted to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2012.

Jim Steinman, composer of hit records for Meat Loaf, dies at 73

Dr. Barbara Rockett, first female president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, dies at 89

Donald Junkins, poet who led UMass Amherst creative writing program, dies at 89