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Ray Champagne stood up as his name was called during the Introduction of Freed & Exonerated Community Members event at the Innocence Network Conference in Phoenix.

As more wrongful convictions unravel, exonerees help one another adjust to life beyond bars

With a bond forged by the horror of being wrongfully imprisoned, a group of predominantly Black and Latino men have helped one another navigate the difficult transition back into the society that left them behind.

NFL Draft

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NFL Draft: Patriots add QB Bailey Zappe, DB Jack Jones, and two running backs on Day 3
Pierre Strong (South Dakota State) and Kevin Harris (South Carolina) will join a crowded running back room. The Patriots rounded out the draft with the selection of DT Sam Roberts, G Chasen Hines, and OL Andrew Stueber.

Ben Volin | Sunday football notes

Breaking down the top stories from an unexpectedly exciting NFL Draft
It included a record nine trades between picks 11-32. A record six receivers drafted within 11 picks. A record five defensive players from Georgia. And two major trades.

Correspondents’ gala offers political normalcy despite COVID
Much of Washington is ready to party like it’s 2019, before the coronavirus, when the biggest risk at the annual White House press corps gala was more likely to be jokes that ruffled too many political feathers.

2022 White House correspondents’ dinner: How to watch it, what to know

As governor’s race comes into focus, it’s Maura Healey’s moment, new Suffolk/Globe poll finds

Attorney General Maura Healey’s basic message — to “continue with what’s working and fix what’s not” — is resonant with a strong majority of voters in Massachusetts, the survey found.

Read the full results of the Suffolk/Globe poll on the Massachusetts governor’s race

Naomi Judd, of Grammy-winning duo The Judds, dies at 76
Naomi Judd, the Kentucky-born singer of the Grammy-winning duo The Judds and mother of Wynonna and Ashley Judd, has died. She was 76.

Large fire reported at Red Jacket resort in North Conway, N.H.

Images shared on social media show heavy fire burning through a section of the Red Jacket Mountain View Resort in North Conway, N.H., with black smoke blowing into the air above.

Greene and Boebert are ‘not quite buddy-buddy’ and other revelations from report on House Freedom Caucus
Here are three major things we learned from a Politico report on the House Freedom Caucus, a group that has “built their political brand on challenging GOP leaders” and is now facing its own internal conflicts.

Pressure mounts on Madison Cawthorn as scandals pile up

Kremlin deploys new troops to Ukraine as both sides gird for a war of attrition
Russia is calling in troops based in its far east to join the battle in Ukraine, the Ukrainian military high command said Saturday, as Moscow seeks to reinforce its war-fighting force amid heavy losses and signs that its drive to seize eastern Ukraine has stalled.

Philip Guston's "Couple in Bed" from 1977. The work of the late artist has been given a major show at the Museum of Fine Arts. The show had been delayed over questions around disturbing imagery, including depictions of the Ku Klux Klan.

Are we ready to look at ‘Philip Guston Now’?

Two years, four curators, 100 works, and a trauma specialist went into planning this controversial Guston retrospective after its 2020 postponement.

The Boston skyline at sunset.

These six charts show the current state of COVID-19 in Mass.

COVID-19 cases appear to be rising again in Massachusetts, though the volume of infections in the state — and across the United States — is significantly lower than the Omicron surge. Here’s a look at where Massachusetts stands, according to six different metrics.

A young boy named Benjamin reads a book while shopping with his parents at The Children’s Book Shop, which closed its doors on Saturday.

The Children’s Book Shop, Brookline gem that delighted young bibliophiles, shutters its doors

Social distancing wrought unique havoc on the shop, which struggled to endure a reduction in foot traffic driven by fears surrounding unvaccinated young children.

Just as 19th-century antislavery publications reframed and amplified the quest for abolition, The Emancipator centers critical voices, debates, and evidence-based opinion to reframe the national conversation on racial equity and hasten a more racially just society.

Black wealth series | Part 1

Black grads aren’t making bad decisions about student loan debt

It’s the loans that are the bad idea.

Opinion

A man meditates as the sun sets at Kasar Devi in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.

IDEAS | ARJUN V.K. SHARMA

The 2,000-year-old practice that saved me

I became a physician to tend to the broken. And then I needed healing of my own.

MARCELA GARCÍA

What took so long for BPS to act on Mission Hill School?

IDEAS | STEPHANIE INVERSO

The real way to read an atlas

Blueprint for a coup comes into focus

Robinson Lalin’s family deserves answers about the Red Line accident that killed him — and compassion, too

The Globe turns 150

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150 YEARS OF THE BOSTON GLOBE

Scenes from a century and a half, as covered by the Boston Globe. We revisit some of the most impactful stories Globe journalists have covered, look back at 150 significant front pages, reflect on how the newsroom and Boston have changed, and much, much more.

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Wu says city to step in, provide support for children allegedly responsible for attacks
The children, some of whom are as young as 11 years old, are allegedly responsible for attacks in Boston Common, Downtown Crossing, and a McDonald’s restaurant in Roxbury.

Gary Washburn | Sunday basketball notes

Why Jeff Van Gundy believes the Celtics have what it takes to knock off the defending champion Bucks
Van Gundy credited Celtics president of basketball operations Brad Stevens with reshaping the roster to fit coach Ime Udoka’s needs for a standout defense.

Uncertainty surrounding double murder investigation keeps Concord, N.H., residents on edge
One week after the bodies of Djeswende and Stephen Reid were found in the woods of New Hampshire’s capital, residents remain nervous — and in the dark.

Whole Foods set to close up shop in Brookline

A Whole Foods Market on Beacon Street in Brookline will be closing its doors at the beginning of next month.

Trump, fighting contempt fines, says he doesn’t have records

Donald Trump’s lawyers, seeking to reverse their client’s $10,000-per-day contempt fine, provided a New York judge Friday with an affidavit in which the former president claims he didn’t turn over subpoenaed documents to the state attorney general’s office because he doesn’t have them.

Demonstrators at Moderna’s Cambridge headquarters demand company ‘stop hoarding vaccine science’

A group of demonstrators protesting outside Moderna’s Cambridge headquarters Saturday demanded the company license its mRNA vaccine technology to help add to the world’s supply of COVID-19 shots.

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Kaniya Bridgeman (standing front), director of community and culture with Boston While Black, celebrated during opening remarks at the organization's summit on Friday.

How to Boston While Black Summit appeals to city natives, newcomers

The underlying goal of the first-annual How to Boston While Black Summit, organizer Sheena Collier said, was to connect participants “to information, to job opportunities, to opportunities to just really be a part of Boston.”

ADRIAN WALKER

Holyoke Soldiers’ Home deaths are an enduring tragedy
The tragedy and travesty at the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home — in which 76 military veterans lost their lives to COVID — stands as one of this state’s most chilling losses in the pandemic.

HOMELESSNESS

He and his young family were once homeless. Now he works for the agency that helped them.
The tower manager of Crossroads Rhode Island knows exactly what it’s like to have no where to go. “You’re in this situation that you never thought you’d be in,” he said.

Lawmakers see ‘rapidly closing window’ to reform a 19th-century law that fueled the insurrection
Can Congress put new safeguards in place to save American democracy from another insurrection attempt — this one perhaps successful? The clock might be running out.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Philip Guston, "Web," 1975, The Museum of Modern Art.

The MFA recast artist Philip Guston amid a nationwide racial reckoning — here’s the result

Dafna Krouk-Gordon and her husband, Les Gordon, at Fine Arts Theatre Place in Maynard.

Could buying an old movie theater be the perfect retirement gig? This Lincoln couple is about to find out.

I fell in love with classical music thanks to video games

Projectionist Adrianne Jorge adjusts the focus at the beginning of a screening of "Broken Arrow" on 35mm film at the Somerville Theatre on April 26, 2022. “We often joke that we're, like, the man — or woman — behind the curtain," said Jorge.

In Boston, the craft of film projection is staging a bit of a cultural comeback

Special Projects

Paul Gunter.

Spotlight Team investigation

Unfinished Justice

The state’s high court in 2017 struck down a murder law that had condemned men who never killed to die behind bars. But what about those already facing that dire penalty? They are waiting.

Into the Red illustration.

Into the Red: How the Globe will cover climate change

To report on the most pressing issue of our time, the Globe’s climate team is expanding and rethinking its coverage.

Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

On the shores of Lake Victoria in southwestern Kenya, wooden fishing boats compete for space. Here, the practice of jaboya, or sex for fish, has entrapped local women who depend on fish as a source of income.

IDEAS | TONNY ONYULO

Upending the sex-for-fish economy in Kenya

Joan Wickersham

Some thoughts on ‘emerging’

Unlike Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, not only could I not sink a buzzer-beating skyhook in an NBA playoff game, I certainly did not act in the funniest movie ever made (Abdul-Jabbar played copilot Roger Murdock in “Airplane!," here with pilot Peter Graves), or run a foundation to promote STEM education among inner-city schoolchildren.

They’re all better than me!

An electronic highway sign on on Interstate 93 in Boston in 2014: “Changing Lanes? Use Yah Blinkah.”

Observations from a Tocquevillian tour of post-pandemic America

The current Supreme Court justices, seen in 2021. Stephen Breyer has announced his intention to retire this summer.

IDEAS | RICHARD M. RE

Here’s a way for Justice Jackson to reform the Supreme Court on her first day

IDEAS | CHARLES M. SENNOTT

The story of their lives

Metro

The Children’s Book Shop, Brookline gem that delighted young bibliophiles, shutters its doors

Social distancing wrought unique havoc on the shop, which struggled to endure a reduction in foot traffic driven by fears surrounding unvaccinated young children.

Walk for Hunger aims to raise more than $1 million in virtual event Sunday

The event begins Sunday morning at 10 and seeks to raise funds for those struggling with food insecurity throughout the state.

Literary agent, editor, and much more, Jill Kneerim dies at 83

She believed in the power of stories ‘to change the world.'

Demonstrators at Moderna’s Cambridge headquarters demand company ‘stop hoarding vaccine science’

A group of demonstrators protesting outside Moderna’s Cambridge headquarters Saturday demanded the company license its mRNA vaccine technology to help add to the world’s supply of COVID-19 shots.

Sports

From left: Jack Jones, Pierre Strong, Bailey Zappe, and Kevin Harris — four of the Patriots' Day 3 picks.

NFL Draft: Patriots add QB Bailey Zappe, DB Jack Jones, and two running backs on Day 3

Pierre Strong (South Dakota State) and Kevin Harris (South Carolina) will join a crowded running back room. The Patriots rounded out the draft with the selection of DT Sam Roberts, G Chasen Hines, and OL Andrew Stueber.

Joel Embiid receives attention from team trainers after taking an elbow to the head late in Thursday's Game 6 in Toronto.

Doc Rivers offers hopeful prognosis on Joel Embiid’s availability

Losing an MVP finalist is hard enough, but the fact it happened with a 29-point lead and 3:58 left in a game only makes it worse.

Rutgers' head coach C. Vivian Stringer, 74, announced Saturday she was retiring after 50 years of coaching women's college basketball.

Legendary Rutgers coach C. Vivian Stringer, 74, announces retirement after five decades in women’s college basketball

Stringer concludes a Hall of Fame career that saw 1,055 wins, four Final Four appearances and 28 NCAA tournament berths during stops at Cheyney State, Iowa and Rutgers.

BRENDAN KURIE | HS BASEBALL NOTEBOOK

Phillips Andover baseball ace Thomas White on the fast track as a can’t-miss prospect

Meet new Patriots QB Bailey Zappe, who blew up the record books in his one season at Western Kentucky

Christopher L. Gasper

Patriots again show they march to the beat of their own draft board

Business

Mexico Caribbean beaches may see worst sargassum since 2018

The arrival of heaps of brown sargassum on the coast's normally pristine white sand beaches comes just as tourism is recovering to pre-pandemic levels, though job recovery in the country's top tourist destination has been slower.

UN works to broker civilian evacuation from Mariupol

The mayor of Mariupol said the situation inside the steel plant that has become the southern port city’s last stronghold is dire, and citizens are “begging to get saved.”

Elon Musk fans solicit Twitter jobs by tweeting at him

White House pushes for accountability on infrastructure spending

magazine

From rock climbing to race car driving, let an expert be your guide for a New England adventure

The Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst is expected to reopen this summer.

A great time to visit Amherst is after the students clear out

I can’t tell if my boss wants to date me or if she’s just flirty

Artichoke Tart With Gouda and Herbs

Recipes: A brunch menu to impress mom on Mother’s Day

metro

Ray Champagne stood up as his name was called during the Introduction of Freed & Exonerated Community Members event at the Innocence Network Conference in Phoenix.

As more wrongful convictions unravel, exonerees help one another adjust to life beyond bars

Read the full results of the Suffolk/Globe poll on the Mass. governor’s race

As governor’s race comes into focus, it’s Maura Healey’s moment, new Suffolk/Globe poll finds

sports

The selection of guard Cole Strange at No. 29 doesn't move the needle enough for these Patriots.

Patriots again show they march to the beat of their own draft board

Meet new Patriot Pierre Strong, the top running back in FCS — and the fastest one in this year’s draft

Why Jeff Van Gundy believes the Celtics have what it takes to knock off the defending champion Bucks

business

The New York Stock Exchange building in New York, on March 23, 2022.

Dow closes over 900 points down Friday, with S&P falling 3.6 percent

Whole Foods set to close up shop in Brookline

California subpoenas ExxonMobil in probe of plastics waste

politics

Representative Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., left, and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., right, heckled President Biden as he delivered his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in March in Washington.

Greene and Boebert are ‘not quite buddy-buddy’ and other revelations from report on House Freedom Caucus

Former US Marine killed fighting in Ukraine, his family says

Lawmakers see ‘rapidly closing window’ to reform a 19th-century law that fueled the insurrection

Nation

Bill Murray speaks at the Governors Awards on Friday, March 25, 2022, at the Dolby Ballroom in Los Angeles. On Saturday, April 30, 2022, Murray acknowledged that his behavior on set led to a complaint from a woman and the suspension of filming on his latest movie.

Bill Murray says his behavior led to complaint, film’s pause

Tornado rips through Kansas, causes severe damage

Engineers discover 19 Revolutionary War cannons in Georgia’s Savannah River

World

Motorists waited at a gas station in Kyiv on Saturday, as the country sees fuel shortages.

Kremlin deploys new troops to Ukraine as both sides gird for a war of attrition

Ukraine fights to hold off Russian advances as UN tries to broker evacuation from Mariupol

Sunflower oil ‘vanishes’ as Ukraine war grinds on

opinion

Unlike Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, not only could I not sink a buzzer-beating skyhook in an NBA playoff game, I certainly did not act in the funniest movie ever made (Abdul-Jabbar played copilot Roger Murdock in “Airplane!," here with pilot Peter Graves), or run a foundation to promote STEM education among inner-city schoolchildren.

They’re all better than me!

Upending the sex-for-fish economy in Kenya

Crying need for support as pandemic weighs on students, teachers alike

lifestyle

Inside Porter Square Books: Boston Edition, which shares a space with GrubStreet in the Seaport District of Boston, at 50 Liberty Drive.

Where to celebrate 2022 Independent Bookstore Day in Greater Boston

Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month with these 7 Boston-area spring events

‘There’s still tire tracks on the floor.’ Days after two cars crashed into JP storefront, Papercuts Bookstore to reopen

food & dining

School of Mom founder Sarah Harmon will lead a group decompression session on World Maternal Mental Health Day.

Therapist Sarah Harmon led a primal mom-scream at the height of Omicron. Now, she’s ushering in a season for healing.

In a new location, Hei La Moon lives on

Serafina Seaport replaces Babbo; Eva moves into the former Cafeteria space

travel

Good Harbor Beach in Gloucester made Travel + Leisure's list of the best beaches in the US.

These 3 New England beaches were named among the best in the US by Travel + Leisure

A Brutalist beauty, the power of picture books, and an intimate Alaskan cruise

Chef Spike Mendelsohn’s recipe for a great trip includes margaritas, plenty of sleep, and his GoPro camera

Arts

Philip Guston's "Couple in Bed" from 1977. The work of the late artist has been given a major show at the Museum of Fine Arts. The show had been delayed over questions around disturbing imagery, including depictions of the Ku Klux Klan.

Are we ready to look at ‘Philip Guston Now’?

In Rixy’s world, cardboard beats canvas and the femmes are fierce

The figure as foundation in ‘You Had Me at Hello’

Books

Exposing mysteries of a small seaside town in ‘Vigil Harbor’

Reading when you’re looking for a challenge

Money, legacy, family, and lies all matters of ‘Trust’

Movies

Fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces in Syrian Kurdistan in "The Will to See."

Willing ourselves to see; looking back at Marilyn Monroe; and listening to John Wayne Gacy

In Boston, the craft of film projection is staging a bit of a cultural comeback

In ‘Petite Maman,’ a small-scale tale of childhood shifts into a fairy tale of sorts

Television

James Corden

James Corden’s decision to step down opens door to diversify late-night TV time slot

Creative opening sequences give shows a head start

CNN host John Berman tells viewers about medical emergency he suffered while running Boston Marathon

music

Boston Symphony Orchestra principal cellist Blaise Déjardin performing Saint-Saens's Cello Concerto No. 1 with the orchestra at Symphony Hall, with BSO music director Andris Nelsons conducting, on April 28, 2022.

BSO closes out Symphony Hall season with a hometown special

Streaming station Oh, Hello Boston plays homegrown music past and present, 24/7

I fell in love with classical music thanks to video games

Theater/Dance

Alvin Ailey's "Revelations" from 1960 closes out each of the Boston performances.

Even the oldest work on Alvin Ailey’s programs feels contemporary

World premieres from William Forsythe and Jorma Elo highlight Boston Ballet’s ‘MINDscape’ program

After a three-year absence, Alvin Ailey returns to Boston April 28-May 1

globe local

State Police recruits at their graduation in Worcester last year.

Former State Police head and three others violated ethics law by altering arrest report for judge’s daughter, Ethics Commission alleges

Making it safe for kids to take the plunge

The Argument: Should regular commuter rail service be restored to Hyannis?

Obituaries

Those who worked with Jill Kneerim would say, “This is the best editor I’ve ever worked with, the best friend I’ve ever had,” said literary agent Ike Williams, cofounder with Ms. Kneerim of the Kneerim & Williams Agency.

Literary agent, editor, and much more, Jill Kneerim dies at 83

Naomi Judd, of Grammy-winning duo The Judds, dies at 76

Max Glauben, Holocaust survivor who helped found Dallas museum, dies at 94