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Food historian Susan Benjamin takes us back in time to trace the surprising history of strawberries in New England.

The Boston Celtics, NBA champions for the 18th time, crossed town for a parade Friday, and more than a few Bostonians showed up to cheer from the sidelines.

The new PEACE program is aimed at helping women prisoners under 30 learn life skills that will help keep them out of prison.

The neighborhood school model was a big driver of inequity among Boston public schools in the years before mandatory busing. BPS is hoping that a new kind of school model will rebuild trust among families and the schools they live near.

The 2024 Boston Celtics crushed the league from start to finish on the way to the franchise’s historic 18th banner, writes Khari Thompson. But if you really want to understand this championship team, you need to first tell the story of their failures. 

Before busing, civil rights thinkers devised a solution for bad education: freedom schools.

By 1975, many elementary school students were bused from Chinatown to schools in Charlestown. Today, there's still a significant number of Chinese students attending a Charlestown elementary school. Still, 50 years after court-ordered desegregation, providing bilingual students with a solid education is difficult to achieve.

Boston schools are more segregated now than than they were 30 years ago. Did integration fail, or did the people?

Since the end of mandatory busing in 1988, white students in the Boston public schools have tended to 'cluster' once again in a small handful of select schools, due to parent choice, persistent neighborhood segregation — and district policy.

Reporter Simón Rios joins WBUR's Morning Edition to talk about the storylines of Celtics' historic season and what could be next for the young team.