Boston abolitionist Charles Sumner championed equality before the law long before Brown v. Board. A new biography reveals his overlooked fight for school desegregation and justice in America.

After yesterday preliminary election, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is a step closer to re-election.

Tufts University professor Eitan Hersh says colleges like the one he works at are too ideologically narrow — shutting out ideas from conservatives, religious people and others outside the academic mainstream.

Boston University researchers tested whether partnering with influencers can help combat health misinformation and help spread more accurate health advice.

Josh Kraft joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss the state of his campaign for Boston mayor.

HubSpot, a software company headquartered in Cambridge, has a dwindling presence in Mass.

Francesca Dominici, a Harvard biostatician whose lab lost more than $5 million when the Trump administration froze research money to Harvard, joins WBUR's Morning Edition.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss how the city is preparing for a potential surge of federal immigration enforcement.

The mayor said that urban school systems around the country, including Boston Public Schools, are anticipating declines in attendance.

Reporters at The New Bedford Light are documenting the stories of some of the 50-plus immigrants from the New Bedford area they've found have been detained by ICE, and in some cases deported, since President Trump took office.