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By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The city’s new reparations commission met for the first time Thursday night, six months after its creation and a week after the City Council approved $30,000 to help pay for a staff member to help the panel complete its work. Members of...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — The City Council revealed on Thursday some details on how the city’s joint commission to investigate racial harms against Black residents and workers will be structured. The City Council unanimously passed a resolution in February to...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — When Garrick Perry told his grandmother 25 years ago that he was moving to Northampton from Washington, D.C., she reacted with skepticism.“I remember my grandmother when I was deciding to move here, she had a fear that I was going to the...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Proponents of establishing a commission on reparations in Northampton for African Americans are lobbying the City Council to pass a resolution on the issue in February, coinciding with Black History Month. The Northampton Reparations...

By BERA DUNAU

NORTHAMPTON — The theft of a Northampton activist’s lawn sign has stirred up a firestorm online centering on ethics, free speech and race.Billy Park noticed June 6 that a lawn sign he had displayed in his front yard on Crescent Street — depicting a...