Three ministers chained themselves to Faneuil Hall Wednesday afternoon to urge city officials to rename the historic town meeting hall and marketplace named for Peter Faneuil, a colonial merchant who ...
BOSTON - A new exhibit is set to officially open at Faneuil Hall on Friday but a local advocacy group is protesting the event, citing an inappropriate location for the exhibit. The exhibit takes ...
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston City Council on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a resolution that calls for renaming Faneuil Hall, a popular tourist site that is named after a wealthy merchant who owned ...
SHOULD BE RENAMED TO HAVE THE HALL NAMED AFTER HIM. IT JUST SEEMS SUCH AN AFFRONT TO SO MANY PEOPLE. PROTESTERS CONFRONTING BOSTON MAYOR MICHELLE WU OUTSIDE FANEUIL HALL. THEY’RE ANGRY. THE HALL IS ...
At the half century mark, Faneuil Hall Marketplace has lost direction and is badly in need of rejuvenation. Almost no one can ...
Changing the name would obscure every act of defiance that activists engaged in when they stepped foot into the hall. WATCH: Editor-at-large Mark Morrow explains the dark history of Peter Faneuil and ...
Across the country, demonstrators roused to action by the killing of George Floyd have called new attention to how we look at and commemorate history. Protesters have pulled down monuments to ...
BOSTON – A Boston City Council member is trying to change the name of Faneuil Hall over its ties to slavery. Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson called the name an "anti-Black symbol" because Faneuil ...
The Boston City Council overwhelmingly backed renaming Fanueil Hall Wednesday as a way of reckoning with the city’s history of racism and involvement with the transatlantic slave trade. The vote, on a ...
An exhibit detailing the history of slavery in Boston opens in Faneuil Hall on Friday. The two-floor "Slavery in Boston" exhibit highlights the lives of individual enslaved African and Native American ...