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Shamso Ahmed smiles with red lipstick and a white hijab
Massachusetts gets its first hair salon that’s exclusively for women who wear hijab
(From right) Muhammad Anwar and Hussein Muhammad (wearing a hat) chat with Ibrahim Rashid, an intern with IINE (center), and a community member.
Conflict
Two Rohingya refugees start a new life in Boston
South Vietnam fall of saigon
Culture
Vietnamese Americans in Boston mark the day their country ceased to exist
Newton
Conflict
A caustic Trumpian tone invades Newton’s politics
Yuriy Blyakhman and Sabina Roytman own several grocery stores in the Boston area that carry international food, particularly serving people from the former Soviet Bloc.
Global Politics
Older Russian Americans in Boston are applauding the Putin-Trump thing. Millennials just say ‘nyet.’
Boston's ballot interpreters work the phones at City Hall.
Election 2016
How Boston helps its non-English-speaking voters fill out their ballots