BROCKTON – In the rotunda of City Hall, history was made Tuesday when the city held its first African American flag-raising ceremony to celebrate Black History Month. Mayor Robert Sullivan's office ...

When Rupal Ramesh Shah and Anup Kumar Kanodia decided to get married, they knew they wanted to infuse their wedding with the cultures – Indian, East African and American – that had nurtured them.

Once a symbolic way for enslaved people in the American South to recognize their marriages, modern couples say that this tradition is a way to honor those who did it before them. By Bridgette Bartlett ...