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An Adams, Massachusetts Catholic church that closed in December and has been the subject of an extended protest is now being celebrated in a new calendar. WFCR's Tina Antolini has more.

Now that President Obama is in office, Congress is expected to quickly pass several pieces of legislation to address some of the country's most pressing problems. Congressman Richard Neal (D) of Springfield, Massachusetts, was...

The Inauguration of the 44th American president may have been a notable day in US history but as WFCR's Jill Kaufman reports, on the day the country's first African American president was sworn in, some people were just going...

November's presidential election inspired unprecedented interest from the nation's youth, and thousands of young people from around the country have traveled to Washington, DC, for today's inauguration. as WFCR's Tina Antolini...

UMASS 19th century history and African American studies professor Manisha Sinha frames the long road from the abolitionists to the Obama campaign workers.

Federal agents have arrested three men in connection with the fire that destroyed a Springfield, Massachusetts church the day after Barack Obama's presidential victory.WFCR's Tina Antolini reports.

The Obama presidential transition team has announced that one of the first executive orders the President-Elect will issue is the closure of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. But doing so is not as simple as a...