Join Jamaica Plain History Society on Zoom for a reading of the play Sophia Hayden Deserves Better by Stephanie Alison Walker. In 1891 a brilliant 23-year-old woman from Jamaica Plain won an architecture contest to design the Woman’s Building for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. What should have been the start to a flourishing career in architecture became career-ending. Throughout the two-year process of building The Woman’s Building, the architect quietly endured bullying, micromanaging…

People are knocking on our doors or stuffing our mailboxes full with offers from electricity providers that sound confusingly similar and promise the lowest rates from the greenest energy sources. How can Boston residents make the best choice among so many electricity offers? Third party commercial suppliers are using predatory practices to trap vulnerable people into contracts with their companies. They primarily target people from low-income households, immigrants, elderly people, and communities of color in…