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...Washington Supremes Rule on Race In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court narrowed the scope of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act, passed in 1965 in part to increase the number of black officeholders. The Justices ruled that the act requires states to create new voting districts only when the new district will have a minority population greater than 50%. Dissenting Justices argued that even districts without such a majority are worth creating, because they encourage the election of minority candidates with the help of concentrated minority populations and so-called crossover white voters. Later this year, the court...
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Representatives of Lesley University, including its president, Joseph B. Moore, said that they agreed that the church should be granted the status, but maintained that the proposed alterations should not be written off due to the building’s designation as a landmark...
...meeting of the Cambridge Historical Commission last night, board members and Cambridge residents debated whether North Prospect Congregational Church would be given historical landmark status—a designation that may prevent Lesley University from expanding the structure to house an art library. The church, which is located near Porter Square, is one of only seven pre-Civil War structures still standing in the city. The university bought the building in 2006 to house the Art Institute of Boston, which it acquired...
...Commission voted to designate the structure as a historical landmark according to the recommendations of a report commissioned 16 months ago. But William B. King, the chair of the commission, said that they did not fully adopt all of the report’s findings—which include strict bans on any changes to the outside facade of the building—because they were too “prescriptive and restrictive...