Posts tagged: Massachusetts

Re-upping: Barack Obama’s Apartment from Harvard Days

November 1, 2020 | By Fritz Holznagel

Future president Barack Obama lived in a basement apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts while he attended Harvard Law School — living in a not-so-fancy part of town to save money, as …..

Aaron Hernandez walks across a football field. He is muscular, with short hair; both arms are covered with tattoos, and he wears red receiver's gloves.

Aaron Hernandez Hangs Himself in Prison

April 19, 2017 | By Fritz Holznagel

Aaron Hernandez — convicted murderer, acquitted double-murder suspect, and former million-dollar NFL star — is dead. Hernandez hanged himself in his prison cell at the Souza-Baranowski Correction Center, a maximum-security prison about …..

Paul Cuffe Biography: New!

February 5, 2013 | By Paul Hehn

 For Black History Month, we have a featured biography of Paul Cuffe — the Massachusetts mariner who was the richest African American of his time.

Mitt Romney’s Hat Almost In Ring

April 11, 2011 | By Paul Hehn

Former Massachusetts governor and 2008 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced today that he’s decisively almost to the point of running for the office of U.S. president again.