National Center of Afro–American Artists, Alianza Hispana,[111] Sociedad Latina de South Boston,[111] Community Change and city Council on Aging[30] established.
April 19: City shuts down for manhunt of marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. His brother Tamerlan died in a shootout with Watertown Police three after the tragedy. Towards the end of the manhunt, Dzhokhar was found hidden in a boat in a Watertown backyard. He was surrounded by police and was later taken into custody.
October 30: The Boston Red Sox, in an end-of-year triumph, win the 2013 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals; the first win at Fenway Park since 1918, and the third they've won since 2004.
November 14: Bulger was sentenced to two consecutive life terms plus five years for his crimes by U.S. District Judge Denise Casper.[218] As of January 10, 2014 Bulger is currently incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary in Tucson, Arizona.
August 18: Thousands march from Roxbury to Boston Common to protest white nationalism a week after violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. They protest a gathering of a hundred self-identified free speech advocates associated with the alt-right.[237]
August, 20: the .boston top-level internet domain (GeoTLD) officially started taking registrations.[238]
2019
Long-time Dudley Square is officially renamed Nubian Square.
2020s
2020
March: Boston was hardest-hit by COVID-19 pandemic, Mayor Marty Walsh declares state of emergency, which put few thousands of residents out of work, issued strict local stay-at-home orders, and shifted others to work at home.
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John Bassett McCleary (2004). "Anti-War Events". The Hippie Dictionary: A Cultural Encyclopedia of the 1960s and 1970s. Ten Speed Press. pp.602+. ISBN978-1-58008-547-2.
"Cities, Towns league adds two to staff". Boston Globe. July 24, 1961. p.19. The Massachusetts League of Cities and Towns will open its headquarters at 8 Beacon st., Aug. 1, it was announced last night by the organization's president, Mayor Philip J. Crowley of Everett.
Bray, Hiawatha (August 10, 2017). "The dot-Boston domain is now open". Retrieved February 18, 2018. The .boston domain was initially awarded to the city of Boston and the Boston Globe in 2012, but the media company sold off nearly all its interests in the venture to Minds + Machines Group Limited, a company specializing in the operation of Internet domains. The Globe retains a small ownership percentage in the new domain and will receive some revenue from the sale of .boston addresses.
Jack Beatty (1992), Rascal King: the Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874–1958, Addison-Wesley, OL1708166M
Adelaide M. Cromwell (1994), The Other Brahmins: Boston's Black Upper Class, 1750–1950, University of Arkansas Press, OL1430545M
Thomas H. O'Connor (1995). Building a New Boston: Politics and Urban Renewal, 1950–1970. University Press of New England. OL1737146M.
Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, ed. (1999), "Boston", Africana: the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, New York: Basic Civitas Books, p.286+, OL43540M
published in the 21st century
Walter Muir Whitehill (2000), Boston: a Topographical History (3rded.), Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, OL58903M
Boston City Council (2007), D. Paul Koch, Jr. (ed.), Boston City Charter(PDF)
Neil Miller (2010), Banned in Boston: the Watch and Ward Society's Crusade Against Books, Burlesque, and the Social Evil, Boston: Beacon Press, ISBN9780807051122