Boston

Even great actors get tripped up by the Boston accent. Or maybe Bostonians are just too quick to find fault.

A Syrian mother in Massachusetts worried her young daughter was losing her formal Arabic — fusha. So, she came up with a plan that involved cartoons dubbed in Arabic.

Day after anxious day, a mother who escaped gang violence with her children in El Salvador waits in Boston to know whether she and her family can stay in the US legally or not.

“I think it was just cool to see everyone together, to see something positive in the school.”

In the middle of graduation season, a free speech debate is playing out online — and on campus — at New England’s largest university. Racially charged tweets from an incoming Boston University professor are raising questions about whether academics in the public eye should have the right to share their private opinions on social media.