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BOSTON — As more people discuss and confront racism in the country, a group is renewing an effort to rename an iconic Boston landmark. New Democracy Coalition hosted a speak-out at City Hall Plaza Monday afternoon to call for Boston officials to change the name of Faneuil Hall. The group has pushed for a change in recent years because activists say the building's namesake, Peter Faneuil, was a slave owner and trafficker.

A Worcester man has been ordered to stay out of Boston after pleading not guilty to charges of rape and theft, after allegedly picking up an intoxicated woman near Faneuil Hall, raping her, using her debit card and later telling cops “you can ask for sex and get sex if you want.” Alois Mutare, 42, appeared in Suffolk Superior Court last week for his arraignment, after being indicted on charges of rape and five larceny counts. He posted a $25,000 surety for his release.

A group advocating to rename Faneuil Hall because of its namesake's ties to slavery will re-enact a slave auction outside the historic downtown building this weekend. The New Democracy Coalition says Saturday's event is designed to call attention to Boston's history of slavery. The building known as the Cradle of Liberty is named after Peter Faneuil, a wealthy 18th century slave owner who financed construction as a gift to the city.

Activists are planning to boycott Boston's Faneuil Hall after their calls for a name change to the historic site, which is named after a slave owner, have went unanswered. The hall has served as a home for civic rhetoric from the time colonists congregated to talk about freedom from the British.

There is a new push to change the name of a Boston landmark due to its ties to slavery. At a press conference with Boston religious leaders Wednesday, Kevin Peterson, of the New Democracy Coalition, said Faneuil Hall should be renamed. Peterson said Peter Faneuil shouldn’t be memorialized on one of Boston’s historic sites because he was a slave owner and trader. Faneuil was a wealthy man who donated the building to the city of Boston right before his death in 1743. The building took two years to construct and was named for Faneuil after his death. Peterson suggested the...

A group pushing to change the name of iconic marketplace Faneuil Hall is now calling for a national “black-led boycott” of the tourist site after being “avoided and rebuffed” by Mayor Martin J. Walsh, according to its founder. Kevin Peterson said the New Democracy Coalition has been reaching out to the mayor for more than a year and a half about a name change through letters, press conferences and office visits.

BOSTON (CBS) — How would you feel if Faneuil Hall was renamed? Boston religious leaders gathered on Wednesday at the historic building to condemn the violence in Charlottesville. That is when Kevin Peterson, founder of the New Democracy Coalition, suggested it. “Here in this very place on this very ground, we see an embarrassment to the community of color in Boston, an embarrassment to white people of good mind and good spirit in Boston because this place is named after a man who engaged in the sale of human flesh and we should be quite frankly embarrassed by that. I’ve...

Boston police are preparing for the possibility that President Obama will make a visit to Fenway Park tomorrow night, sometime during Game 6 of the World Series. The White House schedule has not listed an appearance at Fenway during Obama’s planned visit to Faneuil Hall tomorrow afternoon. But a law enforcement source tells the Herald that Boston police are not ruling it out and they are including it in their contingency planning. City officials announced preliminary security plans for the home game at a press conference today. They are asking fans with tickets to take the T if possible. For...

Boston's Faneuil Hall, built in 1742, is known as the "Cradle of Liberty." It was there that Samuel Adams and other patriots fomented the American Revolution. On Tuesday, Sept 13, 2005, British Member of Parliament (MP) George Galloway, flanked by a bust of John Adams and a portrait of George Washington, defiled Faneuil Hall by bouncing a torrent of anti-U.S, anti-West pro-Islamist invective off its hallowed walls. The event, sponsored by the radical-Left Traprock Peace Center, the International Socialist Review, and the anti-Israel National Council of Arab Americans, began with a cavalcade of minor anti-U.S., anti-Western, and anti-Israel speakers. Annie...

<p>After a somber ceremony at Faneuil Hall yesterday, Holocaust survivors joined some of the men who helped free them from Nazi death camps, and celebrated the unveiling of the Liberators' Monument, raising an American flag and embracing US Army veterans from World War II.</p>