BOSTON – A Boston City Council member is trying to change the name of Faneuil Hall over its ties to slavery. Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson called the name an "anti-Black symbol" because Faneuil ...

Quincy Market in Faneuil Hall Marketplace. Boston City Council members voted to change the name of Faneuil Hall, named after prominent colonial slave trader Peter Fanueil. CLARE ONG/DFP FILE A ...

BOSTON - A new exhibit is set to officially open at Faneuil Hall on Friday but a local advocacy group is protesting the event, citing an inappropriate location for the exhibit. The exhibit takes ...

BOSTON (AP) — Boston’s City Council on Wednesday is expected to debate whether to hold a hearing on renaming Faneuil Hall, a popular tourist site that is named after a wealthy merchant who owned and ...

Re “Peter Faneuil: Merchant prince. Philanthropist. Slave Trader.” by Brian MacQuarrie (Page A1, Sept. 17): Thank you for your front-page article about Peter Faneuil and (of crucial significance) the ...

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Three ministers chained themselves to Faneuil Hall Wednesday afternoon to urge city officials to rename the historic town meeting hall and marketplace named for Peter Faneuil, a colonial merchant who ...

BOSTONBOSTON — The Boston City Council on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a resolution that calls for renaming Faneuil Hall, a popular tourist site that is named after a wealthy merchant who owned ...

Peter Faneuil donated the building known today as Faneuil Hall to Boston in 1742. Today, about 20 million people pass through the marketplace every year. But besides to being a merchant and a ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. A child of French Huguenot refugees, Peter Faneuil was a mercantile businessman and philanthropist. Faneuil’s fortune ...

One of Boston's biggest attractions is named for former slave owner Peter Faneuil. There's been a debate over whether the collection of shops and restaurants should be renamed. Faneuil Hall is one of ...

Across the country, demonstrators roused to action by the killing of George Floyd have called new attention to how we look at and commemorate history. Protesters have pulled down monuments to ...