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Annual Census
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State law requires the City to complete an annual census to update the voter roll. Learn more about how to add your name to the census:
Thomas W. Piper was a devout Baptist church-goer and became a sexton at the large, prosperous Warren Avenue Baptist Church in Boston’s South End. But he was also a convicted serial killer.
Melnea Cass, known as “ The First Lady of Roxbury”, was a noted community organizer and activist who pushed and protested for educational and economic opportunities for African Americans.
April 5, 2022, is the Ching Ming Festival (known as Tomb-Sweeping Day in English), a day when people of Chinese descent visit the tombs of their ancestors to clean the gravesites.