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The 128th Boston Marathon which will be run on Monday, April 15 has a special significance for Greeks in America. Begun in 1897, the event was inspired by the success of the first marathon competition in the 1896 Athens...

Thousands of Greek Americans and philhellenes celebrated National Independence Day in Boston and Chicago by attending the annual parades on Sunday. The parade in Boston commemorating Greece’s march to freedom which began on March 25th, 1821 began at 1 o’clock just...

The Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Boston is offering 2024-2025 academic year scholarship opportunities for US and Canadian students who are of Greek descent or of the Greek Orthodox Faith. The scholarships will be offered to students entering their second, third,...

Stylianos Kyriakides, was a Greek Cypriot marathon runner who won the Boston Marathon in 1946 with the goal of raising funds to provide food and shelter to Greeks suffering from severe poverty following the Second World War and the Greek...

The 10th International Summer University Greek language, culture, and mass media program will take place in Boston from May 28 to June 2, 2024. The program is organized by The Laboratory for the Study of Social Issues, Mass Media and...

Greece's Acropolis Museum has loaned an ancient statue of a young woman, known as kore, to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), where it is on view through January 8, 2024 in the Museum’s Art of Ancient Greece,...

Greek-American Fotios “Freddy” Geas, along with other two men, has been charged with the 2018 prison killing of the notorious Boston crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger. On Thursday, the Justice Department said, Geas, the 55-year-old who authorities also say was...

The Greek capital of Athens and the US city of Boston are to become 'Sister Cities' after a decision reached by Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis and the mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu. The two mayors met in Boston where Bakoyannis...

There will be free admission for all at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts on December 18 as the Museum celebrates the reopening of the Behrakis Wing, housing several Ancient Greek and Roman galleries. The museum, which has important holdings...

The Consul General of Greece, Stratos Efthymiou, presented four golden olive branch wreaths for the Boston Marathon winners to the Boston Athletic Association. The wreaths were presented during the Boston Marathon Opening Ceremony and they will crown the winners of Monday's...

Boston Athletic Association officials announced that the 125th annual Boston Marathon will honor Marathon history and the future of running this year, with a special nod to the Greek winner from 1946, Stylianos Kyriakides. A flag showing the Greek war hero's...

Greek heritage and the Bicentennial of Greek Independence was celebrated on Monday at Boston's Fenway Park in a ceremony that took place before the Red Sox and Kansas City Royals' clash. Greek Heritage Night was organized by the Alpha Omega...

Boston’s Greek-American community commemorated two eminent Bostonians, Samuel Gridley Howe and Edward Everett, who helped the Greek cause.

Boston, Massachusetts celebrated the Greek Bicentennial this week with illuminations, flag-raising ceremonies and other events.

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts will be bedecked in the blue and white to mark Greece's bicentennial tonight and Thursday, March 25.