Kennedy has been weighing a Senate run for weeks and multiple media outlets reported late Wednesday that he'll formally announce it Saturday in East Boston.
U.S. Senator and 2020 presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren made the announcement in a Youtube video on Monday, calling Markey “a champion in the Senate."
Members want Kennedy to run because he comes from a line of senators, because he supports gay rights as well as action on climate change and gun violence.
Businessman Steve Pemberton spent his childhood bouncing through the foster care system in New Bedford. Now he hopes to take that experience to Congress.
Three year old Steve Pemberton of New Bedford, MA, was a fair-complexioned boy with blue eyes, a curly Afro, a Polish last name and a victim of insulting and disparaging foster parents who told him he didn't have a 'chance in the world.' This local, wounded and broken child was destined to become a man of resilience, determination, vision and hope...