Photos of May spring rituals: commencements, Celtics playoffs, Boston Calling
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Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum grimaced in pain on the floor during game four of the NBA Eastern Conference semifinal against the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden on May 12. Tatum ruptured his right Achilles tendon in the final minutes of Boston's loss.
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A pedestrian walked on Boylston Street at an intersection by Massachusetts Avenue in Boston on May 15.
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Lilah Bilotta, 7, threw out her arms to run through the sea of American flags as she took a break from helping to create the Memorial Day Flag Garden on Boston Common on May 21. Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund and Home Base planted more than 37,000 flags for Memorial Day in honor of Massachusetts veterans who gave their lives.
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Bernardino Chavarría and his daughter Nahomy, 18, passed beneath a giant American flag painted by her classmates that read, 'The American Dream,' at Champlain Valley Union High School. Teachers and administrators scrambled to put together a graduation for Nahomy and her sister, who had chosen with their family to self-deport after the Trump administration sought to terminate the parole program that they had come to the United States under.
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Nahomy Chavarría (left) embraced her sister Andrea during a reception held for them after a special commencement exercise of the Champlain Valley Union High School in Williston, Vt.
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Mohsen Mahdawi kneeled to examine a plant while on a hike on his land in Fairlee, Vt., on May 7. Mahdawi, a Palestinian national and Columbia student, was arrested by ICE agents last month when he showed up for a citizenship meeting. He faces deportation.
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Juan Francisco Mendez hugged his wife, Marilu Domingo Ortiz, and their 9-year-old son in their home in New Bedford on May 16. A native of Guatemala, Méndez was detained by immigration officials for 30 days before his release.
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Members of the singing group O.G. (Original Gentlemen), from left, Robert Rose, Albert Brown, and Jabir Pope, performed an a cappella song during a rally for the wrongfully convicted outside the Massachusetts State House in Boston on May 21. The demonstration commemorated the five-year anniversary of George Floyd's murder while advocating for criminal justice reform.
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A woman wore a poncho to protect herself from wind-blown rain on Atlantic Avenue during a rare spring nor'easter in Boston on May 22.
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Members of the class of 2025 attended Harvard University's 374th commencement in Cambridge on May 29.
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Jess Frey, a yoga educator, leapt from one of her favorite sitting spots by a stream at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in Stockbridge. 'Sometimes in life we all are invited to change - leap - jump - step - transform into new ways of being (personal and collective as a world)," she wrote in an email.
Martha and Howard Kaloogian (center), founders of Grace New England church in Weare, N.H., worshipped with other congregants at a prayer service in the barn on their property on May 3.
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Reenactor Doug Ozelius played the part of a fatally shot Royal Navy sailor during a staged skirmish on the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Chelsea Creek celebration in East Boston on May 24. The Revolution's first naval battle involved colonial militia facing off with British troops and the HMS Diana. It ended with a victory for the colonists and the destruction of the British schooner.
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A jogger ran on the North Point Pedestrian Bridge in Cambridge on May 14. The Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge loomed in the background.
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Fans cheered after Boston Celtics center Al Horford made a 3-point basket during the second quarter in game five of the NBA Eastern Conference semifinal against the New York Knicks at TD Garden.
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Hubbardston Militia reenactor Bella Kaldera secured a tricorner Revolutionary War hat as a modern-day Coast Guard helicopter landed at Beverly High School during a Warrior Weekend event on May 18.
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