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Mayor leads city forum on racism
Discussion is first of several city-wide conversations planned By KAREN MORALES
The Cutler Majestic Theatre was at full capacity on Saturday morning with students, educators, elected officials, community organizers and other Boston residents who were ready to have a difficult but necessary talk. Mayor Martin Walsh, in partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities, the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and Emerson College, hosted a public discussion on the state of racism in Boston and the steps the city can take to become more “socially cohesive and resilient.” “This is the right conversation in the right time to have it, in the right city,” said the mayor, who described seeing sadness and frustration among the people of Boston the day after the presidential election results. The event’s keynote speakers included James Rooney, president of the Boston Chamber of Commerce; Otis Rolley, 100 Resilient Cities regional director for Africa and North America; Debby Irving,
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www.100resilientcities.org author of “Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race”; Ceasar McDowell, MIT professor of community development; and two teen empowerment organizers, Kendra Gerald and Dante Omorogbe. Before an audience of 600 people, each speaker spoke to what had been for many years in Boston the elephant in the room. “As a city, we’re hanging on to a whole lot of messed up crap,” said Rooney, referring to Boston’s history of redlining, segregation, hostility and school desegregation. He announced that the Chamber of Commerce will be engaged in
See RACE DIALOGUE, page 16
Students, officials react to heightened racial tensions By YAWU MILLER
As Bostonians continue to grapple with the shockwaves emanating from businessman Donald Trump’s upset victory in the 2016 presidential election, a group of Bostonians gathered at Northeastern University’s John D. O’Bryant African American Institute to take stock of where the nation is heading. “Like all of you, I woke up to a new world,” said moderator
Jose Masso, who campaigned for Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire on Election Day. “People are frightened,” said one audience member. “Frightened that they’re going to lose their housing. Frightened that they’re going to lose their benefits.” In Boston and across the country, activists have taken to social media and the streets, chanting “Not my president” to protest Trump’s victory. Last week’s
forum, co-hosted by the O’Bryant Institute, Portraits of Purpose Initiative and the Northeastern University Black Student Association, was aimed at facilitating dialogue in what for many is a difficult time. “The world shifted since we planned this whole thing,” said Libby Shufro, one of the event organizers. “But we know, regardless of who landed the presidency, we the people need to keep our eyes on the prize and advocate for
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City releases Boston 2030 draft Seeks expansion at neighborhood edges By YAWU MILLER
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Mayor Martin Walsh addresses reporters during the release of a draft of the city’s Boston 2030 plan.
Boston’s population is projected to make a population jump of 20 percent by 2050 to 800,000 residents. To absorb the increase, city officials are planning to expand existing neighborhoods while preserving open space, according to a strategic plan entitled “Expanding Opportunity,” released last week. “Expanding Opportunity,”
a draft of which was released last week, is aimed at creating a “healthy, thriving and innovative city for 2030 and beyond,” according to the city’s website. It also addresses managing the influx of residents and the resulting pressures on housing affordability, transit and quality of life. “We have to identify areas where we can grow,” said Mayor Martin Walsh, during a meeting with reporters on Nov. 17. “We have 47 square miles, and there are
areas where we can’t grow.” Boston is in the midst of a building boom, with nearly 10,000 new units constructed in the last two years and an additional 39,000 units either planned or under construction. But so far, much of that construction has been luxury units that are out of reach of the majority
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Municipal planners discuss designing with equity in mind By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
In the midst of a growing city, urban designers, planning officials, members of community development corporations and others gathered at Boston Exposition Center last Wednesday to discuss what it means to design with an equity lens. The discussion came as part of a two-day Architecture Boston Expos (ABX) symposium. Among the complications, many said, is that those who make policy decisions often may not share the culture or perspective of those who ultimately are affected. Madeleine Taylor, a social anthropologist, co-authored a report on Boston’s immigrant experience, entitled “Immigrant Engagement in Public Open Spaces: Strategies for the New Boston.” During interviews for that report, she said she discovered that many new Bostonians have different expectations and desires for the use of public space that, under current models for thinking about such areas, may be unmet. Her interview subjects ranged from a Haitian immigrant in Mattapan, who missed having a outdoor space to practice religious rituals that she did not feel were understood or welcomed in her new community, to a soccer-loving boy from El Salvador, who missed the chance to play the sport without the strict regulations of the local league. In many ways, urban planning has not caught up with actual use of the city, some speakers said. Tamara Roy, president of the Boston Society of Architects, noted that while two-thirds of Bostonians currently live in single and two-person households, only one-third of the housing stock fulfills a need for one-bedrooms and studios. The remainder, she said, comprises large-family housing. Monica Tibbits-Nutt, executive director of the 128 Business Council and a member of the MBTA Fiscal Management and Control Board, said much of local transit was put in place 40 years ago, and fails to connect people to jobs and education, based on where a lot of people now live and work. Many planners have gotten distracted — whether by disputes over costs or by the lure of rolling out fancy bus stop designs — from their
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City planners and designers meet during the two-day Architecture Boston Expos symposium. core mission and public service duty that involves connecting people to where they need to go, she said. “Yes, we need bus stops, but honestly, I think people just want to be able to get to school and work in a reasonable amount of time that doesn’t disrupt their lives, and they want to get there safely,” Tibbits-Nutt said.
True engagement
Speakers underscored the need to engage residents in shaping their communities and incorporate and build from any local planning efforts already underway. Not only are residents the ones able to truly express what they want, but they also bring institutional memory and a deeper understanding of which people and which facilities are playing critical roles in the community — such as the bodega that may keep the area from becoming a food desert, said Allentza Michel, coordinator of the Fairmount Indigo Network. “We need to start looking at residents as co-experts in any process,” Michel said.
Meetings need to be accessible, held in the communities and spaces where people are, as well as include provisions to facilitate attendance, such as childcare and disability accessibility, Michel said. Noting that many MBTA meetings have been called at the last minute or held during times when people with jobs cannot reach them, Tibbits-Nutt called for rethinking the approach to public engagement.
Flexibility
Many at the symposium also highlighted the need for flexibility in thinking and a willingness among planners to deviate from the traditional views and practices, in order to shape ideas to needs — a “form follows function” approach. That includes viewing job opportunities that are unshackled from traditional fulltime, 40 hour-perweek positions. Entrepreneurship, including working more than one job simultaneously, should be considered, said one group of attendees. Recognizing the reality of the new economy also means new housing ideas, such as adjusting zoning
to permit small units designed for compact living, said BSA’s Ray.
Fairmount example
Equitable urban design is not only about weaving inclusive practices into new projects. It also involves selection of projects that answer existing inequities, presenters said. The Fairmount Corridor is one vivid example: This section of the city is the least accessible to the public, does not possess large public open spaces and has the highest concentration of unemployment. Attendees were asked to use the area as a concrete example so as to ground their thinking in equity ideas. During the breakout discussion sessions, attendees emphasized the need to engage insider understanding of neighborhoods in order to tailor design to specific local needs. For instance, three-family homes are popular in Mattapan, where there still is a demand for intergenerational housing, said folks from that neighborhood. Another underlying message: Avoid designing a parcel
in isolation, and view it within a wider context, including its impact on the larger community. Some projects, for example, may prove disruptive to the fabric of community. While a neighborhood can absorb a few houses with a revolving door of tenants, too much turnover can become disruptive, several attendees said, during a breakout discussion in connection with Talbot Ave. Other projects, such as community gardens and other common spaces, can play a role beyond their immediate use and strengthen community ties. These spaces provide opportunities for residents to come together and bond as a community, observed Vivien Morris, chair of Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition.
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Municipal officials anticipate challenges under Trump admin. Contradictions in president-elect’s promises, policy positions creates atmosphere of uncertainty for officials in U.S. cities By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
Cities have been powerful policy players under Barack Obama’s administration, able to take local action on initiatives that otherwise stalled in Congress. Meanwhile, Donald Trump drew the bulk of his support from rural areas and ran under the Republican party ticket at a time when most mayors are Democrats. A panel of Boston University researchers and federal and local officials gathered in D.C. in an event livestreamed last week during which they contemplated what the future of local power and the role of mayors may be under the next presidential administration.
The power of local
Cities are a critical part of American life: They generate 75 percent of the country’s GDP and are home to nearly two-thirds of its citizens, according to the Boston University Initiative on Cities. When Obama’s proposals were stalled or curtailed on the national level — for example, proposals to raise the minimum wage and provide free community college — staff turned to working with states and cities to advance the ideas on a local level, said Jerry Abramson, White
House director of intergovernmental affairs and deputy assistant to Obama. Many states and municipalities put minimum wage increases on the ballot and others piloted affordable community college plans. “We couldn’t get anything done so we turned to where the action was — the laboratories of innovation: cities, counties and states,” said Abramson, who served as a five-term Kentucky mayor and one-term lieutenant governor before joining the White House. “We’re in such gridlock [nationally], nothing gets done. So we turned to cities and states,” he said. That work has involved training 600 federal government staff to collaborate with mayors on tackling problems and crafting solutions tailored to the community, Abramson said.
Hard times
While panelists said Trump’s policies are unpredictable — given the frequency with which he has changed his statements and the vagueness of his policy plans — expectations were bleak. Local governments cannot avoid working with the federal government as municipalities rely on it on for funding, which often comes with strings attached, and because federal policies impact
their citizens, said Courtney Snowden, D.C.’s deputy mayor for greater economic opportunity. Her role involves fostering economic growth in undeserved and overlooked communities through workforce and small business development and other projects. In the past three elections, urban areas have been strongholds of Democratic support, with Republican support growing in rural areas, thus presenting a geographical ideological divide, said Katie Einstein, assistant professor of political science at University of Massachusetts Boston. Einstein also is co-author of the Menino Survey of Mayors, a multiyear survey and interviews of mayors nationwide. Most of the nation’s mayors are Democrats. Einstein said that many mayors surveyed recently praised Obama as a thoughtful and supportive partner, but said they feared Trump’s rhetoric, which denounced many segments of the U.S. populations and the makeup of their cities. While Trump has said little about urban policy, he does not seem to view cities positively, describing inner cities as places where black residents “liv[e] in hell,” Einstein noted. Many mayors’ fear Trump does
not share, or actively disavows, their priorities. Einstein said that while many surveyed mayors described HUD as a lifeline and critical source of funding and support, there are rumors that Trump is considering appointing as HUD secretary Robert Astorino, “who has said things at time that make you question if he thinks HUD should even exist.” Astorino is a Westchester County executive notable for a legal fight against HUD and the Justice Department over a federal court settlement that would require affordable housing construction in Westchester locations that HUD deems as lacking racial diversity. Snowden said cities will need to be ready to fight to protect their people and identify and progress on areas where they can take action without going through the federal government.
Areas of collaboration
Panelists recommended finding what areas of common ground do exist and working to see that progress on these issues extends to both cities and rural areas. Collaborative possibilities include infrastructure, criminal justice and poverty, they said. Trump has promised a $1 trillion privately-funded infrastructure plan, although his discussions made no mention of public transit — something many mayors said is critical to their cities’ revitalization and success, Einstein said. Furthering infrastructure discussions and broadening the scope of work could be an area of intergovernmental alignment. Many of Trump’s supporters are economically disadvantaged, Einstein noted. This could open the
door to agreement on policies that benefit both urban and rural poor, such as minimum wage increases. While Trump’s support of stopand-frisk raised alarms for many, Abramson said that the Koch brothers’ support for prisoner reentry programs represents an opportunity to collaborate across partisan divides.
Alliances
Abramson also called for mayors and Democrats to take proactive efforts to identify and forge relationships with those in office who may be open to proposals from other parties and accepting of moderate ideas. Seek out relationships even in unlikely areas, he advised, noting that even if the HUD Secretary proves unwilling to listen or collaborate, another official in a department less directly tied to the issue at hand may prove to be an avenue to policy change. “The way to get people both to work together and hear you is identify the unusual suspect who can share and carry the water with you,” Snowden seconded. Snowden and Einstein added that Democrats may be able to get advice on navigating the new administration from non-elected, career governmental employees who will remain at the White House even as the West Wing changes over, and who tend to be more liberal. The election results also showed a need for Democrats to take a serious look at getting into state government, Abramson said, while Snowden noted that often overlooked ultra-local roles, such as school board membership, can serve as a pathway into these state house positions.
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Thanksgiving: an affirmation of family Thanksgiving is the nation’s family holiday. Relatives come from near and far to reminisce and enjoy a traditional turkey dinner with friends. Hollywood publicists wisely chose this period to promote the film “Loving.” Many Americans are just learning about the nation’s anti-miscegenation laws that divided families. Until the U.S. Supreme Court ruled as recently as 1967, in the case of Loving v. Virginia, laws restricting interracial marriage were constitutional. And they existed in various forms in many states. Massachusetts had the so-called 1913 law that did not allow the marriage of non-residents if such marriage would be invalid in the state of their residence. Conservatives believed that intimate interracial association was morally reprehensible and that children of such a marriage would be genetically damaged. Then along came the Healy family to establish that such views were absurd. Michael Healy was an Irish cotton farmer from Macon, Ga., and his wife Mary was black. As devout Catholics they were married by a priest but without the sanction of the state. They had 10 outstanding children. James Augustine Healy (1830-1900) was the eldest. Because of racial discrimination in Georgia, Michael sent his children to prep school in New
England, and James was the first to graduate from Holy Cross College in Worcester. He became a priest and was appointed bishop of Maine and New Hampshire in 1875. Healy was the first black bishop in the U.S. James’ younger brother, Patrick F. Healy (1834-1910), also graduated from Holy Cross and became a priest. Patrick became the 29th president of Georgetown University, from 1874-1882. He is the first African American to earn a Ph.D. Some other Healy family members also had distinguished careers in the U.S. and Europe. The Healy progeny established that being offspring of a multi-racial marriage does not inhibit intellectual development. As often is the case, the Healy family’s affluence mitigated the inconvenience of the laws to preserve white supremacy and racial discrimination. While open and notorious interracial cohabitation was unlawful, it is hard to imagine a Georgia sheriff filing a complaint against one of the biggest farmers in the county. But Richard Loving was a working stiff. For him to circumvent local laws by getting married in another jurisdiction was an act of defiance. The U.S. Supreme Court intervened less than 50 years ago. Thanksgiving is a good time to consider the obstacles Americans have overcome to preserve the sanctity of family.
Attacks on the culture of democracy The Democrats have failed to win the race for president. That is a substantial loss, but it’s not as great a loss as the decay of the underpinnings that support America’s democracy. In past elections, voters from both parties had every confidence that the occupant of the White House was working exclusively for the people’s interest. There has been a long tradition of presidential candidates publishing their tax returns for several years. This informs voters about potential conflicts of interest. President-elect Trump refused to comply with this requirement when he was a candidate. The failure of voters to express robust opposition to this decision
undoubtedly emboldened him. Once elected, presidents usually put their assets in a blind trust managed by an independent trustee. The independent trustee then has full authority to sell the assets and place the proceeds into other investments or hold and manage the properties. At any rate, the president should have no business involvement. The idea is that the president of the United States should have no business except the interests of the people. Trump wants to reduce the U.S. to a banana republic with family members employed in the government and business meetings held in the Oval Office. So far there has been little public protest.
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By EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON The list of the major votes of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions took against civil rights issues is long. His votes earned him a 0 percent rating from the Human Rights Campaign, a 7 percent rating from the NAACP and a 20 percent rating from the ACLU. The prospect of Sessions as the next Attorney General is an absolute worst nightmare. However, there were ample warning signs. One was Sessions himself. He was one of the first GOP name officials to latch onto to the Trump campaign and never wavered in his support of it. There was little doubt that if Trump bagged the White House, Sessions would be in on the payoff for his loyalty and would land some big-ticket administration appointment. That appointment was almost certain to be the Justice Department head. He had the right Trump-favored credentials. He was a former U.S. Attorney, a long-time member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and most importantly, there’s his record on civil rights. It fit into exactly the type of person Trump would put into every top legal position he could put someone in, from the Justice Department to the Supreme Court. That someone had to be the type who took the narrowest strict constructionist interpretation of the law, and the dimmest view of what and how civil rights should be litigated and enforced. For the court, Trump’s ideal choice as he oft put it, was another Antonin Scalia. If he couldn’t get Sessions for the High Court — and the likelihood of that was slim since Sessions had already been rejected once for a federal judgeship as too racist — then the next best place he could fit him was the Justice Department. Now we come to Clinton. The drumbeat refrain from many progressives and some liberal Democrats was that Clinton was as bad as Trump. She was pro-war, pro-Wall Street and a corporate shill. If Bernie Sanders didn’t get the nomination, then they would either vote for a third-party candidate or stay home. No amount of exhorting that Trump would wreak havoc on the Affordable Care Act, labor protections, voting rights, abortion, give unfettered free rein to Wall Street and the Big Banks, try to put at least two or three more Scalias on the Supreme Court, not to mention stock the federal judiciary with Scalia-type clones, and cut and slash an array of other federal supported health, education and job spending programs mattered. The retort was that Trump would be relentlessly challenged every step of the way by Congressional Democrats, civil rights, liberties, environmental and women groups to prevent shoving this horrific apocalyptic vision of a future America through. Maybe, but that overlooked one glaring problem. Senate Democrats and progressive House Democrats would almost certainly be in the minority in Congress and could not stop Republicans from proposing endless legislation and initiatives in these areas, inflaming their invigorated base of ultra-conservatives and white protestant evangelicals, bullying the mainstream media and using their majorities in the majority of America’s state legislatures and state houses to counter the other side. Protest groups would have leverage only in the forces they could muster in the streets. But a Republican White House and majority Congress would be virtually immune to those protests since they did not rely on them to win or stay in office. No matter what one thought of Clinton and her supposed deep-standing corporate and Beltway ties, she was not Trump. It would be the height of lunacy to compare, say, Obama’s attorney generals, Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, on their absolute worst days to Sessions. It would be beyond delusion to think that Sessions would ever file briefs challenging the gut of the Voting Rights Act or bring a civil rights prosecutions of police officers that gunned down unarmed blacks as Lynch and especially Holder did. The almost certain blind eye by a Sessions to the horrendous abuse of civil rights might not have much resonance to well-to-do, comfortable and smug progressives who are not in direct harm’s way from these abuses. But for poor, and working class blacks and Hispanics these abuses are almost literally a matter of life and death. Shunning Clinton could not be shrugged off as a mere case of thoughtless, holier-than-thou idealism that had no consequences. It did then and even more so now. Sessions is the horrid proof of that.
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Because they are angry over the condi- Race trumps all. This election was a tion of this country and they don’t have referendum on race. They want our a clue about black life. Out of frustration country back. they think they want their country back, as if black people stole it.
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WILLIAM “MO” COWAN Former U.S. Senator William “Mo” Cowan, a member of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. and the president and CEO of ML Strategies, the law firm’s government relations and business advisory affiliate, has been named one of Boston Business Journal’s Power 50: Game Changers. This annual award honors those individuals who are making a difference in the business communities, “blazing trails” and leaving a mark on the local economy. “Those of us who have had the pleasure of working with Mo over the years have seen first-hand how dedicated Mo is to serving his clients, the Boston business community, and the constituency of the Commonwealth,” said Robert I. Bodian, Managing Member of Mintz Levin. “This is a most fitting recognition of someone who is a great asset to the community, and we congratulate Mo on this well-deserved honor.” After serving as the interim Sen-
ator for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts following the appointment of John F. Kerry to Secretary of State in 2013, Cowan rejoined Mintz Levin and ML Strategies as senior vice-president and chief operating officer before being named president and CEO earlier this year. Senator Cowan practiced law at Mintz Levin for more than a decade before serving in the following leadership positions for Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick: chief legal counsel (2009-2011), chief of staff (2011-2013) and senior advisor (2013). He also served as a fellow at the Harvard University Institute of Politics. As chief legal counsel to the governor, Cowan served as the general counsel for the Executive Office, advising Governor Patrick on all legal and policy matters. He managed legislative and regulatory policy setting for the Office of the Governor. Cowan oversaw all legal operations for the Patrick-Murray administration, including man-
agement of five deputy counsel, eight cabinet-level general counsel and several hundred in-house and outside counsel — the largest legal practice in the Commonwealth. Senator Cowan also administered the selection and nomination of chief justice of Supreme Judicial Court and nearly two dozen additional judicial appointees to state administrative law panels, trial courts and appellate courts.
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Moderator Jose Masso (left) poses a question to panelists at “Where Do We Go From Here — A Post-Election Leadership Roundtable” at the John D. O’Bryant African American Institute at Northeastern University. Panelists were (l-r) State Senator Linda Dorcena Forry, Eastern Bank vice-chairman/CBO Quincy Miller, Boston City Councilor-at-large Ayanna Pressley, Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins, playwright Akiba Abaka, and Boston NAACP president Michael Curry. The evening focused on ways to address the human disconnect and to build a broader “common good” community to advance key pro-justice and equity solutions in Boston. he said. “We’re still being shot and murdered by law enforcement. We still have difficulty getting into unions, a traditional pathway to the middle class. Where is black peoples’ anger? Where is Latino people’s anger? We have more to be angry about.” Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins said that higher incarceration rates for blacks charged with drug possession underscore
deeper flaws in the criminal justice system and in American society. “The system is rigged,” he said. “But it’s rigged against us.” “I have not heard one word about fascism,” said poet Askia Toure. “Secretary Clinton won the election by more than a million votes. Black people are in a very vulnerable position right now because we don’t have structures in place to support mass
movements.” Panelists agreed that Trump’s term over the next four years makes it even more imperative that people of color work together. Eastern Bank Vice Chairman Quincy Miller argued for greater financial empowerment. “You have to start with education,” he said. “With the first job I got out of college, I made more than my mother made in 25 years
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The holidays are here again. It’s that time of year when you get together with family and friends, take some time away from work and live out the definition of “it’s better to give than receive.” And, if you’re like many Americans, this is also the season when you give a little too much and find yourself over budget on your holiday spending. Research from MagnifyMoney shows Americans incur $986 in additional debt throughout the holiday season, money they are then forced to pay off during the new year. If you’ve had problems with holiday-induced debt in the past and you’ve tried — and failed — to stem your holiday spending, take a different route this year and see if you can generate extra money to cover those increased holiday expenses. You can do it in a short period of time, so here are a few tips to get you started. Clean house. As you’re picking up your house and getting ready for guests to come over, take a good look under the couch cushions for spare change, and don’t forget all those things you’re moving to the basement. Add up that spare change to put toward your holiday budget. And, could you move some of your possessions out the door instead? Craigslist, eBay and Facebook all make selling your old possessions easier than ever. And don’t forgo the traditional garage sale — one successful Saturday could give you the money you need to enjoy the holidays without debt concerns. More money than you think. The money beneath your couch cushions may be worth more than you think. Research from Coinstar shows Americans, on average, believe they have $41 in spare change on hand. However, Coinstar’s own nationwide kiosk data indicates the amount of spare change consumers have on hand is even more than that. Take a seasonal job. If you want a little extra money and a short time commitment, seasonal employment during the holidays is a great idea. Retailers across the country are looking to bolster their staff for the holiday season and you can enter this environment with minimal training and hit the ground running — especially if you have prior retail experience. Choose a product you’re passionate about and it’s a win-win, just make sure you don’t spend all of your earnings before you leave the store. Cash in those unwanted gift cards. Nearly three in four consumers have unwanted gift cards lying around because they are for stores that are too far away, or places they’ve never shopped before. If you’re one of them, turn those cards into cash you can use. Cash in your credit card points. When you’re shopping for a new credit card, reward points are a big deal in your consideration. But how often
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A shot in the arm for local business Beauty startup wins MassChallenge prize By KAREN MORALES
You don’t have to be a celebrity to have at-home glam services on call, at your convenience. Boston-based startup BeautyLynk, an online platform connecting local beauty professionals with customers, was awarded $50,000 in prize money as a 2016 Gold winner in the MassChallenge accelerator program. Through a pitching process, 128 companies were selected to participate in the four-month MassChallenge program, which began in June and ended in October. One-and-a-half million dollars in zero-equity prizes were awarded to 16 of the highest-impact startups during an awards ceremony held earlier this month. With 1,700 applicants, this year’s cohort was the most competitive to date. “We’re going to use the funding to grow our business deeper into the four cities that we operate in,” said BeautyLynk founder and CEO, Rica Elysée. Customers can request personalized hair and makeup services in Boston, Atlanta, Philadelphia and New York. Her plans for expansion include marketing and strategic partnerships.
Care Management Temporary Staffing and IncluDe Innovation have moved into the Fields Corner Business Lab and will receive coaching and mentoring during their stay resulting from a partnership between the Boston Impact Initiative and the Fields Corner Business Lab. The Boston Impact Initiative, a place-based impact investor focused on economic justice that provides financing for enterprises in Eastern Massachusetts, has partnered with the Fields Corner Business Lab for the last three years to support small business owners. Travis Lee, co-founder of the Fields Corner Business Lab, said the partnership “gives the business lab an opportunity to make an impact in our community and serve as a resource for other organizations to be involved, as well.” He continued, “We are excited to welcome these business owners to our existing community comprised of 30 organizations and over 80 people working in our space.”
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Elysée launched the beauty tech company in February 2015 for busy professional women, such as herself, who may not have time to take a trip to the salon. For skilled beauty stylists who may be underemployed, the platform allows them to identify and serve customers. The mobile-friendly website lets a client request personalized beauty services, as well as the date and time of the appointment. This information is communicated to all the beauty professionals in the area, who are able to accept the job and meet the client at her home, office or hotel. The customer enters credit or debit card information to book the appointment, but is not charged until after it is completed. The on-demand service has 150 beauty professionals and 2,000 customers in the four cities. The 30-year-old entrepreneur said that although BeautyLynk is primarily geared toward professionals, parents and seniors, people of all backgrounds have utilized the service. “The fun part about working with BeautyLynk is that everyone needs beauty services,” said Elysée. “For the past year we’ve been able to see different stories and different people.” Among those using
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We’re going to use the funding to grow our business deeper into the four cities that we operate in. ... The fun part about working with BeautyLynk is that everyone needs beauty services. For the past year we’ve been able to see different stories and different people.”” — Rica Elysée
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With natural hair services like sew-in extensions, single twostrand twists, locs and box braids, BeautyLynk provides services for women of all hair textures. Makeup artists who can work with all skin colors also are available on the platform. In the upcoming new year, the BeautyLynk team will focus on adding more transactional features on the platform, such as record keeping. “We’ll be working
on providing beauty professionals the opportunity to financially figure out what they’re doing and how they’re doing it,” said Elysée. As part of its MassChallenge prize, BeautyLynk will operate from the MassChallenge co-working office space in the Seaport District through May 2017.
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Kristen Ransom, IncluDe Innovation CEO and founder, said, “The Fields Corner Business Lab has been a dream come true for me! Before FCBL, I was working from home and it was isolating and almost impossible to stay focused.” Marlena Carter-Diaz, President and CEO of Care Management Temporary Staffing, shares this sentiment. “In a short time, everyone at the Fields Corner Business Lab has been encouraging, open and hard working.” The addition of Care Management Temporary Staffing and IncluDe Innovation to the Fields Corner Business Lab community came after an invitation for organizations with a mission consistent with the work of the Boston Impact Initiative to apply. This year, more than 20 organizations applied for consideration and organizations not selected were offered executive mentoring. n IncluDe innovation: IncluDe Innovation is a digital design agency that creates websites for minority and
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n Fields Corner Business Lab: The Fields Corner Business Lab is a co-working space bringing together Dorchester’s entrepreneurs, small businesses and community development organizations to serve as an economic engine for one of Boston’s most promising business districts. The Lab contains 13 small private offices, three conference rooms, private work stations and flexible work areas, as well as office amenities including a printer/copier room, reception area and a kitchen. For more information, visit www. fieldscornerbusinesslab.com
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Unfinished business KARA WALKER’S ARTWORK DEALS WITH ARENAS OF RACE, GENDER AND IDENTITY By SUSAN SACCOCCIA
Renowned contemporary artist Kara Walker is known for elegant, provocative murals that employ hand-cut stencils to render the persistent legacy of slavery. She casts her silhouetted figures in violent or sexual scenes that evoke unfinished business in the arenas of race, gender and identity. Walker spoke at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston last Thursday night, where one of her wall-sized installations is on display. Outfitted in a black shirt, tights and boots, Walker, 44, who has the lithe figure of a dancer, showed slides of works over two decades while reflecting on the
instincts and interests that have shaped her career. “There’s a narrative framework to all my work,” Walker told the audience that packed the 325-seat theater. While in college studying painting, Walker began to feel that, as an African American and as a woman, she needed to create her own “origin story.” Other African American artists — including Lorraine O’Grady, Carrie Mae Weems and Lorna Simpson — were also exploring issues of race, gender and identity. But Walker was coming up in a new generation and had her own stories to tell. By the time she graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design (MFA ’94), she had discovered a medium suited to her story-telling instincts: the
old-fashioned, delicate art of fashioning silhouetted figures out of hand-cut stencils. Although more commonly associated with frilly valentines than politically charged art, hand-cut silhouettes also have been a medium of choice for another artist, South African William Kentridge. Silhouetted figures populate his black and white prints and animations, which chronicle with dry humor apartheid’s toll on both white and non-white South Africans. Using a tool associated with small, intimate scenes of domestic life and women’s work, Walker brings to this medium a taste for the epic stirred by her study of nineteenth century painting and its rendering of grand historic dramas. Noting that silhouettes lend
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Kara Walker themselves to storytelling, Walker said that she left painting behind but applied to her new medium the history painter’s view of portraits “as characters on a stage,” with the painting providing their stage. Walker’s stories show us that things are not what they seem to be, through hallucinatory, topsy-turvy images that cast her characters in obscene scenarios. By borrowing ready-made caricatures familiar to an American audience via pop culture, she gives her revisionist histories a head start. Her silhouettes summon clichéd characters of the Old South recognizable to anyone acquainted with “Gone with the Wind,” “Song of the South” or the “Uncle Remus” stories, in which sunny, subservient blacks serve their grateful white patrons. But her Southern belles, plantation grandees, nannies, old folks, pigtailed girls and barefoot boys perform lewd or violent acts with one another in her tableaux, which render the legacy of slavery as an abiding hell. They call to mind the surreal scenes of 16th-century painter Hieronymus Bosch — if he had a
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‘Showin up and showin out’ Napoleon Jones-Henderson calls for compassion By CELINA COLBY
Napoleon Jones-Henderson returns to Roxbury Community College with the exhibit “Showin Up and Showin Out: The Past, Present, and Future,” on view at the Resnikoff Gallery through November 30. Jones-Henderson is well-known for his sculptural installations of painted ceramic tiles. In this exhibit and in all his work, the artist is committed to social change. He says, “I hope these works help people to consider there’s something higher and brighter than just doing what they ought to do.” First and foremost, Jones-Henderson considers himself an image-maker. Art and aesthetics, he believes, are focused on style, and in his work, the message is the top priority. “Style is defined by galleries and critics and the public,” he says. “It’s how they get a handle on the work.” In his multimedia pieces, ceramic tiles are hand stenciled and individually fired. The works aren’t typically square, but feature curving, moving shapes. To make the lines of hard tiles look so organic is no small feat. Going on 73 years old, Jones-Henderson is no stranger
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Above, a detail from “Do Lord Remember Me” by Napoleon Jones-Henderson. Right, Jones-Henderson’s “Egungun for Duke.” to the politics that inspire so much social change art and advocacy. His message to love one another seems particularly relevant after this year’s political scandals revolving around race, faith and inclusion. He says, “The most recent election is a vivid example of the old adage, ‘The more things change, the more they stay the same.’ Today is really like yesterday.” Though the message for community spirit and growth may
always have been necessary, exhibiting his work at a time of such division may allow it to touch more people. Jones-Henderson isn’t just inspired by social change, but by music as well. He often has said that his work is a visual manifestation of the sharp scatting and moody crooning of local jazz legends. This is evident in his mural “Roxbury Rhapsody” in Dudley Square and in his copper doors on
the second floor of the Roxbury Community College library. The city is ripe with Jones-Henderson’s work and the work of many other local creators, a fact he wishes more people knew. The artist’s greatest hope with “Showin Up and Showin Out”
is not that it looks aesthetically pleasing, but that it touches viewers on a deeper level. He says, “Life is a journey that’s as beautiful as your participation in it. I hope people walk away from my work different than when they first approached it.”
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Taking your tonic MGH celebrates 15 years of therapeutic art By CELINA COLBY
On November 17, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center celebrated the 15th anniversary of its Illuminations exhibit, a rotating art installation based at the Center as well as many of its affiliate locations. Illuminations also includes an artist-in-residence program that brings live art-making to patients. Its goal is to replace generic waiting room art with works created by local and national artists, many of whom have had direct experience with cancer. Jonathan Zucker, the current Illuminations artist-in-residence, began painting while his father was in the hospital. Painting helped him cope with his father’s imminent death, and helped distract his father from the pain of chemo. Zucker says, “If you want to capture the moment, take a picture. If you want to be the moment, paint.”
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Though his father has since passed, Zucker comes to Mass General once a week for a day of painting and interacting with patients and families. His style is abstract and energetic, using vivid colors and frenetic brushstrokes to depict famous Boston scenes such as games at Fenway and boats on the Charles. Zucker stresses that art is not a way to ignore cancer, but a way to come to terms with it. “You build a bridge between creativity and trauma,” he says. With the plethora of donations the program has received this year, they hope to expand the live art component that Zucker embodies. Deborah McDuff, a local African American artist, brings a unique perspective to the Illuminations exhibit. In her piece “Supporting Parents” she paints a woman embracing her ailing relative from behind. Though illness is clearly a factor, both women are smiling, embracing the time they have left. The
background of the piece features soothing purple tones, but McDuff brings her creative flair with the intricate patterns on the subjects’ garments. Bright florals and intricate patterns bring visual interest to the family message. It’s not just paintings that adorn the halls of the hospital. Justin Freed, former owner of the Coolidge Corner Theatre, makes video pieces of moving water. A cancer survivor, Freed remembers the raw feeling of chemo and the desire to feel anything else but that. His pieces transport patients through sounds and visuals. Art is a manifestation of life. Davi-Ellen Chabner, artist and author of medical terminology books, believes that creating art is akin to creating more life, more time. For the artists who make the work and the patients who see it every day, art gives us the opportunity to think beyond ourselves, to feel beyond our pain.
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continued from page 13 sense of humor as well as horror. Walker’s installations also draw from canonical works that address racial injustice, including Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and Mark Twain’s humorous but scathing 1884 masterpiece, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” The power of her visual storytelling quickly gained the attention of critics, curators and fellow artists, particularly in New York. In 1997, at age 28, Walker became one of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant” fellowship. Her wall-sized installations are on view at three local museums. The ICA is showing a mural inspired by Twain’s novel. At the Museum of Fine Arts, “The Rich Soil Down There” (2002), displays silhouettes of stereotypical figures from the Old South. And at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, a slide projection depicts the 1831 slave rebellion led by Nat Turner. Walker completed her talk by speaking of her 2014 commission for Creative Time, a New Yorkbased public art organization that funded her largest and most famous work to date: a 35-foothigh, 75-foot-long and 26-foot wide mammy cast in the empowering pose of a grand sphinx. Entirely composed of sugar, Walker’s sphinx presided for eight weeks in the cavernous setting of
the former Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn before it decomposed, on schedule. Like the factory, slated for demolition, the sculpture was a temporary presence. Walker recalled her research as she planned a site-specific project for the factory, which during Civil War was the largest sugar refining operation in the world. She cited an influential book about the sugar industry, “Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History,” by anthropologist Sidney W. Mintz, and its chronicle of worker exploitation. “But I didn’t want my project to be finger-wagging,” said Walker. “I wanted to create an icon. What people gravitate toward are big objects in ruins.” Once she settled on the idea of creating a sphinx, said Walker, what sealed her plan was the sight of a bus going by with the word “sphinx” written on its side. Her sculpture merged two stereotypes of the African American female: with her kerchief-wrapped hair, she was a mammy; and with her enormous breasts and buttocks, she also was a highly erotic figure. More than 130,000 people came to see her sculpture, which she entitled “… the Marvelous Sugar Baby an Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World…” “That was a season to live down,” said Walker, who could imagine tackling a project of this magnitude again, but not every year. “It would have to be special,” said Walker. “It would have to be needed.”
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TAI CHI: MOVING FOR BETTER BALANCE
Mayor Martin J. Walsh, the Boston Parks and Recreation Department, and The Friends of Copley Square welcome the holidays with the annual Copley Square Tree Lighting on Monday, November 28, from 5-6pm. The free event will feature appearances by Mayor Walsh, NECN’s Jenny Johnson, Santa Claus, and Rudolph along with musical performances by the Boston Children’s Chorus, vocalist Marchelle Jacques-Yarde, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and Berklee College of Music student Mahamma Germain of Hyde Park. In addition, the US Postal Service will unveil its new holiday stamp. The Old South Church bell will toll when the tree is illuminated. Light refreshments will be provided by local businesses New England Coffee and HP Hood LLC. The Fairmont Copley Plaza will host a family reception immediately following for all in attendance. The reception will include cookie decorating, photos with Santa and treats from the Fairmont Copley Plaza. Even more festivities will take place in and around Copley Square on November 28. The Boston Public Library and The Catered Affair will host a Storytime and Candy Cane Tea at the library from 3:30-5pm. The tea is free but reservations are required by calling 617-859-2282. For additional information please call the Boston Parks and Recreation Department at 617-635-4505. To learn more about The Friends of Copley Square, please visit www. friendsofcopleysquare.org.
This FREE evidence-based workshop focuses on preventing falls and improving balance through the regular practice of Tai Chi. Participants will learn 8 single forms, derived from the traditional, well known, 24-form Yang Style Tai Chi. The forms are tailored to older adults who wish to improve balance and mobility, and consequently, reduce the risk of falling. Classes meet twice a week for 12 weeks and is designed for beginners. Location: Curtis Hall Community Center, 20 South St. in Jamaica Plain. Day and Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1-2pm. Through December 1. For more information or to register for this workshop contact Ann Glora at 617477-6616 or aglora@ethocare.org.
UPCOMING FAMILY HANUKKAH CELEBRATION Families are invited to a free Hanukkah celebration on Sunday, December 18, 10am - 4pm at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. At 11am, visitors can learn Yiddish holiday songs at a sing-along workshop led by Paula Parsky and musician Brian Bender. At 1pm, families can hear readings of holiday-themed books and work on hol-
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Go Green on Black Friday! Moderate walk. Green dot trail. Meet at the Trailside Museum north parking lot at 1904 Canton Avenue in Milton on Friday, November 25 at 10am. The Southeastern Massachusetts Adult Walking Club meets each weekend on either a Saturday or Sunday at 10am or 1pm for recreational walks. This club is open to people of 16 years of age and older, and there is no fee to join. Walks average 2 to 5 miles. New walkers are encouraged to participate. The terrain can vary: EASY (mostly level terrain), MODERATE (hilly terrain), DIFFICULT (strenuous & steep). Walks will be led by a park ranger or a Walking Club volunteer leader. The DCR Southeast Mass. Walking Club meets at a variety of state parks. Note some DCR sites charge a parking fee. The rangers recommend wearing hiking boots and bringing drinking water on all hikes.
iday crafts in our kinder vinkl (children’s corner). Throughout the day, young detektivn (detectives) can take part in scavenger hunts throughout the Yiddish Book Center. Guided public tours of the Center will be offered at 11am and 1pm. More information can be found at yiddishbookcenter. org/calendar.
ONGOING MORE THAN MY RELIGION The power of art transcends the boundaries of language, culture, nationality and faith. “More Than My Religion” is an art exhibition of diverse subject matter and a community outreach effort. Named and
local Muslim artists from the Boston and Providence areas are contributing their work to illustrate their values using art as a medium. It is meant to separate the media image of Muslims being defined by acts of violence around the world from the reality of Muslims as peace-loving and forward-looking citizens and contributing members of society, in most cases no different from people of other faiths. Although media-portrayed stereotypes are quickly formed in the mind, the creative energy of visual art can help us unlearn those stereotypes and present a properly painted reality. More Than My Religion presents an enlightening perspective on shared values for commu-
nity, life and coexistence across people of different backgrounds. Participating Artists: Noureen Sultana, Farah Hussain, Mehrjabeen Iftihkar, Poonam Javaid, Haroon Khimani, Sehr Jalal, Sana N. Mirza, Irum Haque, Muti Siddiqui, Niha Ahmed, Zainab-Ale-Rasool, Uzma Wahid, Sana Qureshi, Rozina Siddiqui, Rohma Shirwani, Malika MacDonald, Elena Fakhr, Ahmed Alkhateeb, Ehsun Mirza, Zahra Bhaiwala. Through December 2 at the Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St., East Cambridge. Gallery website: www.multiculturalartscenter. org/galleries/. Galleries are FREE and open to the public. Regular Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10:30am - 6pm.
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Cheesy spinach bake perfect for the holidays BY THE EDITORS OF
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shower of buttery, cheesy breadcrumbs covers creamy spinach in this recipe that’s spot on for Thanksgiving. You can make the spinach mixture and the crumb mixture ahead of time and set them aside until a half an hour before dinner. Then spoon the spinach mixture into a shallow baking dish, top with the crumbs and bake. Serve it straight from the dish it’s baked in for an easy, yummy-looking presentation.
Spinach and Gruyere Gratin n 2 tablespoons butter, divided n 1 large onion, finely chopped n 3 large garlic cloves, minced n 1 ½ tablespoons all-purpose flour n 1 teaspoon salt n 1 ½ cups whole milk n ¾ cup shredded Gruyere cheese n 4 (10-ounce) packages frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry n 1 cup panko breadcrumbs n ¼ cup grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese 1. Preheat oven to 400 F. Butter a shallow 6-cup baking dish. 2. Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add onion and garlic; saute 5 minutes. Add flour and salt; cook, stirring, 1 minute. Add milk. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and cook until slightly thickened. Stir in Gruyere and spinach. Transfer to prepared baking dish. 3. Melt remaining tablespoon butter in skillet over medium heat. Add panko and cook, stirring, until golden, 3 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in Parmigiano Reggiano. Sprinkle over spinach. Bake 25 minutes. Serves 8. — Recipe by Laraine Perri; Mark Boughton Photography / styling by Teresa Blackburn
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Fiesta Lime Chicken Serves 4 n 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts, sliced n 1 tablespoon vegetable oil n 2 tablespoon lime juice n 1 package yellow rice n 1 avocado, diced n 1 large tomato, diced If desired, season chicken with salt and pepper or chicken flavor bouillon. Heat oil in large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat and cook chicken, stirring frequently, until chicken is thoroughly cooked, about 5 minutes. Stir in lime juice. Remove and set aside. Prepare rice in same skillet according to package directions. Stir in chicken, avocado and tomato until well blended. Top, if desired, with shredded cheddar cheese, chopped red onion and cilantro. — Brandpoint/ Knorr
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action-oriented reflection over the next year, in partnership with the mayor’s office, on issues of small business, diversity, workforce development and economic mobility. “Racism may seem to some an issue that exists in relative isolation from the rest of the city’s problems,” said Rolley. “It does not.” Irving, who spent years working on racial equity work, shared her own previous misconceptions, which undermined her best intentions. As a white woman, “I had a limited understanding of racism,” she said. “I thought it was just about people not liking each other and I was so wrong.” She spoke to the audience about the importance of acknowledging the normalization of whiteness, the whitewashing of history and the myth of meritocracy. Kendra Gerald, a sophomore at Boston Latin Academy, said “Breaking down stereotypes is just the first step. There also needs to be a commitment to root out the systematic racism.”
Walsh’s own view
Walsh said that although he believed this was the first time racism was discussed on such a large and public scale in Boston aside from “pockets of neighborhoods, maybe in a church, coffee shop, or street corner,” this wasn’t the first time he engaged with it at length and it won’t be the last. He told the audience that when he ran for mayor three and a half years ago, one day he was campaigning in Jamaica Plain answering residents’ questions when a
black woman stood up and asked him what he thought about the current state of race in Boston. He said his awareness back then of the complexity of race in America only scratched the surface, so responded by saying, “We’re doing better today than we did before.” The Jamaica Plain woman persisted, inquiring about the diversity within his campaign team. “I was angry because I didn’t have the right answer,” he said. “I started considering seriously, where are we really with race in Boston.”
Resilience strategy
With the help and support of other city leaders, Boston sent in an application to participate in 100 Resilient Cities. With support from the Rockefeller Foundation, 100 Resilient Cities is dedicated to helping cities around the world become more resilient to physical challenges such as earthquakes, floods and climate change, as well as everyday stresses like racism, economic inequality, unemployment and affordable housing. To put together a cohesive strategy in facing and preparing for these issues, in August 2015, Mayor Walsh announced Dr. Atyia Martin as the city’s first-ever chief resilience officer. The culmination of these efforts will be included in Boston’s “Resilience Strategy,” due to be released next spring. Attendees at Saturday’s event were given a copy of “The Blueprint: Preview of the Principles & Framework for Boston’s Resilience Strategy,” a booklet describing the specific visions and corresponding goals the strategy will address in more detail once it is released. The report lists four main
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Boston Mayor Martin Walsh addresses city residents gathered for a public discussion on the state or racism in Boston at the Cutler Majestic Theatre. visions. The first is “a Boston that reflects upon its history and confronts present realities of racism in daily life and during emergencies.” The second is “an inclusive and collaborative city that offers residents a meaningful role in decision-making processes.” The third vision is access to social and economic pathways that close the wealth gap, and fourth is an increased connectivity for communities of color to adequately prepare for natural disasters and environmental dangers. The resilience strategy also encompasses all other citywide initiatives that have been in the works, such as Imagine Boston
2030, Boston Creates, Climate Ready Boston, and The City of Boston Small Business Plan.
Challenging neutrality
At the program’s end, the floor was open to members of the audience who had comments or questions for the mayor, moderated by Pam Eddinger, president of Bunker Hill Community College. “To those with privilege, equity feels like oppression,” said Andrew Vega, principal of the Phineas Bates Elementary School. “Something that I hope comes from this is that those with privilege understand that with equity, they are not losing anything.”
He added a final thought. “And a personal challenge to you, Mr. Mayor,” he said. “In your opening remarks you talked about the importance of not remaining neutral in these times. Please tell our governor that.” Some civil rights activists have been critical of Governor Charlie Baker for not speaking up against what many see are racist policies espoused by president-elect Donald Trump and his appointment of controversial cabinet members. According to the city’s press office, additional race conversations will take place in neighborhoods across the city in early 2017.
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of Boston residents, whose median income is $53,000 a year despite housing costs that are more than twice as expensive as the rest of the U.S.
Added housing
During the Thursday press conference, Walsh and other city officials said they are working to increase the city’s stock of moderately-priced units. At the same time, Walsh said, the new construction may already have exerted downward pressure on prices, as evidenced by a softening in the rental market, which for the last several years has seen yearly increases. “It seems we have stabilized rents somewhat,” Walsh said. “That’s important. I expect that in 2017 we’ll see some real progress.” While Department of Neighborhood Development Director Sheila Dillon said the city is building its way out of the housing affordability crisis, she stressed that her department does not have hard data on displacement. Currently, DND staff are combing through records of evictions in housing court to track where and when renters are being displaced. While rents may be stabilizing, demand for land remains strong in Boston. Hemmed in by the harbor along with the Charles and Neponset rivers, city planners are looking
at underutilized industrial areas, like the Readville section of Hyde Park, the Beacon Yards in Allston, Newmarket / Widett Circle, which lies at the border of Roxbury and South Boston, and the edge of the South Boston waterfront area. “Together, the existing neighborhoods, commercial cores and neighborhood edges have the capacity to accommodate Boston’s projected growth,” the report reads. At the same time, city planners are looking to transit solutions like the Fairmount commuter rail line to facilitate the movement of city residents to job centers like downtown and the waterfront.
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Transit and open space
Asked about the likelihood of increased state investment in state transit projects, Walsh said investment in Boston will ultimately help the entire commonwealth. “We need a strong and reliable transit system,” he told reporters. “We produce 20 percent of tax revenue in the state, and that’s only going to grow. It’s going to be vitally important for the T to look at this plan.” The plan also places renewed attention on open space and culture, with calls for investments in Franklin Park, the extension of the Emerald Necklace park system down Columbia Road to South Boston and the establishment of Arts Innovation Districts, beginning with Upham’s Corner, where the renovated Strand Theatre currently serves as an anchor.
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The Black Economic Council of Massachusetts hosted its first annual meeting at Roxbury Community College’s Media Arts Auditorium. Among those in attendance were Gail Jackson-Blount of Jackson Communications, Ray Blount of Massport, Brooke Woodson of Madison Park CDC, Terryl Calloway of Calloway Graphix, and Teri Williams Cohee of OneUnited Bank.
BANNER CLASSIFIEDS LEGAL MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. L1424-C1(R), CARPET REPLACEMENT, BUILDING 25, LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, will be received by the Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Programs Department Office, Suite 209S, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 021282909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2016, immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly. NOTE:
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No filed sub bids will be required for this contract.
The estimated contract cost is THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($385,000.00).
This contract is subject to a Minority/Women Owned Business Enterprise participation provision requiring that not less than FIVE PERCENT (5%) of the Contract be performed by minority and women owned business enterprise contractors. With respect to this provision, bidders are urged to familiarize themselves thoroughly with the Bidding Documents. Strict compliance with the pertinent procedures will be required for a bidder to be deemed responsive and eligible.
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This Contract is also subject to Affirmative Action requirements of the Massachusetts Port Authority contained in Article 84 of the General Requirements and Covenants, and to the Secretary of Labor’s Requirement for Affirmative Action to Ensure Equal Opportunity and the Standard Federal Equal Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications (Executive Order 11246).
Bid Documents in electronic format may be obtained free of charge at the Authority’s Capital Programs Department Office, together with any addenda or amendments, which the Authority may issue and a printed copy of the Proposal form.
The General Contractor is required to submit a Certification of Non Segregated Facilities prior to award of the Contract, and to notify prospective subcontractors of the requirement for such certification where the subcontract exceeds $10,000.
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Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. AP1711-C1, FY 17-19 AUTHORITY-WIDE TERM FLOOR COVERING REPAIRS, BOSTON, BEDFORD AND WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, will be received by the Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Programs Department Office, Suite 209S, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 021282909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2016, immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly.
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PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 10:00AM LOCAL TIME ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2016.
The work includes LABOR, TOOLS, EQUIPMENT, AND MATERIALS FOR THE INSTALLATION OF FLOOR COVERINGS, INCLUDING CARPET AND RESILIENT FLOORING, ON AN ON-CALL, AS-NEEDED BASIS OVER A TWO (2) YEAR TERM AT ALL MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY FACILITIES LOCATED IN BOSTON, BEDFORD, AND WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS. Bid documents will be made available beginning WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2016. Bid Documents in electronic format may be obtained free of charge at the Authority’s Capital Programs Department Office, together with any addenda or amendments, which the Authority may issue and a printed copy of the Proposal form.
Bidding procedures and award of the contract and sub contracts shall be in accordance with the provisions of Sections 44A through 44J inclusive, Chapter 149 of the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A proposal guaranty shall be submitted with each General Bid consisting of a bid deposit for five (5) percent of the value of the bid; when sub bids are required, each must be accompanied by a deposit equal to five (5) percent of the sub bid amount, in the form of a bid bond, or cash, or a certified check, or a treasurer’s or a cashier’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company, payable to the Massachusetts Port Authority in the name of which the Contract for the work is to be executed. The bid deposit shall be (a) in a form satisfactory to the Authority, (b) with a surety company qualified to do business in the Commonwealth and satisfactory to the Authority, and (c) conditioned upon the faithful performance by the principal of the agreements contained in the bid. The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a performance bond and a labor and materials payment bond, each in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract price. The surety shall be a surety company or securities satisfactory to the Authority. Attention is called to the minimum rate of wages to be paid on the work as determined under the provisions of Chapter 149, Massachusetts General Laws, Section 26 to 27G, inclusive, as amended. The Contractor will be required to pay minimum wages in accordance with the schedules listed in Division II, Special Provisions of the Specifications, which wage rates have been predetermined by the U. S. Secretary of Labor and / or the Commissioner of Labor and Industries of Massachusetts, whichever is greater. The successful Bidder will be required to purchase and maintain Bodily Injury Liability Insurance and Property Damage Liability Insurance for a combined single limit ONE MILLION DOLLARS ($1,000,000.00). Said policy shall be on an occurrence basis and the Authority shall be included as an Additional Insured. See the insurance sections of Division I, General Requirements and Division II, Special Provisions for complete details. No filed sub bids will be required for this contract. This Contract is also subject to Affirmative Action requirements of the Massachusetts Port Authority contained in the Non Discrimination and Affirmative Action article of Division I, General Requirements and Covenants, and to the Secretary of Labor’s Requirement for Affirmative Action to Ensure Equal Opportunity and the Standard Federal Equal Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications (Executive Order 11246). The General Contractor is required to submit a Certification of Non Segregated Facilities prior to award of the Contract, and to notify prospective subcontractors of the requirement for such certification where the subcontract exceeds $10,000.00. Complete information and authorization to view the site may be obtained from the Capital Programs Department Office at the Massachusetts Port Authority. The right is reserved to waive any informality in or reject any or all proposals. MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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DATE
TIME
RFQ/P Drug and Alcohol Testing Services
12/16/16
11:00 a.m.
F242
RFQ/P Audit Services
12/16/16
11:00 a.m.
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS PROBATE COURT CASE NO. SU12P2441
To all persons interested in the estate of Lewis Earl Paine A.K.A. Lewis Earl Payne late of Boston, in said County, deceased Intestate. A petition has been presented to said Court for license to sell - at public auction - private sale - private - certain real estate of deceased.
Docket No. SU16D0518DR
Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Lucrecia Rivera Castro
vs.
Andre Mulero
To the Defendant: The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court grant a divorce for IRRETRIEVABLE BREAKDOWN. The Complaint is on file at the Court. An Automatic Restraining Order has been entered in this matter preventing you from taking any action which would negatively impact the current financial status of either party. SEE Supplemental Probate Court Rule 411.
If you desire to object thereto you or your attorney should file a written appearance in said Court at Boston before ten o’clock in the forenoon on the 8th day of December, 2016, the return day of this citation.
You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Lucrecia Rivera Castro, 15 Washington St., Boston, MA 02121 your answer, if any, on or before 03/06/2017. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court.
Witness, The Honorable Joan P. Armstrong, Esquire, First Judge of said Court, this 25th day of October, 2016.
Witness, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: November 14, 2016
Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate
Felix D. Arroyo, Register. Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division
Docket No. SU16P1807EA
Estate of: Pauline E. Hector Also Known As: Pauline Eva Estella Hector Date of Death: June 29, 2016
REAL ESTATE
Wollaston Manor
INFORMAL PROBATE PUBLICATION NOTICE
91 Clay Street Quincy, MA 02170
To all persons interested in the above captioned estate, by Petition of Petitioner Portia Williams of Dorchester, MA.
Senior Living At It’s Best
Portia Williams of Dorchester, MA has been informally appointed as the Personal Representative of the estate to serve without surety on the bond.
A senior/disabled/ handicapped community
The estate is being administered under informal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but interested parties are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. Interested parties are entitled to petition the Court to institute formal proceedings and to obtain orders terminating or restricting the powers of Personal Representatives appointed under informal procedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any, can be obtained from the Petitioner.
REAL ESTATE
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department
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A610
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Income Restricted Homeownership Opportunity Charles River Properties 2 Hawthorne Place, Boston, MA 02114 # of Units
Bedrooms
Price
Income Limit
1
Studio
$141,800
Up to 80% AMI
Maximum Income per Household Size (2016 limits, provided by BRA) HH size
70%
80%
90%
100%
110%
120%
1
$48,100
$54,950
$55,150
$62,050
$75,550
$82,450
2
$54,950
$62,800
$63,050
$70,900
$86,350
$94,200
3
$61,850
$66,500
$70,650
$79,800
$97,150
$105,950
4
$68,700
$73,900
$78,500
$88,650
$107,950
$117,750
5
$74,200
$79,800
$84,800
$95,750
$116,550
$127,150
6
$79,700
$85,700
$91,050
$102,850
$125,200
$136,600
Applications are available during the 10-day application period: 11/25/16 – 12/22/16 To request an application be sent by e-mail, contact the agent at hawthorneaffordableunit@gmail.com or call 617-242-0080 during the application period listed above Applications may also be picked up in person at the 197 Portland Street, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02114 on the following dates and at the following times: Monday, December 5; Tuesday, December 6, and Thursday, December 8 from 11:30 AM – 3:30 PM And evening hours on Wednesday December 7 from 4 PM – 7 PM Saturday, December 10th in person hours at 192 Friend Street from 11AM - 3 PM Completed applications must be postmarked no later than December 22, 2016 Mailed to 50 Terminal Street, Building 1, 2nd Floor, Charlestown, MA 02129 Selection by lottery. Asset, Use & Resale Restrictions apply. Preference for Boston Residents. Preference for Households with at least one person per bedroom. Preference for First-Time Homebuyers. For more information or reasonable accommodations please call 617-242-0080 Equal Housing Opportunity
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The Compliance Coordinator is responsible for ensuring Bilt-Rite’s subcontractor workforce comply with the specified Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) goals of our projects. The position also serves as a liaison to the community, including outreach to individuals seeking employment from our subcontractors. Additional duties include handling front office reception and various administrative functions.
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DUDLEY TERRACE APARTMENTS Will be accepting applications for its 1-2-3 BR waiting lists. To qualify for these waitlists, income limits apply All applicants will be screened for eligibility. Use & Occupancy restrictions apply.
AFFORDABLE HOUSING AVAILABLE AVALON EASTON 60 ROBERT DRIVE, SOUTH EASTON, MA 02375
RENT
Avalon Easton is a BRAND NEW community with Professional On-Site Management, Outdoor Pool, Private Fitness Club and an 80% moderate-income affordable housing program. Community is now under construction, occupancy will begin March 2017. Seventy three 1, 2 and 3-bedroom apartment homes available; 2-bedroom townhomes. Moderate-Income Guidelines Apply
Maximum Income Per Household Size
Informational Meeting: Held at 60 Robert Drive, South Easton, MA on December 1, 2016 from 3:00pm-6:30pm Open enrollment period will run from December 2, 2016 to February 2, 2017 For application forms, contact: Avalon Easton, 60 Robert Drive, South Easton, MA, 02375 PHONE: 508-219-5158 | EMAIL: AvalonEaston@avalonbay.com Application forms may be submitted via fax, mail or email to the following: Avalon Easton, 60 Robert Drive, South Easton, MA, 02375 FAX: 508-297-2336 | EMAIL: AvalonEaston@avalonbay.com Applications must be returned by 5:00pm or postmarked by February 2, 2017 to be considered for the lottery.
$1108 - $1536
HH Size
60%
1
41,400
2
47,280
3
53,220
4
59,100
5
63,840
6
68,580
Applications may be picked up from the Management Office located at 147 Moreland Street, Roxbury, MA 02119 On Tuesdays from 9:00 A.M. to 12:00 noon and on Thursdays from 1:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M.. Any questions, please call United Housing Management At (617) 208-4933 TTY/TDD: (800) 439-0183
MONTHLY RENTS (80% PROGRAM) TYPE
RENT*
ONE BEDROOM
$1,140
TWO BEDROOM
$1,272
THREE BEDROOM
$1,400
*Avalon Easton residents are responsible for gas, electric, water/sewer, phone, and cable utilities. Additional Fees for pets ($65) and premium parking may apply.
HOUSEHOLD MAXIMUM INCOME LIMITS (80% PROGRAM) ONE PERSON
$46,000
TWO PEOPLE
$52,600
THREE PEOPLE
$59,150
FOUR PEOPLE
$65,700
FIVE PEOPLE
$71,000
SIX PEOPLE
$76,250
SEVEN PEOPLE
$81,500
Rate and Income Limits May Change With or Without Notice
AvalonBay Communities, Inc. Equal Housing Opportunity. Handicap Accessible. Reasonable Accommodations Made. Selection by lottery. Housing Choice Voucher holders are encouraged to apply. Asset, Use & Occupancy Restrictions apply. Minimum income limits apply. Preference for Town of Easton residents and those employed within the Town of Easton.
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Community Arts Initiative Artist Project (2017-2018) The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston serves a wide variety of people—from school children to adults—through direct encounters with works of art. In addition to housing renowned collections, the Museum also offers numerous exhibitions and opportunities for learning and community engagement. The Artist Project is a collaboration between the MFA and ten after-school community organizations in the Boston area. Each year a new experienced artist with a passion for community arts is selected to plan and lead a project with children between the ages of six and twelve. The lead artist guides the children and helps them create a collaborative work of art inspired by the Museum’s encyclopedic collection. The completed project is exhibited in the Edward H. Linde Gallery in the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art at the MFA. A stipend of $22,000 and a materials budget is provided. Please visit www.mfa.org/cai for more information and to apply. Applications for the 2017-2018 Artist Project accepted through January 20, 2017 (postmark deadline).
TOWN OF EASTON
TOWN CLERK The Town of Easton is accepting applications for a qualified individual to fill the position of Town Clerk, full time, 40 hours per week. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree preferred and five years of related experience; records management experience, experience in municipal government, Certification as Massachusetts Municipal Clerk. Thorough working knowledge of state/federal statutes and bylaws relating to duties and responsibilities of Town Clerk is strongly preferred desirable; or any equivalent combination of education and experience. Duties include but are not limited to performing a wide variety of very responsible administrative responsibilities dealing with elections, vital statistics, public information, records management. The Town Clerk serves as the Elections Administrator and is responsible for interpreting laws and bylaws and administering oaths of office, attends town meetings, takes and transcribes actions taken by town meeting. This is a union position with a competitive starting salary DOQ and excellent benefits. Required applications can be downloaded at www.easton.ma.us under the “Residents” tab and then “Employment Opportunities”. Interested applicants shall submit a cover letter, resume and required job application to Town Administrator David Colton, 136 Elm Street, Easton, MA 02356 no later than December 15, 2016. The Town of Easton is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
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