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Dynamic changes shaped Hub in ’16 Rising rents, police violence, school funding battles sparked protests

By YAWU MILLER

Boston underwent dynamic changes in 2016 that filtered into every neighborhood. The furious pace of new construction, battles over school budgets that included thousands taking to the streets, Black Lives Matter protests and low-wage workers demonstrating for a $15 minimum wage were the issues dominating the Banner’s headlines over the last year.

Add to that substantial developments in the black community’s business world: new restaurants and other ventures that are transforming the local economy, the closing of the decades-old Dudley anchor business A Nubian Notion and a major lawsuit pitting black developers against Northeastern University.

The majority of the stories grabbing Banner headlines revolved around issues of community development, education and criminal justice reform. What follows is a roundup of the major stories in those areas.

Education

Boston Public Schools principals got a jolt early in January when they were summoned to

the Bolling Building, where many were informed of cuts trimming as much as $800,000 from individual school budgets. While Mayor Martin Walsh asserted that the BPS budget had increased over the previous year, parent advocates noted that the 1 percent increase was far less than the 3 percent increase given to other city departments and not in keeping with rising costs, including salaries and benefits for BPS employees.

News of the cuts triggered a picket line in front of the mayor’s annual State of the City address at Symphony Hall, with teachers, parents and students braving frigid January air as a who’s-who of Bostonians lined up to hear the mayor outline his vision for the year. The demonstration turned out to be the first of several, as student activists grew more vocal in their opposition to cuts that would eliminate librarians and Advanced Placement classes while increasing class sizes.

February featured the first of three student demonstrations last year, with thousands of BPS students taking their demands to City Hall and the State House. The protest came as Walsh

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Members of the Black and Latino Caucus, joined by other elected officials of color, listened to community concerns as they prepare for the next legislative session.

Electeds of color hear residents’ priorities Listening sessions designed to shape agenda

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

Community members had the ear of the state Black and Latino Legislative Caucus and other elected officials of color last Tuesday night.

The event at Roxbury’s Hibernian Hall was one of three listening sessions — and the only in Boston — scheduled before legislators start their next session in January.

Attendees spoke on a range of concerns including climate change, economic development and minimum wage, affordable housing and health care. Criminal justice

reform priorities took some focus, with the following day’s Council of State Governments’ working session expected to be the last meeting before the group submits reform bill recommendations. But the message that came through above all, said Black and Latino Legislative Caucus Chair and state Rep. Russell Holmes, was that attendees want more resources for public district education.

“A lot of the tone of the meeting in Boston really drove that education is still one of biggest challenges we have,” Holmes said.

The listening session series is

intended to help elected officials identify community concerns and build public support for potential solutions as they plan their next agenda. The first session was held in Springfield earlier this month, and a meeting in Lawrence was scheduled for last Thursday. Speaking to the Banner on Wednesday, Holmes said Springfield residents focused their concerns on poverty, economic development needs and lack of resources, and he expected Lawrence’s to focus on public safety.

See CAUCUS, page 8

Protest at criminal justice meeting Reforms, representation seen lacking

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

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Demonstrators gathered on Dudley Street in Roxbury during a July rally against police violence.

After more than an hour of listening to white appointees discuss racial disparities in the state’s criminal justice system and debate the future of state reforms, Calvin Feliciano had had enough. He stood, half the audience rising with him in protest.

“We are extremely disheartened by the entire process and by the lack of diversity at the table,” Feliciano said, interrupting a conversation

that had focused on parole and inprison programming. No opportunity had been given at the meeting for community member attendees to be heard.

Feliciano told the local Council of State Governments team meeting in a conference room at One Ashburton Place that it was focused too much on reducing people’s likelihood of recidivating once they are out of jail, and too little on preventing them from getting incarcerated in the first place. His

message echoed that of many activists, legislators and church leaders who sent letters and protested in weeks and months leading up to last week’s meeting.

“End mandatory minimums.

That’s the way to do it. And give us jobs. That’s all we want,” Feliciano said. “We don’t want more supervision. We don’t want you to hire 10,000 more parole officers. We just want to work and provide for our families.”

Feliciano, who grew up in the South End and was first

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Politics in review: City council, state races, the charter cap

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

While Donald Trump’s election to the presidency dominated political news of the year, state and city races saw their own changes, and a ballot measure on charter schools drew national attention.

City Council

The Boston City Council elected Michelle Wu president, making her the first woman of color to hold the position. Two newcomers joined the council as well: attorney Andrea Campbell as District 4 councilor and former Boston Public Schools teacher Annissa Essaibi-George as atlarge councilor.

The newcomers unseated longtime incumbents Stephen Murphy and Charles Yancey. Murphy had served in the at-large position for 18 years, while Yancey served District 4 for 32 years. Yancey’s legacy includes his founding of the Post Audit and Oversight Committee in the 1980s, which was charged with overseeing city spending, hiring and contracting, including keeping an eye on departmental diversity levels.

Committee change-ups included dissolution of the Post Audit and Oversight Committee, with budget oversight responsibilities assigned elsewhere. President Wu also announced a new committee on Homelessness, Mental Health and Poverty, as well as Jobs, Labor and Workforce Development. The Public

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Left: Save our Public Schools campaign members canvassed downtown, urging voters to reject a proposed charter cap lift. Right: City councilors Michelle Wu, Ayanna Pressley and other returning and entering councilors were sworn in at Faneuil Hall. Wu (l) became the new council president.

Safety Committee was expanded to include criminal justice.

Campbell took the helm of the revised Public Safety and Criminal Justice Committee, while Essaibi-George became vice chair of the Education Committee.

Murphy went on to win a seven-way race to become Suffolk County Register of Deeds.

Senate seats

Diana Hwang, co-founder of the Asian-American Women’s Political Initiative, faced off against Lydia Edwards, a lawyer with the Greater Boston Legal Services, and other contenders who sought the Democratic nomination for the First Suffolk and Middlesex district state senate seat in a

special election. The district includes the North End, Beacon Hill, East Boston, Revere, Winthrop and parts of Cambridge. Neither woman of color won, with Joseph Boncore victorious in both the primary and general election. Edwards subsequently was appointed to head the city’s new Office of Housing Stability.

State representatives

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Longtime Seventh Suffolk District State Rep. Gloria Fox declined to seek reelection for the seat she has held since 1985. Her announcement sparked a competition among three women of color to replace her: Chynah Tyler, former aide to Sen. Sonia ChangDiaz; Mary-dith Tuitt, Fox’s aide; and Monica Cannon, community liaison for Roca. The district extends from Audubon Circle near Boston University to parts of Back Bay, the Fenway and Roxbury.

Tyler won the Democratic primary with 43 percent of the vote, advancing her to run unopposed in the generals and win the seat.

In the Eleventh Suffolk District, 18-year incumbent Liz Malia defeated challenges from Charles Clemons Jr., TOUCH 106.1FM radio co-owner, and from progressive independent candidate

Stephen Charles Bedell, a restaurant manager and former attorney.

Incumbent Rep. Evandro Carvalho of the Fifth Suffolk District defeated challengers, as did Twelfth Suffolk District incumbent Rep. Dan Cullinane.

Springfield’s Eleventh Hampden District seat, vacated by Rep. Ben Swann, went to City Councilor Bud Williams. Three other candidates had vied for the position: Ben Swann Jr., Ken Barnett and Larry Lawson.

Rep. Angelo Scaccia, 40-year incumbent of the Fourteenth Suffolk District, ran unopposed after securing the Democratic nomination over Anthony Solimine, a former lawyer, and Virak Uy, a BPS teacher.

Ballot measures

The future of Boston schools was a hot topic, as proponents of charter school expansion wrestled with opponents who said a cap lift would sap financial vitality from district schools and perhaps the city itself. A lawsuit over the cap attempted to resolve the dispute, as did a legislative compromise proposed by state senators.

The senators’ bill would have

See POLITICS, page 14

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Chynah Tyler won the Seventh Suffolk District state representative seat long held

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BuildBPS report examines changing student demographics

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

For much of this and last year, Boston Public Schools officials have been busy planning for the future. The BuildBPS facilities master planning process launched in September 2015. This October, BPS and city officials aired ideas on substantial operational changes that might cut school costs. Superintendent Tommy Chang’s new grade configuration proposal originally was scheduled for the Boston School Committee vote in mid-December.

Data emerging on the future makeup of BPS students may help guide the discussions.

School age children are becoming a smaller percentage of Boston’s population, with the city’s overall population increase driven largely by an influx of adults. Despite this, enrollment is expected to slightly increase at BPS, according to a November BuildBPS report.

BPS’s student body increasingly is black and Latino, and several neighborhoods are home to the majority of the city’s children.

Those young Bostonians who do not choose BPS increasingly attend charter schools and are less likely to attend private or parochial schools than were Boston’s nonBPS children in the early 2000s.

City of adults

While Boston’s population is booming overall, the bulk of that

growth is not in the number of school age-children, according to a BuildBPS report released in November. Between 2000 and 2010, the percentage of Bostonians who are children under age 18 dropped by 11 percent, according to a 2013 Boston Public Health Commission report.

Between school year 2006-2007 and SY 2015-2016, BPS enrollment declined by approximately 1,000 pupils, or about 2 percent, the BuildBPS report states. However, report authors also anticipate enrollment climbing again, to hit about 56,618 in SY 2025-2026.

This would mean an increase of about 5 percent over SY2016-2017’s student count of 54,103.

The current dip in BPS attendance also has not been even: between SY 2006-2007 and SY 20152016, many lower grades and one high school grade included more students: The number of children in K2 and grades 1, 2, 3, 4 and 12 increased over this time period, BuildBPS states. The report also notes that the district schools tend to see an enrollment decline in middle school, with some children returning for high school.

What schools do Boston kids attend?

According to annual data provided to the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, most Boston children attend public schools. That share rose slightly over the past few years.

Between school year 2010-201l

(the date when the DESE database started including charter enrollment) and SY2015-2016, the share of Boston children attending a public school climbed slightly, from 86.5 percent to nearly 88 percent.

Enrollment at charter schools rose from about 6 percent to about 12 percent during this time. Enrollment at non-charter public schools dropped from 80 percent to 76 percent.

Those attending in- or out-ofstate private and parochial schools comprised nearly 14 percent of Boston children in SY2010-2011 and about 12 percent in SY20152016. Home-schooled student numbers remained below one percentile.

Where do the children live?

According to the November BuildBPS report, 17.5 percent of pupils at in-district schools came from Roxbury, 15.6 percent from South Dorchester and 11.5 percent from East Boston. The fewest came from Back Bay, whose children accounted for less than half a percent.

Peggy Weisenberg, member of Quality Education for Every Student, told the Banner there is a mismatch between locations of school seats and high concentrations of children, with many children busing from Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan and East Boston into Allston and Brighton’s schools. This information could affect decisions on school consolidations and expansions, as well as transportation.

As BPS considers how to align

facility and room space with student counts, Weisenberg advised against filling classes to the maximum possible level — something that the now largely-discredited McKinsey report had suggested. Along with keeping teacher-child ratios manageable, Weisenberg said it is important to maintain the ability to add a few students to a class mid-year, should a child transfer into BPS or present the need to switch into special education instruction.

Who are Boston’s and BPS’ children?

According to a July 2015 Boston Planning and Development Authority report, Bostonians under 19 are predominately of color. Whites account for 30 percent of this age group, while blacks account for 29 percent, Hispanics for 27 percent and Asians for 8 percent.

Children of color make up the majority of BPS enrollment and are set to continue this trend.

BPS enrollment data shows an increase in Latinos among the student body between SY 2001-2002 and SY 2016-2017, and blacks remaining a strong, but smaller, presence. In September 2001, 48 percent of BPS pupils were black, 28 percent Hispanic, 15 percent white and 9 percent Asian. Over a decade later, data published in December 2016 lists BPS’s student body as 35 percent black, 42 percent Hispanic, 14 percent white and 9 percent Asian.

Who are the city’s non-BPS children?

In 2001, children living in Boston but not attending BPS were predominately white and likely enrolled in private or parochial schools. The racial composition of non-BPS

children was 47 percent white, 41 percent black, 9 percent Hispanic and 3 percent Asian. Most of these children — 70 percent — attended private or parochial schools, while 15 percent were in METCO and 12 percent in charter schools.

By contrast, 15 years later, Boston children not attending BPS were more likely to be black than white and were more likely to attend charter schools than in the past. The non-BPS Boston pupils were 45 percent black, 18 percent Hispanic, 30 percent white and 4 percent Asian.

Of these children, 40 percent attended private or parochial schools, 12 percent were in METCO and 45 percent were in charter schools.

How will they be served?

While Boston’s potential tax base grows with its population, this does not necessary translate to significantly more money tapped for schools. In part this is because the school funding formula set by the state relies on pupil counts, which are not expanding at the same rate. Additionally, the BuildBPS report notes that charter schools are drawing an increasing share of potential students, reducing the per-pupil provisions.

Weisenberg says that despite the cap, charters are likely to expand.

As BPS personnel costs rise, so do school costs for what may be comparable levels of staffing. A district is allowed to direct 18 percent of net school spending to charter schools, and so this rise in BPS spending may produce an increase in charter seats, Weisenberg said.

As charters expand, more pupils in turn may be diverted from BPS, continuing what many see as a competition for students and funding.

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A patriotic resolution It is customary at the end of December to develop a New Year’s resolution, a regimen to remedy bad habits. In the past, before the year ends, many disciplined resolvers find that even the memory of their resolutions has grown dim. But this year the approach to resolutions will have to expand beyond personal shortcomings and become a commitment to save the nation.

When a new president occupies the White House, members of the losing party are disappointed, but they move forward with the assurance that everyone, regardless of party affiliation, adheres to the same culture of democracy. Now the country has a president whose values differ from the nation’s highest principles. Those who disagree with Donald Trump’s deviation will have to develop an organized and effective opposition.

The enormous political achievement of the past eight years was the election of Barack Obama as president. His re-election four years ago seemed to provide assurance that the nation was committed in its move away from the immoral legacy of slavery. However, the magnitude of white supremacy attitudes was greatly underestimated.

Many achieving whites who earned their success did not fully understand the advantage of white privilege. Their less-accomplished brethren simply had to show up and they would enjoy opportunities summarily denied to blacks and Latinos. Two factors have caused great anxiety of marginally qualified whites: the growth of the black, Latino and Asian populations and the development of new industrial technology.

This group, disaffected with the nation’s drift toward racial tolerance, was in search of a leader. Sensing the opportunity, Trump stepped forward to lead the birther movement. He

knew how to play the media, so he was able to divert his celebrity to support lowly goals. The media are always ready to publicize the negative. That is what generates an audience.

No one knew then that Trump planned to run for president. Even Trump was undoubtedly uncertain. It was clear that Trump was sufficiently hostile to Barack Obama that he would lead a racially inspired attack on his legitimacy to be president.

Is it any wonder that such a person as Trump would become guardian saint of those who support white supremacy?

Now the rest of Americans are in a battle to preserve their democratic traditions. This is a more difficult challenge because white supremacists seem willing to tolerate any deviancy in order to keep their dying point of view alive.

That is a reality that the Democratic Party did not understand. The well-educated and well-fed white suburbanites had little sensitivity to the struggles of the so-called “white trash.”

Trump understood it. Now he plans to transgress any democratic traditions as is necessary to secure his power and build his family’s wealth as long as he does not violate the law.

Now America will begin to understand the warning of Gen. Dwight Eisenhower who was president from 1953-1961. He urged the nation to beware “the military-industrial complex.” Citizens will also see the demise of any rules that prevent presidential profiteering.

In the past, Americans have been casual about their involvement in political matters unless an election is underway. This year, during the coming period of dynamic change, your New Year’s resolution must be to remain politically active in order to preserve the democratic culture.

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Jeff Sessions is the final step in the GOP plan for permanent national political control

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By EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON It’s no accident that GOP Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is speed dialing the confirmation hearings of Attorney General designate Jeff Sessions to the second week of January. It’s no accident that he has so far ignored all entreaties from skeptical Democratic Senators to delay the hearings. It’s also no accident that the GOP has made no issue of Session’s nominee questionnaire that cabinet picks must submit before confirmation hearings begin that has more gaping holes than swiss cheese.

Sessions is the GOP’s long-awaited point man to fulfill the GOP’s longest and fondest dream. That is its total domination of the national electorate. With that, the GOP will have a virtual lock on the federal government for years to come. To make that happen, the GOP must continue to discourage and damp down the number of minority and poor voters who can register to vote and who overwhelmingly vote Democratic.

The first step was the wave of naked voter suppression laws, initiatives and stumbling blocks that several GOP-dominated state legislatures enacted requiring rigid voter IDs, big scale backs in voting hours, limits, if not an end, to weekend voting, drastically restricted numbers of polling places and registrars in minority neighborhoods.

The second step was to saber rattle the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act. The GOP floated several trial balloons in Congress.

The first one was in 1981 when the Act came up for renewal. The deal in the initial passage of the Act was that it be renewed every 25 years. A few hardline ultraconservatives in the administration of then President Reagan administration made some loud threats to push Reagan to oppose its renewal. Reagan signed the renewal legislation. When the Act came up for renewal again in 2006, a pack of House Republicans stalled the legislation for more than a week and demanded that hearings be held. Bush eventually signed the renewal order.

But this opened the gate for the next step; take it to the Supreme Court. Three days after President Obama’s reelection in 2012 it demanded that the Court scrap the centerpiece of the Act, Section 5. That’s the provision that mandates that states get “preclearance” from the Justice Department before making any changes in voting procedures. The court did.

This wasn’t enough. The Voting Rights Act is still on the federal books. As long as it is it must be enforced. This puts it squarely in the lap of the Justice Department and the Attorney General. When the Justice Department was in the hands of Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder, there was no cause for concern. In countless speeches and interviews, Holder made it clear that he would do everything within his department’s power to enforce the law to protect and, where possible, expand voting rights. He filed lawsuits against the more blatant suppression efforts in states and counties.

He also demanded that state legislatures do their part to expand voting rights by lifting the felon bans that bar tens of thousands of mostly black and Hispanic ex-felons from the polls. This is no small point. The five Deep South states, and other old Confederacy states, have been lock down GOP states. But the increased number of black and Hispanics in these states pose a mortal threat to continued GOP dominance in those states. That is if there are no barriers propped up to their registering and voting. The rigid maintenance of the ex-felon ban is key to the GOP ethnic cleanse of the polls in those vital states.

GOP Senate leaders and Trump’s transition team know that civil rights and civil liberties groups and many Democratic Senators will scream loud about Sessions and do everything possible to derail the confirmation. So, they have craftily launched a media and PR charm offensive. They now paint Sessions as practically a closet civil rights champion by citing his vote to extend the VRA, citing his alleged personal commitment to racial fairness, saying his past inflammatory remarks on race were taken out of context, and that he’s a genuinely warm and affable guy.

The VRA is the major roadblock to the range of GOP ploys to ensure that the bulk of America’s voting majority remains its majority. That is white, male conservatives, rural, blue collar voters in the Deep South and Heartland states. These are the voters that put Presidents Reagan, Bush Sr., W. Bush and now Trump in the White House. They kept failed GOP presidential candidates John McCain and Mitt Romney in the hunt for the Oval office. Sessions is the absolute key to make sure the GOP maintains its national control if it has its way into perpetuity.

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JOSEPH WEINSTEIN The Steward Health Care System and Carney Hospital announced Dr. Joseph Weinstein as Steward’s new system-wide Chief Medical Officer.

Dr. Weinstein, a cardiologist, has been a practicing physician for nearly three decades.

Steward’s first Chief Medical Officer Justine Carr recently retired, leaving a legacy of improvements at Carney Hospital that have benefitted Boston area families. Dr. Weinstein expressed his commitment to continuing this progress.

“During her tenure, Dr. Carr helped Carney Hospital achieve the highest caliber of health care and I am honored to follow in her footsteps by continuing this work for the community,” said Dr. Weinstein. “I look forward to building upon her exceptional track record by continuing to strengthen the exceptional patient care and patient services currently available at Carney.”

As the Chief Medical Officer overseeing all medical practices, Dr. Weinstein will be focused on ensuring best-in-class outcomes and experiences for patients, improving behavioral health access and quality, and leveraging technology to better serve patients and the community.

Previously, Dr. Weinstein has served as the chairman of Internal Medicine and as vice president of Medical Affairs at Good Samaritan Medical Center. He was the vice president of Medical Affairs at Carney Hospital in 2015 and 2016.

“We are thrilled by the appointment of Dr. Weinstein as system-wide Chief Medical Officer,” said Walter J. Ramos, J.D., president of Carney Hospital.

“Dr. Weinstein is an exceptional choice and patients will benefit greatly from his contributions both locally and across the entire Steward system.”

With coordinated care along

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continued from page 1 incarcerated at age 13, said lack of economic opportunity drives people to turn — or return — to crime, and the policy needs to face that reality.

He has since become a productive member of society, he said, and is the deputy director of SEIU 509 and a member of Jobs Not Jails.

He and much of the audience marched out of the room, chanting “Jobs not jails.” Many carried signs calling for the repeal of mandatory minimum sentencing and questioning the lack of inclusion of people of color in the decision making.

The meeting was the final session scheduled for the Council of State Governments working group to discuss policy reform proposals.

A forthcoming report from the group is expected to lead into one comprehensive criminal justice bill package in January. Members of the CSG emphasized they were presenting ideas only, not yet formal recommendations.

State Rep. Russell Holmes, the chair of the Black and Latino Legislative Caucus, recently told the Banner that he is concerned that the opportunity will be lost to pass any reforms that do not make it through the legislature this session.

Waiting … and waiting

Feliciano voiced elements of what many community members as well as members of the Black and Latino Legislative Caucus long have been seeking, including repeal of mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenses, inclusion of preventative measures in the CSG recommendations and a greater

voice of people of color in reshaping a criminal justice system that disproportionately incarcerates blacks and Latinos.

“You have a population that’s majority of color and then, when you look at the group making decisions, out of 25 people only two are of color, and one has resigned,” Holmes told the Banner in a phone interview. “It discredits the process.”

On the day of the meeting, a coalition of 22 organizations, including the ACLU, Roca, League of Women Voters and Stuck on Replay, sent a letter asking for reform measures to include repeal of mandatory minimums for nonviolent drug offenses, support of restorative justice, CORI reform, income-based bail reform, raising the threshold at which a theft is considered a felony and promotion of substance abuse and mental health treatment over criminal prosecution When Caucus members pushed for criminal justice and policing reforms last summer, they were told to wait until the Council of State Governments could conclude its work. But that wait has not paid off, state Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz said last week.

“Our justice system is deeply broken, expensive and racist, and for the last two years legislators and grassroots activists alike have been baited into believing this ‘Justice Reinvestment Initiative’ was going to make a serious effort at fixing that,” Chang-Diaz said in a statement the day after the meeting. “Yesterday I watched a room full of black and Latino demonstrators, who have been patient for the past two years, plead with an all-white panel of CSG working group members to say something or ask some questions about the

devastating effects the criminal justice system has on their communities. … Yesterday we were placidly told ‘that was never part of our charge.’”

The CSG group was asked to investigate ways to reduce corrections spending and use the savings to implement strategies for decreasing recidivism and increasing public safety. Racial disparities were not a primary focus of the project. However, such disparities were the main topic at the last meeting.

Stark disparities

The CSG study found many racial disparities in sentencing and recidivism. For instance, whites who were sentenced in 2013 were more likely to be fined or put on probation — instead of incarcerated — than were blacks and Hispanics. While only 37 percent of whites receiving sentences were incarcerated, for blacks or Hispanics, the figure rose to 47 percent.

Whites also were allowed more often to keep convictions off their records, by receiving a continuance without a finding. In such cases, the individuals admit that their guilt could be proven, but nothing appears on their records so long as they comply with certain conditions during a probationary period.

Speaking after the meeting Holmes said he had been alarmed to hear District Attorney Michael O’Keefe state that, despite such data, he does not believe the system is racially biased.

“One of the last comments that he made was saying the criminal justice system is reactionary and it is not like they go out and actively look for people to enter the system,” Holmes recalled. “Our

D.A.s, and [members of] our judicial system, probably need to look at their own implicit biases.”

Missing data

CSG’s Massachusetts project manager, Katie Mosehauer, said lack of available data or consistency in data collection— such as how race and ethnicity are identified and defined — prevented the team from assessing the cause of the noted disparities in the criminal justice system. For instance, if the disparity is due to some people receiving harsher sentences for the same level of offenses, that calls for a different type of policy redress than if it is due to members of those groups becoming involved in the system for committing different kinds of offenses. The available data only allowed for mapping the current situation, not assessing causality, Mosehauer said.

“The dissatisfying part is we can’t answer the why. And the why is really important,” she said.

Harvard Law School’s Criminal Justice Policy Program agreed in October to collaborate with the Massachusetts Judicial Court to fill in some of the missing details.

In 2017, Harvard will initiate a study on racial disparities in adult sentencing, with aid from CSG.

Recidivism and mandatory minimums

Incarceration is driven by repeat offenders, the CSG report found, with the majority of those released from prison recidivating within three years.

Among the problems is that there is limited access during incarceration to the kinds of programming that could facilitate reentry into socieety. For instance,

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17 percent of those needing substance abuse treatment did not get access to such a program. Recommendations included piloting an early intervention probation program tailored to the unique needs of 18-to-24 year-olds, assigning probation based on risk level so that officers are less burdened by caseloads and increasing both provision and attendee completion of support programs.

When Rep. Chris Markey said during the discussion that sentence reduction as a reward for completion could be a powerful motivator, another working group member noted that maintaining mandatory minimum sentences hampers such an effort.

One working group member also recalled earlier testimony stating that 80 percent of those incarcerated are not there on mandatory minimum sentences, suggesting that repeal of such sentencing requirements are not the full picture.

To Holmes, that data point also suggests that mandatory minimums are unnecessary.

“That validates the point for no need for mandatory minimums because already the judicial process will take care of itself, and most of them will be sentenced and sentenced pretty heavily without,” Holmes said.

Lewis Finfer of Jobs Not Jail said that his organization two years ago filed a reform bill that was put on hold for the CSG process. The legislation included mandatory minimum repeal and CORI reform. Now that it appears clearly that the CSG process will not address such issues, Jobs Not Jail will be refiling the bill in January, he said.

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administration officials disputed the severity of school budget cuts.

Students, parents and teachers pushed back, questioning why the schools’ 1.3 percent budget increase — the lowest in years — came in the midst of a building boom that added more than $100 million to the city’s annual property tax revenue.

During a March demonstration, in which more than 2,000 students walked out of classes, protesters at Faneuil Hall confronted the mayor, who was whisked into a waiting car.

A student’s sign read, “Cranes in the sky, cuts in our schools.”

The battle over funding continued as BPS pushed forward with BuildBPS, an at-times controversial planning process aimed at setting a course for the public schools.

Long before the process began, Mayor Walsh sparked controversy, according to members of the parent group Quality Education for Every Student, alleging that BPS has a surplus of seats and a shortage of students. The parents said Walsh told them in a September 2015 meeting that BPS might pare its inventory of school buildings down from the current 126 to 90, a statement Walsh said he never made.

That dispute colored the beginning of the Build BPS process as the city contracted with McKinsey and Associates to study student enrollment trends. To many, the resulting report — and its finding that the system’s 57,000 students occupy space for 93,000 seats — seemed to confirm parent activists’ fears that the city was contemplating a selloff of school properties to operators of charter school. The $660,000 McKinsey report, conducted over ten weeks, incorporated non-classroom space like hallways and cafeterias into its analysis. It also called on BPS to cut funding for Special Education, English language learners, transportation and salaries and benefits for teachers.

At the time of the third student walk-out in May, Walsh drew fire with his allegations that outside groups were pushing the students to demonstrate. Weeks later, Walsh then added an additional $4.7 million to his $13 million proposed BPS budget increase — still lower than the $30 million increases made in previous years yet less than the 3 percent increases most individual departments received.

Criminal justice

The year 2016 saw civil rights attorneys pushing for change at the Boston Police Department.

In early January, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination issued a ruling ordering the department to cease and desist disparate treatment of black recruits in the Boston Police Academy, who were found to be subjected to more stringent penalties for allegations of misconduct. The ruling came in response to a complaint from a recruit who was dismissed after a white colleague accused him of asking about questions on an exam — one of 61 MCAD complaints filed against the department since 2010.

Black officers in the Massachusetts Association of Minority Law Enforcement Officers said the BPD routinely has fired people of color for offenses that commonly earn white officers a lesser punishment.

Also in January, the department released a trove of data on police stops, showing that cops used the rationale “investigate a person” as justification for 34,375 of the more than 157,565 stops recorded. As

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Mayor Martin Walsh said the numbers were concerning, but that the BPD is making progress, citing a 15 percent drop in arrests over the previous year.

Meanwhile, body-worn cameras remained in the news, with the city and the Patrolman’s Union coming to an agreement to implement a limited trial run. While 100 officers have been randomly selected to wear the cameras, the department has yet to outline firm plans to equip all officers.

The Massachusetts Black and Latino Legislative Caucus carried its criminal justice reform agenda from 2015 into this year’s legislative session, calling for reforms ranging from mandatory collection and sharing of data on race and police stops to independent investigators for officer-involved shootings along with elimination of mandatory-minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenses. Members of the Legislature’s Progressive Caucus added their support to the criminal justice reforms, yet as 2016 comes to a close, the Council of State Government’s overwhelmingly white working group on criminal justice reform, which includes Gov. Charles Baker and legislative leadership, is poised to push for reforms that fall far short of those being advanced by caucus members. Last week, criminal justice reform activists interrupted a meeting of the CSG working group, demanding substantive change. Group members gave no indication they would alter their incremental approach.

have been spreading out from Fort Hill and transit-accessible areas.

Housing costs in the predominantly-black neighborhood have shot up by 70 percent — more than anywhere else in the city — sparking fears of widespread displacement.

At the beginning of 2016, the Boston Redevelopment Authority — which changed its name to the Planning and Development Agency — kicked off a planning process for the area including Dudley Square, Melnea Cass Boulevard and Tremont Street between Ruggles Street and Roxbury Crossing. As the BPDA geared up that planning process — and pressed forward with a similar one affecting land between Jackson Square, Egleston Square and Forest Hills — the agency ran into increasing pressure from local activists to increase affordable housing goals, ease displacement of low- and moderate-income residents and include

East Boston’s Orient Heights, the Boston Housing Authority is partnering with private and nonprofit developers to redevelop and preserve affordable units.

Meanwhile, private, university and nonprofit developers continued a furious pace of housing development, helping the city pass the 10,000 new units mark en route to its stated policy goal of 50,000 new units by 2030, with more than 28,000 more approved for or already under construction.

Transportation

The administration of Gov. Charlie Baker disappointed Mattapan transit activists and local officials with its withdrawal from an earlier agreement to transform the Fairmount commuter rail line into a full rapid train line, featuring smaller cars running with greater frequency. Citing the $240 million price tag for 30 new cars, Baker administration officials said the plans are on hold indefinitely. State officials did give the green light to a new Mattapan Station along the Fairmount Line, opening up transportation options in the neighborhood’s commercial hub.

2017

As 2016 draws to a close, new construction remains brisk, rents continue to inch up, black elected officials persevere in their advocacy of enhanced criminal justice reforms and student activists gear up for the mayor’s January State of the City address, during which he is expected to announce another budget that forces cuts at BPS schools. And Banner reporters — pens, pads and cameras at the ready — are girding up for another year of news.

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This year the city’s push to ease the housing crisis by increasing housing production continued apace, with city officials announcing the completion of 10,500 of the 53,000 units Boston will need to absorb its growing population by 2030. A further 28,000 units are currently in the planning, permitting or construction phase.

Much of the new housing in Boston has been in the downtown luxury towers that have transformed the city’s skyline in recent years. Those units, ranging from $800,000 one-bedroom units to a $30 million+ penthouse in the Millennium Tower building, have attracted well-heeled refugees from suburbia and foreign investors eager to park their dollars in U.S. real estate, raising fears of an artificially inflated Boston housing market.

In neighborhoods like Roxbury, smaller condo buildings and the sales of large single-family homes

greater community participation.

A primary target for affordable housing activists: the BPDA’s Plan JP/Rox process, with protesters demonstrating during BRA planning meetings and complaining that the development of luxury apartment buildings in the area is leading to displacement of longtime residents from what once was a working-class neighborhood.

In Roxbury, activists working with City Councilor Tito Jackson launched their own neighborhood-wide planning group, Reclaim Roxbury, largely ignoring the BPDA-led process in Dudley Square.

When the Reclaim Roxbury members did show up at a BPDA Plan Dudley meeting in November, the conversation quickly turned to the city’s affordability guidelines and the residential development projects in the pipeline for the Dudley area, few of which would be affordable to current Roxbury residents.

One of the most significant developments in the city was announced in December, about a month before the Trump administration’s ascendancy: a $30 million HUD grant for the redevelopment of the Whittier Street public housing development and its surrounding neighborhood. The grant will preserve the existing 210 units of affordable housing and add another 260 market-rate and affordable units. The grant is one of the last in the HUD Choice program made by the administration of President Barack Obama. As the Trump administration takes office and the Republican-dominated Congress is poised to cut HUD funding, it may be the last grant of its kind for some time.

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Holmes told the Banner he anticipated an upcoming legislative discussion of charter reimbursement and state public education aid, saying the defeat of Question 2 — which would have raised the charter cap — sent a clear message that residents want attention put on providing greater resources to district schools.

“The vote [on question 2] made it very clear we should focus on getting more money into public education and less emphasis on raising limits on charter schools, but still have seats available for charter students,” Holmes said.

Caucus Vice Chair Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz has pushed to update the foundation budget formula which sets the level of state aid.

An investigative commission she organized reported last year that the formula is decades out of date and vastly underestimates costs.

Holmes said, however, that while discussion is likely, updates are not, due to budget constraints.

Several members of the Mattahunt community turned out to protest the school’s anticipated closure. Holmes said he personally believes converting the Mattahunt to an early learning center and sending children elsewhere is the best option for them, but realizes many in the community felt the process was rushed and that elected officials did sufficiently listen to them.

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At the meeting, criminal justice reform requests covered the full gamut, ranging from prevention to anti-recidivism measures.

Too often, childish misbehavior by children of color is treated as criminal activity, said Theresa Conti, detention diversion advocacy project director at the Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps. She recounted an incident in which two thirteen-year-old students were arrested, cuffed and brought to court to be arraigned after they threw their milk cartons at each other during lunch.

Conti and several youth attendees spoke of the need for juvenile record expungement so that mistakes made as a teenager do not haunt a person through the rest of his or her life. An expungement bill passed in the Senate last session but did not get through the House.

Several teachers said better provision of counselors at school could address childhood trauma before it turns into behavioral issues and criminal justice involvement down the line. Similarly, one resident said substance abuse assistance seems too often to be provided

Policing

Hall said digital privacy measures are needed to protect against police mass social media surveillance of civilians, especially to ensure it does not lead to targeting activists for voicing dissent.

Segun Idowu, co-founder of the Boston Police Camera Action Team, suggested a measure to equip state police with body cameras be included in the criminal justice reform bill package expected next year.

Housing

Many speakers also made specific policy requests that would increase affordable housing resources.

Thadine Brown, vice president of the Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance, urged legislators to target the state’s racial homeownership gap with measures such as providing a state

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She recommended incorporating addiction into the Act to Eliminate Racial and Health Disparities in the Commonwealth bill sent to the House last March.

Rahsaan Hall, racial justice program director of the local ACLU, and others called for a repeal of mandatory minimum sentences.

James Mackey, coordinator for Opportunity Youth United, called for an end to using prisoners as sub-minimum-wage labor.

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Other attendees said Roxbury Community College seems to be slipping out of community control and that staff and contractors no longer seem to represent local people of color sufficiently. Multiple teachers took the mic to report that their schools lack enough trauma counselors to properly serve children and disrupt the school to prison pipeline.

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matching commitment to loans made through the ONE Mortgage Program, which assists low-income first-time homebuyers.

Brown served as treasurer for the campaign pushing to implement the Community Preservation Act in Boston, which generates revenue for affordable housing and other causes. With more communities participating, she said, the state’s pool of funds from which to match municipal CPA revenue is being stretched thin.

She requested the state’s matching level be raised to 50 percent.

Jeanne Pinado, chief executive director of Madison Park Development Corporation, and David Bryant, director of advocacy for the Massachusetts Association of CDCs, sought passage of a major housing bond bill. Bryant also asked that the community investment tax credit — which supports CDCs — be prevented from sunsetting in 2019.

Karen Chen of the Chinese Progressive Association called for changes to policies governing the bidding on state-owned land. With rents and displacement skyrocketing in Chinatown, Chen said, parcels owned by MassDOT should not go to the highest bidder, but the one who will prioritize community use.

Several attendees also voiced support for the Jim Brooks Stabilization Act, filed this month, which would limit the conditions under which large property owners can evict tenants. The bill emerged out of activists’ push for a “just cause eviction” ordinance last year.

Climate and health

Mariama White-Hammond, associate minister of Boston’s Bethel AME Church, asked for support for solar panels and other climate change limitation measures in local communities. An 83-yearold member of Mass Senior Action Council called for raising MassHealth’s asset limit and increasing access to Medicare savings programs in order to assist the many seniors statewide who are struggling to afford basic needs.

Economic development and wages

Madison Park’s Pinado praised state grant programs that support commercial economic development, saying such projects are often underserved by funding resources. Some attendees also called for living wage standards, a higher minimum wage and measures to facilitate minority participation in the legalized marijuana business.

Beverly Johnson of the Mass Minorities Contractors Association sought transparency and consistency in standards for inclusion in the state’s Supplier Diversity Office. Governor Charlie Baker announced last year plans to extend SDO program inclusion to businesses owned by people with disabilities or who are LGBT, and to expand provision for veteran-owned businesses. Johnson stated that expanding the types of businesses certified would shrink the available offerings for minorityand women-owned enterprises.

Thus, she said, any new types of enterprise only should be added after meeting the same evidence requirements that MBEs and WBEs met, establishing persistent discrimination leading to economic injustice.

“Minority-owned enterprises and women-owned enterprises will be impacted if any other groups are added to the program,” Johnson said. “The slice of the pie gets smaller and smaller.”

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In today’s fashion era marked by jeans and sneakers, a boutique in Dudley Square pays homage to a time when women always were dressed to the nines, no matter the occasion.

Final Touch with Class is a family-run store in Roxbury’s Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building that sells inimitable women’s accessories and clothing in an intimate environment.

“I don’t want to just sell you something,” said Catherine Hardaway, who owns the store with husband Danny and son Haris. “I want you to walk out of here feeling fabulous.”

The Hardaways opened their first Final Touch location in 2005 on Morton Street in Mattapan.

Danny had retired from working in corporate settings as a marketing sales specialist and was looking for the next venture. Catherine, who also is executive director of Central Boston Elder Services in Dudley Square, always was interested in locally-owned businesses that serve the community.

Originally from South Carolina, Catherine moved north to live with her aunt on Blue Hill Avenue in the 1960s. “There used to be all these stores on Blue Hill Avenue.

Everything from meat markets, furniture stores,” she said. “You never had to go downtown. You could shop for everything in your community.”

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The Hardaways started the business as an accessories store but quickly expanded to clothing as it took off. Mall managers began to take notice. “They liked that our store was different from other chain stores,” said Catherine.

They moved their retail location to Westgate Mall in Brockton, then to Emerald Square in Attleboro. “We built our reputation in the South Shore,” said Danny. “A lot of people know us from there.”

The family moved their boutique to the Bolling Building in November 2015. Across from the Dudley Square bus station, the store occupies a prime location with thousands of people going through the terminal every day.

“If someone is waiting for the bus, our store might catch their eye and they come in just to look,” said Catherine. “But they end up coming back.”

Customers regularly return for the wide range of dresses, handbags, shoes and jewelry priced between $40 and $200, as well as for the Hardaways’ attention to detail and curated customer experience.

“We’re very one-on-one,” said Danny. “You can come in and say, ‘Danny, what you got?’ and I’ll direct you to the right style.”

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(l-r) Haris, Catherine and Danny Hardaway in their Bolling Building store. comes from our Southern roots,” said Haris, who once helped a customer for three hours to pick the right outfit.

“We teach women about fit, how to wear color and be adventurous,” he said. “We bring punctuation to personality.”

Women from 18 to 70 shop at Final Touch. With sizes ranging from petite to plus, the store tries to suit everyone, said Catherine.

Many of the items tiptoe the fine line between trendy but classic, and sexy but classy.

The store is designed to put customers at ease, like shopping a friend’s closet. Catherine said they picked out the bright color of the walls, easy visibility of the clothes and seating areas with this in mind. “I’m a therapy shopper myself, so when I walk into a store, I want to feel good,” she said.

“The store we first opened became known not just as a boutique, but also a place for socializing,” said Catherine.

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Every piece of merchandise in the boutique is handpicked from vendors. “It’s a little old fashioned but the good boutiques travel a lot,” said Danny. “It’s very important to do that because you want to look at the fabric, cut, stitching and the person you’re buying from.”

The Hardaways buy every three weeks, usually in Los Angeles and New York, and from up-and-coming designers.

“Our customer base is about being different,” said Catherine.

Final Touch carries only three of each item in small, medium, and large, and they’re proactive when customers come in shopping before a big local event.

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Dine in. Everyone knows eating out is more expensive than dining in, but you might not even realize how often you’re doing it. When you’re on the go, buying lunch or ordering take-out, costs quickly add up. Pre-planning and preparing meals for the week ahead will not only save money but help you eat healthier at the same time.

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The Hardaways select just a few of each item, ensuring that customers will not likely see their friends wearing the same dress.

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“We ask our customers where they’re going, so we don’t have two customers ending up at the same event with the same outfit,” said Catherine.

Family tradition

Thirty-five year old Haris is in charge of marketing and handles all the social media, advertising and promotion, while managing

the boutique’s resident models grandmother move into a new ran S.T.Y.L.E. at their previous who either are customers or have apartment, he discovered she had store location and plan to bring several closets filled with clothes it back to Roxbury next spring for become customers.

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“Part of the reason we opened this store was to bring a little more sophistication to how people dress,” said Haris. But there’s no judgement when you walk through the door, he reassured.

Through fashion and presentation, Haris said “We like to show people how to be empowered and have the confidence to be themselves.”

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Beyond words ITALIAN RENAISSANCE BOOKS ON DISPLAY AT GARDNER MUSEUM THROUGH JANUARY 16

By SUSAN SACCOCCIA

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book can provide a close-up, personal dose of enchantment. Books that combine words and pictures have a special allure. And if they come from another time, they offer a magic carpet ride into another world that may not be so unlike our own.

The appetite for telling stories in picture books may begin with children’s stories but plenty of grown-up artists remain entranced, publishing graphic novels and reviving the painstaking craft of handmade books.

An encounter with such books from 1,000 years ago awaits visitors to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum through Jan. 16, in the exhibition “Beyond Words: Italian Renaissance Books.”

Viewing a selection of Renaissance-era picture books is a special pleasure at the Gardner, a 15th-century Venetian palazzo on the Fenway with a fragrant courtyard garden and a collection of Renaissance masterpieces on the walls as well in display cases.

The palazzo and its holdings are the personal creation of Isabella Stewart Gardner. She was among the Boston Brahmins whose avid collecting during the 19th century has made Greater Boston colleges, universities and libraries the largest center of Renaissance artworks outside of Europe.

Collaborative exhibition

The Gardner is one of three local institutions to host a collaborative exhibition, 16 years in the making, entitled “Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections.” During the threemonth exhibition, the Gardner, Harvard’s Houghton Library and Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art, have displayed a total of 260 painted and printed books at their respective sites. Dating from the 8th to 17th centuries, the works were loaned by 16 neighboring institutions, including the

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5 questions: Allan Harris Singer to perform at Scullers Jazz Club

By STEPHEN DUFFY

Ever since he burst on the jazz scene, Allan Harris has reigned supreme as one of the most accomplished and exceptional singers of his generation. Aptly described by the Miami Herald as an artist blessed with “the warmth of Tony Bennett, the bite and rhythmic sense of Sinatra and the sly elegance of Nat ‘King’ Cole,” the ample and aural evidence of Harris’ multifaceted talent can be heard on his ten recordings.

Harris is bringing his smooth sounds to the Scullers Jazz Club.

When did you decide to become a jazz musician?

Allan Harris: Growing up, jazz was always playing in my house.

My mom was a classical pianist and loved jazz music. My aunt owned a little placed called “Kate’s Soul Food” and a lot of the greats would eat there, so you can say I did not have a choice. It was kind of expected of me to become a musician.

How has the sound of your latest album, “Nobody’s Gonna Love You Better,” evolved since your first album?

AH: A lot! I like to think that I am getting better with each new album [laughs]. With this album, I am a little more mature and schooled and was able to attract some like-minded musicians to help create the sound I was looking for.

What is your definition of jazz music?

AH: Jazz is an art form that

See HARRIS, page 13 PHOTO: IMAGE COURTESY OF HARVARD IMAGING SERVICES AND HOUGHTON LIBRARY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Calderini Pontifical, Rome, about 1385. Manuscript: ink and colors.

Boston Public Library, Wellesley College and the Museum of Fine Arts. A catalog with contributions by 85 scholars accompanies the three simultaneous exhibitions.

Although the installations at the Houghton Library and McMullen Museum closed last week, a web site (http://beyondwords2016.org) will keep this landmark collaboration alive for years to come.

Curated by Anne-Marie Eze, the Gardner exhibition traces the collaboration of Italian humanists and learned clergy in the propagation of books.

Civilization was under siege in the Middle Ages, as the region that was to become Europe was wracked by plagues and invading hordes. Countless scribes in monasteries and convents kept learning alive by copying and illustrating books — the Bible as well as classics of Greek and

Roman antiquity — that were to become touchstones of learning, culture and civil society in that era of peace and prosperity within Europe known as the Renaissance.

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A sensory experience

Writing in quill pens crafted from birds’ wings, with inks ground from plants and minerals on parchments made from animal hides, scribes would then illuminate their pictures and lettering by breathing on stencils hand-cut from sheets of precious metal such as gold leaf. Ivory and gemstones also added glory to Bibles large and small, encrusting the pages with jewel-like embellishments as shimmering as Tiffany lamps.

Mingling pictures of saints and

See BOOKS, page 13 PHOTO: COURTESY ALLAN HARRIS

Allan Harris

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‘An American Experience’ Khabeer Sultan deconstructs the stereotype of the black man

By CELINA COLBY

PHOTOS: COURTESY KHABEER SULTAN

Bolivar Geraldo Jr., Computer Engineer, from Boston-based photographer Khabeer Sultan’s “An American Experience” collection.

Boston-based photographer Khabeer Sultan is tired of being pigeonholed. He’s weary of the burdens of being a black man in a country still fraught with racial injustice. And in his new project, “An American Experience,” he seeks to combat the categorization of black men as violent, unintelligent criminals. His poignant portraits of men of color reveal the complex individuals underneath this stereotype.

Sultan began the project in October, after a viewing of Ava DuVernay’s film, “13th,” which connects mass incarceration to slavery and the demonization of the black male.

“Being a black man in America has shaped the lens I view the world with,” says Sultan. “I see joy, I see pain, I see hope and love. I believe I have a responsibility to use my craft to share stories that go untold.”

“An American Experience” is a series of black-and-white portraits of men of color. Displayed on Sultan’s website (americanexperienceproject.com), a quote from the subject accompanies each photograph. Sultan takes a backseat approach to the project, allowing his

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Omar Parkman, model. Sultan says he lets his subjects pick their own pose and background. subjects to pick the location as well as their style of dress. The more comfortable the subject is, the more authentic the capture.

Sultan connects with subjects through his social network and the list is diverse in age and occupation. In one portrait, Bolivar Geraldo Jr. sits on a stoop, dressed stylishly in a felt fedora, overcoat, and matching scarf and gloves.

The image is cropped close, and Geraldo engages directly with the viewer, with weary, disappointed eyes. His quote says, “I love Bachata. I love John Mayer. I have a degree in Engineering and a minor in Math. You can never know these things about me if you don’t endeavor to see beyond my Blackness.”

Minimalism triumphs in Sultan’s work, from the black-and-white palette to the shallow depth of field, highlighting the faces of his subjects

and blurring out distractions. Sultan has been surprised by and grateful for the community support he’s received for the project.

“I have been welcomed into homes, places of work and made comfortable during each interaction I’ve had with the men I have shot,” he says. “The project is theirs just as much as it is mine and I feel honored to be trusted to share their story.”

“An American Experience” is deeply personal for Sultan. After years of photographing for aesthetic beauty, he feels he’s found a worthwhile artistic mission. He hopes that as the project grows, so will the understanding of the depth of men of color.

“Men of Color aren’t the ‘other,’ we are just like everyone else,” he says. “What’s not often conveyed is how strongly we believe that if one of us grows, we all grow.”

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A taste of home Marie-Claude Mendy brings Senegal to Boston

By CELINA COLBY

When Marie-Claude Mendy emigrated to the U.S. from her home in Dakar, Senegal, she took two things with her: an eye for design and a passion for cooking.

Food and family were integrally intertwined in her upbringing, and she came of age preparing traditional Senegalese dishes from scratch with her mother. Mendy brings those unique flavors to Boston’s South End in her delicious restaurant, Teranga.

Comfort food

Mendy says her goal was to bring the simple, but powerful, tastes of Africa to the cold Northeast. “When you are born into something, you tend to take it for granted,” she says.

“My motto is simple but tasty, and then flavorful, and that’s what I want to share.”

Though Senegalese sounds exotic in a town famous for clam chowder and baked beans, the cuisine is based on freshness of ingredients and subtleness of pairings rather than harsh spices. Due to a history of colonization, the food pulls from French, Asian, Arabic and African influences. The Thiebou Djeun (National Dish) features herb-stuffed white fish cooked in a tomato-based stew with carrots, cauliflower, eggplant and pumpkin. Served with a flavorful couscous, the result is rich comfort food perfectly suited for the frigid Boston winter.

Cultural mix

Teranga’s location on the border of the South End and Roxbury is a nod to the melding of cultures in the area, as in the food. The décor is that of a moody, trendy nightspot with a subtle nod to Senegal. It was important to Mendy not to go overboard with the African influence.

“I didn’t want clichés like

Harris

continued from page 11 combines the sounds that immigrants brought to the U.S. in the early part of the 20th century. It’s an expression of American people.

It’s about where we have been and where we are going. Jazz allows us the freedom to experiment with its sound and make it our own.

Who has musically influenced you the most and why?

AH: Oh my! My mom started me off on my jazz career. Everything I know I learned from her.

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My motto is simple but tasty, and then flavorful, and that’s what I want to share. ... Come in, eat, enjoy.

Our story is still going.”

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damask,” she says. Handmade paintings adorn the walls, many of which are from Mendy’s personal collection. “Every time I travel I pick up a painting,” says Mendy. “I wanted something chic but meaningful.”

Warm welcome

Teranga’s ten-seat bar serves up delicious cocktails like the sweet and potent Mango Sangria, and the tangy Teranga Calirinha, made with lime, mint, and caña.

The cocktails pair well with the small-bites style appetizers.

Mendy recommends the Accara, a seasoned black-eyed pea batter that’s fried and served with mild tomato-onion sauce. For a spicier kick try the Fataya, a savory fried pastry filled with seasoned tuna and served with a zesty sriracha sauce. Mendy hopes to add brunch to the menu in 2017.

The restaurant is very much a welcoming place. When Mendy gets a text that her chefs are running late she jumps into the kitchen herself, handcrafting the meals that she eagerly serves to her customers. She chats casually in French with two guests, pausing only to refill the drinks of a group sitting by the exposed brick wall. It feels less like you’ve walked into a restaurant, and more like you’ve walked into Mendy’s home.

“Come in, eat, enjoy,” she says, smiling. “Our story is still going.”

I love all the greats, but Louis Armstrong is my favorite. I loved how he took a melody and made it his own. I also loved how he made people happy.

What do you think about the resurgence of jazz music?

AH: As a jazz musician, I am so happy that it is making a comeback. For the longest time, it was a dying sound, especially in the early the ’80s and the ’90s. I love how the sound of jazz is being reinvented and new artists are revisiting its roots and bringing it back to life. It’s both exciting and wonderful.

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continued from page 11 illustrations of parables with earthly images of foliage, fruit, mythical beasts, apes, peacocks and children at play, they created books of worship that Roger S. Wieck describes in the catalog as “a private picture gallery to please the eye and inspire the heart.”

Crafting and reading these books were sensory experiences.

Reading was not a silent exercise, exhibition co-curator Jeffrey F. Hamburger writes in the catalog. “Especially in the early Middle Ages,” Hamburger writes, “reading was spoken or at least mumbled and at times even sung.

Monastic manuals compared the process of reading to the mastication and rumination of animals, which sought to extract spiritual nourishment from the text.”

Jumbo Bibles served public worship and for personal prayers throughout the day, and a welloff patron would enjoy a personal prayer book, known as a “book of hours.” During the 300year peak of the handmade book examined in “Beyond Words,” from 1250 to 1350, such volumes were best-sellers.

The exhibits

Focusing on the Humanist Library, the Gardner exhibition opens with a replica of a “studiolo,” a scholar’s private chamber, complete with a tapestry-covered period desk and early Roman statuary. A 1482 painting shows Saint Jerome in a similar study, translating the Bible from Hebrew into Latin. On an adjacent wall are other items from the Gardner collection, including portraits of the era’s prominent men and women and a display case of correspondence from writers who include a pope, a book merchant and a poet.

Inside the gallery, a display shows a large image of the church-like interior of a renowned Florentine library of the era, where books were chained in place and patrons switched seats to access their chosen volumes.

Among the gilded and colorful handmade books are four massive Bibles and a beguiling array of books of hours from Naples and Venice. Several prize Gardner holdings show the shift to black-and-white illustrations and typefaces with the advent of

the printing press in the late 1460s.

These works include a 1481 edition of Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” printed in Florence and illustrated by Sandro Botticelli. The volume is open to a scene in the Inferno.

Nearby is Gardner’s 1502 edition of Dante’s masterpiece, printed by Aldus Manutius of Venice. Thanks to his genius as a designer, printer and entrepreneur, Venice soon surpassed Florence PHOTO: COURTESY HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL, as a publishing ANDOVER THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY center. Promi“St. Mark” from a copy of The Four Gospels, Sanahin nently displayed Monastery, Lori Province, Armenia, 1504. is the trademark within their households. Its illusof Manutius, an early defender trations include a mini-drama of intellectual property, who patshowing the author still exhortented his elegant designs. ing her readers from her sickbed Digital technology opens while being attended by female a new chapter in the story of allegorical figures of rectitude, books, and on Thursday, Jan. 12, justice and reason. at 7 p.m., the Gardner will host Anthony W. Marx, president of the New York Public Library, for Monastic images a talk entitled “Beyond GutenAt Houghton Library, the exberg: Access in the 21st Century.” hibition entitled “Manuscripts Although the Gardner’s partfrom Church & Cloister” prener institutions closed their sented exquisite examples of moexhibitions last week, each one nastic craftsmanship in works of contributed compelling segformal grandeur as well as priments to “Beyond Words.” The vate devotion.

McMullen inaugurated its new A magnificent text to accomquarters, a Renaissance Revival pany the Mass illustrated the palazzo, with its exhibition, priest’s prayers with ornate gild“Manuscripts for Pleasure & ing that extends to the accompaPiety.” Galleries on two floors nying hymn. The musical notes, presented 180 illuminations appearing as gilded flecks, are dating from the 11th to the 16th abstract expressions of joy. In a century. Arranged in columns small Bible, a passage announcwithin rows of display cases, the ing the Resurrection showed an open books resembled a legion athletic-looking Christ climbing of butterflies at rest. out of his tomb.

Memorable objects included Among the most endearing an eight-foot parchment from images in the entire exhibition 1200 showing the family tree of is a tiny illustration of the evanJesus, starting with Eve, apple in gelist Mark painted in 1504 at hand; and a 35-foot-long scroll an Armenian monastery. The from 1470 tracing milestones of serene composition of streambiblical and human history from lined curves and rectangles the Creation to the present day. is rendered in warm tones of Secular volumes included a red, green, blue and yellow. A manual with fine drawings on starry sky behind him, Mark the care of humans and horses. A sits at his desk, his hand restsilk-bound physician’s diagnostic ing on a blank page. Overhead, guide, folded up, is no bigger than as a divine hand extends from a smart phone. A female author’s the clouds and streams down a book instructs women on taking band of inspiration, Mark’s eyes moral and economic leadership are wide open in wonder.

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A proposal to raise the income tax rate on millionaires and direct the revenue toward public education and transportation infrastructure improvements cleared its second of three hurdles when it passed a vote at the state constitutional convention. However, it must be approved at the next ConCon before it can hit the 2018 statewide ballot.

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Docket No. SU16D2322DR

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Umu K. Saccoh

vs.

Abdurahime Sawanneh

To the Defendant: The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court grant a divorce for irretrievable breakdown of the marriage pursuant to G.L. c.

208, Section 1 B.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU16P2424EA

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Eva Woodberry Date of Death: 03/03/2016 To all interested persons: A Petition for Formal Probate of Will with Appointment of Personal Representative has been filed by Genevie Woodberry of Boston, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. The Petitioner requests that Genevie Woodberry of Boston, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond in an unsupervised administration.

IMPORTANT NOTICE You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return day of 01/19/2017. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return day, action may be taken without further notice to you.

UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM PROBATE CODE (MUPC) A Personal Representative appointed under the MUPC in an unsupervised administration is not required to file an inventory or annual accounts with the Court. Persons interested in the estate are entitled to notice regarding the administration directly from the Personal Representative and may petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration.

WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: December 08, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU13D2340DR

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Alfredo Brown

vs.

Rhonda Brown

To the Defendant: The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court grant a divorce for irretrievable breakdown of the marriage pursuant to G.L. c.

208, Section 1 B. 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.

You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Alfredo Brown, 50 Ridlon Street, Hyde Park, MA 02136 your answer, if any, on or before 02/09/2017. 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, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: November 25, 2016

Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

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