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State police to detain for ICE Police-community relations put at risk say advocates, city officials

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

Governor Charlie Baker drew backlash last week when he announced a policy rollback allowing greater collaboration between state police and the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Critics say that the move could make communities less, not more, safe by making immigrant communities wary of calling upon and assisting law enforcement, and inviting unintended legal problems for the state.

Baker’s decision eliminates a piece of former-governor Deval Patrick’s immigration policy by allowing state police to fulfill ICE requests to temporarily detain suspects who meet certain criteria.

The goal, Baker administration officials say, is to increase public safety by facilitating the deportation of serious criminals, including those involved in gangs and terrorism.

“This policy revision gives the professionals of our statewide policing agency the tools necessary to detain criminals, gang members or suspected terrorists wanted by federal authorities,” Baker said in a statement. “As before, the state police will not be enforcing federal immigration law nor will they inquire about immigration status; they will now be able to assist in detaining for our federal partners individuals who pose a significant threat to public safety or national security.”

But some say the new policy

is at best, unnecessary and at worst, harmful.

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh and City Councilor Andrea Campbell, chair of the committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice, said the policy could shatter trust between immigrant communities and law enforcement. Officers’ ability to promote safety could be impeded under such immigration policies, which may make residents fearful of reporting crimes and cooperating in investigations, they said.

Walsh said Boston will not follow suit.

Eva Millona, executive director of the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, also raised concerns about the legality of the policy, which would allow suspects to be detained without a warrant, and questioned the need for the state to get involved.

The general order, signed

by State Police Superintendent Richard McKenon last week, went into effect on June 2.

Policy details

Under Baker’s policy, state police be able to hold suspects for an additional 48 hours — not including weekends and holidays — at ICE’s request. For the detainment to happen, the individual must have been arrested on a warrant or for a criminal violation, and the troop duty officer must approve the detention, according

See ICE, page 24

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BPS Senior Deputy Superintendent Barbara Deane-Williams (right) leads a discussion during a Build BPS community forum Saturday as community resident Angela Kim Nhien looks on.

BPS emails detail school closure plans

Parent group says they show rush to shutter bldgs

By YAWU MILLER

City officials, Boston Public School students and parents gathered at the Bruce Bolling Municipal Building in Dudley Square Saturday to contribute to Build BPS, a facilities master planning process to outline the school department’s building needs over the next ten years.

School Superintendent Tommy

Chang told the group that Build BPS would help the department plan for the school system’s future.

He and other city officials presented the meeting as an opportunity for parents and students to weigh in on the priorities for BPS facilities.

“We want to use Build BPS to imagine the buildings we need for 21st century education,” he said.

But throughout the last year inside City Hall and the Bolling

Building, Chang and city officials have been engaged in a different conversation revolving around how to sell the public on a plan to close 30-50 school buildings.

That discussion happened behind closed doors, without public deliberation.

Through a Freedom of Information Act request, the parent

See BUILD BPS, page 8

Not the deal she thought she signed Seller beware: Real estate offer backfires

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

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Jamaica Plain homeowner Migdalia Mazziotta may lose her Boylston Street single-family home to a real estate developer.

Last year, when Migdalia Mazziotta signed an offer from a developer to buy her Jamaica Plain single-family home, the deal her real estate broker put together seemed like a good one.

The sale would provide leverage to buy a larger home for her growing household. But now, facing a lawsuit in which the developer is seeking $400,000 and her Boylston Street home, Mazziotta regrets putting her

signature on the offer letter.

After she signed it, her housing sale plans went awry.

Mazziotta has lived in her house in Egleston Square for nearly two decades. She had thought she made it clear to her real estate agent, who drew up the buyer’s offer letter, that she only wanted to sell so she could purchase a larger house that accommodated more family members, she told the Banner. But when her attempts to acquire a new place fell through, she experienced a shock: The offer letter she signed

only stipulated her intention to use the sale to purchase a new property but did not, as she had assumed, make the sale of her residence contingent on having a new one.

The buyer, a local developer, plans to tear down her home and redevelop the property into condos, according to Mazziotta.

He has displayed little willingness to allow Mazziotta and her family’s predicament to halt to what could be a profitable deal for him in Jamaica Plain’s hot housing market.

Mazziotta is not the only longtime Jamaica Plain homeowner being

See MIGDALIA, page 25

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POAH-Nuestra selected to develop Mattapan Square lot

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

The MBTA officially has designated a development team to bring new life to the parking lot by the Mattapan Square bus and trolley station. Nonprofit organizations Preservation of Affordable Housing Inc. (POAH) and Nuestra Comunidad together will turn the underused lot into retail space and affordable and market-rate housing.

To secure the site, POAH-Nuestra‘s plan beat out a competing joint proposal from Trinity Financial Inc. and Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation. Under POAH-Nuestra’s vision, fewer housing units will be built, but more than double the retail space will be provided.

Their proposal calls for 135 units of housing in two buildings, with 52 percent of units affordable to those earning up to 60 percent of area median income, and 10,000 square feet of retail space. Julie Creamer, POAH’s vice president of New Construction and Special Projects, said that current plans also call for at least 25 percent of the units to be made affordable to middle-income households earning 60 to 110 AMI (which amounts to $58,900 to $98,100 for a family of four, according to the Boston Redevelopment Authority). The number of middle-income affordable units may increase, contingent on available financing, and the rest of units will be left market rate.

Creamer said her developer team offered the MBTA the highest bid, although she would not specify the exact amount. The MBTA’s Request for Proposals placed the minimum bid at $1.5 million.

Instead of buying the property, the POAH-Nuestra team will lease it from the MBTA for 99 years and make annual payments for a number of those years, likely fewer than the full 99, she said.

Envisioning retail and housing

Creamer said that community members told her at local meetings that in the kinds of retail offered in the neighborhood tend to stay the same. At the Mattapan Square site, residents said they wanted to see a sit-down restaurant and a place where people can relax and have a conversation over coffee as well as other offerings that would fill retail gaps.

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Above and below: Artist renderings for the site.

What is done there could inspire other businesses to take their cue, Creamer said.

“The [residents] really see [the project] as a catalyst for the rest of that area, so it’s important for them that we fill a niche and also hopefully bring attention to that area and to the needs of the community there,” Creamer said. “I think they feel a little bit that what’s there is the same as what it’s always been, that there’s nothing new or exciting happening there relative to the impact on the community.”

The housing portion of the project also will strengthen the neighborhood, she said. Against a backdrop of growing rents and high housing demand in Boston, providing affordable housing is important to maintaining Mattapan’s community, she said.

“Housing that comes into Mattapan that doesn’t carry with it a long-term affordability in our minds isn’t serving the needs of that community,” Creamer told the Banner. “We feel our plan is really going to help keep Mattapan the community it is and wants to remain.”

More projects to come?

This project could lead to more. David Price, executive director of Nuestra Comunidad, said that while Nuestra is not new to Mattapan, this project could introduce it more widely to

the neighborhood.

“To the extent this helps introduce us and POAH to the rest of Mattapan, I think that will be helpful in a general way,” Price told the Banner.

Nuestra purchased and renovated the 95-unit Adams Court Development on River Street twelve years ago and has been an active partner of Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition, Price said.

Currently, the development corporation is looking into other potential projects in the area, particularly ones with homeownership opportunities and on a smaller scale than this one. They

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have not yet singled one out to pursue.

Timeline

There is much to be done on the project.

Soon the team will start on the “due diligence” phase of work, which includes examining the physical conditions of the property to determine how best to site building structures, as well as researching the potential impacts on areas such as traffic, as part of the Boston Redevelopment Authority Article 80 process. This could take about eight months, Creamer said.

The developer team also is

moving to secure financing. Price said that in addition to pursuing conventional loans and state or city subsidies for providing affordable housing, the team also expects to acquire funds under a Mass Housing program targeted at financing workforce housing.

The lease arrangement also was an important part to making the project’s financing work, Creamer said.

Further permitting as well as community engagement also will be needed. Creamer said that community meetings likely will be scheduled this summer and that she hopes to be ready to begin construction by 2018.

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City’s demographics dashboard tracks diversity of its workforce

By YAWU MILLER

City officials released data last week detailing the diversity – and in many departments, lack of diversity – of the municipal workforce. The data shows whites and blacks are moderately overrepresented in city government while Latinos and Asians are underrepresented.

Whites, who make up 46 percent of the city’s population, represent 54 percent of the city’s workforce, according to the city’s Diversity Dashboard, an online interactive tool, that allows users to examine data for individual departments. Blacks, who make up 24 percent of the city’s population, constitute 29 percent of the city’s workforce. Latinos, at 29 percent of the city’s population, are just 12 percent of the municipal workforce. Asians, who are 9 percent of Boston’s population, occupy just 4.2 percent of city jobs.

Civil rights activists say the City of Boston has much work to do to build a workforce that reflects the growing racial and ethnic diversity of the city’s population.

“There needs to be a sense of urgency,” said NAACP Boston Branch President Michael Curry.

“When the city’s workforce doesn’t represent its population, it’s a failure.”

Rahsaan Hall, Director of the

Racial Justice Program at the ACLU of Massachusetts, noted that diversity is not evenly distributed in city departments.

“Of the 46 departments, there are only 9 of them that are at relative parity with the city’s population,” he said. “Some of the larger departments – the Police and Fire Departments – are well below parity.”

The data show that blacks, Latinos and Asians are concentrated in lower-paying jobs, with whites dominating the higher-paying departments like the Boston Fire Department, where 70 percent of the workforce is white. In that department, 341 of the 404 workers who earn more than $100,000 a year are white, 43 are black and 18 are Latino.

Similarly, in the Boston Police Department, 196 of the 237 employees earning more than $100,000 are white, 34 are black, and 5 are Latino. Just 22 percent of the 2,901 BPD employees are black, 9 percent are Latino and 2 percent are Asian.

The city’s Chief Diversity Officer, Daniel Tavares, acknowledged that the city’s workforce is not reflective of its diverse population.

“The numbers are misaligned across the board,” he said. “And if you remove BPS, the numbers drop even more.”

When jobs in the city’s school department are factored out, the white population of the city’s

workforce inches up to 60 percent, while the percentage of blacks drops to 25 percent and the number of Latinos to 10 percent.

With the exception of Boston Public Schools jobs, where blacks and whites are at near-parity in pay, blacks and Latinos make considerably less in city jobs.

That’s largely because, outside of BPS, blacks and Latinos are concentrated in the city’s lowest-paying jobs. Median pay for black city workers is $61,000 while for whites, it’s $74,900.

In the non-BPS departments with the highest concentrations of black workers – the Department of Youth Engagement and Employment (with 598 workers, 85 percent of whom are nonwhite), 460 of those workers – all black, Latino and Asian, earn less than $20,000 a year. Those numbers could reflect youth jobs, where teens earn less than $5,000 a year, but data was not broken down further.

Hall says the lack of diversity outside of the school department is concerning.

“In a city where the majority of people are people of color, the needs, concerns and education of these people are easier to ignore when the departments responsible for advocating their needs aren’t diverse,” he said. “Given the economic disparities that exist along racial lines, it’s all the more important to hire people who reflect the city’s population.”

The City of Boston’s demographics dashboard allows users to track data on the race, gender and pay of its workers.

First Annual Cruz C.A.R.E.S. Walkathon

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On Saturday, June 4, Boston residents came together for the First Annual Cruz C.A.R.E.S. Walkathon, traveling a 3-mile route through Franklin Park to raise awareness and funds to support summer jobs for youth in Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan.

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Established 1965

Juneteenth has no beneficial meaning in Mass.

Juneteenth is a Texas holiday that has gone viral. It began as an acknowledgement of the day that Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was enforced in Texas on June 19, 1865. Texas was the last state of the Confederacy to comply. There seems to be a mistaken belief that slavery became illegal everywhere in the country on that date.

That assumption is historically incorrect.

When Abraham Lincoln was elected president he was determined to end slavery. However, he did not have the constitutional authority to do so without congressional approval. Once the Confederate states rebelled and launched the Civil War on April 12, 1861, Lincoln then had the authority as commander in chief of the Union Army to end slavery as a military tactic. By executive order, Lincoln issued a proclamation to abolish slavery on Jan. 1, 1863. This proclamation applied only to those states and sections of states that had joined the Confederacy in war against the Union.

The Emancipation Proclamation applied only to Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas, as well as Arkansas, North Carolina and parts of Virginia.

Slavery was still permissible elsewhere in the slave states that had not taken up arms against the Union — Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Tennessee and parts of Virginia.

Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger landed in Galveston, Texas with 2,000 federal troops on June 19, 1865 to enforce Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. That was a two and a half year delay in its implementation. In the meantime, Lincoln had been working assiduously on a constitutional amendment that would settle the questions of the legality of slavery everywhere in the country.

Through his efforts the 13th Amendment was ratified on Dec. 6, 1865.

Somehow the Juneteenth date has gained more popularity than Dec. 6, 1865 ­— the date that ended the legality of slavery everywhere in

the U.S. Now 45 of the 50 states and the District of Columbia recognize the Juneteenth holiday as at least a day of observance. Only Hawaii, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota and South Dakota do not recognize the holiday.

Like many other states, Massachusetts had a history of slavery. While there never was a law to abolish slavery in the state directly, the Declaration of Rights that states “all men are born free and equal” is part of the state constitution. In 1783, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the Declaration of Rights renders slavery unconstitutional in the Commonwealth.

Consequently, Gen. Granger’s foray into Texas 83 years later had no legal consequence in Massachusetts, which already had become one of the leading anti-slavery states. Charles Sumner, who was a Massachusetts U.S. senator from 1851 to 1874, was a vigorous opponent of the Confederacy and an advocate for the freedmen.

Rather than mindlessly celebrating Juneteenth, African Americans should be mindful of the fact that even the 13th Amendment did not end slavery. It merely made slavery illegal.

A former New York Times reporter, Douglas A. Blackmon, published the book “Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II,” that recorded the many strategies to circumvent the prohibition.

Blacks evicted from the plantations were jobless and penniless. When arrested as vagrants, they could be sentenced to work for plantation owners rather than have the county pay for their imprisonment. The Blackmon book sets forth the record of the continued enslavement of blacks under cover of law.

Enthusiasm for Juneteenth is inappropriate outside of Texas. The universal celebration should be for ratification of the 13th Amendment on Dec. 6, 1865.

“I don’t know why they’re celebrating that here.

Massachusetts had emancipation nearly 80 years earlier.”

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Erratum Last week’s article “Reclaim Roxbury examines leadership, structure” incorrectly stated that Jackson secured a three-month moratorium on PLAN Dudley. Jackson has requested this moratorium, but it was not granted.

Bringing back Roxbury memories It was very good news to learn in last week’s Banner that there is a new radio station on the dial bringing music fans back to the old WILD

Radio. Growing up in Roxbury my two favorite radio stations were WMEX especially Woo Woo Ginsberg and WILD. How could anyone from the ‘Bury not like good old soul music whether Motown or Philadelphia?

Back in 1965 I was a drummer for a Roxbury band known as the SilentSirs and we played both soul and British rock. Once we played at a DYS facility in Worcester. Everyone in there loved us and thought we played great. However, I remember thinking at the time, how often did these kids get outside the walls to compare us

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with other bands.

As the guards unlocked the doors to let us out, I thought it was great to have a captive audience who couldn’t leave the concert under any circumstances.

We didn’t last that long but the music in all of us did. I will be listening to the new WZBR 1410 and see if it brings back memories of old WILD. Good luck to everyone at the new station. Hope it makes people become great radio fans.

— Sal Giarratani East Boston

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Donald Trump: A Clear and Present Danger

What do you think was Muhammad Ali’s contribution to American culture?

By LEE A. DANIELS The danger that Donald Trump — practitioner of questionable business practices, inveterate bully, racist, sexist, demagogue and the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee for president of the United States — presents to American society was never more evident than when he expanded last week on his already-packed “enemies’ list.”

Atop the list now is Federal Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who’s presiding over the court case involving Trump’s ill-fated business, “Trump University.” The evidence and testimony in the case thus far strongly suggest the “school” was actually, as New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman put it, “just straight up fraud.”

So, because Judge Curiel’s parents emigrated from Mexico decades ago (and became American citizens), Trump keeps referring to him as “Mexican” — though he was born in East Chicago, Indiana, took both his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Indiana and has forged a sterling legal career in the United States. Last week Trump told his supporters at a rally that the federal court system is “rigged,” and threatened to retaliate against Judge Curiel and curb the independence of the federal judiciary once he’s president. This behavior is unprecedented for a serious presidential candidate.

Trump also last week threatened to curb press freedoms once he got to the Oval Office after reporters began asking him pointed questions about the disbursement of donations he had collected last January and pledged to give to veterans’ groups.

And Trump last week slammed the PGA Tour after its officials told him they were moving its World Golf Championship tournament from his golf course in Miami to Mexico City next year. The reason: Trump’s “brand” is now so toxic officials couldn’t get the commercial advertising and corporate sponsorship deals they needed to make holding the event there profitable.

Trump, characteristically, cast the decision as a personal insult. “Can you believe it?” he later bellowed at a rally in Sacramento. “But that’s okay. Folks, it’s all going to be settled. You vote for Donald Trump as president. If I become your president, this stuff is all going to stop.”

Does this behavior meet the standard of “acting presidential?” Or, is it more an example of acting “dictatorial.” Or, really more like that of a crime syndicate boss?

Hillary Clinton, the Democrat’s presumptive nominee, gave the right answer in a speech last Thursday in San Diego that, effectively, marked the opening of her general election campaign against him.

“Donald’s Trump’s ideas aren’t just different — they are dangerously incoherent,” she said. “They’re not even really ideas — just a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds, and outright lies. He is not just unprepared—he is temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and immense responsibility.”

As if to help her make the point, Trump, while Clinton was speaking, sent a steady stream of tweets containing bizarre rants, outright lies and personal insults about her to his followers.

Trump is unfit to hold any office of public responsibility. But don’t expect the Republican Party leadership to say that. They’re all just Trump’s “employees” now. The plaintive tone of Speaker of the House Paul Ryan’s tepid endorsement of Trump in a column in his hometown Janesville, Wisc. newspaper that he would vote for him made that clear.

Last Thursday‘s developments ended with a violent incident outside a Trump rally in San Jose, Calif. in which an unidentified group of protesters attacked some Trump supporters and, curiously, burned an American flag. Trump’s camp immediately tweeted a notice of the incident, and the Clinton campaign immediately condemned it.

Trump’s outburst of last week was bizarre — but there’s a perfectly rational explanation for it. It’s because he’s facing several significant problems. They include a serious legal case involving Trump “University” that sometime within the next year could produce devastating consequences. And growing pressure to reveal his tax returns, amid suspicion that he both pays very little taxes and isn’t nearly as wealthy as he claims. In addition, Trump may be suffering a serious erosion of his business “branding” power because he’s so politically controversial.

And, finally, as his poll numbers among voters of color and women as a group trend toward historic lows, he’s got to contend with Clinton, a seasoned politician who has long marched through tough political battles at home and abroad.

However, Trump does hold one high card that makes him a clear and present danger. It’s not just that his mob of supporters have so eagerly sold their own birthright. It’s that they’ve done so because they’re intent on stealing ours.

Lee A. Daniels, a longtime journalist, is a keynote speaker and author whose books include “Last Chance: The Political Threat to Black America.” He is writing a book on the Obama years and the 2016 election. He can be reached at leedanielsjournalist@gmail.com.

He contributed a lot for black people.

He always stood his ground. I like him for that. He’ll be missed.

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So much! He held up a mirror to white supremacy in the sense that he had no problem telling white America about its warts of bigotry.

And the spirit he had to stand up against the Vietnam war — it’s something lacking in a lot of celebrities.

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He was one of my heroes. I was a teenager in the ’60s. He changed America by speaking out about different issues.

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He lived by his commitment. For him to stand up to as a young black man and say ‘I’m not going to fight in Vietnam,’ living up to what he stood for — that was great.

I think giving young people the courage to stand up for what they believe in. His conscientious objector stand came at a time when most people didn’t have the courage to do that.

I think he made a very large contribution. If it wasn’t for him, a lot of people wouldn’t be inspired to speak their mind.

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DUANE LEE HOLLAND JR. The Boston Conservatory has named its first-ever full time faculty position in hip-hop dance. Dancer, choreographer, singer, actor and director Duane Lee Holland Jr. will join the Boston Conservatory’s Dance Division and will teach electives for Berklee students beginning in the fall of 2016. This is the Boston Conservatory’s first faculty appointment since its merger with Berklee College of Music was approved, and the first Conservatory teaching role that will be available to both Conservatory and Berklee students.

“The Conservatory considers hip-hop dance to be an essential, although often under-represented aspect of a contemporary dance curriculum. As a leading and innovative contemporary dance program, we are proud to offer hip-hop dance as a subject of rigorous study, both in the studio and through academic coursework,” said Cathy Young, director of the Dance Division at The Boston Conservatory. “Duane Lee Holland has a depth of exper-

tise not only as a performer and choreographer of hip-hop, but as a scholar, which places him at the forefront of the field.”

“I’m extremely humbled and honored to work with the future stars of music, dance and theater,” said Holland. “I’ve taught a wide range of talent over the years and I feel the main objective is to provide empowerment through a healthy and rigorous process of practice and theory. Students at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee individually already embody the balance of rigorous practice and theory. I look forward to collaborating with them to cultivate an encouraging environment of innovation and continued excellence.”

Philadelphia native Duane Lee Holland Jr. began his professional dance career at 17 with Rennie Harris Puremovement (RHPM), the first hip-hop theater dance company, where he later served as Assistant Artistic Director. While performing with RHPM, he also taught

at MIT, Stanford, Jacobs Pillow, University of Utah, UCLA, Monte Carlo Ballet Company, Pennsylvania Ballet Company, Philadanco, Alvin Ailey Dance Theater and Broadway Dance Center. Holland has worked with choreographers including Ronald K. Brown’s Evidence, Garth Fagin (“The Lion King”), and Jeff Masted (“A Few Good Men”). He was also assistant choreographer and assistant dance captain for Maurice Hines’ “Hot Feet” on Broadway, and was featured in Jerry Mitchell’s AIDS benefit Broadway Bares: New York Strip.

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REMEMBERING ALI Famed boxer Muhammad Ali, who dazzled a generation of boxing fans and civil rights activists with fancy footwork and fists inside the ring and principled stands in the public sphere, died last week at 74. While Ali left his mark on the national and international stage, from his vocal opposition to the Vietnam War to his impassioned defense of human rights causes, in Boston the former heavyweight champion will be remembered for his many acts of kindness: delivering a lectures at Muhammad’s Mosque No. 11, appearing at a fundraiser for the Elma Lewis School of Fine arts and his many appearances here. The following is a collection of stories from the Banner archive that capture a few of the many facets to Ali’s character.

Muhammad Ali, undisputed champ

By ROY THOMPSON

Originally published February 11, 1967.

“I’m going to give him a ‘Floyd Patterson humiliation beating’.”

This was Muhammad Ali’s most recent prediction of the outcome of the fight between Ernie Terrell and himself. And with the accuracy with which he has predicted so many others, he ended Monday night’s fight in a flurry of left-right combinations, dancing and skipping around the ring, appearing about as tired as a mother would get changing a baby’s diaper.

Minus a dislocated shoulder, sprained back, and bullet-ridden body, World Boxing Association Heavyweight champion Ernie Terrell had all he could do to keep on his feet as Muhammad Ali effectively administered the “Lesson” he said he would teach him.

A four-to-one favorite at fight time, Muhammad Ali won in a fashion befitting a 4-1 favorite.

The only thing Terrell had going for him was his lightning left jab which rarely connected with the bobbing, weaving ever elusive Ali. The first was as much a surprise to the viewers as it was to

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Terrell. Muhammad sailed out of his corner, and before the echo of the starting bell was absorbed in the shouts of the crowd, he peppered Terrell with a series of leftright combinations that had the W.B.A. champ stumbling around the ring flailing the air wildly as though he was fighting the “shadow”. And for all the blows Terrell threw that never reached their mark, he may as well have been fighting an invisible man.

Reportedly, Terrell’s plan was to use his jab a lot and then work underneath with both hands to Ali’s body, then follow that by tying up Ali’s arms and pounding his kidneys and neck in the clinches.

In the 61 times they were locked together, most of which Terrell started, very few effective blows were landed by either fighter. Ali, however, did rough Terrell up on the ropes at one point when Terrell tried to sneak a hard right to Ali’s chin while referee Harry Kessler was between them breaking a clinch.

Up to the seventh round, the fight was in Muhammad’s hands.

Back-pedaling away from the shuffling, stalking Terrell who was peering, hunched over, between his gloves that were held high and close to his face, Muhammad would stop every so often to snap a hard left jap to Terrell’s nose or counter Terrell’s dangerous left with a looping right cross to his eye.

In the seventh round Muhammad Ali seemed to grow more hands. His left jabs became stinging double left hooks, then stiff right crosses were added to the assault. Terrell lost control momentarily and lowered his hands from their peek-a-boo position; Muhammad leaped in like a panther, smashing a straight right to Terrell’s head then following with two hard left hooks that rocked

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Originally published February 23, 1978.

They’ve said before that Muhammad Ali was finished as a fighter. Almost no one expected that he would defeat George Foreman in Africa in 1974 to regain his heavyweight title.

Foreman was younger, stronger and had destroyed Joe Frazier in Jamaica to win the crown.

And Ali had suffered a couple of losses, including one in which Ken Norton broke his jaw.

But Ali used his intelligence against Foreman and changed his fighting style completely. He hugged the ropes, absorbing Foreman’s blows in the early rounds, and then came back to floor the champ and regain his title.

But Ali was a relatively young 33 back then. Now he’s 36, and the additional years have undoubtedly had their effect on his famous shuffle. The flight of the butterfly is a few split-seconds slower, the bee doesn’t sting as hard anymore.

So perhaps the time has finally

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Muhammad Ali is almost without question the most famous living American. Poor farmers in remote South American villages who never heard of Presidents Carter or Nixon knew him. They would gather around the town’s only television set and applaud as he knocked out opponents, one after another.

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continued from page 6 Terrell’s knees and sent him sprawling over the ropes.

Any hopes that may have been held of Terrell winning were assassinated during this round.

Blood, which had begun oozing from his left eye earlier in the fight, poured down his face as Ali operated on him like a surgeon performing an operation.

Terrell’s eyes were closing to narrow slits and his vision diminishing as Ali’s punches increased the swelling and brought more blood cascading down from deep

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continued from page 6 For black Americans, the rise of Ali was a symbol of the new militance of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. There have been black heavyweight champs for years, but most of them were tools of the white establishment, performers who echoed the dominant points of view.

Ali was different. He would be champ, but on his terms, and he turned the fire of his wit hard against those who were foolish enough to try to make a puppet out of him. He will be remembered for his outrageous poems and his confident predictions of which round his opponent would hit the canvas.

But Ali was far more than just clever. His finest hour came when he refused to enter the army because his religious beliefs, as a member of the Nation of Islam,

gashes in Terrell’s brow.

Blood clogged Terrell’s nose and his head looked like it had been caught in a buffalo stampede. He tried desperately to rally back.

Bouncing up and down imitating Muhammad’s style he would try setting up Ali by holding his left in Ali’s face and following with a fast hard right cross. It didn’t work.

He would bounce a few times and move into a stinging uppercut by Ali. And the times when he wasn’t hit, he found Muhammad was elsewhere in the ring.

Terrell’s gameness could not be disputed. Through most of the fight he was on the offensive; moving in in a shuffling

flat-footed manner, stabbing at Muhammad with long left jabs.

Although severely shaken several times, Terrell still managed to remain standing. Muhammad Ali admitted that he tried to knock Terrell out; “I just couldn’t get through his guard the way I wanted to.” Ali said. “It would have been good to have a clean, quick knockout,” Muhammad continued, “but I am not unhappy about it. I think it’s a miracle that I went through 15 rounds without a scratch.”

Terrell had nether the boxing skill or the punching power to take the title from Muhammad Ali. And after 45 minutes of eating punches

dished out by the Muslim champ, Terrell still felt he could take Ali if he could get another crack at him.

Terrell accused Ali of dirty tactics claiming that Ali rubbed his eyes against the ropes in the third round and rubbed his glove laces in his eyes blinding him partially.

Although Muhammad never said anything about it, anyone who saw the fight witnessed the countless low blows and rabbit punches that Terrell threw.

His 28th straight victory was not as spectacular for the undefeated champion as some of his other fights but it was nonetheless decisive.

Muhammad never did display

his “new windmill” - a ten punch combination or the “double clutch shuffle” that he said he had prepared just for Terrell. The closest he came to it was a flashy series of seven or eight punches at the end of the fight.

It appears that Zora Folley is next in line to meet with the champ on the canvas. “I can beat Clay,” said the 34-year-old-Folley.

“I saw plenty of openings.”

For some reason that tune sounds a little familiar to me. Well, for whatever it’s worth, Muhammad now has the World Boxing Association Heavyweight title, and there can be no doubt who the ‘greatest’ is now.

did not permit him. And, as he told reporters, “I don’t have nothin’ against those Viet Congs.”

Ali’s refusal was an act of the highest courage, outstripping even the guts he showed when he entered the ring against the ferocious Sonny Liston way back in 1964 to win the title the first time.

The public led by a bigoted press, came down hard on him.

They called him a coward and said he was ungrateful to the country that had supposedly given him so much. The boxing association took away his crown from him and refused to let him fight.

But Ali stood firm for four years, years that could have been the prime of his career. He watched in agony as lesser men contended for the title that was still rightly his.

But this man whose line of work for many mistakenly symbolizes violence refused to commit violence against those with whom he had no quarrel.

When he could finally fight again, in 1971, he was already getting old. He lost a memorable fight to Joe Frazier in Madison Square Garden, but then came back to defeat Frazier twice before taking his title back against Foreman.

The public, persuaded slowly that his stand on the Vietnam War had been right, came back into his corner, and once again he was hailed by all as the champ. Just as America gradually accepted the justice of rights for blacks, so too did Ali receive the esteem he had

always deserved.

The Ali story had begun in Louisville, Kentucky in the middle 1950’s when someone stole a bicycle from a young black kid named Cassius Clay. A policeman encouraged him to take up boxing in order to be able to protect himself.

He listened and started working out in a local gym. He went on to win the gold medal in the 1960 Olympics, held in Rome, turned professional and defeated a string of opponents before challenging and beating Liston for the world crown.

Meanwhile, the segregation and racism Muhammad Ali had known as a child began to decline before the courage of the demonstrators for civil rights. And America withdrew from a vicious and unpopular war following similar mass actions.

In his own way, Muhammad Ali played a key part in both movements. And although at 36 he may be too old for boxing, in years to come we can expect more contributions in other areas from this extraordinary man.

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group Quality Education for Every Student obtained a series of emails on school closures sent by BPS staff, officials in the administration of Mayor Martin Walsh and several outside consultants.

“Framing the Facilities Master Plan as a response to the recommendation to close schools significantly understates the scope and imperative of the plan, but … at the same time, the FMP is the mechanism through which we’ll right-size the district (among accomplishing other things), so not mentioning it would be to create confusion / shadow processes,” wrote Erika Giampietro, a special assistant to Chang in an email to Boston’s Chief of Education Rahn Dorsey that was copied to Margaret Wood, a consultant for the Facilities Master Plan.

Saturday, Dorsey told the Banner that the widely-criticized McKinsey report, which recommended closing as many as 50 school buildings, and the Build BPS process were unrelated.

“We’re going to get the most detailed data ever,” he said of the Build BPS process. “There has not been a comprehensive study of the building portfolio of this scale. We agree with the public that we have to get a better sense of which buildings are overcrowded and how many are under-utilized. The McKinsey report was commissioned to do a snapshot and provide broad-based recommendations.”

But in the emails culled by QUEST, Dorsey and other city and BPS officials exchanged views about how the report could be used

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City of Boston Education Chief Rahn Dorsey leads a discussion during Saturday’s Build BPS community forum. to drive BPS policy. In a January 2015 email sent before Chang was hired, Dorsey told David Sweeney, the city’s chief financial officer, the planned McKinsey report could be used to define the next superintendent’s agenda.

“I’ve been talking to one of BPS’ consulting partners, Education Resource Strategies, about an engagement to support the next Superintendent’s transition,” Dorsey wrote. “I would like for the engagement to build on and, where necessary, deepen the McKinsey work, eventually resulting in a 1.0 strategy and implementation plan for the new Superintendent.”

Near capacity?

Under the administration of former BPS Superintendent Carol Johnson, the district undertook a facilities assessment that found that 128 BPS school buildings had the capacity for 61,000 students.

There are approximately 57,000 students currently enrolled in the system.

Last year, BPS contracted with McKinsey and Company to conduct its assessment of school facilities. The report, a summary of which was released publicly in December, said the BPS school buildings had the capacity to seat 93,000 students, and suggested closing 30 to 50 school buildings. In a November meeting with QUEST members, Walsh reportedly told the parent activists he would like to close as many as 36 schools as part of his 10-year BPS master plan. While Walsh has repeatedly denied making that statement, multiple parent activists say they clearly heard the mayor say it.

QUEST member Megan Wolf said the emails the group obtained provide further proof of the Walsh administration’s plans.

“The emails provide a disturbing

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window on the way City Hall sees the education of our children,” said Wolf in a press statement. “While the Mayor was publically scoffing at parents pointing to his plans to close schools, his own education people were deep in discussion with outside consultants and lobbyists about just such plans. It’s hard to trust any City Hall-led process around school closings after reading these communications.”

In a response to QUEST’s release, emailed to the Banner, Walsh said he has no plans to close schools.

“While I appreciate the input of the McKinsey report, it is only a starting point for analysis, and I have made it clear that I am not comfortable with any proposal that would close schools until we complete our comprehensive facilities master plan,” his statement read.

FOIA request

QUEST originally requested under the Freedom of Information Act copies of emails, phone records and documents about the McKinsey report sent to or by members of the BPS Operational Review Committee. After BPS officials required QUEST to pay $3,000 for the information, the group narrowed the request to emails from Dorsey and BPS Managing Partner of Innovation Ross Wilson. BPS charged them $300 for that request. The group received the emails in May. Other than Walsh, no elected officials appear in any of the emails. The sole member of the city’s appointed school committee appearing in the emails is the group’s chairman, Michael O’Neill, who received an email from Dorsey suggesting BPS hire Education Resource Strategies, a Watertown-based nonprofit, to help the next superintendent develop a “transformation plan.”

In the emails, city officials repeatedly challenged the idea of making public statements about the selling and leasing of buildings, citing parents’ concerns that BPS buildings would be sold or leased to charter schools that are seeking to expand in Boston and, therefore, capture a greater share of BPS funding.

“I have major concerns about stating ‘sell/lease 30-50 buildings’ as part of a strategy,” wrote the mayor’s Director of External Relations & Opportunity Gap Initiatives Ramon Soto in an email to Dorsey. “It contradicts everything I have been saying about the master planning process: and it will obviously serve to fan the flames regarding the charters and the compact. (see attached) I’m

going to touch base with [consultant] Margaret [Wood] and try to re-work the verbiage.”

The release of the emails comes as the Walsh administration’s proposed 2017 BPS budget is drawing sharp criticism from parents and students who argue that the 1.3 percent bump in spending is not keeping pace with rising costs in the school system. The increasing costs are causing a funding shortfall estimated to be $35 million.

Funding battle

While Walsh administration officials say school funding is higher than ever and constitutes a larger share of the city’s budget than any other department, activists note that school funding is the largest share of every municipal budget in Massachusetts and that the 1.3 percent increase in funding for BPS is far lower than the 4 percent increase in overall city spending. At a time when construction of luxury condominiums and new office towers have contributed to a $115 million increase in the city’s tax revenues, activists are questioning why schools are being forced to lay off teachers and shut down advanced placement courses.

Walsh has urged caution on the issue of charter school expansion in Boston, calling for an increase in state reimbursements to district schools as a condition for increasing the number of charter schools in Massachusetts. But the pro-charter Center for the Reinvention of Public Education counts the city as one of 47 in its Portfolio School District network. The CRPE plan calls for districts to close schools and replace them with charters, rein in spending on special education and evaluate teachers based on their students’ test scores.

In one email sent to Chang, Michael Tooke, an investment banker and venture capitalist who is on the steering committee of Boston Leaders for Education, appears to question whether the Walsh administration has the political capital to replace underperforming district schools with charters.

“Does Boston have the political fortitude to rip off the band-aids a) consolidate schools, b) rationalize special education, c) complete central office redesign, and d) improve operations (starting with transportation)?” he writes. “Does Boston have the courage to take an immediate and diverse solution to these underperforming institutions, including closure (in concert with a thoughtful and complete facilities plan), redesign as in-district charters, addition of independent charters or insertion of new school leadership with true autonomy?”

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sued after signing what the homeowner regarded as a misleading sales offer, said City Life/Vida Urbana organizer María Christina Blanco, who brought Mazziotta’s case to the Banner. CLVU is advocating on behalf of Mazziotta and one other homeowner in such a predicament.

Offer letters

Mazziotta may have fallen into a legal bind.

According to attorney Richard D. Vetstein, writing on The Massachusetts Real Estate Law blog, even though they are signed before purchase and sale agreements, offer letters are binding, enforceable contracts.

“Many sellers (and their brokers) are under the misconception that the offer to purchase is merely a formality, and that a binding contract is formed only when the parties sign the more extensive purchase and sale agreement,” Vetstein wrote.

Mazziotta says she is not the only case she knows of where a developer is taking an aggressive approach to enforcing an offer letter, despite the seller’s inability to locate an alternate place to live.

She said the negotiations were misleading.

In an open letter sent to the developer, Mazziotta stated, “I am aware that over the past decade, minority homeowners like me were targeted by the real estate industry for predatory lending. Now I feel we are being targeted by developers who want to acquire our properties. I was misled in the process of negotiations with you over the sale of my home.”

There are some resources provided by the state and local government provides that may help those unable to afford lawyers or who believe themselves victims of a scam. n MassLegalServices.org allows users to search for free or low-cost legal aid programs. n Those encountering issues with foreclosure-related scams, a more commonly reported housing predicament, also may find resources at the state’s page of Resources In a second case, a long-time Jamaica Plain homeowner was approached with an offer to sell her home. She was interested in selling only so long as she could find a new place that suited both her and her family’s needs, including access to medical services and education, the homeowner stated later in an open letter to the would-be buyer, Fred Starikov, managing partner at real estate brokerage group City Realty Group.

According to CLVU’s María Christina Blanco, the homeowner was not properly advised on how to insert a clear contingency clause into the offer letter. Only after signing it did she learn she was unable to secure a suitable new home. Starikov is now suing the homeowner to complete the sale.

Plans unravel

Mazziotta has ten family members moving to the country. With no space for them to live in her current house, she decided last year to sell and buy a new one in the area, somewhere nearby so her son could continue attending his school and she could remain part of her longtime community.

Mazziotta then contacted real estate agency Otero and Pearl

for Distressed Homeowners or for Foreclosure Related-Scams at http://tinyurl.com/jpedx8k and http://tinyurl.com/zuojc2q n Consumers with complaints on topics including mortgage servicing and home improvement contracts may contact the Attorney General’s Office consumer specialists at 617-7278400 with questions, complaints, or concerns. n Boston renters encountering housing issues can find resources at http://dnd.cityofboston.gov/#page/ BostonRentalHousingCenter Associates, and soon a buyer was lined up: Gary Martell of Real Estate Equity Consulting, a developer who previously has built condos in the area, Mazziota said.

The real estate agents wrote up an offer letter, and in early November 2015, Mazziotta signed.

Then her plans fell apart. After approaching a bank, Mazziotta discovered her credit score was low enough that no one was willing to give her a home loan.

“There’s no way you can get a house right now,” the banks told her, she recounted to the Banner.

With prospective home for her and the family members currently living with her, let alone those who would be arriving, Mazziotta informed Martell that she would not be able to sell the house after all. She would not be signing the purchase and sales agreement, she said.

Martell is calling not only for Mazziotta to go through with signing the purchase and sales, but also to pay $400,000 in damages due to lost profit, she said. Her case is currently at the Suffolk Superior Court.

Regardless of who the court decides has stronger legal standing, Mazziotta makes the case that her predicament is not right.

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“ T h e d e v e l o p e r d o e s n’ t care how he gets the property,” Mazziotta said. “He’s aware that I do not have a place to go.”

Currently living with Mazziotta are her siblings, ten-year-old son and 76-year-old mother, who has Alzheimer’s.

Mazziota was served a “lis pendens,” which officially states that the property’s title is in question.

The effect often is to discourage others from seeking to buy or offer loans against the property.

Mazziotta says it essentially prevents her from solving her

current situation. Any investments she makes to the property — for instance, building bedrooms for the additional family members now due to arrive in a few weeks — would be lost if she loses the suit.

She could be in limbo for years.

The case’s civil tracking order schedules it to be resolved and judgment issued on it by mid-January 2019.

“You’re not supposed to be sentenced until proven guilty,” she said. “He’s already a winner because I can do nothing with my property.”

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Where there’s a will — and more — there’s peace of mind What’s the state of your estate? Robert Fishbein, a vice president and corporate counsel in Prudential Financial’s Tax Department, says now’s a good time to find out.

Changes in federal estate tax law have significantly increased the amount at which federal estate tax is triggered, says Fishbein. The individual exemption is $5.45 million so a couple can accumulate almost $11 million dollars of assets without federal estate tax depleting the value.

And the increased exemption is indexed for inflation, so the $5.45 million will increase over time.

As a result, most individuals no longer need an estate plan to minimize federal estate tax.

That said, Fishbein adds, there are compelling reasons for having an estate plan, and three core documents you’ll need to create one: a power of attorney, a living will or health care proxy, and a will. In this article, Fishbein describes these core documents and how you can use them. n Power of attorney: A power of attorney is the document designating someone to make financial decisions for you, whether you’re out of the country for a long period, have a physical injury preventing you from conducting business in person, or are mentally incapacitated.

A power of attorney can be “springing” — going into effect after your incapacity — or “durable,” meaning it goes into effect immediately. The challenge with a springing power of attorney is it can be subject to disagreement and dispute between the holder of the power and another family member. One solution is to require the incapacity be certified by a physician, although even those findings can be disputed.

With the durable power of attorney, there’s no basis for contesting whether the holder of the power can act. The risk is the holder has the immediate right and ability to access and take action with respect to the financial assets subject to the power. One possible strategy? Limit the power to specific assets. This won’t help if the grantor if the power is totally incapacitated and the holder may need access to all of the grantor’s assets.

A durable power of attorney is arguably less problematic, provided you are comfortable with the person you’re choosing. The holder of the power has a legal obligation, as a fiduciary of the grantor, to act in the best interests of the grantor and not in his or her interests.

It makes sense to have a power of attorney so you know your financial affairs will be attended to. The alternative could be a costly judicial process and court appointment of someone to manage your assets while you are living and unable to do so yourself. n Living will and health care proxy: A “living will” ensures your health care wishes are acted upon if you are unable to make such decisions. It lets you describe the types of treatment you do or don’t want under specific circumstances. For example, if you have a terminal illness, you may not want extraordinary measures taken to save your life. The challenge is it’s almost impossible to anticipate all possible scenarios to indicate what health care treatment you’ll want.

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A new study estimates that “10.2 million workers ages 58 and older (43.8 percent) were employed either in physically demanding jobs or jobs with difficult working conditions”—with high older proportions of Latinos and African American workers, as well as those with poverty incomes, immigrants or low educational levels.

That, say the authors of the report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) should give pause to both conservative presidential candidates and some liberal policy experts, who have recommended raising the full retirement age in Social Security.

“Forcing older workers to work later into their life would pose a serious hardship for the millions of workers who work in physically demanding jobs or in difficult working conditions,” stated the report’s co-author Cherrie Bucknor in a media announcement.

Six-in-10 Latinos; half of black, Asian seniors

Although the findings show some improvements compared with CEPR’s research five year earlier, the new report is sobering

for every group of workers ages 58-plus. The report shows that six-out-of-10 older Latino workers, nearly half of black and Asian workers and four-in-10 whites are doing difficult physical labor or are in stressful employment situations.

For those with less than a high school education, 81 percent were in grinding jobs--up from 77 percent five years before. And 55 percent of older immigrants are in physically tough jobs or hard working conditions.

CEPR looked at such physically wearing jobs as retail sales workers, maids, restaurant employees, home health aides, construction laborers and elementary school or middle-school teachers, as well as those in occupations that place them in difficult working situations. Many are under continual stress such as from laboring outdoors, sometimes in extreme weather, around contaminants, in cramped workspaces or working close to hazardous equipment.

Bucknor and colleague Dean Baker, CEPR’s co-director, emphasized their data indicate that proposals to increase the Social Security retirement age would relegate many workers to “serious hardship by working later into their life.” Especially affected, the wrote, would be “racial and ethnic

minorities, less educated workers and lower earners.”

Their new report, “Still Working Hard,” argues that this policy recommendation, by public officials of both parties and some academic experts, “ignores the fact that increases in longevity disproportionately apply to those in higher income brackets, and that many workers cannot continue to meet the physical demands of their job.”

One seemingly positive finding is that since CEPR’s 2010 analysis, there has been a “significant decline” in the share of older workers in jobs with high physical demands compared to their earlier study. The new report adds, though, “those declines disproportionately went to better educated and higher paid workers.”

Along with a reduced share of older workers whose jobs exposed them to difficult conditions, these declines were modest between CEPR’s 2010 and 2016 reports.

Number up 20 percent since recession

Bucknor and Baker continue, though, that because the actual number of workers has risen substantially with the aging of baby boomers, the ranks of older workers in physically demanding

jobs or challenging conditions jumped in only five years by 20 percent — from 8.5 million to 10.2 million people. An average of 10,000 boomers reach age 65 every day.

The study, based on data from the U.S. government’s Current Population Survey and the independent Occupational Information Network, also found that slightly more than half of older male workers toil physically or in strain settings, compared with more than one-in-three older women workers.

Meanwhile, among the lowest-paid senior workers in the U.S., almost two-thirds of people in the bottom 20 percent of wages endure strenuous occupations or strained working conditions. And slightly more than half in the next highest 20 percent of earnings labor with physical stress. As for working elders at wage levels in the middle, 44.2 percent still sweat for their money.

The study concludes, “From the standpoint of plans to increase the Social Security retirement age, these data indicate that many workers — especially racial and ethnic minorities, less educated workers, and lower earners — would face serious hardship by working later into their life.”

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Boston School Committee Chairman Michael O’Neill, Mayor Martin Walsh, New Mission High School valedictorian Natalia Phillips and BPS Superintendent Tommy Chang enjoy a moment during a luncheon for the 37 BPS valedictorians.

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continued from page 10 “living will and health care proxy,” wherein you designate an individual to make health care choices for you. The living will portion describes in general terms your health care philosophy, and the health care proxy allows you to name an individual to make health care choices for you consistent with that philosophy. The choice of such an individual is important, and you should make sure you are comfortable he or she understands and will act consistent with your wishes.

You should have a living will drawn up as part of your basic estate planning. Again, the alternative is a costly legal process for someone — maybe not of your choice — to get appointed as your proxy to make health care decisions on your behalf. n Last will and testament: A “last will and testament” serves several important purposes, including determining how your assets are distributed, who’ll care for your minor children and who’ll invest and distribute property held in trust for your children,

grandchildren or other beneficiaries.

The basic function of a last will and testament is to ensure your assets are distributed as you’d want. Absent a will, your assets will be distributed in accordance with applicable state law.

You’ll also designate the legal guardian, and possible successors, for any minor children who survive you and your spouse. This is one of the most important and difficult decisions for parents — so difficult that it sometimes can hold up the entire estate plan. But agreement by the parents is important and avoids the possibility of someone else being court-appointed who may or may not share your child-rearing views.

With the increase of the federal estate tax exemption and an individual’s ability to use the exemption of a deceased spouse, trusts for federal estate tax planning have been made largely irrelevant for most individuals.

However, if you have minor children who could take property if both you and your spouse die, or grandchildren who could take property if a child of yours dies and leaves children, you’ll probably need trusts to hold property for those beneficiaries. Such trusts will enable

you to determine who’ll invest the trust property, how it’ll be used for the child’s benefit and at what age the beneficiary will receive the remaining property.

Think you don’t have a large enough estate to warrant setting up trusts for your beneficiaries? Consider even the most basic estate when you own a house, have retirement assets and maybe additional investments or property. Given the total value of these assets, you’d probably want to hold them in trust for minor heirs. If there’s life insurance, a trust for younger beneficiaries will almost certainly make sense.

Although federal estate tax is no longer a significant consideration for most individuals, you may want to consider the cost of state estate tax. The state exemption is sometimes less than the federal exemption, and state estate tax can take a meaningful bite out of what you expect to leave to your beneficiaries.

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Regulatory Fairness Roundtable Small business owners, representatives of local economic development organizations, trade groups and community leaders are invited to join the U.S. Small Business Administration’s National Ombudsman Earl L. Gay to discuss federal regulatory issues impacting small businesses in Boston on Thursday, June 16, at 11:30 a.m. Regulatory Fairness Board member Juliette Mayers will also be in attendance.

This regulatory fairness roundtable is an opportunity for the small business community to learn how the SBA’s Office of the National Ombudsman can help small businesses save time and money in resolving difficult regulatory compliance and enforcement issues.

Business owners will also have an opportunity to provide real-time input on regulatory enforcement fairness issues affecting their companies, while networking with SBA partners to learn more about local resources and assistance supporting small business success.

WHAT: Regulatory Fairness Roundtable for Small Business WHAT: Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce 265 Franklin Street—12th Floor, Massachusetts Room Boston, Massachusetts 02110 WHAT: Thursday, June 16, 2016, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. EDT The Boston small business roundtable is free and open to the public. To register, email ombudsman@sba.gov or call (617) 328-0953 by Friday, June 10.

Boston Ujima Project Community Finance & Investment Workshop Sunday, June 12, 2 p.m.

Boston NAACP 330 Martin Luther King Bl Roxbury, MA 02119 RSVP: http://workshopbrunch. eventbrite.com/ Co-hosted by Ujima Project, Boston NAACP and Boston Impact Initiative!

What is the role of investment in wealth creation? What is a traditional investment cycle? What types of investors are there?How does one become an investor?What should an investor know?

The Boston Ujima Project is organizing neighbors, workers, business owners and investors to create a new community-controlled economy in Greater Boston. We are challenging poverty and developing our communities by organizing our savings, businesses and customers to grow local wealth and meet our own needs.

Community members who have participated in our interactive workshops and walked through a simulation of the system suggested we also host information sessions that explore the questions above and more. Boston Ujima Project is excited to present our first workshop brunch. Glynn Lloyd of Boston Impact Initiative will engage us in the questions above, via interactive presentations and activities, while we brunch.

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High blood pressure (or hypertension) affects one in three adults in the United States. This is dangerous because hypertension can increase risk of heart disease and/or stroke. Hypertension often presents with no signs or symptoms — many people do not know they have it.

Mattapan Community Health Center (MCHC) provides blood pressure screening to all patients.

In addition, MCHC’s team is knowledgeable staff and providers know the most current guidelines about preventing and treating hypertension. According to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Blood pressure is the force of blood pushing against the walls of the arteries as the heart pumps blood. Health care staff checks blood pressure readings the same

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The measure is written as 120/80 which reads 120 over 80 millimeters of mercury. This is defined as a normal blood pressure although normal blood pressures vary according to age and body size. New born babies often have very low blood pressure readings; teens have similar numbers to adults.

The following increase your risk of having hypertension: n Diabetes n Unhealthy diet, such as including eating too much salt n Not exercising enough n Being overweight n Too much alcohol n Smoking cigarettes Heart disease and high blood

One of the best ways to reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease is to start getting regular, moderate exercise, at least 30 minutes a day, most days of the week. By adding one hour of regular, vigorous physical activity, adults may gain up to two hours of life expectancy. Start thinking about your heart by including more physical activity into your daily routine.

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Stop or don’t start smoking

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Know your family health history

Uncovering family history can help you to better understand your risk for heart disease. If you have a blood relative with heart disease or a risk factor for genetic heart disease, your risk for developing it significantly increases for a heart attack, and it’s the single greatest cause of preventable death in the United States.

Weight control

Obesity is not an appearance issue, it is a health issue. Obesity is a major health problem for all Americans, including children.

Among women ages 20 and older, 57.5% of non-Hispanic whites and 79.6% of non-Hispanic blacks are overweight or obese (have a body mass index of 25 or higher).

If you’re obese or overweight, you have a much higher risk of developing heart disease.

Risk factors that cannot be controlled

Unfortunately, there are a number of factors such as age, family history and race that you cannot control. That is why it is so important to understand all of your risk factors, discuss them with your healthcare professional, and address the risk factors that

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We spend time with our patients discussing diet and exercise, because we know it is important for patients to understand that health is under your control. Our patients understand the importance of daily exercise and low salt diets.

Mattapan Community Health Center has many tools to combat hypertension. First, MCHC has a stellar clinical team including an on-site nutritionist who can work with patients to develop individual, personal diets that are healthy, nutritious, and tasty. Second, MCHC has a new electronic patient portal that patients can use to communicate directly with their primary care provider. You can even send home your blood pressure monitor readings to the health center directly through the internet! Lastly, our team members can connect patients with community resources such as programs to help you quit smoking and exercise classes to improve your life.

High blood pressure is sometimes known as a “silent killer,” because even though it is dangerous it sometimes has no signs or symptoms. Schedule a visit at Mattapan Community Health Center today to get your blood pressure checked. Mattapan Community Health Center Hours of Operation are: Monday –Thursday 8am – 8pm, Friday 8:30am – 5:00pm and Saturday 9am-1pm. We welcome new patients and can even help you sign up for health insurance.

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LiteWork Events hosted the Must Love Beards Day Party on June 4, 2016 at Monroe Patio & Restaurant on 450 Massachusetts Ave in Cambridge, Ma. The themed party was a collaboration between LiteWork Events and New York City-based blog idontdoclubs.com to bring their signature event to Boston as part of the brands’ Summer Sixteen Tour. It was the perfect event to start off the summer in Boston. It started at 4 p.m. and ended 10, the perfect time for young urban professionals who are not club-goers to network and have a good time. While the event was free for men, the ladies had to pay a cover charge of $15 - $25. LiteWork Events has a reputation for organizing unique and non-traditional social events and did not disappoint with The Must Love Beards Day Party.

The venue was filled with men proudly showcasing their beards, trying to gain the attention of the beautiful women in the building.

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Each Friday, Epicenter features a special “where to be” post on their blog to make sure every day of the week has some sort of cultural event to check out. We hope that you all can come out into the community, learn, and commemorate some influential people and events around Boston! Have something coming up that you’d like to see here? Tweet us @epicentercom #WhereToBe FRIDAY 6.10.16 Black and White Party Hosted by Discover Roxbury Roxbury’s artists bring energy, vibrancy, and color to our lives everyday. Whether we see their artwork in galleries, on the street, or in our homes, their talents inspire joy, reflection, and a sense of wonder. At the Black & White Party, we celebrate and support Roxbury’s artists. As the theme suggests, the attire, decor, and food (to the extent possible) are all black and white. Black and white artwork is also for sale. Our goal is to void the venue of color to remind us of how important Roxbury’s artists are in bringing color to our lives. Net proceeds from the party support Roxbury Open Studios.

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Where: First Church in Roxbury, 10 Putnam St., Boston 02119 Purchase tickets: https://discoverroxbury.secure.force.com/ ticket#sections_a0Fd000000g0ITjEAM ($25-$30) SATURDAY 6.11.16 Boston Pride Parade Hosted by Boston Pride Boston Pride produces events and activities to achieve inclusivity, equality, respect, and awareness in Greater Boston and beyond. Fostering diversity, unity, visibility, and dignity; we educate, communicate, and advocate by building and strengthening community connections.

The 2016 Boston Pride Parade kicks off at Copley Square and ends at City Hall Plaza, rain or shine!

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Last year we brought over 2,200 community members and residents to the Museum of Fine Arts to continue the celebration for Freedom & this year is promised to be a night of exquisite aesthetics, sound, and performance.

This year’s community partners Include: The Bay State Banner, MALC, Mass Humanities, NU Crossing, LACED, Kickback Boston, Haley House Bakery Cafe, Outside The Box Agency, Killer BoomBox, CLLCTV, Dudley Dough, Grub Street, Company One, City Awake, B.R.E.A.D, Whole U, VENT, Socializing for Justice (SoJust), Boston Naturals, BeautyLynk, Exquisite Design Concepts, Kelley Chunn & Associates, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism (BINJ), Fab Empire, Franklin Park Art Grove, &

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Where: Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave., Boston 02115 RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/ juneteenth-evolution-of-freedom-tickets-24963258779 THURSDAY, 6.16.16 Lives at Stake: A Community Conversation On Mass Incarceration Hosted by JP Progressives National leaders acknowledge the mistake of “tough on crime” legislation. Why is Massachusetts slow to change these laws? What can we do about it? Join the discussion.

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for all ages ‘Matilda The Musical’ comes to the Boston Opera House

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By COLETTE GREENSTEIN

or actor Esther M. Antoine, performing in “Matilda The Musical” has been an incredible and surreal experience. “I’m very grateful for being in the show. It’s a story about a little girl who dreams of having a better life. And she’s so smart and has a brilliant imagination. Every night I get to see this imagination come to life and enjoy it with my cast members and share it with the audience as well,” said Antoine.

“Matilda The Musical” is based on the book “Matilda”

by British writer Roald Dahl, who also wrote the popular children’s novels “Charlie and The Chocolate Factory” and “James and the Giant Peach.”

Matilda is the story of a young girl with a vivid imagination who dreams of a better life and decides to take destiny into her own hands.

The New York native, who loves performing, has appeared in the national tours of “Memphis” and “Catch Me If You Can,” and last year appeared in the regional production of “Dreamgirls” at the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Mass.

Antoine, who has

dual roles in the musical — she’s a member of the ensemble as well as the understudy for the role of librarian Mrs. Phelps — recently spoke to the Banner about how she came to musical theater and why she loves Matilda.

You’ve performed in Dreamgirls, The Wiz and now this. What is it about musicals that attracts you to these different roles?

Esther M. Antoine: I love the fact that we get to be on the stage every night, and every night even though we’re doing the same show, it’s a different experience. Just to be on that stage and share what we love to do, what I love to do with the audience — I think that’s probably at the top of my list because we get to perform for people who have 9-to-5 jobs. They come in to see a show and sometimes their day might be stressful when they come to see the show. They get to leave a little with their spirits lifted. I just think the show is so exciting because it’s a hilarious show.

Did you dream of performing when you grew up in New York?

EA: I did not graduate with a musical theater degree. I graduated with a computer science degree and after

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Esther M. Antoine

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beginning Tuesday, June 14 thru Sunday, June 16 at the Boston Opera House, located at 539 Washington Street in downtown Boston. For tickets and show times, visit: www.boston.broadway.com. graduating, that was when I realized that my passion was for musical theater. I just wanted to dance and loved to perform, so that’s what I decided to pursue. I originally didn’t think that you could actually make a career out of it but after a while of taking classes, and seeing that it was working and I was starting to book jobs, then I decided to go forward 100% and pursue this as a career, as part of my life. This is pretty much my life. This is all I do.

Can you describe to me a little bit about your character Mrs. Phelps?

EA: Mrs. Phelps is the librarian. As far as how it was described to me is that she loves books and she loves stories. Her being a librarian is pretty much the job that she’s always wanted. She’s pretty much doing exactly what she loves to do. And she gets a nice little treat every time Matilda

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The company of “Matilda The Musical” national tour.

PHOTO: JOAN MARCUS

Nicole Buchanan exhibit blows away racial stereotypes

By CELINA COLBY

African American, Caucasian, Hispanic, Asian. We all are categorized daily. The checkboxes tell us who we are allowed to be.

Generalizations are used to sort the population, then appropriate treatment is administered. Nicole Buchanan’s show “In the Skin I’m In,” showing at Gallery Kayafas through July 2, uses subtlety and comparison to show just how narrow these boxes are.

The three walls of the exhibit showcase a series of simple portraits. While studying at RISD, Buchanan sent out a call for portraits for anyone who identified as African American. She photographed 50 of the individuals who responded in exactly the same way, against black backgrounds with lighting emphasizing the left side of the face. All the subjects are nude, photographed from the shoulders up with no distractions save for the occasional piercing or tattoo.

Fine details

Despite the very simple parameters of the work, the show is anything but boring. In the sameness we see the differences. The photographs call for focused attention, and allow viewers to see things that are otherwise overlooked, the texture of the skin, the polish of a nose ring, the softness of the subject’s eyes. Because the photographs are placed side-by-side, they allow for comparison that further shows their differences.

This comparison is key to getting the most out of the exhibit.

Portrait 16 shows a woman bathed in shadow. Her hair drapes in front of her eyes, darkening the light on her face. Her lips are unsmiling, even downturned.

Her eyes look forlornly at the viewer. Each portrait is looking directly at the camera but there is no spark in her eyes, no crease from a smile. Her skin is lighter than the subjects on either side of her, and the softened light hitting her face gives the photograph a Raphael quality. Next to her, portrait 17 assaults the viewer like a

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Now you see Sanaa!

Sanaa Lathan stars in ‘Now You See Me 2’

By KAM WILLIAMS

Sanaa Lathan is a Tony Awardnominated actress (for “A Raisin in the Sun”) who delivers a striking presence and undeniable energy to each project she takes on. Lathan was last seen on the big screen in the thriller “The Perfect Guy,” which finished first at the box office during its opening weekend.

She is currently shooting the highly anticipated Fox series “Shots Fired,” created by “Love & Basketball” filmmaker Gina Prince-Bythewood and produced

by Academy Award-winning producer Brian Grazer. The series, which also stars Helen Hunt, Stephen Moyer and Richard Dreyfuss, examines the dangerous aftermath of racially-charged shootings in a small town in Tennessee.

Lathan co-starred in “The Best Man,” one of the 10 highest-grossing African American films in history, and its wildly popular sequel “The Best Man Holiday,” with Taye Diggs, Terrence Howard, Regina Hall and Morris Chestnut. She will also appear in the series’ third film, “The Best Man Wedding.”

Her other film credits include “Contagion,” opposite Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard and Lawrence Fishburne; “Something New,” with Simon Baker; “Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys,” alongside Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodard; “Wonderful World,” opposite Matthew Broderick; “Brown Sugar,” alongside Taye Diggs, Queen Latifah and Mos Def; “Love & Basketball,” with Omar Epps; “AVP: Alien vs. Predator;” and “Out of Time,” opposite Denzel Washington.

In 2001, Lathan received an NAACP Image Award for her unforgettable performance in “Love & Basketball.” And earlier this year, she landed another for a terrific turn in “The Perfect Guy.” Here, she talks about her latest outing as Natalie Austin in “Now You See Me 2.”

instead of trying to figure it all out, I decided to just sit back and enjoy the film, because it’s so much fun and beautiful to watch.

SL: You’re right. What’s so great is that it’s so intricate and so layered that you can watch it over and over and find new things.

You’ll be like, “Oh, I missed that the first time.”

Yeah, I sensed that. How did your director, Jon Chu, and his casting crew pull together such an impressive

cast? You, Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Daniel Radcliffe, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Mark Ruffalo, Lizzy Caplan, etc., etc.

SL: I don’t know, you’d have to talk to them. [Chuckles] I wasn’t involved in the original, but I was very happy to be a part of this one.

Did you get to work with all of them?

SL: My part was mostly with Mark but, yes, I did get to work with all of them briefly.

Is a third installment already in the works?

SL: I read that somewhere, but I’m not sure though. It’s exciting,

because there are endless possibilities in terms of what the “Four Horsemen” can do.

How do you feel about magic in real life?

SL: I love it! I was at the Magic Castle in L.A. not too long ago.

Somebody had a birthday surprise there. I was blown away by some of the magic I saw. You can’t believe some of the tricks. You can’t wrap your mind around it. It’s a true art, and I have so much respect for it.

Tell me a little about the new TV series you’re working on, “Shots Fired.”

SL: It’s a 10-hour special event

that will air next spring. It was inspired by all the racial profiling, police brutality and loss of African American lives due to gun violence that’s been occurring in the country. It’s a beautifully-written piece, and I’m so excited for the world to see it. It’ll be powerful, moving and enlightening.

Tell me a little about your character, Ashe.

SL: I play an investigator who’s basically investigating two murders in this small town that seem to be the result of police violence.

I’m trying to solve the cases and bring justice.

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I never saw the original, but I really loved this film. It’s crazy!

Sanaa Lathan: Good! I’m so glad. I think what makes this film so unique is that it’s not the sort of big, blockbuster adventure that we’re all used to, but it’s really well done. A lot of times there’s more pomp and circumstances surrounding the content. One of the things that attracted me to the film was not only the cast, but that it was really well-written.

How did you approach your character, Natalie Austin?

SL: For me, Natalie really admires Mark Ruffalo’s character, Dylan Rhodes, looking at him as an example. She’s a woman who really takes her job seriously, and wants to bring justice to anybody who’s being wronged. But even I can get confused about who’s a bad guy and who’s a good guy. You know what I mean?

Yes, when the story got too complicated for me to follow,

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The Year of the Monkey

Ai Weiwei sculpture brings art into public sphere

By CELINA COLBY

For Boston, 2016 is the year of Ai Weiwei. The renowned Chinese artist started his takeover of the city with several pieces in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s Megacities Asia exhibit. But more impactful than the untouchable sculptures in the city’s cultural shrine is his public art piece Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, currently on view on the Rose Kennedy Greenway.

What makes this piece striking isn’t the scale — each zodiac head stands ten feet tall — it’s the location. The 12 animal head sculptures are situated around the Rings Fountain by the Aquarium T stop. On a Saturday, Boston lives and breathes around the artwork.

Children play in the fountain and do cartwheels on the grass. Food trucks serve hungry teens and families browse the local food and craft stands around the square.

According to Greenway curator Lucas Cowan, Zodiac does exactly what museum art, hidden behind a glass case, cannot, “My belief is that public art should be able to heighten and change an everyday space,” he says.

Ai Weiwei’s work is known for being political; in fact he was

“

My belief is that public art should be able to heighten and change an everyday space.”

— Lucas Cowan, curator, Rose Kennedy Greenway

exiled from China for his outspoken artistic statements. Zodiac is no exception. It’s based on a water clock fountain sculpture of the zodiac animals, situated at the Yuanming Yuan (summer palace) in Beijing. In 1860 French and British troops attacked and looted the palace and the animal heads were stolen. Cowan says, “The larger conversation that he’s trying to have is about cultural appropriation in the art world.”

Layers of meaning

But the work and its statement are more complex than just calling out colonialist looters. Ai Weiwei is also showing the thin line between reality and falsity in the art world. For example, Jesuit monks made the original zodiac sculptures for the palace, not Chinese artists, as the subject matter would lead viewers to believe.

The result is a complicated web of cultural patrimony and artistic ownership.

Zodiac has been touring the world since 2010, stopping in

Chicago before making its way to Boston. The work coincides with another zodiac themed sculpture on the Greenway, Monkey See by Don Kennell. The 11-foot sculpture, situated in Chinatown Park, celebrates the year of the monkey. The scale of Zodiac is two-fold. On one hand, the enormous bronze statues are built to withstand the kind of pillaging that brought down the original fountain. Something of this scale couldn’t be carted off during an invasion. At the same time, Zodiac refuses to be ignored.

Cowan says, “It’s literally enlarging a major issue that needs to be brought to the forefront.”

Ai Weiwei’s sculptures do what all art should: They provoke thought. But what makes them so powerful is that they do so in the public sphere. They’re at work always, even on that sticky Saturday afternoon amidst donut vendors and sunbathers. Zodiac takes art from behind the expensive ticket price and the velvet rope, and makes it a part of life.

PHOTO: CELINA COLBY

Artist Ai Weiwei’s ‘Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads,’ currently on view on the Rose Kennedy Greenway.

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Actor Teyonah Parris stars in TV One’s ‘The Miki Howard Story’ “I think it’s important for reflections of African American women in particular — and that’s what I am, so that’s what I play, those types of roles — to have images and reflections that are nuanced and textured,” said actor Teyonah Parris on tackling complex and multi-dimensional characters such as Dawn Chambers in the AMC series “Mad Men” and Colandrea “Coco” Conners in the film “Dear White People.”

Parris is set to take on another challenging role in TV One’s first ever bio-pic “Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story” about the life of Grammy Award-nominated singer Miki Howard airing this Sunday, June 12 at 7 p.m. ET. The film also stars Darius McCrary (HBO’s “The Leftovers,” “Family Matters”) as Gerald Levert and Vanessa Bell Calloway (Showtime’s “Shameless”) as Miki’s mother Josephine Howard.

The actress who starred in Spike Lee’s film “Chi-Raq” last October and is set to return as Missy Vaughn in the Starz series “Survivor’s Remorse” in July, spoke to the Banner about prepping for the title role as Howard, filming “Chi-Raq” in Chicago, and what #BlackGirlMagic means to her.

What attracted you to “The Miki Howard Story”?

Teyonah Parris: It’s such a dynamic and explosive and dramatic story that Miki has, and just all the ups and downs she goes through, and the opportunity to try to bore that journey, really attracted me to the role.

Has Miki Howard seen the movie and was she a part of the project in any way?

TP: She was part of it every step of the way. It’s her story and we’re lucky that she’s still alive and able to share in this moment, watch everything she’s gone through, be told, and share it with the world. To get her opinion is very important in this process because it’s her story.

How do you go about preparing for a role of a person who’s alive and present, not a historical figure, and who’s involved in the project?

TP: I was a little nervous. It’s like okay, I’m going to play this woman who’s still alive and I have to do it well, and the whole process was just really fast. It wasn’t

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like I got to spend months with her or know her. My goal was to meet her, talk to her, try to glean everything I can that she was willing to share with me. Look at the internet; take it to her, ‘Is this real? Is this not?’ that sort of thing. Really just research her, which can be really odd. You’re asking someone to just give you so much information, and not just the information about their life, but how they felt at that moment.

A lot of her story is drug abuse.

It’s physical abuse. It’s mental abuse. It’s not something that you want someone to revisit all the time. Miki was totally okay with it. A lot of my reservations were self-imposed. She was willing to give the information freely. It was odd to me because it was like ‘how can you talk about this so freely now?’ but it’s just a part of her past and there’s just a different view of it, and also remembering that how she felt today is not necessarily how she experienced it 20 years ago. It was a fun process. I wanted to make sure I captured her essence because we didn’t have the time to spend months and months together. It was important for me to capture her essence and for her to be happy with what we were doing.

For the role of Lysistrata in “Chi-Raq” did you have to go through an audition process? Did Spike Lee call you?

TP: Spike said he saw me in “Dear White People” and that’s when he wanted to use me in “Chi-Raq.” We ended up having a meeting. I didn’t technically

‘Matilda’

continued from page 18 comes in to the library because she knows she’ll get a story. In a way, Mrs. Phelps is a person who allows Matilda to express herself and to tap into her creative mind, that amazing imagination that she has. And at the same time, Mrs. Phelps has a way of trying to

audition, I guess. I put myself on tape. Well, he put me on tape to show the network but that was weeks after we had already discussed the part. It was a matter of talking to him and him getting to know who I was. He didn’t even tell me anything about this movie.

What he ended up doing was sending me the script one night and saying ‘okay, you’re going to read this tomorrow. Come prepared.’ It’s like, ‘oh, okay.’ I know now that it was a read for Amazon so they could hear it out loud and it just went from there.

How was it filming in Chicago during that time?

TP: It was wonderful. The community really embraced us being there. They were really happy that someone, like Spike, was telling their story. The city is beautiful. We shot in Englewood but we were all over Chicago. It was my first time spending an excess amount of time there so that was fun. But just to be really in the community and have their support definitely made it better.

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I read the interview that you did with Essence [magazine] earlier this year. I loved the cover. What does #BlackGirlMagic mean to you?

TP: “Black girl magic” to me is when a young woman of color, black girls, you just see their confidence, and a sense of self. It’s that thing in a young woman that you can’t touch. You can’t really put a word to it. You don’t really understand what it is. You see a shining.

You see a glow and a spirit; that it has to be “black girl magic.”

get Matilda to speak a little more, to let her in her life without saying ‘tell me what’s going on at home.’ So, it’s definitely a fun experience playing Mrs. Phelps.

It’s surreal. It’s my first time actually playing a lead role. I think that adds to my experience with Matilda. It’s a great show. I love it. If I could do Matilda for the rest of my life, I think I’d be all right with that.

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Buchanan continued from page 18

bronze sculpture. Her gaze is challenging, her ebony skin shines in the light that is uninhibited by her short hair. Her eyes are wide and instead of retreating into the dark background, she bursts from the frame with life and power. When viewed alone she might look more relaxed, but compared to 16 she vibrates with energy.

Seeing these people in such close quarters, in such

a naked, vulnerable manner, makes it impossible to see them as anything but individuals, as anything but human. No one feature is the same amongst the portraits; no skin color quite the same as the others. One wall houses an enlarged portrait of a man. It’s bigger in scale by at least four times that of all the other portraits. The man pictured has coarse hair, a wide nose, and dark skin. From a lens of ignorance and racial blindness, he could be categorized as a “typical”

black man. But on looking at the portrait you see his birth marks, the nicks in his skin from years of life, the way his eyes crease ever so slightly at the edges in a way that no one else’s do.

Buchanan’s exhibit takes the glasses of prejudice off the viewer. She takes the identification box that says “African American” and blows it wide open. She reminds us that no two individuals of any race are the same, and that we deserve to be treated as humans, and as equals.

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Flavorful marinade adds tenderness to flank cut

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rill a flank steak this weekend and you’ll have dinner covered later in the week with tacos made from the leftovers.

Flank steak is a lean, somewhat tough cut of meat.

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Best served at medium-rare temperature, flank steak also needs a bit of care when slicing. It’s important to slice it across the grain (rather than with the fibers of the meat) for the most tender slices. For most flank steaks, this means slicing across the short width, rather than along the length.

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SAVORY MARINATED FLANK STEAK FLANK STEAK TACOS 1. Preheat oven to 375°F. Wrap corn tortillas in foil and warm in oven for about 10 minutes.

2. Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a nonstick skillet over medium heat; add thinly sliced leftover steak. (Sprinkle with chili powder and crushed red pepper flakes if you like.)

3. Cook, tossing the steak, until

warmed through. Divide the steak among the tortillas and add toppings, including sliced avocado, chopped red onion, chopped jalapeño peppers, chopped cilantro, shredded Monterey Jack cheese, shredded lettuce and chopped tomatoes. Serve with lime wedges for squeezing on top.

— Recipes by Andrew Cotto

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n 1 (2- to 2 ½-pound) flank steak n 4 cloves garlic, minced n ½ cup minced red onion n ¹⁄³ cup Worcestershire sauce n ¹⁄³ cup white wine or white wine vinegar n ¹⁄³ cup olive oil n ½ teaspoon coarse salt n Freshly ground black pepper 1. Score steak in a crisscross pattern on one side, making the cuts about 1 inch apart.

2. Combine all ingredients except steak in a ziptop plastic bag. Add steak

to the bag, seal and refrigerate for at least 2 hours.

3. Remove steak from the bag and let stand 1 hour at room temperature before cooking.

4. Oil the grill grates and heat the grill until hot (450°F to 500°F).

Grill steak about 5 minutes per side for medium-rare. Place on a platter, cover loosely with foil and let stand 10 minutes before serving. To serve, slice the steak across the grain into ¼-inch slices. Or slice half of the steak and reserve the rest for tacos.

Serves 8.

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to the general order signed last week Under current federal policy, ICE may ask state and local law enforcement to detain undocumented immigrations who are suspected of terrorism or espionage, convicted of gang-related crimes, felonies or a “significant misdemeanors” such as domestic violence or drug distribution or convicted on three or more separate misdemeanors that do not include minor traffic offenses.

Public Safety and Security Dan Bennett cited the federal policy change as inspiration for the state’s changed approach.

“Now that ICE has moved to the Priority Enforcement Program, Massachusetts is changing its own policy to complement that effort to enhance public safety,” Bennett said.

Yet Millona said that since last March, PEP statistics have yet to be released, making it difficult to judge if the program is effective or if such state assistance is necessary.

“Why deputize state police whsen we don’t know if PEP has issues or not?” she said.

ICE’s troubled history

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PLAN: DUDLEY SQUARE MONDAY, JUNE 20

2300 WASHINGTON ST

5:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building, 2nd Floor, School Committee Room Roxbury, MA 02219

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The BRA in collaboration with the Mayor’s Office of Economic Development will host an Economic Development and Workforce Development Workshop as part of PLAN Dudley. The focus will be: to discuss aspects of the economic landscape within the district, to share the City’s programs and strategies for economic development and workforce development, to discuss exploring and integrating career paths for economic mobility, and to learn about the economic principles that may inform future Request for Proposal (RFP) creation and development priorities.

PLAN Dudley Square is an initiative to think strategically about the types of uses and the scale of development best suited for the future of Dudley Square and Roxbury. The goals of this study are to provide an inclusive community engagement process, create an updated vision with the community, and establish an implementation plan that will lead to the issuance of RFPs for publicly-owned and vacant privately-owned parcels in Dudley Square.

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Teresa Polhemus, Executive Director/Secretary

Under former governor Patrick, compliance with such ICE detainment requests was prohibited. The Patrick administration implemented the policy in response to the federal Secure Communities program, which was criticized for deporting many undocumented immigrants who seemed to present little to no danger. According to MIRA’s Millona, 53 percent of those in Boston who were deported under Secure Communities had no criminal conviction, and of those, 13 percent were deported for misdemeanors.

“Secure Communities did not work,” Millona said.

In 2014, the Department of Homeland Security announced Secure Communities would be replaced with the Priority Enforcement Program, which put greater focus on criminals.

In a statement, Secretary of

Boston’s Trust Act, passed in August 2014, prohibits law enforcement from detaining anyone’s release from custody solely on the grounds of immigration purposes. The one exception: Local law enforcement officials would have to follow ICE’s detainment request if they receive a court-ordered warrant for the detainment or if the severity of the crime committed marks a person as an immediate danger to the public.

Walsh said it is important for Boston police to keep building trust with communities, something that would be risked by copying the new state policy.

“In Boston we believe that the job of our police officers is to keep our neighborhoods safe and our focus will continue to be on building trust between communities and local law enforcement,” Walsh said in a statement to the Banner. ”Our

police officers do not enforce immigration laws, and we will continue our policy to not detain anyone for immigration purposes that is otherwise eligible for release.”

“Threat of detention potentially fosters anxiety for undocumented individuals over calling the police in true emergency situations. No one should live in fear of deportation when calling for aid,” City Councilor Campbell said in a statement to the Banner. “Instating such a policy disproportionately targets low-income individuals, immigrants, and communities of color.”

More than 350 jurisdictions across the nation have refused to cooperate with ICE detainment requests, including Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Lawrence, North Hampton and Amherst, according to Millona.

Legality of detainments?

Millona said that while MIRA recognizes the law’s intention to promote safety, implementing it could bring state police into questionable legal areas.

When officials comply with ICE detainment requests, they may essentially be holding people without charging them, she said, which would be unlawful.

“Given that the detainers are not criminal warrants and the detainer does not require showing of probable cause, complying with the detainer could be unconstitutional second arrests,” Millona said. “That could invite liabilities for the state.”

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Born in Lugoff, South Carolina on July 25, 1923, to the late Simon and Katherine McIlwain, Glendora McIlwain Putnam departed this life on June 5, 2016. Her life encompassed a fervent dedication to beliefs and causes related to civil rights, women, and the lives of African-Americans.

Growing up, she attended Methuen public schools after her parents moved to Massachusetts to give Glendora and her brother a better life. The Putnams instilled in their children the values of social responsibility and public service. These early experiences in Glendora’s life set her on a path to become both a civil rights leader and Past President of the National Board of the Y.W.C.A. Glendora attended an African American Junior College in the

South. When she was discouraged by the faculty from realizing her dream of becoming an attorney, Glendora transferred to Bennett College where she found the support she needed from the faculty. Glendora excelled at Bennett College and, after completing her studies, she moved back to Methuen to attend Boston University School of Law. While at Boston University, Glendora had the good fortune to meet Edward Brooke, who eventually became a US senator. They stayed in touch over the years, working together on legal matters for the NAACP. When Brooke became Attorney General, and knowing Glendora’s passion for Civil Rights, he asked her to take on the role Assistant Attorney General in the

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Civil Rights Division; the first African American female attorney to hold the position. Glendora continued in this role until Governor Sargent called upon her to lead the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination in the 1970’s. During the seven years that she headed the commission, she passed groundbreaking legislation in the areas of housing, education, employment, and sex discrimination.

The end result was that Glendora impacted people in Massachusetts as well as around the country for many years. As President of the Y.W.C.A., Glendora traveled to many countries, where women were not always treated equally, providing workshops on the topic of racial justice.

Glendora has long been recognized for her work as a civil rights attorney and as a role model to women. In 1991, Glendora received an honorary degree of Doctor of

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Laws from Bennett College; her alma mater where she was the first alumnus to receive such an honor. She also received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from U-Mass Dartmouth. Additionally, Glendora was the recipient of the Silver Shingle Award, for outstanding public service, from Boston University School of Law and the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association.

In 2007, Glendora was named a “Living Legend” by the Museum of African American History.

Glendora leaves to cherish in her memory many friends, colleagues, sorors, board members, and mentees. She was predeceased by her brother Luther McIlwain. We will truly miss her presence and relish in the memory of so much that she accomplished in her lifetime.

Funeral arrangements are being handled by Davis Funeral Home in Roxbury, Massachusetts.

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BANNER CLASSIFIEDS LEGAL MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. AP1707-C1, FY17-19 AUTHORITYWIDE TERM CAULKING/SEALANT 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 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2016, immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly.

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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).

PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 9:30 A.M. LOCAL TIME ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 2016.

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.

The work includes PROVISION OF LABOR, INCIDENTAL MATERIALS, TOOLS, EQUIPMENT, AND SERVICES TO MAKE CAULKING/SEALANT REPAIRS, INCLUDING ASSOCIATED CONCRETE REPAIRS, AT ALL MPA FACILITIES ON AN AS NEEDED BASIS OVER A TWO (2) YEAR PERIOD.

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.

Bid documents will be made available beginning WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2016.

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

NOTE:

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.

In order to be eligible and responsible to bid on this contract General Bidders must submit with their bid a current Certificate of Eligibility issued by the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance and an Update Statement. The General Bidder must be certified in the category of WATERPROOFING. The estimated contract cost is FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($450,000.).

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.

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. AP1706-C1, FY17-19 AUTHORITYWIDE NON-BUILDING TERM WELDING & METAL FABRICATION, 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 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2016, immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly.

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.

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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.

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 successful Bidder will be required to purchase and maintain Bodily Injury Liability Insurance and Property Damage Liability Insurance for a combined single limit of TEN MILLION DOLLARS ($10,000,000.00). Said policy shall be on an occurrence basis and the Authority shall be included as an Additional

LEGAL 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 of TEN MILLION DOLLARS, ($10,000,000.00). 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.

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.

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.

PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 10:30 A.M. LOCAL TIME ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 2016.

The work includes PROVISION OF ALL EQUIPMENT, MATERIALS, LABOR, AND SUPERVISION NECESSARY TO MAKE STEEL REPAIRS AND TO FABRICATE IRON TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT ON AN AS NEEDED BASIS OVER A TWO (2) YEAR PERIOD. WORK UNDER THIS CONTRACT WILL BE LIMITED TO NONBUILDING RELATED REPAIRS. Bid documents will be made available beginning WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2016.

The estimated contract cost is FIVE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($550,000).

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

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR INVITATION TO BID The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is seeking bids for the following: BID NO.

DESCRIPTION

*WRA-2496

Purchase of Two (2) New 06/21/16 Portable Trailer Mounted Pumps, Diesel Driven Hydraulic Power Pack Sound, Attenuated with Final Tier 4 Engine and 6” Vortex Submersible Trash Pump End (per Specifications)

DATE

12:00 p.m.

**7485

RFQ/P Section 53 & 99 Improvements – Evaluation and Routing Study

11:00 a.m.

07/12/16

TIME

*To access and bid on Event(s) please go to the MWRA Supplier Portal at www.mwra.com. **To obtain the complete RFQ/P please send email request to: MWRADocumentDistribution@mwra.com.

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THIS PROJECT IS BEING ELECTRONICALLY BID AND HARD COPY BIDS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Please review the instructions in the bid documents on how to register as an electronic bidder. The bids are to be prepared and submitted at www.biddocsonline.com. Tutorials and instructions on how to complete the electronic bid documents are available online (click on the “Tutorial” tab at the bottom footer).

Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. AP1703-C1, FY 16-18 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 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2016, immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly.

NOTE: PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 10:00 AM LOCAL TIME ON TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 2016.

The work includes LABOR, TOOLS, EQUIPMENT, AND MATERIALS FOR THE INSTALLATION OF FLOOR COVERINGS, SUCH AS 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 THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 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.

In order to be eligible and responsible to bid on this contract General Bidders must submit with their bid a current Certificate of Eligibility issued by the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance and an Update Statement. The General Bidder must be certified in the category of FLOOR COVERING. The estimated contract cost is TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($285,000.00).

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 PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY SOLICITATION FOR CONSULTANT SERVICES FEDERALLY-FUNDED PROJECTS MBTA CONTRACT NOs. SUBPS08-10 The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is soliciting engineering services on a task order basis. Firms will provide advice and consult, on minimum notice, for a variety of short term and safety sensitive situations related to the needs of Subway Vehicle Maintenance. The amount of $6,000,000, with $2,000,000 available for each of the three consultants selected, has been budgeted for this project.

Services will include advice to and consultation with the Authority’s Rail Maintenance Department on general vehicle design, vehicle and vehicle component construction, manufacturing and maintenance, quality assurance and quality surveillance, as well as engineering services for various disciplines, including but not limited to metallurgical, structural, electrical and mechanical analysis of vehicles, systems and components.

This contract will be federally and state funded. The DBE Participation Goal for this contract is four-percent (4.0%).

The complete request for qualifications can be found on the MBTA website.

Please use the following link http://www.mbta.com/business_center/bidding_solicitations/current_solic itations/ This is not a request for proposal. The MBTA reserves the right to cancel this procurement or to reject any or all Statements of Qualifications.

Stephanie Pollack Mass DOT Secretary & CEO Francis A. DePaola, PE General Manager

The Brookline Housing Authority, invites sealed bids from Roofing Contractors for the Roof Replacement at 90 Longwood Ave., for the Morse Apartments in Brookline, Massachusetts, in accordance with the documents prepared by Garofalo Design Associates, Inc. dated June 1st 2016.

The Project consists of: Roof Replacement and related work.

The work is estimated to cost $210,000.

Bids are subject to M.G.L. c.149 §44A-J & to minimum wage rates as required by M.G.L. c.l49 §§26 to 27H inclusive.

This Project is covered by Section 3 of the HUD act of 1968 General bidders (pre-qualified) must be certified by the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance (DCAMM) in the following category of work -- Roofing and must submit a current DCAMM Certificate of Eligibility and signed DCAMM Prime Update Statement (Form CQ 3).

Bids will be received until June 22, 2016 at 2:00pm and publicly opened, forthwith online.

SUBTRADES N/A SUBTRADES PRE-QUALIFIED N/A All Bids should be submitted electronically online at www.biddocsonline.com and received no later than the date and time specified above.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Vivian Eileen Bradshaw Also known as: Vivian Ilean Bradshaw, Vivian Bradshaw Date of Death: 07/18/2012 A Petition for Formal Probate of Will has been filed by Edward Morrison of Stoughton, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order and for such other relief as requested in the Petition.

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 07/14/2016. 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: June 01, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

Bids shall be accompanied by a bid deposit that is not less than five (5%) of the greatest possible bid amount (considering all alternates), and made payable to the Brookline Housing Authority.

Bid Forms and Contract Documents will be available for pick-up at www.biddocsonline.com (may be viewed electronically and hardcopy requested) or at Nashoba Blue, Inc. at 433 Main Street, Hudson, MA 01749 (978-568-1167).

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Additional sets may be purchased for $25.

Bidders requesting Contract Documents to be mailed to them shall include a separate check for $40.00 per set for UPS Ground (or $65.00 per set for UPS overnight), payable to BidDocs ONLINE, Inc., to cover mail handling costs.

The Pre-Bid Conference and site visit will be on June 15 at 10:30am at 90 Longwood Ave., Brookline, MA. Any questions regarding the plans and specifications are to be forwarded in writing to Garofalo Design Associates, Inc., Suite 208 Boston, MA 02134 E/ MAIL: fgarofalo@gda10.com

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Fuentes, Ana

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing

Agramonte, Toribio

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.

You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Ana Fuentes, 19 Levant St. #1, Dorchester, MA 02122-1223 your answer, if any, on or before 07/07/2016. 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: April 21, 2016

Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

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To the Defendant:

The Contract Documents may be seen, but not removed at: Nashoba Blue Inc. 433 Main Street Hudson, MA 01749 978-568-1167

SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU16D0703DR

SUFFOLK Division

There is a plan deposit of $25 per set (maximum of 2 sets) payable to BidDocs Online Inc. Deposits may be electronically paid or must be a check. This deposit will be refunded for up to two sets for general bidders and for one set for sub-bidders upon return of the sets in good condition within thirty days of receipt of general bids. Otherwise the deposit shall be the property of the Awarding Authority.

Docket No. SU15P1008EA

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Lucero, Maria vs. Lucero, Sergio

Affordable First-time Homeownership Opportunity

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.

You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Maria Lucero, 270 Centre Street Apt. 240, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 your answer, if any, on or before 08/11/2016. 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: May 25, 2016

Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

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

Docket No. SU16D0670DR

Wildflower Meadow Phase II 15 Great Road (Route 2A) Littleton, Massachusetts 01460 One two-bedroom, den, one and one half bath home, 1,471 living area $184,000 Four three-bedroom, two and one half bath homes 1,392 living area $207,000 New construction of ENERGY STAR certified homes offering garage, deck, gas forced hot air and central air-conditioning.

Community club house and pool Commuter rail to Boston Buyers will be selected by lottery.

In order to qualify, total household income cannot exceed the following 80%AMI maximum income limits per household size:

Domestic Relations Summons Howard, Monica vs. Howard, James To the above named Defendant: You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Winston D. Kendall, Esq., Law Office of Winston Kendall, 136 Warren Street, Boston, MA 02119 a copy of your answer to the complaint for DIVORCE which is herewith served upon you, within 20 days after service of this summons upon you, exclusive of the day of service. If you fail to do so, the Court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file your answer to the complaint in the office of the Register of this Court at the above named court either before service upon plaintiff or plaintiff’s attorney or within a reasonable time thereafter.

Witness, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: April 14, 2016

Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

One person household: $51,150 Two person household: $58,450 Three person household: $65,750

Four person household: $73,050 Five person household: $78,900 Six person household: $84,750

Household Asset Limit of $75,000 To request an application and information packet, please contact: Housing Resource Group, LLC at 781.820.8797 or hrgllc.alwan@yahoo.com or visit the Reuben Hoar Library, 41 Shattuck Street Completed applications must be returned to the Housing Resource Group, LLC, Four Raymond Street, Lexington, MA 02421 by July 7, 2016

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REOPENING WAIT LIST

Mishawum Park Apartments will be accepting applications for multiple affordable housing programs such as but not limited to Section 236, HOME, (HSF) and (HIF) 1, 2, and 3 bedroom family housing. Eligible applicants will be placed on an existing waiting list by lottery, not by the order in which the completed application is received.

There are no units available at this time.

Interested persons may apply in person on-site located at: Mishawum Park Apartments, 95 Dunstable St., Charlestown, MA or by downloading the application at PeabodyProperties.com or by phone 617.242.4016 (TTY 711) or 1.800.439.2370 Deliver in person, the completed application to the same address in accordance with these time frames: Applications will be accepted Monday, July 11 and Tuesday, July 12 at 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. and ending Wednesday, July 13, 2016 at 7 p.m. NOTE: Applications will not be sent or received by fax or e-mail. Please note that office hours for Mishawum Park Apartments are: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

The lottery selection will be held on Wednesday, August 15, 2016 at Noon; you do not need to be in attendance for the selection process since you will be notified of your position on the waiting list.

All applicants must be determined eligible in accordance with the Department of HUD and DHCD regulations. Applicants must meet the family size requirements for a designated bedroom size unit and the income of all family members must be greater than 30% of AMI but less than the established Income Limits (as of 3/28/16)*: income limits for 50% HH# Greater than 30% AMI Less than 50% AMI of AMI. All utilities are included in the rent 1 $20,650 $34,350 2 $23,600 $39,250 and voucher holders 3 $26,550 $44,150 are welcome to apply.

4 $29,450 $49,050 5 $31,850 $53,000 6 $34,200 $56,900

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HOPE BAY APARTMENTS Boston, Massachusetts

On Thursday, June 16, 2016, the waiting list for Hope Bay Apartments will be closed due to the large number of applicants on the list.

If you have any questions, please contact the United Housing Management Office, located at 530 Warren Street, at 617-541-5510, TDD Relay: 1-800-439-0183.

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Parker Hill Apartments Brand New Renovated Apartment Homes Stainless Steel Appliances New Kitchen Cabinets Hardwood Floors Updated Bathroom Custom Accent Wall Painting Free Parking Free Wi-Fi in lobby Modern Laundry Facilities

Two Bedrooms Starting at $2200

*Median income levels, rents & utility allowances are subject to change based on HUD guidelines (HUD.gov).

Please inquire in advance for reasonable accommodation. Info contained herein subject to change w/o notice.

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Wollaston Manor 91 Clay Street Quincy, MA 02170

Senior Living At It’s Best

A senior/disabled/ handicapped community 0 BR units = $1,027/mo 1 BR units = $1,101/mo All utilities included.

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MEMBER SERVICE CALL CENTER REPS Rapid career growth potential

Are you a “people person?” Do you like to help others?

Full-time, 12-week training plus internship.

Job placement assistance provided.

FREE TRAINING FOR THOSE WHO QUALIFY! HS diploma or GED required.

Free YMCA membership for you and your family while enrolled in YMCA Training, Inc. Call 617-542-1800 and refer to Health Insurance Training when you call

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WINTER VALLEY

RESIDENCES FOR THE ELDERLY, INC. Winter Valley Residences for the Elderly, Inc., a 160-unit complex financed by HUD for those 62 and older or physically disabled, is now accepting applications.

Winter Valley Residences has studios, one and two bedroom and barrier free units. They are owned and managed by Milton Residences for the Elderly, Inc., 600 Canton Avenue, Milton, MA 02186

Contact: Sharon Williams, Manager

617-698-3005

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Northern Contracting Corp. is working in Dorchester.

We are looking for employment applications from individuals in the construction trades who would like to work in this area.

Fax your resume to 781-821-4201 or email it to ncc@ northerncontractingcorp.com.

Madison Park Development Corporation Community Engagement Coordinator MPDC is looking for a community organizing professional to lead and/or assist with MPDC and RoxVote’s community outreach efforts, direct volunteer recruitment, and conduct training as part of our Civic Engagement Initiative voter outreach, education and mobilization efforts.

The Coordinator will build and lead teams of volunteers around specific civic engagement initiatives, organize candidate forums, door-knocking campaigns, and voter registration efforts, collect and analyze data, cultivate relationships and serve as liaison to voting advocacy organizations, and advocate on MPDC’s behalf with elected officials and government organizations.

Qualifications: • Associate’s degree or equivalent experience • 3+ years’ community organizing experience, especially door-to-door campaigns; • Experience working in coalitions and/or community collaboratives; • Commitment to organizing in low-income communities of color; • Spanish/English proficiency a plus; • Experience in public speaking and media communication a plus; • Ability to work a flexible schedule, including some weekend and night work.

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MONEY TALK

FINANCIAL LITERACY CONFERENCE

OCT. 15, 2016

BUILDING BLACK WEALTH SPONSORED BY:

OUR EVENT PARTNERS: ROXBURY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, REGGIE LEWIS CENTER, EPICENTER COMMUNITY CENTER, NAACP OF BOSTON AND WZBR RADIO

THE BAY STATE BANNER ALONG WITH OUR EVENT PARTNERS are hosting an all-day financial literacy conference to engage with our community about building wealth. Boston is undergoing an economic boom and the black community should benefit. The wealth gap* between black and white residents of Boston is alarming and this income inequality is harmful to our community as well as to the city as a whole. We expect more than 500 attendees to this all-day event. Attendance is free.

THE EVENT INCLUDES:

Black average assets

$700*

u Workshops

– learn best practices and strategies for financial success u Startup

Showcase hosted

by Epicenter Community speakers from the various sectors that deal with economic issues

* WEALTH GAP

u Guest

u Forums u Box

Lunch $11

White average assets

$256,000*

(*Color of Wealth in Boston, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, a joint publication with Duke University and the New School, March 2015)

For sponsorship information or if you are interested in hosting a workshop please contact Sandra Casagrand at Sandra@bannerpub.com or 617 936 7797.