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Money woes force Motley out at UMB Chancellor took fall for budget strain others helped create, supporters say BANNER PHOTO

Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz held a State House press conference on Monday, advocating for passage of a bill that would modernize the foundation budget. Behind her are Kalise Osula, Boston Community Leadership Academy alumna (left), and other supporters.

Legislators prioritize school funding update Foundation budget falls short of needs by $1-2 billion

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

Since a 2015 report revealed that the state underestimates needed school funding by $1 billion to $2 billion, Sen. Sonia ChangDiaz has been pushing to reform the budgeting process. Two years and two failed attempts later, the senator says change is in sight.

Educators, education activists and supportive state legislators gathered at the State House on Monday to call for passage of a bill that would update the foundation budget, the formula by which the state determines the minimally

adequate budget needed for each school. That formula has not been adjusted in 24 years — despite a provision in the law that established it that calls for review every two years. Over the years, it has emerged that the formula’s writers severely underestimated how much health care costs would rise as well as other expenses, the new bill’s supporters say. Schools are required to prioritize funding health care, meaning these expenses draw from the pool of money that could otherwise go to supplies, programs and initiatives such as extended learning time and socioemotional supports,

Chang-Diaz says.

The foundation budget as it stands also falls short of meeting the needs of special education students, English language learners and students who are low-income. The problem is compounded for low-income students living in neighborhoods with high concentrations of poverty.

Maria Karloutsos, a grade 3 teacher at the Joseph P. Manning Elementary School, spoke of a boy in her class with special needs whose family is low-income. The school does not have

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By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

UMass-Boston Chancellor J. Keith Motley announced that he will step down at the end of the academic year, sparking outcry from students, community members and elected city and state officials who rallied outside the State House on Saturday. The campus faces an anticipated $30 million deficit and declining enrollment.

University trustees moved to curb Motley’s power by handing over daily operations to former Bowdoin College president Barry Mills last month and allowing Motley’s contract to expire.

Tony Van Der Meer, senior lecturer of Africana Studies, spoke to the Banner several days before the rally. Van Der Meer, like many of Motley’s supporters and others who are watching the situation unfold, says the chancellor is being unfairly blamed for the university’s monetary woes.

“It’s clearly scapegoating of Keith,” Van Der Meer said, noting that Motley was not the sole decision maker in major construction projects that have been blamed for much of the deficit.

Motley’s departure also is

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news/2017/04/05/umass-boston-chancellor-motleystepping-down.html charged because it removes a person of color from a highly visible position of authority. “[Motley]’s had a terrific impact, particularly in the community to have him as a role model and see that’s really possible,” Van Der Meer said.

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Straight talk on challenging times Capuano discusses GOP, Trump agenda

By YAWU MILLER

The missile strikes on a Syrian airbase, funding cuts to sanctuary cities and growing partisanship were among the topics U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano discussed with constituents during a meeting at the Mildred Avenue K-8 school in Mattapan Monday.

In his characteristic straighttalk fashion, Capuano dished out

answers that did not always allay the fears and concerns of the 75 or so constituents who attended the meeting. When asked what Democrats could do to block Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Capuano said there isn’t much.

“Donald Trump won the election,” he said. “He kinda didn’t, but he did. He gets to make appointments. I don’t know what can be done to stop him except the next election, and that won’t stop him,

just slow him down.”

Court action may be the only avenue to block the more controversial moves coming from the administration of Donald Trump, Capuano added, citing the president’s executive orders barring travel from selected majority-Muslim countries, the first of which was overturned by a federal court and the second, which has been temporarily suspended by a court.

But the very fact that immigration advocates are fighting these

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Lawyers call foul play as police bypass black candidate with old infractions Would-be-officer rejected due to continuance without a finding at age 18, spotty driving history

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

Lawyers filed a complaint on behalf of a black Boston resident who was passed over for hiring into the Boston Police Department. Keon Finklea scored sufficiently high on the Civil Service test and came with what the Civil Service Commission describes as “very positive recommendations” from former employers, along with strong personal references.

However, in its decision not to bring him on to the force, the Boston Police Department cited Finklea’s record that contained driving misdemeanors from five years prior and a continuance without a finding charge when the applicant was 18 years old. Five applicants ranked below Finklea were hired.

The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice, along with Birnbaum & Godkin LLP board member David S. Godkin, filed a complaint on behalf of Finklea, seeking a reversal of the decision. According to Oren Sellstrom, litigation director for the Lawyers’ Committee, the employment decision’s subjective nature is worrying.

“We are troubled by what appears to be a discriminatory way of applying their discretion in

these situations,” he told the Banner.”[Finklea has] been bypassed for really trivial reasons. ... Going back half a person’s lifetime ago and trying to couple together minor incidents of driving infractions really is problematic, particularly when it ends up disqualifying highly-qualified applicants of color at time when the Boston Police Department professes to want to diversify the police force.”

The Lawyers’ Committee issued a press release that states that the move is one of many that undermine the department’s professed interest in diversity.

“The subjective nature of BPD’s employment processes, the lack of transparency and the lack of commitment to diversity are unfortunately nothing new,” states the Lawyers’ Committee press release. “Despite its claims to value diversity on the police force, the Boston Police Department continues to stand in the way of diversity by improperly ‘bypassing’ candidates of color who apply to be police officers.”

BPD representatives, however, state that rigorous standards alone drove the decision not to hire Finklea.

“The Boston Police Department always seeks to increase diversity in hiring,” accordig to a statement BPD spokesperson

Mike McCarthy provided to the Banner. “There are certain hiring standards that must be met. We are held to the highest of standards by those that we serve. We would be doing a disservice to the community if we didn’t hold applicants to those same standards when considering them for the position of police officer.”

Finklea completed the civil service exam in 2013 and submitted his application in 2014.

In 2015, he appealed his bypass to the Civil Service Commission, which upheld the BPD’s decision, although one commissioner went on record as dissenting. The Lawyers’ Committee has submitted a request to the Suffolk Superior Court that it review the decision. Sellstrom said they expect the court to issue its opinion late this year.

Finklea

Finklea was a 32-year-old father of an infant and living in Hyde Park at the time of his Civil Service hearing in June 2015.

He was working as a manager at T-Mobile and expected to complete a degree in project management at Wentworth Institute of Technology later that year.

Finklea’s application to the BPD included robust recommendations, including from the Boston Public Works Department. At the time of his application to the BPD, he was a full-time personal banker and working part-time at Best Buy.

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ON THE WEB CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION DECISION: http://www.mass.gov/anf/docs/csc/decisions /bypass/2015/finklea-keon-030217.pdf His personal recommendations spoke to his integrity, ability to de-escalate situations and mentoring work, according to the Civil Service Commission decision document. One reference recalled a time when Finklea found a wallet full of cash on the street and located the owner in order to return it.

CWOF from 2001

The hitch in Finklea’s application came in the form of several items on his record.

“The [Police] Department argues that police officers must be held to the highest standard of behavior and enforce the law and that the Appellant’s [Finklea’s] driving and criminal record indicate that the Appellant does not meet this high standard and that he has not abided by the law,” states the Civil Service Decision.

The BPD cited a 2001 incident in which Finklea was charged with receiving a stolen tire of value above $250, which constitutes a felony. Finklea, who was approximately 18 at the time, received a continuance without a finding (CWOF). According to BPD representatives in the hearing, regardless of the court’s decision not to convict Finklea of a felony, the CWOF involved “felonious conduct.”

The Civil Service Commission did not agree with this line of the BPD’s reasoning. Finklea had argued that he had a challenging childhood and that his record does not reflect who he is currently. Dissenting commissioner Paul Stein stated that Finklea’s record also did not include enough information to certify that the value of the received property indeed was high enough to count as a felony. Stein further stated this was not the type of offenses that would indicate underlying and recent conduct issues, such as might be indicated by a record of domestic violence.

Driving record

The Civil Service Commission did uphold the BPD’s bypass on the basis of Finklea’s driving record.

The record included a number of citations including failure to display number plate, failure to keep in the proper lane, seat belt violation and speeding.

“The Respondent [the BPD] had reasonable justification to be concerned that the Appellant’s driving history indicated that he would not responsibly drive and care for department vehicles as required by law,” states the Civil Service Commission’s decision.

Finklea stated in his defense that many of these infractions were long in the past. Between 2010 and the time of the hearing in 2015, Finklea had only one item on his driving record, a speeding infraction in 2013. Furthermore, he said that financial inability was the root of many of these infractions. For many years, he drove an old Honda Civic and could not afford to make the repairs needed to pass inspection, Finklea said. By 2011, he received promotions at Best Buy that allowed him to purchase a 2008 Acura TSX in better condition and with fewer required repairs. He was stopped less frequently after that point.

Commissioner Stein went on the record opposing this decision.

Stein said that the items detrimental to Finklea’s candidacy were too old to accurately reflect his current state and that the positive elements of Finklea’s candidacy were significant.

“Rote disqualification of otherwise well-qualified young men and women, such as Mr. Finklea, for appointment to what is often their ‘dream job’ as a sworn police officer, based entirely on hearsay evidence of a BPD’s ‘roundtable’ review of paper records of a 14-year old CWOF and a driving record that is equally as stale, cannot be squared with the core principles of civil service law,” Stein said. “He had only one speeding ticket within the five years prior to the bypass. …

Basic merit principles require that Mr. Finklea receive another consideration for appointment.”

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A crippling social malady America’s racism is complex and confusing. Toni Morrison, the prize winning author, in an interview with Charlie Rose some years ago, stated its nature quite simply: “Don’t you understand that people who do this thing, who practice racism, are bereft? There is something distorted about the psyche.

It’s a huge waste and it’s a corruption, and it’s a distortion.”

The confusion is that the conditions which are supposed to establish blacks as inferior also fall heavily on whites. For example, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, 17,981,400 whites live in poverty, a number substantially higher than the 9,561,100 impoverished blacks. While poverty afflicts a higher percentage of the nation’s black population, whites are by no means immune.

White conservatives complain about government entitlements for blacks, but 40.2 percent of federal food supplements went to whites in 2013, compared to only 25.7 percent for African Americans. It seems the criticism that benefits are primarily for blacks is a subterfuge to use racial hostility as a strategy to deny assistance to everyone.

Conservatives have asserted that the shooting deaths of blacks by the police are a result of blacks’ criminality. The Washington Post has been maintaining a record of police shooting deaths, and according to their count there were 963 fatal police shootings in 2016. Quite surprisingly, 465 of the victims were white, 233 were black and 160 were Hispanic. The number of white deaths by police was twice the number of African Americans killed. Again, blacks were disproportionately victimized, but the number of white deaths was also substantial.

A study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that was published in December 2016

found that 8.2 million of those who gained health insurance from 2010-2015 under the Affordable Care Act were white (43 percent) and 2.8 million (15 percent) were black. Clearly whites were the greater beneficiaries of the ACA, which was described by conservatives as being a boon for blacks.

Some whites who have achieved the American Dream might assert with some supporting evidence that they are racially superior, but scientists have removed that possibility. It is now well established that race is an unscientific social construct. At any rate, an assertion of racial superiority would be vitiated by the record of the many whites who are unable to thrive in America.

While Americans boast that “we’re number one,” countries in Europe have provided universal health care for all their citizens, and very rarely are citizens of any race gunned down by the police.

Also, public policy prevents the wealth and income gaps from being as great as in the U.S. So what is it that prevents working class whites from uniting with blacks and Latinos to create those benefits in the U.S. that are common in Europe?

Perhaps as Toni Morrison suggests “there is something distorted about the psyche” of many whites that prevents them from crossing the race barrier to form a political bloc to improve their own conditions. They have been deceived about so-called Obamacare by conservative politicians who were supposed to be their friends. It is time for the racists to form new alliances to achieve the benefits that the citizens of European countries take for granted.

As Ms. Morrison points out, “If you can only be tall because somebody is on their knees, then you have a serious problem.”

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You can kiss any discrimination cases goodbye with a Gorsuch Supreme Court

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By EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON The anti-labor, pro-business, blind eye toward discrimination rulings, dissents, opinions and writings of Trump’s SCOTUS nominee Neil Gorsuch have been well documented. But here’s a brief recap. Between 2007 and 2016, in ten of 14 cases involving discrimination, he shot down all union and employee litigant arguments charging discrimination in back pay, hiring and termination cases. In a case in 2012, involving pay and employee termination, he made clear that the burden to prove discrimination always is on the petitioner.

He applied his “originalist” read of the law to cases involving trucker rights, safety and health, and the termination of a whistleblower. In a 2016 case involving an employee suit that charged retaliation, Gorsuch blasted the long-standing standard that permitted indirect evidence of employment discrimination. He flatly stated that the standard had “no useful role to play in First Amendment retaliation cases.” He didn’t stop there. Even more ominously, he noted that the standard may have no application in Title VII discrimination cases “because of the confusion and complexities its application can invite.”

In separate sex, race and disability discrimination cases, Gorsuch again dumped the burden to prove retaliation and discrimination squarely on the employee. The requirement to prove intentional discrimination always has been a colossal barrier to winning discrimination cases. This is a near impossibility. Corporations and government agencies faced with racial, gender, disability and labor equity discrimination suits routinely hide behind this defense.

For nearly a century, discrimination cases have been the most contentious, hotly debated, and far reaching in shaping and changing law and public policy in America. They have done much to advance civil rights, economic parity and labor protections for tens of millions of Americans. So, Gorsuch’s rulings and dissents are more than academic curiosity. They have a direct bearing on crucial upcoming cases involving discrimination currently before the high court as well as cases that will be before the court in the years to come. The court that Gorsuch will sit on will have its share of these cases. Here are a few of the discrimination cases that are already in the SCOTUS pipeline. Though Gorsuch will have no say in these cases, they are reflective of the kind of cases on which he will render an opinion and cast his vote in the future.

One will determine how much spending on educational resources school districts must do on students with disabilities. Another is a challenge to school districts on the right of transgender students to use and have school restrooms that conform to their gender identity. Another case deals with the perennial question of whether the government must grant religious schools public funding for materials for the classroom and playgrounds.

There also is a slew of patent rights, property right, eminent domain and zoning cases that could give even greater power to corporations to call the shots in their dealings with employees, consumers and litigants.

They also could further reduce the ability of aggrieved consumers and employees to bring class action lawsuits.

There are two other crucial issues that the court has let dangle. One is voting rights. The high court in 2013 struck down Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. It required states mostly in the Deep South and West that had long and outrageous histories of using every ploy and gimmick to disenfranchise blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans to get pre-clearance from the Justice Department before making any changes in its election laws. But, there’s still the law’s Section 2.

This forbids any “denial or abridgment of the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or membership in a language-minority group.” Suits still can be filed to stop states from voter suppression ploys. If, but more likely when, this is challenged, Gorsuch’s hard line “originalist” read of the Constitution will see this section as an impediment to state’s rights to decide its voting laws and procedures.

The other issue is affirmative action. The laws and policies backing tightly constrained affirmative action measures on campuses and in public agencies are still in place. Conservatives have been relentless in tossing up lawsuits at every turn to obliterate anything that smacks of affirmative action. They suffered a narrow setback in 2016 when the high court upheld the University of Texas’s affirmative action program.

But this will not be the end of the issue. There will be another challenge at some point. And a tip on just how Gorsuch could rule came from Clarence Thomas’s one-page dissent in the Texas case in which he flatly said that affirmative action is “categorically prohibited.” Gorsuch has made no secret that he and Thomas are in lockstep in their “originalist” view of the Constitution.

You can kiss any discrimination cases goodbye with a Gorsuch Supreme Court.

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THOMAS FARRINGTON Carney Hospital President Walter Ramos this week announced the appointment of Thomas Farrington to its board of directors.

“I am so pleased that Tom will join Carney in this high level capacity” Ramos said. “His experience, advocacy and compassion for people in our community who are battling and recovering from prostate cancer makes his advice and experience invaluable, especially as we work to serve and expand our service to the community and its healthcare needs.”

“It is a privilege to become a member of the Carney family and to serve for an institution that is indispensable to our community,” commented Farrington.

Farrington founded the Prostate Health Education Network (PHEN) in 2003 following his treatment for prostate cancer in 2000. PHEN is recognized as the leading prostate cancer patient education and advocacy organization focusing on African

Americans, the population most impacted by the disease.

When diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2000, Farrington lacked knowledge about the disease even though he lost his father and both grandfathers to it. He continued to study prostate cancer during treatment and realized that his experience, along with the experiences of men in treatment with him, could help others. This prompted him to write his nationally-acclaimed book, “Battling the Killer Within,” in 2001. The book provided an insightful look at men facing prostate cancer and the prostate care system in the United States.

In 2005 he released his second book, “Battling the Killer Within and Winning.”

As a business executive Farrington is a leader in small and minority-owned business development. He worked closely on business issues and legislation with Speaker Thomas “Tip” O’Neil,

former Senator John Kerry and former Maryland Congressman Parren Mitchell. Board positions have included: Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce; U.S. Export/Import Bank and NC A&T State Univ. Farrington also served as a member of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

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enough books to meet his needs and his own family cannot afford to provide them, she said.

“This is a child who regularly asks me for books to take home so he can practice his reading — a request I am unable to fulfill with resources available to me from the state,” she said.

Karloutsos said she uses her own money to purchase books for the boy, but is limited by her need to purchase supplies for the rest of the classroom as well.

“We have delivered really high-quality education in Massachusetts,” Chang-Diaz told the Banner. “The problem is that the system that got us there is fraying.

We are at risk of not being able to continue to do that into the future.

[And] for millions of other kids over the past 24 years, we did not succeed in delivering on that promise.”

While Massachusetts often is heralded as a model of public education, in national ranking it falls behind 47 other states in closing the achievement gap between wealthy and poor students, according Chang-Diaz.

The fix

Chang-Diaz’s bill introduces what supporters say is a more accurate way to anticipate health care costs and increases special education funding and assessments, raises ELL weighting and establishes a data advisory task force to better use school-level data to inform policy decisions in the future. The bill also would categorize school districts into one of seven possible poverty concentration tiers, and sets

for each tier a level of additional school aid provided to educate each low-income student, ChangDiaz said.

“This is not schools asking for extra funding. Our schools have not been frivolous,” Chang-Diaz told gatherers. “For years we have let this formula erode. Schools have found every efficiency they can — cutting things like art, foreign languages, team sports. …

For years we have been asking our schools to do more and more with less. Imagine what they could do if we gave them enough.”

To ensure the foundation budget stays modern, Chang-Diaz’s bill provides for a review every four years. This is a longer timeline than the original law called for, which the senator said she hopes makes it more likely to be actually adhered to.

Seeing high prospects

Earlier attempts to update the foundation budget passed in the Senate but did not make it into law.

Chang-Diaz says this success in the Senate is an encouraging sign and that the bill has strong support from backers ranging from economists to school superintendents. The Massachusetts Black and Latino Legislative Caucus also has named its passage as a top priority this legislative session.

State Rep. Russell Holmes, chair of the Caucus, noted at the State House press conference that the achievement gap produced by underfunding disproportionately affects black and Latino students.

“It is a moral issue … and economic issue for our state, given that communities of color are growing faster than any other population,” Holmes said.

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Parents call for BPS to release data

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When the current home-based student assignment policy was instituted in 2013, Boston Public Schools officials promised to make public an annual assessment of how the policy would affect equity in the system.

While officials in the administration of then-Mayor Thomas Menino assured parent activists the new system would ensure that every student has access to high-performing schools, many feared the change from the previous geographic-zoned assignment system would limit parental choice for the black and Latino students who make up the majority of those in BPS schools.

At the time, say members of the group Quality Education for Every Student, Boston School Committee members agreed to review and assess assignment plan data. But four years later, BPS has released little data and conducted no comprehensive analysis, members of the group say.

“I’m sure many of you remember the slogan, ‘Quality schools, close to home,’” said QUEST member Kevin Murray during last week’s School Committee meeting. “A data-based review was going to tell us if the home-based system was delivering on that slogan. Where’s the data?”

School department officials did release some information in 2014 and 2016, but QUEST members and others at last week’s School Committee meeting said it was incomplete.

In the 2016 presentation, BPS officials showed that access to quality schools increased for the 25 percent of students who previously had the least access to Tier 1 or Tier 2 schools.

But John Mudd, a former senior project director with Massachusetts Advocates for Children, noted that the same dataset demonstrated that access to quality schools had actually declined for the other three-quarters of the students in the system.

The 2014 numbers released by the school department showed that black students — at just 13.5 percent — were the least likely to be placed in Tier 1 Schools. Asians, at 46.9 percent, were the most likely, with whites, at 35.8 percent, the second-most-likely.

But the reports released to the School Committee did not include basic information used when the home-based student assignment system was developed by the external advisory committee, whose findings later were made public, said Meghan Wolf, a parent activist with QUEST. “We recognize that some data has been presented via ‘preliminary updates’ in 2014 and 2016, but these

are very, very limited in scope,” Wolf testified. “There was no information on access to quality for students with special needs or English-language learners, for middle school students or by socio-economic status.”

Under the home-based assignment system, parents enter their address. An algorithm developed for BPS then generates a list of schools within a one-mile radius of the student’s home, with at least two Tier 1 or 2 schools included. If there are no top-tier schools within a mile of the student’s home, the algorithm will pick schools farther away. Parents then rank their choices before BPS returns their assignment.

The home-based system applies to elementary and middle schools.

At the high school level, the most sought-after schools are the city’s exam schools, all three of which are in or near the Roxbury area.

The QUEST members brought a birthday cake to last week’s School Committee meeting with the words “Where’s the data?” written in blue icing on the top in a mock celebration of the fourth birthday of the homebased assignment system.

Neighborhood schools?

Boston’s school assignment system has been hot-button issue for years, with many parents in fierce competition for seats in high-performing elementary schools. With many lower-performing schools concentrated in Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan — the predominantly low-income neighborhoods with the highest concentrations of black and Latino students — assignments previously were made under a so-called controlled choice system, which afforded students within a mile of an elementary school “walk zone” preference for half the seats in the school, with the other half available to any students living in whichever of the city’s three zones the school was sited.

In his 1998 State of the City speech, Menino began the process of ending the zone system with a promise to return the city to neighborhood schools, and a pledge to build more schools in the city’s black and Latino neighborhoods. Over the next 15 years, the Menino administration made good on that promise, constructing large-capacity schools such as Mildred Avenue, Lilla G. Frederick and Orchard Gardens.

But parent activists and black elected officials pushed back on Menino’s promise to return to the neighborhood schools model, many citing the unequal allocation of education resources that led to

court-ordered desegregation of the schools in the 1970s.

While the Menino administration dropped the phrase “neighborhood schools” from its new assignment plan, QUEST members who testified last week charge that the numbers of black and Latino students at some schools in predominantly white areas has plummeted.

QUEST member Karen Oil noted that many students are no longer eligible to attend schools in neighboring Charlestown and the North End, despite being within the one-mile walk zone (although separated by Boston Harbor). The School Committee approved an amendment to the assignment plan, which barred East Boston families from schools that would require buses to travel through the tunnels to Charlestown. (A similar rationale and provision exempting East Boston existed in the “Phase II Student Desegregation Plan” issued by the federal court in May 1975.)

“Since 2010, the African American and Latino student populations have been reduced by half at the Eliot School [in the North End],” Oil testified. “The white population, however, has increased by 65 percent during these same years. These changes will become only more pronounced in the future based upon current enrollment in the Eliot School’s kindergarten class. The school’s kindergarten has precisely one African American child in it this year. There are only three Latino children enrolled.”

Oil asked the School Committee to investigate the extent to which the assignment policy has affected East Boston students’ access to Level 1 schools.

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Murray noted that BPS officials have been discussing yet another change to the student assignment process that would combine the application process for the district’s schools with that for Boston-based charter schools. BPS officials announced its “unified enrollment” plan last year, to mixed reception from parents.

“What would make anyone think that it makes sense to engineer such a major change in the assignment system without any serious look at how the present system is impacting access to quality education in the BPS?” he testified.

BPS officials did not directly answer questions for this article, but

a spokesman for the department emailed the Banner the following statement: “Boston Public Schools is in the process of creating a Request for Proposal for an external consultant to conduct a preliminary equity analysis for the district’s Home Based Assignment Plan using data from the past three school years, and to use the findings toward a full equity analysis beginning in the 2017-2018 school year. The analysis will focus on the challenges BPS sought to address with the establishment of the Home Based Assignment Plan, which include student access to high quality schools closer to home while preserving diversity at all schools.”

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‘There are no do-overs’: Advocates sound alarm on 2020 Census

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With the 2020 Census three years out, civil rights groups and census experts are sounding the alarm that pending actions by the Trump administration and Congress could severely hamper an accurate count of all communities.

“Congress’ failure over the past few years to pay for rigorous 2020 Census planning, and now the Trump Administration’s insufficient budget request for 2018, will strike at the heart of operations specifically designed to make the census better in historically undercounted communities,” said Terri Ann Lowenthal, former staff director with the House Subcommittee on Census and Population.

She spoke during a national press call hosted by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. The call was moderated by Wade Henderson, president and CEO of Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.

“The decennial census is by far the most important and critical tool in our country to ensure that diverse communities are equitably served with government resources and that the American people are adequately represented at all levels of government,” said Henderson.

“The census is required by the U.S. Constitution and policymakers are responsible for making sure the job gets done right. All of us must insist that they do that because there are no do-overs.”

Currently the Census Bureau is being funded at 2016 levels, as Congress has not approved

final spending bills for 2017. The bureau has requested a 25 percent “ramp up” for preparation activities. But President Trump’s 2018 budget proposal recommends keeping funding levels where they are currently, $1.5 billion.

Census advocates say this is a crucial time for laying the groundwork and are calling for Congress to reject the administration’s budget proposal in favor of one that covers all preparation activities.

A ‘major civil rights issue’

Recently, the U.S. Government Accountability office deemed the 2020 Census a “high risk federal program,” in part because the U.S. Census Bureau is planning to utilize several never-before used strategies — such as collecting responses over the internet — but may not have the time and resources to adequately develop and test them.

Budget limitations have already hindered major preparations, including the cancellation of tests of new methods in Puerto Rico and on two American Indian reservations, and resulted in mailed tests rather than electronic or in-person ones, as well as delayed community outreach and advertising campaigns.

Advocates say current funding shortfalls will result in many people — particularly black, Latino and rural households, and families with young children — being missed by the count. Arturo Vargas is the executive director of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed

Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund. He calls the underfunding of the census a major civil rights issue for Latinos and other communities of color.

“A successful 2020 Census is not possible if Latinos are not accurately counted,” Vargas said.

Millions of Latinos, the second largest ethnic group in the U.S., were missed in the 2010 census, including 400,000 children under four, according to Vargas.

For each uncounted person, state governments and communities lose thousands of federal aid dollars, which go to anti-poverty programs, education, infrastructure, emergency services, healthcare and other programs.

An undercount can also trigger changes in political representation – from redrawn district lines, to fewer seats in local, state and federal offices, often diminishing the power of communities of color.

Advocates say that new cost-saving strategies like collecting responses over the internet rather than paper forms require investments on the front end.

Delayed preparations cannot be made up later. Surveys administered online may also be hampered by the “digital divide” if adequate field tests are not taken.

Lack of access to broadband and the internet may make it “more challenging to [reach] those historically left out of the census in the first place,” Vargas warns.

The ‘first high tech Census’

The first “high tech” Census also opens the door to cyber security concerns, which have been

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Lowenthal says she and other advocates must be prepared for a “wild card” event, such as President Trump publically questioning the importance of the census via social media.

“One errant tweet could shake public confidence and in the process depress participation and undermine faith in the results, conceivably all the way to the halls of Congress,” Lowenthal said.

Census advocates are eyeing several other threats to the decennial count and its yearly counterpart, the American Community Survey. The ACS is sent yearly to about 1 in 38 households to collect demographic data on everything from employment and home-ownership to educational attainment.

Republicans in Congress are pushing to make participation in the ACS voluntary which could severely damage the data, says John C. Yang, president and executive

director of the non-profit advocacy group Asian Americans Advancing Justice.

“The ACS updates the Census throughout the decade. As such it is required by law and must remain so to provide the vital info needed from our communities,” Yang said, emphasizing that the ACS is the only source for detailed data of ethnic subgroups, such as Vietnamese of Chinese descent.

Census advocates are also on high alert because an unsigned leaked executive order, titled “Protecting American Workers from Immigrant Labor,” referenced a directive to the Census Bureau to collect data on immigration status.

Advocates are alarmed by the intentions behind this unsigned order.

“Latinos and other immigrant families are keenly aware of heightened immigrant enforcement actions in their communities, and this may increase distrust in contact with public agencies including the Census Bureau,” Vargas said.

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continued from page 1 “This is starting to feel like a systemic attack against black leadership,” Tanisha Sullivan, NAACP president, said at the Saturday rally.

State Rep. Russell Holmes and City Councilors Tito Jackson and Ayanna Pressley also turned out to the rally.

On Wednesday of last week, Motley met with Martin Meehan, UMass president. That evening, university officials announced that Motley would be stepping down.

He is expected to leave on June 30, take a year of sabbatical, and then return to campus as a tenured faculty member. In that role, he will be paid $240,000, down from the $422,000 he received last year as chancellor. On July 1, Mills will become interim chancellor, but will not be a candidate for the permanent position.

Motley and Meehan did not respond to requests for comment.

Finger-pointing

Blame for UMass’s financial deficit largely has been placed on the university’s ambitious building projects. Van Der Meer said Motley appears to be taking the fall for plans that passed through many decisionmakers.

“The board [of trustees] knew what was going on and approved it. The president knew and he approved it,” Van Der Meer said.

Budgeting and construction decisions also involve approval from the UMass Building Authority and state Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance.

Van Der Meer and Zac Bears, executive director of Public Higher

Education Network of Massachusetts (PHENOM), say another major contributor to the budget problems is the state legislature, which has provided less and less public higher education funding.

According to Bears, it is unclear to what extent, if any, the university’s large construction projects impacted the campus budget. The UMass Building Authority and private partners funded much of the work, he said.

The new dorms were funded via a private-public partnership, with the private builder taking on all of the costs and risk, Bears said, and the new science building is funded by the UMass Building Authority through the 2008 higher education bond bill.

“How is something nominally under the Building Authority purview being tagged as being under the campus budget?” Bears said. “There’s an argument to be made that we don’t know enough to say that this is Chancellor Motley’s fault.”

The exact size of the deficit also may be unclear. Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry remarked to the Dorchester Reporter that deficit estimates have fluctuated, with UMass-Boston’s original deficit projection stated at $15 million, not $30 million.

According to Bears, there is one cause of deficits that is clear: the state legislature, which has chronically underfunded the entire UMass system, he said. Bears regards the construction projects as, in part, a bid by UMass-Boston to attract higher-paying out-of-state or international students and attract research grants as ways to fill the resultant budget gaps without raising tuitions and fees.

“All of these problems could

have been addressed 15 years ago if the state hadn’t begun cutting funding from public colleges and universities,” he said.

This year, the UMass system requested an additional $30 million to maintain programs at all of its campuses, while the governor’s budget proposes adding only $5 million, Bears said.

Financial undertakings

In a message sent to the campus community last week announcing his impending resignation, Motley also celebrated the campus’ new academic buildings as ones “that finally reflect the exceptional quality of the people who study and work in them.”

The construction includes replacement of crumbling brick buildings, the campus’ first dormitory, and new labs. Setbacks led to delays and ballooning costs on several projects. In one case, discovery of asbestos in the soil set back plans for underground utility installation by a year, and resulted in a predicted $91 million more in costs, according to The Boston Globe.

The Boston Globe states that at the time of the 2011 launch of the building plan, UMass officials had been briefed that while the campus had great potential for growth, it would be easy to fall into high levels of debt without careful planning. A 2011 report advised

revenue-raising moves such as tuition hikes, greater recruitment of out-of-state full-time students — who pay higher rates — and careful financial analysis of every new program.

According to Marlene Kim, UMass-Boston professor of economics, the development projects were a necessity.

“We desperately needed new buildings and labs,” she told the Banner. There were not enough offices, classes or meeting rooms, she said, and many existing buildings were in such disrepair that it was more cost-effective to build from scratch than to try to fix them.

“The whole substructure was falling apart. That’s where all the utilities — the power lines and water lines were. If you had to repair that….” Kim said. “Elevators were slow. Buildings leaked when it rained. It was crumbling.

It wasn’t safe.”

WBUR suggests that when officials undertook the campus improvements, they misread student trends. The university constructed its first dorm, but competition from growing credibility of online institutions coupled with declining enrollment across the state may slacken demand for on-campus beds. In Massachusetts, higher education enrollment has dropped by 5.5 percent since 2013. Meanwhile, nationally the number of students over age 25 is estimated

to increase by 23 percent by 2019, suggesting that greater shares of students will have families and jobs, both reasons they may prefer not to live in dorms, according to National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

Ten years as chancellor

Motley joined UMass-Boston as interim chancellor in 2007, coming off ten years as a dean at Northeastern University. He became permanent chancellor the following year.

In his message to the campus community, Motley reflected on the accomplishments during his decade with the university. During his time, enrollment grew by 25 percent and research funding by 53 percent, Motley said. Student retention grew by nearly 5 percent over the past five years and six-year graduation rates by nearly 7 percent. Motley also noted the university’s Carnegie recognition as a doctoral institution with “higher research activity” and multiple Carnegie Community Engagement Classifications, and he praised UMass’s growth.

“For a university that started out in a gas company building and moved to a landfill, we haven’t done badly. Despite funding cutbacks, collapsing garages and the doubts of unsympathetic outsiders, we have thrived and grown,” Motley said.

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In her 20s, Nicole Roberts Jones was a successful Hollywood casting agent, finding talent for shows like “Martin” as she worked in entertainment production for BET. But all was not well.

“I hated it,” Jones recalls. “I had a successful career in the entertainment industry and I got to a place where everybody told me what I should do or shouldn’t do.”

The one bright spot in Jones’s life: her volunteer work.

“I started working with young women to help them carve out a path to become whatever they wanted to be,” Jones said.

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the field was in its infancy. She began by obtaining a masters in social work from the University of Southern California, hung out her shingle and began working with businesses and nonprofits. Initially, she offered program design — the art of fleshing out ideas for new programs to serve emerging needs. The field of coaching, although now well established, was yet to be recognized. Jones got a break early on when the speaker of the California State Assembly, Antonio Villaraigosa, invited her to work with state business leaders to design a new business assistance program.

Her work in program design also led to gigs as an adjunct professor at Boston University and USC.

Gradually, however, Jones followed her passion and shifted away from program design into the coaching business that has become her mainstay. As Jones sees it, upping her game required a new level of investment. She had to get help. From a coach.

“So many people put sweat equity into your business and they wonder why they’re not growing,” she said. “In order to grow your business, you have to be willing to invest at the level you’re willing to grow into.”

Having made the investment, Jones now is an established career/lifestyle coach and best-selling author. She markets her work through her four books, including her latest — “Find Your Fierce” — as well as

through seminars. Last Sunday, Jones, who lives in Billerica, concluded a cross-country Find Your Fierce Tour with an appearance in Boston.

Jones’ formula for helping women build successful careers is modeled after her own trajectory, beginning with identifying the one thing about which a client is passionate. Next, Jones asks clients where their proficiencies lie.

“Those two things have to connect,” she says. “If they don’t, it won’t work.”

Lastly, Jones walks clients through how to package their work and determine to whom it should be promoted.

She travels once or twice a month to lead seminars and workshops, working the rest of the time from her home office in Billerica. She has worked with and facilitated workshops for General Motors, McDonalds, the National Urban League and Coach Diversity Institute.

Originally from Inglewood, California, Jones lives with her husband and has two grown stepchildren. She says she loves the seasons in New England, but for one.

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Treasurer launches ‘Bringing Diversity on Board’ initiative State Treasurer Deborah B. Goldberg announced the launch of a new initiative aimed at exploring barriers to diversifying corporate boards as well as strategies that have been successful. Under the “Bringing Diversity on Board” initiative Goldberg’s office will organize roundtable working-group discussions with board members, corporate leaders, researchers and advocates, starting in May. Discussion will focus on particular industries such as health care, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, information technology and finance.

Following the roundtables, the Treasurer’s Office will publish a report designed to help companies implement strategies for advancing board diversity.

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Goldberg chairs the board of the state’s $62 billion pension fund and has made shareholder engagement and corporate governance key priorities since she took office in 2015.

New custom proxy voting guidelines proposed by Goldberg and approved this year impact how the pension fund votes as a shareholder in the roughly 9,000 companies it owns stock in. Under these guidelines, the Pension Reserves Investment Management (PRIM) Board will vote against or withhold from all board nominees if less than 30 percent of the company’s board is diverse with regard to gender and race.

While recognizing the impact of these reforms, Goldberg noted also that voting and enforcement alone cannot change corporate culture and institute the systemic changes needed to accelerate the pace of progress in boardrooms.

The roundtables and subsequent report from the Treasurer’s Office will aim to build upon existing work done by government, corporate, academic and non-profit leaders around the country.

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MIRA Coalition draws hundreds to rally for safe communities Activists, elected officials gather to call for greater recognition and protection of immigrants in MA

By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

Hundreds turned out to the State House last week for the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition’s advocacy day, where they rallied for passage of the Safe Communities Act and other legislation that would protect the rights of immigrants. A lineup that included politicians, civil rights activists and others said President Donald Trump’s threats to immigrants risk the financial wellbeing and sociocultural fabric of the state and nation.

“We are not going to turn our backs on our friends, our fellow workers, the kids who go to school with our kids,” said Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone, the son of Italian immigrants.

“We will not violate the constitution of America and hold anyone without just cause.”

According to Liza Ryan, MIRA organizing director, approximately 1,400 people RSVP’d to the event.

Safe Communities Act

The top focus of the rally was on the Safe Communities Act, a statewide bill that extends certain prohibitions against use of local and state resources to target immigrants. These include a prohibition against state participation in creating a federal registry of individuals based on protected characteristics such as national origin or religion; local police being deputized as immigration enforcement agents; prevention of campus, local and state police participating in immigration enforcement activities based solely on the individual’s immigration status. Another provision ensures due process rights for those detained in state or local facilities on civil immigration violations.

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distributed by MIRA, passage of the bill would improve public health by making immigrants feel safe to seek vaccines and other care and reduce crime rates by making immigrants feel safe assisting police in investigations and reporting violence against them. Curtatone also sought to counter narratives of dangerous immigrants by pointing to study findings that state that undocumented immigrants are less likely than native-born residents to commit crimes.

Immigration issues are Massachusetts issues

Many speakers emphasized that immigrant rights issues are not the rest of the country’s problem, but something very much at play in liberal Massachusetts.

Sen. Jamie Eldridge, co-sponsor of the Safe Communities Act, noted that in Lawrence, five immigrants were arrested outside of the government office that serves immigrants seeking legal residency.

State Rep. Juana Matias, the other co-sponsor, recalled a recent incident in which she participated in surprising four outstanding

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“She should have relished this milestone,” said Matias, herself the daughter of undocumented Dominican immigrants. “Instead, she was paralyzed by the thought that a single picture could tear the fabric of her family.”

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states for the percentage of the populations that is foreign-born, said William F. Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth. One in six state residents were born outside the U.S., said Eva Millona, MIRA executive director.

Ivan Espinoza-Madrigal, executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice, said that shortly after Trump’s inauguration, an undocumented immigrant named Elsa came to his office. She told him that her son had been attacked at school.

The principal neglected to file an incident report, telling Elsa that because of their status, her son had no rights. When Elsa said she would go to the police,

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the principal informed her they would not protect her.

“That is the reality we are living with in this state,” Espinoza-Madrigal said. “This is not happening in Texas, in South Carolina. This is happening in the communities you live in.”

Economic impact

Speakers also said that the Safe Communities Act would protect the economy, of which undocumented immigrants are a significant presence.

The massive deportation of undocumented immigrants envisioned by the Trump administration would cripple America financially by removing a significant section of the workforce and tax base, said Mayor Curtatone. The nation also would lose 70 percent of agricultural workers, he said.

‘They sustain us. They pay taxes,” Curtatone told the crowd.

“It would be like cutting off the equivalent of Massachusetts from the U.S. economy.”

Further measures sought by MIRA aim to help immigrants utilize their full skill sets in the local economy. MIRA estimates there are 8,000 foreign-trained health professionals living in Massachusetts, but that 20 percent of them are working in lower-skilled jobs or are unemployed, due to difficulty navigating and affording local licensing requirements or lack of focused career services. One bill would establish a commission focused on reducing barriers to using health profession expertise and facilitate foreign-trained medical professionals work in rural and underserved areas.

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he Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists in Roxbury is displaying a solo exhibit of work by Boston painter and illustrator Stephen Hamilton. Titled “Black Gods Live: Work of Stephen Hamilton,” the show transforms people Hamilton met in his travels into deities of Yoruba spiritual traditions, religious sensibilities developed in Southwestern and North Central Nigeria.

Hamilton’s interest in Yoruba spirituality bloomed during his artist-in-residence collaboration with the Nike Center for Art and Culture in Nigeria. He particularly was drawn to the elders of the village structure, whom he reimagined as priests and priestesses — agents of a spiritual and culture community that both exists in Africa and within the African diaspora.

In a predominantly blue painting, Hamilton depicts a woman as the maternal goddess Iya Mapo. Unlike the Venus figures typical in the Western European tradition, Mapo is an older woman. She sits casually with her legs spread underneath her skirt and a content smile on her age-worn face.

The lush colors of the canvas are weaved into intricate patterns and textures with traditional skills such as Adire indigo dyeing. Floral block prints on the figure’s arms and in the background speak to African textile designs.

“The idea of the works is that they deal with ancient subject matter, but these are real people that you might see on the street,” says Hamilton. “There’s a lot of fetishized images of black suffering. This is a narrative of empowerment.” Because his paintings depict regular people as deities, Hamilton’s work also speaks to a cultural divinity, a sense of peace and wisdom that reverberates through every member of the Yoruba clan.

Hamilton graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2009. Since then he has mentored young artists in Artists for Humanity and at Art à la Carte. His

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Singer mines rich musical heritage Cassandra Wilson is Harvard’s Jazz Master in Residence

By SUSAN SACCOCCIA

“I’m actually a baritone,” said renowned jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson, laughing, to a small audience in an oak-paneled library on the campus of Harvard University last Wednesday. “My voice is like an iceberg. There’s a lot more under the surface.”

Drawing an audience that included students as well as longtime fans, the afternoon session, entitled “A Conversation with Cassandra Wilson,” was moderated by Ingrid Monson, Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music at Harvard. The event was part of Wilson’s stay on campus as 2017 Jazz Master in Residence. Hosted by the Office for the Arts at Harvard and Harvard Jazz Bands, Wilson visited classes, rehearsed with students and performed with the Jazz Bands Saturday night at Sanders Theatre in a public concert entitled “Women in Jazz: Celebrating Cassandra Wilson.”

Elegant and relaxed, Wilson wore a fur-trimmed hat, grey cardigan and shiny black pants.

Seated in upholstered chairs, she and Monson faced each other and the audience. Wilson often shifted to the edge of her seat and leaned forward as she listened to a question, and then sat back to consider it, responding in her smoky voice — traditionally described as a contralto. With her warm giveand-take, Wilson’s conversation with Monson and the audience delivered much of the same pleasure as a musical performance.

Listening to yourself

Guiding a conversation that touched on all phases of Wilson’s career and development as an artist, Monson also played excerpts from some of the singer’s recordings, including a mesmerizing passage of Wilson’s ballad “Until.”

Speaking further about her voice, Wilson said, “I’ve never taken a vocal lesson. I learned that if you converse in a certain place, that’s where you should sing. It’s about listening to yourself, where you are, your timbre.”

Wilson, 61, might have added that for her, it’s also been about listening to where she’s been.

Noting that her southern accent is more audible when she sings than when she talks, she said, “I come from Mississippi.”

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Jacob Latimore stars in ‘Sleight’ feel a little extra pressure on the set knowing you were playing the protagonist?

By KAM WILLIAMS

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continued from page 15 work has been exhibited in galleries around Boston and at City Hall.

The celebration of the elderly is a powerful theme in “Black Gods Live.” It points to the wisdom and strength that can be drawn from familiar faces in black communities, contemporary people you see every day. The figures in the exhibit are relaxed, approachable and real. It might be a grandmother at church on Sunday or a man waiting for a bus at Dudley Station. “It’s a way of exploring divinity in relation to the black body,” says Hamilton. The culture of the past fuses with the present, painting a bridge from Africa to Boston in indigo blue and fiery orange.

JL: Not at all. Because I had to perform at a young age onstage and in the film “Black Nativity” among others, I have never been nervous about the roles I’ve taken, on or off the set. I’ve always been confident in my ability and I hope I bring that confidence to the set and to the characters I portray.

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A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Latimore currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Here, he talks about his latest movie, “Sleight,” in which he stars as a street magician who starts dealing drugs to support himself and his sister after the death of their single mom.

What interested you in “Sleight”?

Jacob Latimore: “Sleight” is the kind of film you dream about. It balanced the genres of science fiction, romance, family and reality in one story. I was completely drawn into the character and the complex issues he faces. It’s not often you get a script that allows you to stretch your own ability as an actor and I saw the ability to do that with this film.

How would you describe the film in 25 words or less?

JL: It’s a genre-bending superhero origin story. Although it focuses on a street magician, “Sleight” ultimately is a story about the lengths a person will go to protect his family.

How would you describe your character, Bo? JL: Bo is a guy who is passionate about magic and in his own way strives to do something with his magic that has never been done before. He’s determined.

Due to his parents deaths, he needed to grow up faster than he anticipated because he has to raise his younger sister. And what he learns as a grown-up affects everything he does.

This was your first lead role. Did you

JL: That’s a hard question. I’m not sure. I can tell you that I hope they will take away the importance of family and your individual role in the family unit. And I hope it inspires people to pursue their dreams in spite of adversity.

Imaginary lines, real consequences, true border crossings.

You’re an actor, singer, dancer. Which is your favorite?

JL: Had you asked me that question a year and a half ago, I would have said music. However, after working with Will Smith and Kathryn Bigelow and absorbing all that great experience from people who have done this for years, it’s more of a balance.

I love performing and, whether it’s music, acting or dancing, I’m happy. I feel at home.

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by Variety, Indiewire and The Wrap as a young breakout star. Having emerged as one of the most promising talents of his generation, his upcoming films are by Academy Award-winning directors and writers and he plays alongside actors of that same caliber.

Latimore was most recently seen among the ensemble of celebrated thespians in the holiday season film “Collateral Beauty,” directed by Oscar-winner David Frankel. The picture follows the story of a once-successful businessman (played by Will Smith) who has slipped into severe depression following a personal tragedy. His friends, played by Edward Norton, Kate Winslet and Michael Pena, show concern when he begins writing letters to various objects on themes like time, love and death, which then show up as people played by Latimore, Keira Knightley and Helen Mirren.

Latimore has just completed production on a yet-to-be-named crime drama with another Oscarwinning director, Kathryn Bigelow and her “Zero Dark Thirty” and “The Hurt Locker” screenwriter Mark Boal. The movie chronicles a police raid in Detroit in 1967 that resulted in one of the largest citizen uprisings in U.S. history. Also upcoming is the film “Krystal,” in which Latimore joins William H. Macy, Felicity Huffman, Kathy Bates and Rosario Dawson in a romantic dramedy directed by Macy.

Earlier in his career, Latimore was featured in two of 2014’s biggest box office hits, playing Ramon in “Ride Along” opposite Ice Cube, Kevin Hart and John Leguizamo, and in the sci-fi thriller “The Maze Runner.”

The year before, he starred as Langston in “Black Nativity,” working alongside Forest Whitaker, Angela Bassett, Tyrese Gibson, Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige and Nas. And prior to that, he made his feature film debut in a lead role in the post-apocalyptic thriller, “Vanishing on 7th Street.”

Besides acting, triple-threat Latimore is a dancer and established R&B singer. After a number of hit singles, his debut album,

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You’re 20 years old. What’s your secret to success at such an early age?

JL: At the end of the day, it really comes down to your passion and what you are willing to do to pursue your dreams. You have to be consistent, just like doing homework every day. It’s practicing your craft to make yourself better. An important part of that is family support, which I’ve always had.

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The Nile Project: Musical group advocates for ecological sustainability

By CELINA COLBY

This Saturday, April 15, The Nile Project will perform at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square. The group brings together artists from the 11 Nile basin countries to create music that blends the diverse cultures of some of the earth’s oldest places. Using traditional instruments, over 10 languages and a strong emphasis on community bonds, the group creates some compelling music, all in service to social change.

Melodies and lyrics are just the beginning for the diverse players.

The performances are a mode of raising awareness for The Nile Project’s activist purpose, cultivating the sustainability of the Nile River. Millions of people living in countries along the river don’t have access to the resources they need to live and thrive. The river doesn’t provide enough water to hydrate and sustain food sources for the

countries situated along it. The Nile Project works with scholars, ecologists and universities to research ways to grow the surrounding ecosystem.

The latest addition to their project, The Nile Scholars Network, brings together scholars from across the Nile basin to promote interdisciplinary research and discussion about the future of the river, and the people living on it. The network includes Khalid Siddig, an Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Khartoum, Sudan and Abdelfattah Metawie, a professor of water resources management at the National Water Research Center-Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation in Egypt, among many others.

The most important component in both the group’s music and their activism is unity. Disparate sounds that were never meant to be played together have been seamlessly composed into a joyful sonic celebration

of life. An Egyptian wooden flute, an oud, African harps, a thumb piano, a saxophone and a choir of voices in various languages belt out what is truly a global music fusion.

In their work to create sustainability on the Nile, the group also encourages cultures coming together.

A unified front in the face of ecological struggle is essential.

The Somerville performance is a part of The Nile Project’s latest United States tour. They also will be performing in Manchester, New Hampshire on April 22 and Hanover, New Hampshire on April 25, and will be delivering a lecture on nature and the environment in Storrs, Connecticut on April 19. The performance will include music from their newest album “Jinja,” released in January 2017.

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continued from page 15 Wilson’s parents were musicians and educators, and at age five she began taking classical piano lessons, and in high school learned to play the guitar.

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Describing her childhood in Jackson, Mississippi, as “very sheltered,” Wilson recalled the first time she felt fear — the night that civil rights activist Medgar Evers was assassinated, when she was 7 years old. “He lived a halfmile from us,” Wilson said. “It was the first time I realized that it was not cool out there.”

Noting that she visits her hometown often, Wilson, a two-time Grammy recipient, counts among her many awards a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail. The rich musical heritage of the Mississippi Delta and its neighboring Appalachian mountain region has been fertile ground for Wilson’s intertwined musical and personal journeys.

Pointing out that the roots of jazz extend well beyond its most heralded birthplace, New Orleans, itself a multicultural jambalaya, Wilson spoke of the dual diasporas of the poor white laborers from Ireland and the African slaves and their descendents. Both were “oppressed people,” and both were inventive in their mingling of old world and new cultural traditions. Irish step dancing in no small way influenced African American tap, and vice-versa.

Wilson’s repertoire includes a version of the early blues anthem “St. James Infirmary Blues,” an old Irish song immortalized by a 1928 recording of Louis Armstrong.

The words “path” and “connection” come up often as Wilson speaks of her music. She describes a braiding of past and present into the new and intertwining of various cultures that she shares with other leading jazz musicians of her generation as well as younger artists such as pianists and composers

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Diverse influences

Wilson has earned acclaim in her multiple roles as a jazz musician, vocalist, songwriter and producer. In her distinctive repertoire — reinventions of songs by others as well as her own songs — she draws from various sources, including the blues, country and folk music traditions, pop and R&B. Formative experiences included Wilson’s time in New York City during the early ’80s, when as a founding member of the M-Base Collective, she and saxophonist Steve Coleman collaborated with other jazz musicians to incorporate funk, soul and pop grooves into rich and complex original pieces.

In 2014, Wilson discovered that her roots include Irish and Welsh threads as well as West

African ancestry, and she relishes exploring an ancient Irish vocal tradition that she finds equal in gravitas and emotional power to the blues — the a cappella Sean Nós tradition. She is planning to perform in Ireland and her gig at the Irish Arts Center in New York City earned her its 2015 Spirit of Ireland Award.

Wilson’s influences remain wide-ranging, and she spoke with equal ardor of Joni Mitchell and Abbey Lincoln, each a singer and songwriter true to her own muse.

Citing Lincoln’s song “People in Me,” Wilson said, “We’re all colored. I don’t use the expression ‘white people.’ I say beige, taupe, vanilla. We’re really all of that.”

Speaking of her musical journey, Wilson said, “It’s part of healing as an African American … to learn to love all of me.”

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How to find your new favorite condiment, ‘white balsamic’

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f you’re like me, you went through a balsamic vinegar phase soon after you “discovered” it.

Venturing beyond its traditional habitat in the salad bowl, or drizzled on the occasional strawberry, you poured it on rice, added it to your favorite pickle recipe, perhaps even used it in a stir-fry.

In my case, at any point where the bite of a little acid was needed, I went with balsamic, until I was pretty much sick of it. Balsamic vinegar is not mayonnaise, I realized. It does not make everything taste better.

There are places where the fruity, syrupy sweetness and winelike complexity is too cloying, heavy and distracting. There are dishes that we do not want to taste like balsamic, and you have to pick your spots. Perhaps your balsamic phase ended with a similar resolution.

More recently I’ve become enamored with an offshoot of balsamic vinegar that’s a lot more versatile, and a lot harder to overdo. For years it went by the name white balsamic vinegar, as it’s made with similar ingredients.

Due to some legal constraints, it’s no longer available as white balsamic, but can be found under the names white Modena vinegar, or white Italian condiment.

Whatever you call it, many enthusiasts consider it simply to be an alternative to traditional red balsamic vinegar for those times when you want that sweet, tangy, balsamic-y complexity without the dark red color.

But that simple distinction ignores the fact that the differences in flavor are significant.

It’s brighter, with more tang, with less-heavy sweetness and a lighter finish. Unlike its darker cousin, white balsamic vinegar won’t hijack the flavor of your meal, and is content playing a supporting role. It’s also tremendously versatile, and can be used in a pinch to substitute for rice vinegar, white wine vinegar, sherry vinegar and even champagne vinegar. It’s near-impossible to confuse with its red cousin, even with your eyes closed.

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The name “white balsamic” is no longer permitted in order to protect the “DOP” status of red, or true, balsamic. DOP stands for Denominazione di Origine Protetta, which translates to Protected Designation of Origin. It can be found affixed to some of Italy’s finest and most celebrated foods, including cheese, extra-virgin olive oil, wine, prosciutto, even pesto.

Not all of these products get this designation by any means — not even the ones from Italy — only those made with ingredients local to where the finished product was produced, and processed with rigid adherence to traditional production practices. If you’re in the market for an Italian product and see that one of the options has the DOP designation, your choice just became much easier.

Wine makers in Modena have been making balsamic vinegar for about 1,000 years, via a process similar to that of making wine. It’s made from white Trebbiano grapes from the Emilia-Romagna region.

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Enthusiasts consider white Modena vinegar to be an alternative to traditional red balsamic vinegar for those times when you want that sweet, tangy, balsamic-y complexity without the red color. “must,” which is a mixture of grape juice and the leftover skins, seeds and stems from the grape clusters. The must is simmered for hours, during which it caramelizes, darkens and thickens.

The syrup that results is aged in barrels of oak, cherry, chestnut, mulberry, juniper and other types of wood. Often it’s more than one type of wood per batch.

The word “balsam” refers to a sticky resin that leaks out of cut trees and is used in perfume and other aromatic products, and these types of woods help to explain why.

Twelve-year old balsamic vinegar is the standard, though it’s possible to find bottles that have been aged 20 years or longer.

The white version is much more of a common man’s vinegar, and isn’t available in DOP versions. With that said, if I had to choose just one for my pantry, I would choose the lighter.

How to use

While balsamic vinegar draws all the attention to itself, its lighter cousin does the opposite, so you won’t find dishes built around it.

It’s a laborer in the kitchen: You can deglaze with it, and add it to

marinades and even pickles.

I’ve written before about thinsliced onions languishing in a white Italian condiment bath before being added to salads, and I stand behind that tactic. I’m also quite enthusiastic about drizzling some on my avocado toast, with olive oil, onion and tomato. More recipe ideas for the other white vinegar: n In my home, our biggest use for white Italian condiment is in salad dressing. We do a mixture of 3 parts olive oil and 1 part vinegar, with the vinegar portion consisting of equal parts cider vinegar, balsamic vinegar and white Italian condiment, with soy sauce to taste (optional). The pairing of three vinegars, two having balsamic tendencies, adds a sparkling depth to the dressing. n A simple Italian-style roasted red pepper snack: Halve and de-seed some red bell peppers and broil until the skin browns and blisters. Place in a paper bag and let cool for about 10 minutes. Remove the skins, slice peppers into bite-size pieces, and toss with olive oil, fresh pressed garlic, capers and white Italian condiment. Season with salt.

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THURSDAY SCARLET THREAD Simmons College presents a solo exhibition: Scarlet Thread, a feminist alphabet in mixed media by Lauren Gillette from through April 13 at the Trustman Art Gallery, located on the fourth floor, Main College Building, 300 The Fenway in Boston. A reception will be held on Thursday, March 16 from 5-7pm, with a snow date of March 23.

Lauren Gillette has fashioned an alphabet with multi-media narrative quilted panels of an alternate “herstory”.

Women of doubtful reputation, such as Eva Peron’s or Helen of Troy’s biographies are upended from their traditional telling. The irreverence and seriousness of Gillette’s recasting of our collective mythological, fictional and lived history is her way of bearing witness to “the Hester Prynne drumbeat going on around me.” As a conceptual artist, Gillette chooses fabric for her support of the text and drawings to solicit our desire to touch, while her notorious subjects and with their non-normative sexual antics and correspondent public shaming are anything but cozy quilts.

The Scarlet Thread project was supported by the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation Artist Advancement Grant.

Trustman Gallery hours are 10am 4:30pm, Monday through Friday. The gallery is free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible. For more information, contact Marcia Lomedico at 617-521-2268, or visit the Trustman Art Gallery website at www.simmons.edu/ trustman and visit us on Facebook.

TUESDAY PLAY READING BOOK CLUB – TEEN INTENSIVE The Play Reading Book Club, sponsored

by ArtsEmerson, is pleased to announce the Teen Intensive during April vacation week. The teens will read and study Mr. Joy by Daniel Beaty. Teens will get to see a performance of Mr. Joy, meet the playwright, and then do a public presentation of their own. Lunch will be provided. (Developed and sponsored

by ArtsEmerson with funding by the Fellowes Athenaeum Trust Fund of the Boston Public library.) April 18-22, 12-3pm. Free at the Dudley Branch of the Boston Public Library (65 Warren St. in Roxbury). To register: BIT.LY/DUDLEY PRBC1617 or call 617-824-3071.

WEDNESDAY SPRING RENEWAL CLAY WORKSHOP April 19 and 26, at 5:30-7:30pm with light supper at 5:30pm provided FREE OF CHARGE by Families Creating Together at Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry, 10 Putnam St., Roxbury. For directions go to www.uuum.org or call 617-318-6010.

With celebrated teaching artist Wendy Ellertson, you will work with clay to make coil, pinch pot, or slab containers to plant seeds and bulbs and hold spring flowers!

A few clay creatures may appear…

After firing, paint with colorful glazes to

welcome spring. Children (ages 5 – 13 with and without disabilities), parents, grandparents and friends welcome. Presented in English, Spanish and American Sign Language upon request. Wheelchair accessible. FCT is a program of Community Service Care/Tree of Life Coalition.

To register and for more information call 617-522-4832 or email familiescreating@ gmail.com. Additional information at www. familiescreatingtogether.org.

THURSDAY FAIRY HOUSE BUILDING WORKSHOP It will soon be that time of year when magical woodland creatures reappear in New England’s fields and woods. In order to welcome back the local elf and fairy community, the Boston Parks and Recreation Department will be co-hosting their fourth annual Fairy House Building Workshop with the Franklin Park Coalition on Thursday, April 20, from 10am - 12noon at Schoolmaster Hill in Franklin Park. Local children and families are invited to help by building homes for them. Spring is the best time to build fairy houses, experts say, providing the magical creatures with shelter for the coming summer months and the flitting season that begins in late May. This free family event will include storytelling, books from ReadBoston, plant education from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and scavenger hunts with the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Outdoors Rx program. Children are encouraged to wear their favorite fairy and elf costumes to encourage their tiny guests to alight in Franklin Park. Natural materials will be provided, and youngsters are welcome to explore their surroundings to find natural elements such as sticks, stones, and leaves to adorn their fairy houses.

Schoolmaster Hill is located on Circuit Drive between the William Devine Golf Course Clubhouse and Shattuck Hospital.

For more information, please call the Franklin Park Coalition at 617-442-4141, the Boston Parks and Recreation Department at 617-961-3047, or visit online at www.cityofboston.gov/parks or www. facebook.com/bostonparksdepartment.

UPCOMING DEMOCRATIC VISTAS? MIT Music and Theater Arts will present Mark Harvey and his Aardvark Jazz Orchestra at Kresge Auditorium, Saturday, April 29 at 8pm, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, free and open to the public. Information: 617-7768778. The concert, called Democratic Vistas?, will celebrate Duke Ellington’s birthday (April 29, 1899) by honoring his tradition of “social significance” compositions. Works by Harvey in this vein will include Boston Boy (for the late Nat Hentoff), the premiere of Main Man for noted impresario Fred Taylor, and first performances of contemporary tone-parallels such as Fake News Blewz, Swamp-a-rama, and Waltz of the Oligarchs. Also on the program: a reading from Walt Whitman’s Democratic Vistas, and a performance of

SATURDAY, APRIL 15

COYOTE ON A FENCE

Can you be innocent though proven guilty? Inspired by actual events, Coyote on a Fence tells the story of two men living on death row under vastly different circumstances. Young Bobby Reyburn is a likable, illiterate member of the Aryan Brotherhood who committed a horrific crime. John Brennan is an educated, arrogant writer whose crime may actually be deemed a favor to society.

Who deserves to die? With language both powerful and precise this timely and provocative play raises the question whether one can be sentenced to death but worthy of life. All tickets to all performances are Pay-What-You-Can, and at each show donations of new and gently loved children’s books will be collected for local charities. The show runs through April 15 (Thursdays at 7:30pm, Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, and Sundays at 5pm) at First Church Boston, 66 Marlborough St., Back Bay, Boston. Hub Theatre Company of Boston, Inc., www.hubtheatreboston.org.

Harvey’s No Walls, an anthem of hope and inclusivity. The April 29 event is part of Jazz Boston’s Jazz Week, with this year’s theme of Thank You Fred Taylor. Free admission.

AFRICAN AMERICAN VETERANS CELEBRATION The Veterans and Friends of Gourdin Memorial Park and Wheelock College Center of Excellence for Military Children and Families invite you to an African American Veterans Celebration on Thursday, May 4, 6-8pm at Wheelock College, Brookline Campus, Ladd Room, 43 Hawes St., Brookline. Highlights of the evening will include: update on efforts to place the General Edward Gourdin statue in Roxbury’s Veterans Memorial Park; meeting Fern Cunningham-Terry, international artist and sculptor; viewing scale model of General Gourdin and bronze reliefs; and learning about the contributions of Massachusetts’ Veterans of African American descent. General and Justice Edward O. Gourdin was, among other things, the first African American justice on the Massachusetts Superior Court. RSVP: Ms. Marsha Wilson via email or phone mwilson@wheelock.edu or 617-879-2112.

COLOR, COMMUNITY, COMMON SENSE, AND RACIAL RECONCILIATION: A PRESENTATION BY REV. STEVE CRAFT Rev. Craft will discuss how the enemies of the United States use race as a means of dividing our country for political power.

The Reverend Steven Louis Craft holds a Master of Divinity Degree from Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, MA and a Bachelor of Arts in Bible and Pastoral Counseling from Central Bible College in Springfield, Missouri. He has completed Clinical Pastoral Education at Boone Hospital Center, Columbia, Missouri. Rev. Craft is a member of the American Correctional Chaplains Association and is ordained as a Correctional Chaplain with the American Baptist Churches, U.S.A.. Rev. Craft is an author of several books, and is an instructor at Camp Constitution. Where: Mattapan Branch Library 1350 Blue Hill Ave., Mattapan. When: Wednesday May 17 at 4pm. Free admission. For more info call Hal Shurtleff 857-498-1309 or visit our website www.campconstitution.net.

ONGOING THE COOPER GALLERY 2017 SPRING EXHIBITION Diago: The Pasts of This Afro-Cuban Present on view: Through May 5.

Opening Reception: February 1, 6pm.

Visit coopergalleryhc.org/upcomingexhibition for more information. Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, Hutchins Center, 102 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge. Open Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10am - 5pm.

Closed: Sunday, Monday, and on official Harvard University holidays.

MY LIFE, MY HEALTH My Life, My Health: Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP) is an informative, interactive workshop, designed for adults who live with the daily challenges of one or more ongoing health conditions. It will give people with chronic conditions (such as high blood pressure, arthritis, heart disease, cancer, asthma, etc.) and/or their caregivers the knowledge and skills needed to take a more active role in their health care. Participants will learn different methods for managing pain, fatigue, and other symptoms, discover better nutrition / exercise choices, and find more productive ways to talk with healthcare professionals and family about their health. This FREE workshop was developed by Dr. Kate Lorig and her colleagues at Stanford University’s Patient Education Research Center. The book, Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Disease is provided for each participant. Location: Adams Street Library, 690 Adams St. in Dorchester. Day

and Time: Tuesdays from 1-3:30pm.

Through May 9. For more information or to register for this workshop contact Ann Glora at 617-477-6616 or aglora@ethocare.org.

PUBLIC OPEN NIGHT AT THE OBSERVATORY The Public Open Night at the Observatory is a chance for people to come observe the night sky through telescopes and binoculars and see things they otherwise might not get to see, and learn some astronomy as well. The Open Nights are held most Wednesday evenings throughout the year, weather permitting.

The program starts promptly at 7:30pm during the fall and winter months, and 8:30pm during the spring and summer months. Please arrive early as there is no admittance once the program begins.

We start admitting ticketed guests 10 minutes before the program begins. Right before the program starts and after all the ticketed guests that are present are admitted, we will admit any non-ticketed guests until we reach capacity. Public Open Nights are open to everyone, however space is limited. To reserve a free ticket for admission visit: http://bit. ly/28QbEHr. The Public Open Night is held at the Coit Observatory at Boston University. We are located at 725 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, above the Astronomy Department. The stairwell up to the Observatory is on the fifth floor just to the left of room 520. Unfortunately, there is no disabled access to the Observatory.

For information about Open Night, please call 617-353-2630, or check our Twitter feed (twitter.com/buobservatory).

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battles is the consequence of Trump and the Republicans securing electoral victories. As is a federal budget that contains a proposed $60 billion increase in military spending and a concurrent $60 billion cut to domestic programs, including the Meals on Wheels program and the Women Infants and Children public assistance program.

“He’s literally taking food from children,” Capuano said. “All to fund the military budget. I’m in favor of a strong military. We have one. We already control the skies. Why do we need better planes when nobody can touch the ones we have.”

Capuano also noted that Trump’s budget cuts would cut aid to South Sudan at a time when that region is experiencing a famine, caused in large part by military conflict there.

When asked about the Trump administration’s strike on a Syrian airfield in response to the government’s use of chemical weapons in an attack that killed 87, Capuano said he is opposed to any president taking military action without congressional approval. He noted that he was one of four congressional representatives who sued former President Barack Obama after he launched missile strikes against Libya without congressional approval.

Capuano also noted that the Trump administration has articulated no clear goals for its military action in Syria before taking on its president, Bashar Al-Assad.

“Assad has done terrible things,” Capuano said. “To see a kid who’s the victim of a chemical attack is awful. But is it any better to see a kid starving in South Sudan because of a military conflict?”

When asked whether he

thought the attack on Syria was hatched as a diversion from Trump’s domestic and international setbacks, Capuano said he doesn’t think the president would get away with such a tactic.

“If that’s the case, they’ll likely come to regret it,” he said, noting the ongoing investigation into whether people working on the Trump campaign colluded with Russian operatives during or after the election.

Many of the questions revolved around what Democrats in Massachusetts can do to reverse the electoral gains Republicans have made across the country. Capuano urged local Democrats to reach out to friends and relatives in swing states and in districts where Democrats have a chance of picking up congressional or senate seats.

“You have connections, Facebook friends,” he said. “You have to look for opportunities.”

With Congress and the Senate dominated by Republicans, Capuano said it’s nearly impossible for Democrats even to introduce legislation, citing the practice GOP members have taken of not entertaining for a vote any legislation that doesn’t have the backing of the 218 Republican votes it would need to pass in the House.

“It sounds like you’re more willing to compromise than members of the Freedom Party are,” said one constituent, referencing the ultra-conservative faction of the Republican Party.

“I compromise, but I don’t capitulate,” Capuano said, explaining that he’s willing to engage in give-and-take with his GOP colleagues, but not knuckle under to their demands.

Capuano said legislative bodies in blue states like Massachusetts would likely be busy putting in place protections to replace

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‘Citizens Helping Citizens Manage Money’

PHOTO: COURTESY OFFICE OF TREASURER DEBORAH GOLDBERG

In recognition of National Financial Literacy Month, Citizens Bank has teamed up with the Massachusetts State Treasurer Deborah Goldberg to announce its Financial Literacy Awards as well as its commitment to financial literacy in the Boston economy. As part of its ongoing commitment to give consumers the confidence and tools they need to be fiscally healthy, 15 nonprofit organizations in Massachusetts will receive $535,000 in contributions as part of the “Citizens Helping Citizens Manage Money” financial literacy initiative. regulations nixed by the Trump administration, including the rollback of privacy regulations barring internet services providers from selling search information to third parties.

“They’re going to sell your information because they can make money off of it,” Capuano said.

“The federal government says it’s OK. The states are going to have to deal with it.”

Capuano said Trump may face more resistance than anticipated if he makes good on promises to cut federal funding to cities that refuse to hold undocumented immigrants not accused of crimes to ICE.

“I represent at least four sanctuary cities,” he said, noting that he passed Somerville’s 1988 ordinance protecting undocumented residents from being held in custody solely because of their status.

“We did it because our cops wanted us to,” he said. “They said, ‘We need our immigrants to feel comfortable coming to us.’”

Capuano said it’s unrealistic to think the nation’s courts and jail cells can absorb the estimated 10 million people who are in the U.S. without documentation. And with sanctuary cities in states like Colorado and Utah and more than 30 sanctuary

cities in Texas alone, Capuano said political opposition to ICE crackdowns could be formidable.

Airport noise, corporate campaign contributions, gerrymandering and single-payer health care were among the topics Capuano discussed as the meeting continued, as were cuts to Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act and low-income tax credits for the creation of affordable housing. In every topic Capuano pledged to fight, even in the face of insurmountable Republican opposition.

“You have a choice in life,” he said. “You either get into the fight and try or you sit down and cry.”

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department Docket No. SU16P0525EA

SUFFOLK Division

Citation on Petition for Formal Appointment of Successor Personal Representative Estate of: Malbina Anna Luis Date of Death: 12/29/2015 To all interested persons: A Petition has been filed by Valerie Dudley of Boston, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order that Valerie Dudley of Boston, MA be appointed as Successor Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve on the bond and for such other relief as requested in the Petition.

24 New Chardon Street, 3rd floor, Boston, MA 02114 ~ Probation Department.

2.

Response to Petition: You may respond by filing a written response to the Petition or by appearing in person at the hearing. If you choose to file a written response, you need to:

File the original with the Court; and Mail a copy to all interested parties at least five (5) business days before the hearing.

3.

Counsel for the Minor: The minor (or an adult on behalf of the minor) has the right to request that counsel be appointed for the minor.

4.

Presence of the Minor at Hearing: A minor over age 14 has the right to be present at any hearing, unless the Court finds that it is not in the minor’s best interests.

THIS IS A LEGAL NOTICE: An important court proceeding that may affect your rights has been scheduled. If you do not understand this notice or other court papers, please contact an attorney for legal advice.

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 04/21/2017. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you.

Date: March 29, 2017

The estate is being administered under formal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but recipients are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration

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

Date: March 31, 2017 Terri Klug Cafazzo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department Docket No. SU17P0227GD

SUFFOLK Division

In the interests of Avery M. Lambert of Roxbury, MA Minor NOTICE AND ORDER: Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor 1.

2.

NOTICE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES Hearing Date/Time: A hearing on a Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor filed on 02/06/2017 by Loyda M. Pinnock of Roxbury, MA will be held 06/07/2017 08:30 AM Review Hearing Located at Suffolk Probate and Family Court 24 New Chardon Street - 3rd Floor - Probation Response to Petition: You may respond by filing a written response to the Petition or by appearing in person at the hearing. If you choose to file a written response, you need to:

File the original with the Court; and Mail a copy to all interested parties at least five (5) business days before the hearing.

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Counsel for the Minor: The minor (or an adult on behalf of the minor) has the right to request that counsel be appointed for the minor.

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Presence of the Minor at Hearing: A minor over age 14 has the right to be present at any hearing, unless the Court finds that it is not in the minor’s best interests.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department Docket No. SU05P2498Gl1

Citation Giving Notice of Petition to Expand the Powers of a Guardian In the Interests of Jacques St. Aubin Of Boston, MA RESPONDENT Incapacitated Person/Protected Person To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Department of Mental Health of Boston, MA in the above captioned matter requesting that the court: Expand the powers of a Guardian of the Respondent.

The petition asks the court to make a determination that the powers of a Guardian and/or Conservator should be expanded, modified, or limited since the time of the appointment. The original petition is on file with the court.

You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 05/11/2017. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date.

IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense.

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

Date: March 29, 2017 Terri Klug Cafazzo Register of Probate INVITATION TO BID The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is seeking bids for the following: BID NO.

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THIS IS A LEGAL NOTICE: An important court proceeding that may affect your rights has been scheduled. If you do not understand this notice or other court papers, please contact an attorney for legal advice.

WRA-4370

Purchase of One New 15ft.

Class 4-Wheel Drive Backhoe (per Specifications)

04/25/17

12:00 p.m.

Terri Klug Cafazzo Register of Probate

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Purchase of One New 6x4 Diesel Powered 5th Wheel Tractor (per Specifications)

04/25/17

12:00 p.m.

WRA-4369

Purchase of Two Primary Sludge Pumps with Chesterton Seal Wemco (or Equal)

04/26/17

11:00 a.m.

WRA-4359

Installation Services for One Fire Pump Controller at Nut Island Headworks

04/27/17

2:00 p.m.

Date: March 28, 2017

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

Docket No. SU17P0458GD

In the interests of Nariah Aliza-Marie Jimenez of Boston, MA Minor NOTICE AND ORDER: Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor 1.

NOTICE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES Hearing Date/Time: A hearing on a Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor filed on 02/14/2017 by Gloria M. Agosto of Boston, MA will be held 04/26/2017 08:30 AM Motion Located at

To access and bid on Event(s) please go to the MWRA Supplier Portal at www.mwra.com.

April 7, 2017 Paul Hays, Chief Academic Officer of City on a Hill Charter Public Schools was informed by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education of an upcoming Coordinated Program Review that will be taking place this school year. As part of the Coordinated Program Review, Department staff

will visit City on a Hill Dudley Square during the week of May 9th. Such visits are routinely conducted by the Department to satisfy federal and state requirements for the periodic review for specific education programs and services in schools throughout the Commonwealth. The Department is reviewing several programs during a single visit in order to use Department and school staff’s time most efficiently and to encourage strong connections among the programs.

The Department’s Coordinated Program Review will address the following programs: Special Education, Civil Rights and English Second Language programs. After reviewing the charter school’s procedures for these programs, a Department team will make its onsite visit, during which it will review individual student records, interview administrators, teachers and paraprofessional staff, survey parents and observe instructional spaces. After the onsite visit it will prepare a report for the charter school leaders and board of directors, with detailed findings for each program.

Using a scale of ratings from “Commendable” to “Not implemented,” the report will rate the implementation of each requirement reviewed by the Department. Where requirements are found not implemented or only partially implemented, the charter school must propose to the Department corrective action to bring those areas into compliance with statutes and regulations. Districts and schools are encouraged to incorporate the corrective action into their school improvement plans and professional development plan. The charter school will be provided with technical assistance from the Department in developing a corrective action plan. Both the Department’s report and the corrective action plan are public information and will be available to the public upon request. Program Review Final Reports are also available on the Department’s Internet website at http://www.doe.mass.edu/ pqa/review/cpr/reports/.

Any member of the public may request to be interviewed by telephone be a member of the Department’s visiting team. Those wishing to be interviewed should call the charter school office at 617-467-0127 no later than May 1st to leave their name and phone number, or they may call the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education at 781-338-3736. A member of the visiting team will contact each person desiring an interview within two weeks after the completion of the onsite visit. If an individual is not comfortable communicating in English or requires some other accommodations, the Department will make arrangements to communicate appropriately with the individual.

LEGAL NOTICE REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS The MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY (Authority) is soliciting consulting services for MPA CONTRACT NO. A362-S3 FY18-20 Term Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) Consulting Services The Authority is seeking qualified multidiscipline consulting firm or team, with proven experience in providing BIM implementation and support services on an on-call, as needed basis.

These services are expected to be provided at ALL Massport facilities.

Consultant must be able to work closely with the Authority and other interested parties in order to provide such services in a timely and effective manner.

A Supplemental Information Package will be available starting April 12, 2017 on the Capital Bid Opportunities webpage of Massport http://www.massport. com/doing-business/_layouts/CapitalPrograms/default.aspx as an attachment to the original Legal Notice, on COMMBUYS (www.commbuys.com) in the listings for this project or by contacting Susan Brace at Capital Programs SBrace@massport.com The Supplemental Information Package will provide detailed information about Scope Of Work, Selection Criteria and Submission Requirements.

The Authority expects to select one (1) consultant. However, the Authority reserves the right to select a different number if it is deemed in its best interest to do so. Each consultant shall be issued a contract in an amount not to exceed FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($500,000). The services shall be authorized on a work order basis.

The selection shall involve a two-step process including the shortlisting of a minimum of three firms based on an evaluation of the Statements of Qualifications received in response to this solicitation, followed immediately by a final selection of the consultant(s) by the Authority.

By responding to this solicitation, consultants agree to accept the terms and conditions of Massport’s standard work order agreement, a copy of the Authority’s standard agreement can be found on the Authority’s web page at www.massport.com. The Consultant shall specify in its cover letter that it has the ability to obtain requisite insurance coverage.

This submission, including the litigation and legal proceedings history in a separate sealed envelope as required shall be addressed to Houssam H. Sleiman, PE, CCM, Director of Capital Programs and Environmental Affairs and received no later than 12:00 Noon on Thursday, May 18, 2017 at the Massachusetts Port Authority, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, Suite 209S, Logan International Airport, East Boston, MA 02128-2909. Any submission which is not received in a timely manner shall be rejected by the Authority as non-responsive. Any information provided to the Authority in any Proposal or other written or oral communication between the Proposer and the Authority will not be, or deemed to have been, proprietary or confidential, although the Authority will use reasonable efforts not to disclose such information to persons who are not employees or consultants retained by the Authority except as may be required by M.G.L. c.66.

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The activities proposed with HOME funds include: Creating Affordable Rental Housing; Rehabilitating Existing Housing Stock & Removing Physical Barriers for People who are Disabled; Creating Affordable Homeownership Housing Units; Providing Tenant-based Rental Assistance to Target Populations; Assisting Community Housing Development Organizations (CHDOs).

Call today to schedule an Information Session: 617-542-1800

Current proposed CDBG projects in Haverhill include: Social Service Projects administered by non-profit subrecipients, Public Improvements, such as Sidewalk and Park Improvements and Tree Planting in the federally-designated inner city Target Area neighborhoods; Housing Rehabilitation for low to moderate income homeowners as well as organizations serving low to moderate income populations; Code Enforcement; Program Administration and planning efforts; First-Time Homebuyer Assistance; and Economic Development activities including Commercial Façade Improvement and Microenterprise Support. Current Proposed CDBG projects in Peabody include Social Service Activities, Creation/Retention of Affordable Housing, Infrastructure and Safety Improvements, and Economic Development Activities.

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An electronic copy of the Consortium’s 2017 Action plan is available at www. peabody-ma.gov, and will be forwarded to each member community, will be available for public inspection at their Community Development/Planning Departments. The document will also be available at many of the regions’ anti-poverty, housing, and elder service organizations. A copy of the City of Peabody 2017 Action Plan will also be available online and at the Community Development & Planning Department of the City of Peabody, City Hall, 24 Lowell Street, Peabody, MA during normal business hours.

For more information and to register for the next Open House please visit our website at www.prohope.org/openhouse.htm or call 617-442-1880 ext. 234.

The public comment period will begin on Wednesday, April 11th and will end on Friday, May 12th, 2017. During this time, two Public Hearings will be held to invite comment on the draft document at the following locations: Thursday April 27th at 1:00 p.m. at Haverhill Public Library, 99 Main Street, Haverhill, MA; and on Thursday, April 27th at 6:00 p.m. at Peabody City Hall, Lower Level Conference Room, 24 Lowell Street, Peabody. (Both of these locations are accessible) Citizens, all interested parties, representatives from the Consortium’s member communities, and nonprofit providers are urged to participate in these hearings. Written comments are also encouraged, and may be addressed, on or before May 12, 2017, to: For Peabody and the NSHC: The Department of Community Development, City Hall, 24 Lowell Street, Peabody, Massachusetts 01960/ FAX (978) 538-5987/e-mail addresses: lisa.greene@peabody-ma.gov or stacey.bernson@peabody-ma.gov/ or for the City of Haverhill: Andrew Herlihy, Division Director, 4 Summer Street, Room 309, Haverhill, MA 01830/ Fax: 978/374-2332 e-mail: aherlihy@ cityofhaverhill.com.

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Three 1BR condominium for $176,100 (condo fees are $66/mo) Five 2BR condominium for $196,300 (condo fees are $86/mo) This is a lottery for the 8 affordable homes available at The Residences & Shops at Wakefield Station. These 8 homes will be sold at affordable prices to households with incomes at or below 80% of the area median income. It is anticipated that all the affordable homes will be ready between August and December 2017. Wakefield Station is an extraordinary mixed-use destination offering gorgeous condominiums atop desirable shops and restaurants in a charming Boston suburb less than a half mile from the popular Lake Quannapowitt and Wakefield’s vibrant downtown, and right across from the commuter rail station! These luxurious homes feature: hardwood floors, stainless steel appliances and energy-saving construction; Private fitness room equipped with cardio and weight lifting equipment; Dual four stop elevators; and Landscaped common outdoor patio area on second floor with natural gas grilles and seating.

The Maximum Income Limits for Households are as follows: $51,150 (1 person), $58,450 (2 people), $65,750 (3 people), $73,050 (4 people) Households cannot have more than $75,000 in assets.

For more information on the Development, the Units or the Lottery and Application Process or for reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities, please visit: www.s-e-b.com/lottery or call 617.782.6900 x2.

Applications and Required Income Documentation must be received, not postmarked, by 2 pm on June 12th, 2017.

Applications and Info Packets also available in the Lucius Beebe Memorial Library (Wakefield Public Library on 345 Main St.) Hours: M-Th 9-9, F 9-6, Sa 9-5, Su 1-5 An Info Session will be held on May 10th, 2017 at 6 pm at the Lucius Beebe Memorial Library on 345 Main Street. The Lottery for eligible households will be held on July 11th, 2017 at 6 pm in the same location.

Have a high school diploma or equivalent Have a verifiable reference of 1 year from a former employer Pass assessments in reading, language, and computer skills Have CORI clearance Be legally authorized to work in the United States

HELP WANTED

Assistant Director of Development Project Hope, a multiservice agency in Roxbury, MA seeks an Assistant Director of Development to provide support in cultivating donor relations in the form of special events, volunteer activities and overall implementation of development activities.

Qualifications include two or more years of development experience, excellent technology and computer skills, and excellent organizational skills.

Please submit cover letter and resume to Peggy Comfrey, pcomfrey@prohope.org.

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HIRING NOTICE: This is a “Boston Residents Jobs Policy” Project. All residents are encouraged to apply-must be able to provide acceptable verification of Boston Residency. Applicants must bring a copy of one of the following items as proof of Boston Residency: A current driver’s license OR Massachusetts Identification Card OR Utility Bill less than 6 months old. Keith Construction’s subcontractors are seeking tradesmen for QUINCY TOWER, 5 Oak Street West, in Boston, MA. Must be dependable. Seeking all trades. Local area and low income applicants are encouraged to apply.

Please call Bill Plante at 781-630-3803 or email: bplante@keithconstruction.net to set up a time to fill out an application.

KEITH CONSTRUCTION IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.

Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corp

Grant Writer and Major Donor Cultivator April 2017

The mission of the Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation (the “NDC”) is to build a cohesive and resilient community in Codman Square and South Dorchester, develop affordable housing and commercial spaces that are safe and sustainable, and promote economic stability for low and moderate income residents of all ages.

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Job Summary: Under general direction of the Executive Director, this position facilitates fund raising research, implementation of our Community Investment Tax Credit (CITC) campaign through support of major donor identification, communication and cultivation. Undertakes grant (proposal) writing and development. Responsible for all aspects of proposal writing/ production, review and editing, working closely with all levels of staff on a program, departmental, agency-wide and/or special initiative basis. Develop collateral materials such as agency annual reports, newsletters, etc., in support of communication and donor identification and cultivation. Develop informational pieces designed to keep Codman Square donors and other constituents abreast of Codman Square’s work events and initiatives, working in coordination with web and social media site developers. Participate in CITC Campaign Committee meetings.

Plan funder/major donor events. Maintains donor databases, including DHCD online CITC database and develops tracking protocols and supports reporting on donations and grants.

Submit resume and cover letter with salary requirements by April 21, 2017 to: Executive Director, Codman Square NDC, 587 Washington St, Dorchester, MA 02124 or to katrina@csndc.com. No calls please.

Information Sessions every Thursday at 1:00 PM. Career Collaborative 77 Summer Street, 11th Floor Downtown Crossing, between Macy’s and South Station (617) 424-6616 www.facebook.com/careercollaborative

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