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Council seeks curb on facial recognition Commissioner says police will not use technology in the near future

By KENNEAL PATTERSON Boston city councilors are pushing to ban facial recognition, a surveillance software that disproportionately misidentifies people of color and may violate civil rights and basic privacies.

“When it comes to facial recognition tech, it doesn’t work,” said Councilor Ricardo Arroyo during a hearing on June 9.

“It’s not good. It’s been proven through the data to be less accurate for people with darker skin.”

A recent MIT examination of facial analysis software revealed that the technology has an error rate of 0.8% for light-skinned men, but 34.7% for dark-skinned women.

Cities nationwide have already banned facial recognition technology. San Francisco implemented the ban in May of 2019. In Massachusetts, Cambridge, Brookline, Northampton, Somerville and Springfield have since adopted similar bans.

The computer hardware company IBM recently announced that it would no longer offer, develop or research facial-recognition technology. The company’s decision was motivated by protests against discriminatory police practices and the murder of George Floyd, a Minneapolis resident who was suffocated by a white police officer.

In Boston, Councilor Michelle Wu originally scheduled the hearing a month ago, and noted the issue is only growing more urgent.

“It just so happened that the

timing of it now has lined up with a moment of great national trauma,” she said. “And in this moment the responsibility is on each one of us to step up to truly address systemic racism and systemic oppression.”

Councilor Julia Mejia agreed.

“We’re in a time where our technology is outpacing our morals,” she said. “We’ve got a 2020 technology with a 1620 state of mind.”

The Boston Police Department does not currently use facial recognition software. The ordinance would prevent city officials from using the technology in the future without community consent. It would prohibit mass surveillance of the millions of protestors that have taken to the streets since Floyd’s death.

“The department, for the record, does not currently have the technology for facial recognition,” said Police Commissioner William G. Gross. “As technology advances, however, many vendors have and will continue to incorporate automated recognition abilities.”

Gross said that the department would not use the technology until it becomes more accurate. He said that as technology advances and becomes more reliable, the police department would like to consider using it to respond to specific crimes and emergency situations.

Although the BPD has no desire to generally surveil Boston’s residents, said Gross, the department notes a distinction

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A youth-led march estimated at 2,000 en route to City Hall last week to air demands for a 10% cut in the Boston Police Department budget.

Mayor, activists differ on call to cut police budget Activists seeking more funding for youth services

By MORGAN C. MULLINGS AND YAWU MILLER The youth protestors who led a crowd of 2,000 to demonstrate in front of City Hall on Wednesday of last week made their demands clear: cut 10% of the $414 million police budget and invest the funding in youth development and violence prevention programs.

Their calls were echoed by city councilors and criminal justice reform activists, many of whom

have long advocated for shifting funding from law enforcement to prevention.

By Friday, Mayor Martin Walsh delivered his response: an executive order declaring racism a public health crisis in Boston and a more modest 2.8% cut to the Boston Police Department’s budget, with most, but not all of the funds channeled to programs outside the department’s purview.

“Our goal is to recover from this pandemic in a more equitable

state than we entered it,” said Walsh, who declared racism in Boston a public health emergency during the same announcement.

Monday, Walsh resubmitted the FY21 budget, which now reallocates $12 million from the BDP budget as follows: $4 million for the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC), $2 million for community-based programs, $2 million for BEST Clinicians and

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Racial reckoning turns to symbols Local Lincoln statue among targets

By BRIAN WRIGHT O’CONNOR

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A Boston man is circulating a petition to remove a Park Square statue depicting Abraham Lincoln freeing a slave.

The racial reckoning sweeping across America has triggered a long-overdue shift in attitudes towards offensive cultural icons.

Images and symbols long derided by people of color as racist, demeaning or outright treasonous, like Confederate flags and statues revering the traitorous generals of the South’s “Lost Cause,” are being furled or removed at a pace

unthinkable just a few years ago.

The idea that the Stars and Bars — the supreme emblem of the slaveholders’ rebellion — will no longer snap in the breeze like a rebel yell at NASCAR rallies is no longer an aspiration but a fact, one prompted by the actions of the improbably named Bubba Wallace, the racing circuit’s lone African American driver.

Protesters are taking ropes and sledgehammers to symbols of oppression, from equestrian

statues of Robert E. Lee to Christopher Columbus monuments, but elected and appointed officials are also whisking them away by decree, including a Lee monument in Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy.

In Washington, D.C., the guardians of Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill are considering the removal of numerous marble monuments placed there by former Confederate states to honor leaders of the insurrection.

This public soul-searching, not

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Black officers seek change in promotion test

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By MORGAN C. MULLINGS City Councilor Andrea Campbell and labor lawyer Shannon Liss-Riordan joined members of the Massachusetts Association of Minority Law Enforcement Officers (MAMLEO) Tuesday to call for an end to the use of a controversial exam for Boston Police Department promotions. The test was ruled discriminatory once in 2015 and again in 2017 at the federal level.

“The city of Boston has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars if not more in taxpayer money defending in court an exam that doesn’t test who has the best qualifications to be a leader in the Boston Police Department,” said Liss-Riordan, a labor lawyer who spoke at the press conference, which was held at City Hall Plaza.

Liss-Riordan says she has been representing officers in this case for over 10 years.

“Soon, Boston is going to have to make a very important decision.

It is going to be deciding whether to appeal that ruling by the court,” said Liss-Riordan.

Campbell and Liss-Riordan cited the recent demonstrations and the recent police killings. They said their goal is to rid Boston institutions of “racist and exclusionary” policies that they were built on. While many activists and elected officials across the country are calling on local governments to defund and abolish police departments, Campbell stressed the importance of reform.

We were known for, ‘You’re taking my nephew’s job, you’re taking my son’s job.’

As if the lieutenant position was theirs ... and we had no right to it.”

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Boston Police Commissioner William Gross greets officers during a swearing in ceremony for Recruit Class 59-19, made up of 108 members.

“Our advocacy around transforming police must be twofold.

We must seek long term solutions to change policing as we know it, and we need to take action on things we can do right now,” she said.

MAMLEO President Eddie Crispin stressed that police

officers are fighting their own internal battles with discrimination. He, Campbell and Liss-Riordan called on Mayor Martin Walsh to make good on his recent promise to fight racism in Boston.

In a 2015 ruling against the city’s use of the test, U.S. District

Court Judge William Young wrote, “The near exclusion of any critical skills and abilities meant that a high score … simply was not a good indicator that a candidate would be a good lieutenant.”

The BPD did change the exam afterward (the original was created in 2008), but the five sergeants

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promoted the next year were all white.

Pa u l Jo s e p h , a f o r m e r MAMLEO president who joined the BPD in 1989, was promoted to sergeant in 1992 and was on the list for lieutenant for 15 months, but was never promoted. He compared the BPD in the 2000s to a slave plantation with no potential for growth.

“We were known for, ‘You’re taking my nephew’s job, you’re taking my son’s job.’ As if the lieutenant position was theirs ... and we had no right to it,” he said.

Police promotional tests are used to determine an officer’s position on the list of potential promotions. The original 2008 test consisted of 100 multiple-choice questions, which made up 80% of the score. Other factors include an education and an experience rating — a rating officers can only receive if they pass the multiple choice portion by 70% or higher.

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Dear Business and Philanthropic Leaders: Less Talk, More Money.

Invest in Equal Justice Initiative Today.

“I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.”

- James Baldwin Since the senseless murder of George Floyd by a White police officer, American companies and philanthropic organizations are making tremendous efforts to create the right hashtags and say the right thing about racism in this country. So much so, that it has almost become a marketing ploy. These same companies and leaders whose complicit cowardice over the years has been defined by a deafening silence, have now suddenly found the guts to speak out against the structural and institutional racism that has plagued our country since its inception.

Not good enough.

The question now is: Will these same business and philanthropic leaders DO the right thing? DO is an action word. In our capitalist society, action is validated by an answer to one question: Where are you investing your money? Don’t tell the Black community what you stand for, show us who you’re investing in, what organizations you’re investing in, and how much you’re investing and we can start to believe what you say. Words matter deeply, but the Black community can only trust what we see you do.

That is why the Lewis Family Foundation is announcing our commitment of an additional $1 million dollars to Bryan Stevenson’s vision and the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), for a total of a $2 million dollar investment. We firmly believe that EJI’s mission can help heal our country.

Mr. Stevenson and his team at EJI work to shift the systemic and structural racism in this country by tackling it from multiple angles: criminal justice reform, racial justice trainings, and public education. Mr. Stevenson and his staff have won reversals, relief, or release from prison for over 135 wrongly condemned prisoners on death row and won relief for hundreds of others wrongly convicted or unfairly sentenced.

EJI has also opened The Legacy Museum and The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama. Moreover, EJI has worked diligently to develop a set of curricula for teachers and educators to use in classrooms across the United States that comprehensively explores our nation’s history of racial injustice and connects that history of slavery, racial terror lynching, and segregation to contemporary issues of race, poverty, and economic injustice.

Now more than ever I hope it is clear to business and philanthropic leaders in this country that our contemporary race issues were not solved by the Civil Rights movement of the sixties. The movement is still living and breathing and being threatened at every turn. Do not waste this critical moment of unrest with inaction.

We implore you to do 3 things: 1. Invest deeply in EJI NOW 2. Invest in schools who adopt EJI’s curricula for 4th, 8th, and 11th grades 3. Take your teams and your families to visit EJI’s Museum and Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama We must all move with a sense of urgency during these times. Invest in leaders and organizations that get results, and are persistent in pushing our country and our citizens to be braver at owning our history of racial terror and injustice. Only then can we begin to heal as a country. Please join us by investing in the Equal Justice Initiative.

Juma Crawford President, Lewis Family Foundation

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The time is ripe for change White supremacy is under attack. officers on an unarmed elderly white In past generations, it was passively protester indicates that everyone is fair assumed by many in the white intelligen- game for the racist police storm troopers. tsia that blacks were inferior. However, Perhaps some astute whites are beginthe recent brutal assassination of George ning to understand a truth that blacks Floyd by Minneapolis police presented have long believed. The whites in power an unacceptable aspect of racism in have been trying from post-slavery days America. Racially mixed protesters to maintain a separation between blacks marched daily for weeks in opposition to and working-class whites in order to the brutality. Sympathetic demonstraprevent a political merger of their similar tions in London, Paris and other develeconomic interests. oped countries became a national embarWhen slavery was legal, it was easy rassment. Analysts are still uncertain to identify blacks as the pitiable class. about what caused the nation’s change in The rank oppression has left its mark on attitude toward racism. black achievement. But with the passage At least two factors were significant. of time, it became more difficult to deny One is that video camera technology blacks opportunities, and some blacks enabled the whole nation to witness, at have performed spectacularly. That is least in replay, the savage police killing of why Donald Trump hates his predecessor George Floyd. However, so. Barack Obama was a photos of lynchings in much greater president George Floyd’s the South in earlier times than Trump can ever were even more gruesome brutal death brought hope to become. but they never inspired Now there is an opportogether a multiracial tunity Congress to pass a federal to restructure cadre of visionaries. anti-lynching law, even to the police so that one of this day. their major tasks will no With continued The other factor is that collaboration we can longer be to function as educated white youth the strong arm of racial achieve the desired suddenly became aware oppression. A major role social change. The that the police, the storm of government should troopers of white racism, be to ameliorate the rights and privileges had become too powerful damage done by years of that are enunciated and too dangerous. What racial discrimination and in the Declaration of could induce a police offioppression. Just think of cer to kill a black suspect the changes that could Independence can over a counterfeit $20 occur with health care for be established for bill? There is no doubt all and quality education. all citizens. that white demonstrators Lest critical whites were primarily sympabelieve that this would thetic to the effort to end become racially prefblack suppression, but their enthusierential treatment for blacks, it is time asm was undoubtedly heightened by an to understand that 18,080,900 whites awareness that they have also become were classified as poor in America in potential victims.

2018, more than twice the number of The slogan “Black Lives Matter” poor blacks. This is before the pandemic seemed to offend some whites, but over struck. Now is the time for poor and time, it must have caused some whites working class whites to free themselves to question whether white lives also from the delusion that they are favored matter, or not, to the police. According by the affluent members of their ethnic to the record of cop shootings that is group. Change would benefit everyone. maintained by the Washington Post, George Floyd’s brutal death brought 1,002 citizens were shot to death by the together a multiracial cadre of visionarpolice in America in 2019 and 40% were ies. With continued collaboration, we can white and 25% were black. More whites achieve the desired social change. The than blacks are fatally shot by the police rights and privileges that are enunciated every year. in the Declaration of Independence can The assault by two Buffalo police be established for all citizens.

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Cops, do your duty: intervene

BPS needs better community participation

By EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON

By RUBY REYES In Los Angeles, an LAPD officer makes like a young Mike Tyson and whales away on full video on a non-resisting, compliant homeless man. In Minneapolis, the world is shocked by the video of former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin choking the life out of a non-resistant, compliant George Floyd. In Buffalo, New York, an officer kicks and beats a non-resistant, compliant suspect.

In each case, other officers on the scene either stood by and did nothing, or, as in Minneapolis, piled on a near-lifeless Floyd.

In Buffalo, it got even worse.

One officer intervened. She was then assaulted by the thug officer, terminated, and her pension contested by the department.

These three recent horror stories sparked mass protests.

But this stuff is so common and routine among cops that it’s canonized as the code of blue silence.

Now what if cops knew that they’d not only be prosecuted for wanton acts of violence against unarmed young blacks and Latinos, but also be fingered for potential prosecution if they stood around and did nothing or joined in the abuse? This would be a major game-changer in rooting out abusive cops. The problem is, most big city police departments do not have any written or enforced policy requiring officers to intervene and report other officers who commit misconduct.

How diligent those departments that do have a facsimile of such a policy enforce it is another matter. Legislators in Michigan now propose legislation that formally requires any officer who witnesses excessive force by another officer to intervene. Most police officials in the state, predictably, have been stone silent on the legislation.

We hammer murderous cops who commit blatant abusive acts up to and including the slaying of unarmed citizens. But they couldn’t exist in any department without the wink and nod, blind eye and look-the-other-way of officers within these departments and more than a few administrators.

Chauvin is a near-textbook example of this. He had a hideous record of assaults, dubious shootings, endangering car chases, and a stack of abuse complaints against him as well as department and county prosecutor investigations. It would stretch belief to think that other officers who worked with him didn’t know about his record and his dubious policing. Yet, not one stepped forward to blow the whistle on him. This is so routine that it would have been a shock if one officer had broken ranks and screamed foul.

Here’s how deep, prevalent, and terrifying the blue code of silence is in police culture. The National Institute of Ethics, in a study commissioned by the International Association of Police Chiefs in 2016, surveyed hundreds of cops in 21 states. They found that nearly 80 percent of cops said that a code of silence exists, more than half said it didn’t bother them, almost half admitted that the code was strongest when excessive force was used, and half also admitted they had witnessed misconduct by another officer but kept their mouths shut about it.

Why? Because in many cases they were told to keep quiet by other officers, and in even more cases by department higher-ups.

And if they didn’t, they were scared stiff that they would be ostracized; the officer who committed the misconduct would be disciplined or fired; that they’d be fired, or at the very least “blackballed”; or that their bosses would simply blow their complaint off.

However, there’s not, nor never has been, any need for them to quake at that prospect. Courts have sided with officers in the few times that they have broken ranks and called out other officers to higher-ups for misconduct from beatings to the shooting of suspects or civilians.

The problem is that few police departments pound this point home to rank-and-file officers, or for that matter, to their superiors.

Put bluntly, telling them, and continuing to tell recruits at the academy and officers in orientation and training sessions and in their performance evaluations, that the department has zero tolerance toward police misconduct. The blue code of silence makes it possible for bad cops and bad administrators to get away and keep getting away with abusive acts. When cops do their duty and intervene and administrators back them up this will be a giant step toward ridding departments of the Chauvins.

The blue code of silence makes it possible for bad cops and bad administrators to get away and keep getting away with abusive acts.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst.

The world seems to be turning upside down, and Boston Public Schools seems to be following in the same path.

Covid-19 has created a crisis that has led to a path of top-down decision making and a lack of transparency. Superintendent Brenda Cassellius has prided herself on creating accountability and family engagement as one of her top priorities. However, the past few months have proven otherwise.

The district recently announced a headmaster shuffle that included Madison Park, Charlestown High, Brighton High, and the McKinley School. Having a principal suddenly disappear dramatically impacts an entire school community. Parents and educators were not informed, much less involved in selecting the new school leaders. These decisions were made with no transparency.

Then came a presentation to the School Committee on May 27 about adopting the MassCore as additional standards for graduation requirements, on top of a high school reconfiguration plan that targeted struggling high schools to move to 7-12 grade levels. MassCore is a set of classes required for graduation, which would include courses like art and physical education. While it is important that students have the opportunity to complete courses for higher education applications, there are concerns that MassCore will come without the needed funding to make sure that all students have access to the all the MassCore classes.

These high schools are the same schools that have experi-

enced monumental budget loss over the past few years, creating cuts that make those classes unavailable to students. Similar to what happened in 1993 when MCAS started, everyone wanted to see students achieving at a high level, but schools did not nor do they have the resources to do that. Cassellius told the School Committee that after they passed the new graduation requirement, BPS would study how to make the required courses available. That’s backwards: Funding should be in place and the courses should be offered before any decision to require students to take them.

On the same day came the presentation on turning the high

office’s academic department was eliminated. Getting rid of the academic department in the midst of school communities still figuring out distance learning will create even more instability. What is worse is that the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) memorandum of understanding signed by Cassellius and Commissioner Riley on March 10 states that BPS has to adopt by the MassCore by June 2020 and has to increase graduation rates, essentially making decisions for Casellius, the School Committee, and the mayor. With all of this comes questions about the plan for reopening schools, which is still being developed.

Covid-19 has created a crisis that has led to a path of top-down decision making and a lack of transparency. schools that are already struggling with budget loss to include grades 7-12. The reconfiguration plans were developed with principal input, once again excluding families and teachers. In FY20, East Boston High, Excel and Brighton High experienced budget cuts of over $2 million. In FY21, the Burke, Excel and Brighton experienced budget cuts of over $1.4 million. Perhaps BPS’ budgets should be reconfigured to invest in these schools rather than moving principals, adding grade levels and on top of that requiring that they offer MassCore required courses, when they have been systemically underfunded.

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Bulldozing through decisions does not cultivate trust, one of the goals of the strategic plan.

Unilateral decisions create further trauma in an already traumatizing situation. The voices and input of parents, students and teachers need to be cultivated and included.

Without them, the district will continue to feed a deep mistrust in families and educators and will continue to perpetuate a cycle of creating systemic problems for school communities.

While community input takes time, the process creates healthier plans.

Ruby Reyes is executive director of the Boston Education Justice Alliance.

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BETTY FRANCISCO The Boston Foundation has announced the appointment of Betty Francisco to its board of directors. Francisco and Tracy Palandjian will replace longtime Board Chair Sandra Edgerley and Rev. Gregory Groover, who are both rotating off after 10 years as directors.

“While the Board loses two remarkable leaders in Sandy and Greg, we are fortunate to be joined by new directors the caliber of Betty and Tracy,” said Linda Mason, incoming chair of the board. “Betty comes to the Foundation with thorough expertise in the critical needs of the region’s communities of color, and Tracy joins us as one of the nation’s preeminent leaders in social and impact investing. They both will provide valuable insights as we move the foundation into a new

era of unprecedented challenges.”

Francisco is an entrepreneur, business executive, attorney and community leader. She is known as a powerful convener and changemaker, unapologetic about creating visibility for Latinx and people of color. She currently is general counsel at Compass Working Capital, serving as the organization’s chief legal advisor.

Francisco is also the co-founder of Latina Circle, a Boston-based network advancing Latina leaders across industries into positions of power and influence, and which recently launched the Amplify Latinx initiative to increase Latino civic engagement and political representation. She is a member of the board of trustees of Roxbury Community College, the board of corporators of Eastern Bank, the board of directors of the Greater Boston YMCA and the board of directors of Boston Educational Development Foundation. She serves as an advisory member for the Boston Women’s Commission under Mayor Martin Walsh. She is also a member of the advisory council for The Capital Network and Bentley University’s School of Arts and Sciences.

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Councilors take on policing, MBTA service Campbell wants accounting of BPD equipment, training, tactics

By KENNEAL PATTERSON Boston City Councilors Julia Mejia and Andrea Campbell have called for a hearing to address non-lethal force restraint tactics by the city’s police.

The hearing order, introduced during the June 10 council meeting, recognizes that while procedures such as physical restraints to the neck and throat are not taught by the Boston Police Department, “its rules and procedures do not explicitly prohibit such measures.”

The order notes that, according to a BPD spokesperson, officers may deploy “the least amount of force necessary to overcome the resistance. There’s no policy on ways to do it.”

Mejia said that she is tired of conversations without action.

“We don’t need another hearing to tell us that black and brown people are being discriminated against,” she said.

She recognized the momentum of the country’s recent protests against police brutality. “We are on the verge of monumental change, and we can all feel it,” she said. “We just need to keep on pushing.”

Restraint tactics were just one of many policing issues discussed during the meeting.

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bystanders were left stranded on Sunday, May 31 after the MBTA suddenly shut down after evening demonstrations. Protestors were forced to find their own way home.

Shutdowns happened again on June 2 and 3. Councilors Michelle Wu and Mejia offered a resolution urging the MBTA to protect peaceful assembly with reliable public transit services.

“There were several instances in which those who had come as peaceful protestors felt scared, trapped and really had their plans turned upside down when the MBTA closed stations,” said Councilor Michelle Wu. Councilor Kenzie Bok agreed.

It was unsafe for young people, she said, especially youth of color, to get home that night.

“There’s a real difference between closing a station for 20 minutes because you’re experiencing crowding and shutting off the whole network of downtown stations,” she said.

Councilor Lydia Edwards added that the community should have a say before public transit is “automatically commandeered by the police at any time.” “[The MBTA is] not an arm of the police, and I would like to keep it that way,” she added.

The resolution didn’t pass, however, as Councilors Michael

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Flaherty and Frank Baker voted against its adoption. Flaherty said that it is dangerous not to allow police and first responders to commandeer public transit during mass-casualty situations, like the Boston Marathon bombing.

Edwards countered that some police officers on May 31 were not responding to an emergency situation, but rather seeking to arrest individuals.

“This is a question of policing, and whether policing should be responding to all kinds of emergencies,” she said. “I do not see this as a limit for public safety officers or public safety personnel to be responding to an emergency.”

Councilors also advocated for a seat on the MBTA Fiscal Management Board. The board votes on several MBTA-related issues,

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including the recent decision to disallow public transit vehicles to transport police officers to protests.

“The fact that we don’t have a seat at the table concerns me,” said Flaherty. Councilor Ed Flynn agreed, and said their presence on the board is critical.

Police in schools

Mejia and Council President Kim Janey also questioned police presence in schools, calling for a hearing regarding restorative justice practice and the role of police.

Studies show that school disciplinary systems disproportionately punish black and brown children. Campbell cited research on the “cradle-to-prison” pipeline.

She said that one in three black boys and one in six Latino boys go to prison, compared to one in 17 white boys.

Restorative justice is a method used in schools that empowers students to resolve conflicts with the help of social workers and psychologists, said Mejia. This would be an alternative to punitive disciplinary measures used on students.

Mejia also called for a hearing regarding certain university police units, who she said joined the BPD at the city’s recent protests.

Wu requested information from the police department under a 17F order asking for a full list of BPD equipment, training and tactics over the last few years. Studies

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have found heavily militarized law enforcement forces to escalate situations and be more likely to result in civilian casualties, she noted.

Councilors Flynn and Campbell called for a hearing to investigate hate crimes and discrimination.

“The victim of a hate crime or racist incident might be too fearful to come forward and report to authorities such as public safety personnel,” Flynn said.

Campbell agreed. “Folks need attorneys, they need places to go to talk about the discrimination they feel almost every day, and sometimes they are just hit with barriers.

Campbell said that agencies like the Commission Against Discrimination are often under-resourced, and Edwards noted that the Walsh administration’s Human Rights Commission is “woefully underfunded.”

June 1 marked the beginning of pride month. Councilor Liz Breadon, Boston’s first out lesbian councilor, commemorated the 1969 Stonewall Riots and advocated for the protection of transgender or gender-non-conforming people of color, who are at a heightened risk of violence and police brutality.

“Let’s not forget that the first pride march was a protest,” agreed Councilor Mejia. “A protest led by trans people of color, people who were fed up with having to lie about who they were and the people that they loved.”

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It was not unusual for students to be mistaken for janitors or stopped by the police.

We understood that we couldn’t just integrate the student body. We had to integrate the whole university. It’s an ongoing task, but it’s much better than it used to be.”

David Evans set to retire after recruiting generations of students

By YAWU MILLER On its face, the employment proposition a Harvard admissions officer put to David Evans seemed far-fetched: leave a prestigious job working at NASA and take a pay cut to come to Cambridge and work at Harvard College.

Evans, the son of sharecroppers, had earned engineering degrees from Tennessee State University and Princeton University and was working on the Saturn-Apollo project at NASA’s Huntsville, Alabama space flight center.

But while Evans enjoyed his work at NASA, the state of the newly-integrated school system in Huntsville troubled him. The black schools had been closed down and many of the black students who were now attending white schools were dropping out or failing in the predominantly white schools to which they had been assigned.

“When I saw what was happening, I said, ‘I can do something,’” Evans recalls.

Evans began tutoring students and helping them get into colleges. The fourth of seven children, he and his siblings had been inculcated with the importance of getting a good education, and all graduated from college. He wanted the same for the students with whom he was now working.

Between 1966 and 1969, he helped place students at Princeton, Dartmouth, Hampshire, Amherst, Columbia, Brown, Morehouse and other prestigious colleges and universities. The offer from Harvard — to take a

two-year leave of absence and help the university diversify its student body — seemed like a small sidetrack from a promising career in engineering.

“I said, ‘I’m an engineer,’” Evans says, recalling his conversation with the Harvard admissions officer. “He said, ‘I’m a medical doctor.’

I said, ‘I’m a country boy.’ He said, ‘Me too.’ Every time I offered a card, he matched it.”

Evans left for Harvard in 1970.

Now, 50 years later, as Evans is preparing to retire as a senior admissions officer from Harvard, he has been recognized with the prestigious Harvard Award.

He has served as an assistant dean of freshman, an advisor to first-year students and an advisor to the Harvard Foundation, and has mentored generations of Harvard students. In 2003, a group of black Harvard alumni announced a scholarship fund in Evans’ name and set a target of $250,000. In three years, the fund soared to over $1 million.

As Evans prepares to retire, he faces an America in a moment similar to when he took the job in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination — with unrest in cities and soul-searching among many in positions of power.

“It was not too far away from what we have today,” he said.

While the Harvard student body is just 41 percent white today, in the class of 1973, the first class for which Evans recruited students, blacks, Asians and Latinos made up less than 10 percent of the student body.

Yet in moving from its previous goals of one or two students

— David Evans

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David Evans per year to more than 100, Evans says the admissions department did not have to bend its standards to admit more blacks, because the college has an abundance of qualified applicants.

“Eighty-five percent of our applicant pool can do the work at Harvard, and yet we admit four percent,” he says. “We pay special

attention to students from local public schools, but we’re not changing the standards.”

In the early years, Evans says, it wasn’t always easy for black students on campus.

“It was not unusual for students to be mistaken for janitors or stopped by the police,” he said. “We understood that we couldn’t just

integrate the student body. We had to integrate the whole university.

It’s an ongoing task, but it’s much better than it used to be.”

Much of the work Evans has put in at Harvard has been well beyond the job description. He helped usher in the first numerically significant wave of black students and helped the university become more responsive to the needs of the black, Latino and Asian members of the student body who are there now.

Sometimes, Evans says, he forgets how much the university has changed in the 50 years he’s worked there.

“You have to remind yourself you consciously and unconsciously adapt to things and take them for granted,” he says. “That the kinds of things you’re seeing now on campus are the result of many years of effort. Even though you were involved, you forget.”

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mental health support housed at the BPD, $2 million to support minority- and women-owned businesses, and $2 million for housing support and youth homelessness.

The youth activists who organized last week’s march on City Hall are calling for more than $41 million of the police budget to be channeled into youth jobs, mental health counselors and social-emotional supports in the Boston Public Schools and violence prevention programs.

District 4 City Councilor Andrea Campbell told WGBH she is in favor of transferring all $60 million in police overtime funding to community-based organizations that are working to alleviate the root causes of violence in Boston.

“When thousands are mobilizing to demand our city finally implement reforms to address racism and racial inequities in our systems, city leadership needs to listen and take action,” Campbell said in response to the mayor’s order. In addition to reallocation of the police budget, Campbell’s police reform plans have called for full implementation of body cameras, removal of police from public schools and expansion of diversity within the BPD. District 5 Councilor Ricardo Arroyo, who in March proposed an ordinance declaring racism in Boston a public health crisis, said the city needs to change the way it approaches public safety by investing more in prevention.

“I see this moment as a call to

reassess how we do things,” he said. “We’re putting lots of money into addressing the symptoms of a problem without putting money into addressing the causes.”

Arroyo said the council was inundated with calls for defunding

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the police department. His office alone received more than 13,000 emails and scores of phone calls prior to a June 6 council hearing during which dozens of Boston residents testified in favor of cutting the police budget.

Walsh also announced a nine-member Boston Police Reform Task Force chaired by former U.S. Attorney Wayne Budd, which he said will develop recommendations within 60 days. Walsh pledged to announce reforms to the police department within 90 days.

The task force will be responsible for reviewing the department’s use of force policies, improving the partially-implemented body-worn camera program and reforming the Community Ombudsman Oversight Panel, or

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between facial surveillance systems and facial recognition technology. He said that facial recognition technology may be useful to the city with the right safeguards and community input.

“Video has been proven to be one of the most effective tools for collecting evidence of criminal offenses, resolving crimes and locating missing and exploited individuals,” he said. “Any prohibitions on these investigative tools without a full understanding of potential uses under strict protocols could be harmful and impede our ability to protect the public.”

Gross said that he wants to work with the City Council to define language permitting certain uses. He added that facial recognition technology with well-established guidelines and under strict review would be helpful to the city. But he noted that the technology is behind.

“I’m telling you right now, as an African American male, the technology that is in place today does not meet the standards of the Boston Police Department, nor does it meet my standards,” he said.

The facial recognition ban in several Massachusetts cities followed a campaign spearheaded by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Kade Crockford, ACLU’s Technology for Liberty Program director, cited the technology’s racial and gender bias

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continued from page 1 seen since the Civil Rights Movement, was prompted by the death of George Floyd beneath the knee of a Minneapolis police officer just a few weeks ago. Massive demonstrations initially focused on police violence but have since broadened to look at issues of housing, education, health care and employment and, more recently, the landscape of public culture.

And not just in America.

Crowds in Bristol, England, pulled down the statue of the port city’s 17th-century slave-trader and dumped it into the harbor.

Protesters in Antwerp defaced the marble visage of King Leopold II, the Belgian monarch who privately owned the riches of the Congo, where, under his reign as Sovereign of the Congo Free State, some 15 million Africans were worked to death.

Like the colonial capitals of Europe, Boston has a target-rich landscape of names and images in bronze and stone inviting erasure or removal.

An ongoing campaign to rename Faneuil Hall is getting a fresh hearing from City Hall. Activists led by New Democracy Coalition founder Kevin Peterson have sought to identify a new name unmoored to the slave-holding history of Peter Faneuil, the 18th-century benefactor of the landmark meeting hall and market.

In Park Square, a statue of Abraham Lincoln looming like an overlord over a crouching, manacled black man has become

issues during a press conference prior to the hearing.

“In the absence of any regulations protecting basic civil rights, civil liberties and constitutional rights, we do not believe that any city agency in the city of Boston ought to be using the technology,” she said. Advocates of the ban have noted that facial recognition technology is frequently used by totalitarian governments to spy on residents.

faces change.

“We need less policing in schools, not more,” she said.

“Face surveillance in schools will contribute to the schoolto-prison pipeline, threatening children’s welfare, educational opportunities and life trajectories,” agreed BTU’s Erik Berg. He added that the technology also misclassifies transgender people and will have a harmful impact on transgender youth.

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Face surveillance in schools will contribute to the school-to-prison pipeline, threatening children’s welfare, educational opportunities and life trajectories.”

— Erik Berg, Boston Teachers Union

Crockford said that the technology is largely unregulated, and that cities across the nation are using surveillance without community consent.

“What we’re doing here at the city level is drawing a firm line in the sand to say that this technology is not going to creep into government use in Boston without democratic debate and oversight,” she said.

Facial surveillance technology also raises concerns over monitoring students in schools. Jessica Tang, president of the Boston’s Teachers Union (BTU), said that the technology fails to accurately identify children as their

Facial surveillance software also harms immigrant families, he added.

“Immigrants are already fearful of engagement with public institutions, and face surveillance systems would further chill student and parent participation in our schools,” he said.

Karina Ham, a member of the Student Immigrant Movement, told the Banner that facial recognition would make it easier for schools to racially profile, target and surveil immigrant students.

“The school system, at least in BPS, [is] already in collaboration with ICE and other federal agencies,” Ham said.

the subject of a petition for removal, the appeal addressed to Boston Mayor Marty Walsh.

The signature drive, led by Tory Bullock, draws on over a century of controversy surrounding the bronze memorial to the “Great Emancipator” for his role in freeing African Americans held in bondage in states under rebellion.

The Boston statute, an exact replica of the original monument in Washington, D.C.’s Lincoln Park, shows the fully clothed 16th president standing over a half-clothed slave, in theory rising from forced servitude. From some angles, the black figure seems to be shining the Railsplitter’s shoes — hence the derisive “Bootblack Statue” nickname, which has endured for over a century.

The first funds for the Washington statue, placed at the center of a park in a fashionable residential neighborhood a few blocks from the U.S. Capitol, were raised by freed slaves. “The Freedmen’s Memorial Monument,” as it became known, was sculpted by Thomas Ball, a Chelsea native working in Europe. The design, approved by an all-white commission, was altered to show the rising slave with his right arm outstretched rather than the more submissive pose of resting on the ground.

The change satisfied some, but not the esteemed abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who gave the keynote speech at the 1876 dedication, which was witnessed by President Ulysses S. Grant and a throng of 25,000 spectators. The statue, he said in a 2017 account cited by Boston University lecturer

Raul Hernandez, “showed the Negro on his knee when a more manly attitude would have been indicative of freedom.”

“

It would be nice to see that the one emancipated is standing and unshackled. It’s kind of a metaphor saying ‘you’re kinda free but not really.’ Even the look in Lincoln’s face says, ‘Know your place.’ You don’t lift somebody up by looking down at him.

You lean over and pick him up.”

— Marlo Stanfield

During a visit to the Boston replica shortly after the Boston Globe published an article about Bullock’s petition drive, several people stood on the sidewalk taking pictures of the statue, while others circled the base, examining the monument from different angles.

Marlo Stanfield, a St. Louis native who has lived in Boston for over 20 years, said he found the statue unsettling.

“It would be nice to see that the one emancipated is standing and

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Tang added, “It’s really important that schools are safe places to learn, where families can go without fear.”

The BPD’s contract with the surveillance software company

BriefCam expired last month.

The new contract could include updated surveillance features, but Gross said that department would not yet use facial recognition surveillance.

unshackled,” he said. “It’s kind of a metaphor saying ‘you’re kinda free but not really.’ Even the look in Lincoln’s face says, ‘Know your place.’ You don’t lift somebody up by looking down at him. You lean over and pick him up.”

The Park Square monument came to the city as a gift from businessman Moses Kimball, Ball’s former employer, and was erected in 1879.

Historian and former state Rep. Byron Rushing calls taking down Confederate monuments a “nobrainer” but says taking action on public statues like the emancipation memorial figures requires more caution. Citing their complicated history, Rushing said they may be worth saving.

“Before we do anything, I think we should experiment,” he said. “The history is so intriguing.

Slaves themselves decided they wanted this monument. And the original version had only Lincoln, and when he was pressed to add a slave, he used an idealized head.

Black folks sent him a photograph of an emancipated slave to use, and they felt they won by having Ball use a real black person. Of course, Ball then used mirrors in his studio to draw his own body as the slave’s torso. He was just a complete asshole.”

Rushing said deliberations over the statue’s fate should include ideas about interactive exhibits and lengthy explanatory panels. “I don’t want to lose that history,” he said. “I want to tell it.”

While the fate of the Emancipation Statue is debated, one rarely cited fact about Confederate monuments exposes the fragile

arguments of their defenders: Robert E. Lee himself opposed them.

According to Lee biographer Jonathan Horn, the former commander of the Army of Northern Virginia consistently turned down requests to support the erection of monuments to Confederate leaders and even supported getting rid of the Confederate flag after the Civil War ended.

“He didn’t want it flying above Washington College, of which he was president after the war,” wrote Daniel Brown, citing Horn in a 2017 Business Insider article.

No Stars and Bars were displayed at his funeral nor did former Confederate soldiers don their old uniforms and “neither did the body they buried.”

Four years before his death in 1866, Lee was asked to back the erection of a memorial to Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, a fellow West Pointer and one of his top commanders.

“As regards the erection of such a monument as is contemplated,” wrote Lee, “my conviction is, that, however grateful it would be to the feelings of the South, the attempt, in the present condition of the country, would have the effect of retarding rather than accelerating its accomplishment, and of continuing if not adding to the difficulties under which the Southern people labor.”

To Lee, the “Lost Cause” really was lost — lost and better abandoned. Seven generations of African Americans born since the end of the Civil War have made the same argument. The holdouts finally seem to be listening.

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Black restaurateurs seek relief

By YAWU MILLER Business was humming in March for Soleil restaurant in Nubian Square. Owner Cheryl Straughter had brought in a contractor to build out a bar, catering business was up, and the Bolling Building, where her eatery is located, provided a steady stream of lunch customers.

When stay-at-home orders hit, in-person dining, catering and special events ground to a halt.

“We lost three streams of revenue,” Straughter said. “Takeout has never been a large stream for us. We had an 80% reduction in income. We’re facing a lot of challenges.”

On Sunday, Straughter stood on the sidewalk outside Soleil speaking with U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, who toured black restaurants and bars that afternoon. Markey, who will soon debate the next federal relief package on the floor of the Senate, said he wants to hear from business owners in order to be well-informed as he goes to bat for them.

Straughter was joined in Nubian Square by District 7 Tavern owner Royal Smith, and the two walked to Darryl’s Corner Bar where they met with owner Nia Grace and Wally’s Café owner Frank Poindexter.

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We’re all paying our rent. Building owners get breaks from banks. Nobody’s giving us a break.”

— Royal Smith, owner District 7 Tavern

The four recently founded the Black Hospitality Coalition to advocate on behalf of black restaurateurs. Each spoke to Markey about their difficulties keeping their businesses alive during the pandemic.

Markey told the entrepreneurs that their perspectives would help inform his approach to advocating for the next economic stimulus package.

“I’m on the Small Business Committee,” he said. “I’m using this meeting to learn what we can do for business.”

Grace said Darryl’s Corner Bar had gone from 10 full-time employees and 34 part-time workers down to just six employees. The restaurant is now open for takeout Friday, Saturday and Sunday, although, like Straughter, she’s also reopening outdoor table service, in accordance with state guidelines.

“It’s all weather-dependent,” she said. “It won’t work on a rainy day, a cloudy day, a cold day like today.”

Darryl’s has seating for 12-15 diners at tables partitioned off from the rest of the sidewalk along Northampton Street. In Nubian Square, Straughter is seeking

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U.S. Sen. Ed Markey chats with Soleil owner Cheryl Straughter while police advisor William Broderick looks on. permission from the city to open outdoor seating on the sidewalk along Washington Street.

“I can only put a couple of tables here,” she said, standing in front of Soleil.

“You could put a few more tables here,” Markey said, gesturing to the vacant parking spaces in front of Soleil.

“That’s in the application,” Straughter said.

Even with outdoor seating, neither Straughter nor Grace will be able to make up for the much larger interior seating spaces their restaurants normally rely on, nor for the catering business that Straughter has lost.

Both owners struggled with decisions about personnel. Laying off full- and part-time employees was a difficult choice, Grace said. She weighed whether her employees would be better off on unemployment or dealing with the uncertainty of the pandemic.

“Will they come back?” she questioned. “Can they come back for eight to 12 hours a week?

“You’re caught in a cycle,” Markey said. “You’re weighing your choices. Your employees are weighing their choices.”

Meanwhile, Grace said, she has bills mounting, including a bill for the alcohol delivered shortly before businesses in Massachusetts were ordered closed.

“We’re sitting on alcohol we’re not able to sell and a bill we’re not able to pay,” she said.

Grace also said she’s sitting on a meals tax bill. Meanwhile, the six workers still on the payroll are working long hours, three in the kitchen and three in the front end of the restaurant.

“In the front end, you’re doing everything from being a manager to being a bus boy,” she said.

For Smith, whose District 7 Tavern on Warren Street functions mainly as a bar, there are fewer options.

“We’re all paying our rent,”

Smith told Markey. “Building owners get breaks from banks. Nobody’s giving us a break.”

Smith applied for the federal

Payroll Protection Program but was unable to secure the funding for his relatively new business.

“Funding is an issue,” he said. “I

don’t have the banking relationship I need to make things happen.”

“With your permission, I’d like to help you navigate the process with Willie Broderick,” Markey offered.

Broderick, a pastor at the 12th Baptist Church and a policy advisor to Markey, told Smith he would follow up with him.

“We’ll figure it out,” he said.

Markey said he expects the negotiations around the next economic relief package to be contentious.

“I think we’re going to have the most epic battle in my career,” he said. “Mitch McConnell and Trump don’t want to provide help at the level at which businesses need it. In the last round, Republicans didn’t want to put in $75 billion for health care provides or the $10 billion for testing.”

Markey said a second surge in COVID-19 cases could shift the conversation in Congress.

“The politics is going to start to shift because the rise in cases is primarily in red states,” he said.

“That’s why I’m hopeful we can have a package that rises to the magnitude of the problem.”

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Etched in clay Enslaved potter’s ‘poem vessels’ speak volumes

By SUSAN SACCOCCIA

Cadencia Latina

(clockwise from top left) Fabiola Mendez, Leo Blanco, Zahili Gonzalez, Yara Liceaga.

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Rhythm, Rhyme and Representation Virtual performance series highlights Latinx voices

By CELINA COLBY Four Latinx organizations in Boston — Amplify Latinx, Hyde Square Task Force, Cojuelos’ Productions and Ágora Cultural Architects — have come together to celebrate art and community through their online performance series “Cadencia Latina,” running through July 5. Every Sunday and Thursday at 7 p.m., an artist sponsored by these organizations livestreams a performance on Facebook meant to uplift spirits during the pandemic and celebrate Latinx culture.

“We’ve been doing this outside of the series for over a year, and we’ve noticed really how much Boston and Massachusetts needed this kind of space for our own population to feel at home, for our own public to feel like they’re represented,” says Beba Rivera, co-founder of Ágora

Cultural Architects. “They can have a good time being themselves with people who have had the same experiences.”

The performances span a spectrum of media from song and dance to poetry and mono-

bring people together.

The transition from physical events to livestreams has been a learning process. Though viewers can interact in the comments section during the piece, Rivera says it has been an adjustment

“Culture is a healer. It’s the healing effects of seeing music, of seeing dance, of seeing art. I think it’s important to keep showcasing that.” Beba Rivera logues. All of the artists are Latinx and working in Massachusetts and they represent countries from all over Latin America. Rivera says about 1,000 people watch each performance on average and a large contingent is often from the country of the artists’ background. In that way, the series transcends physical borders to

for artists to adapt to a medium without the typical audience feedback.

“In the industry, everyone is really just figuring it out,” says Rivera. “We decided to raise funds between all of us and provide the arts sector with a platform that they could use to still reach their audience.”

The artists are compensated

for the performances by the organizations, and viewers are also encouraged to support the artists directly if possible. Rivera says, “We want to support the focus of the funds to the artists because they are the ones showcasing their work.” Artists often present a way to do that during their performance, whether it’s via Venmo, merchandise sales or another channel. Previous performances by the artists can be found on the artists’ Facebook pages and on the Ágora Cultural Architects YouTube page.

Though the series is currently scheduled to wrap up in July, Rivera says that high interest may lead to an extension. Many artists who weren’t able to participate in the first wave have seen the impact and want in.

“Culture is a healer,” she says.

“It’s the healing effects of seeing music, of seeing dance, of seeing art. I think it’s important to keep showcasing that.”

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A muscular stone jug in the Art of the Americas wing at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston bears witness to the power of a person to speak across time through art, even when circumstances strive to enforce silence.

Crafted in 1858 by the enslaved African American potter and poet David Drake during a time when it was illegal for slaves to read or write, the handsome jar, glazed in brown alkaline, is signed and dated by Drake, known as “Dave the Potter.” He also inscribes the jar with a rhymed couplet (“I made this Jar for Cash- / though its called lucre trash”) and the initials “Lm” for his owner at the time, Lewis Miles.

The jar is one of about 40 known “poem vessels” fashioned

by Drake, who was born in about 1800 on the Drake family plantation in South Carolina and died around 1870. Emancipated after the Civil War, he adopted the surname of Drake. Scholars speculate that a friend of the Drake family, a local newspaper publisher, taught him to read and write.

Living in Edgefield County, South Carolina, a pottery-making center rich in high-quality clays, Drake made pots while helping to run his owners’ kilns, which consumed 10 tons of firewood a day.

In 1849, Lewis Miles bought him, and evidently valuing the potter’s artisanry, he took the unusual step of allowing him to sign and inscribe his works.

Drake’s inscriptions occasionally describe a piece of stoneware he crafted to store meat or serve some other function as a “noble

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Storage jar by Dave Drake Made for: Lewis J. Miles Pottery 1857 Edgefield County, South Carolina Museum of Fine Arts Boston

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MFA acquires work by 24 diverse contemporary artists

By CELINA COLBY The Museum of Fine Arts has launched an aggressive campaign to acquire works by contemporary artists. They have identified works from a list of 24 artists and plan to have finalized the acquisitions by as early as October of this year.

The acquisition list is perhaps one of the most diverse and localized in the museum’s history.

“We wanted to add artists to the collection that we all felt really strongly about,” says Reto Thüring, Beal Family Chair of the Department of Contemporary Art at the museum. “We also wanted to support artists in this very specific moment by acquiring works by them, and by doing that nimbly and quickly so there would be an actual transaction happening to support their careers and livelihoods.”

The turnaround time for these acquisitions has been astounding, particularly for a museum of the MFA’s size, which requires a rigorous process for formally acquiring works. Thüring says the accessions committee meets four times a year to discuss and approve acquisitions and there are many elements involved, including the physical presence of the work at the museum, which is particularly challenging during the COVID-19 pandemic as the museum is shut down.

Thüring estimates that by Wednesday, June 17 the museum will have officially acquired works by at least eight artists.

That’s less than three weeks after the program was officially announced on May 28. Thüring says the team is hoping to have all the works acquired by October. This quick progression through the somewhat bureaucratic process of acquisition

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continued from page 12 jar.” His couplets expressed his humor, yearnings, good will and self-respect.

The only enslaved potter known to inscribe his works, Drake is the subject of scholarly studies, an award-winning children’s book, and several exhibitions, including one scheduled to open in February 2022 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art entitled “Stories in Clay: Stoneware from Old Edgefield District, South Carolina.”

“Signing and inscribing the jug was both a bold act of creativity and a declaration of authorship on Drake’s part,” notes Adrienne Spinozzi, the Met curator who is organizing the 2022 exhibition.

The Met recently acquired an inscribed storage jug by Drake,

demonstrates a genuine desire to support these artists during a challenging time.

It also demonstrates a desire to support Boston’s art community. Thüring says about two-thirdsof the acquisitions list are local Boston artists, and many of them are black, including Stephen Hamilton, Ekua Holmes, Lavaughan Jenkins and Anthony Young.

“First and foremost, we’re an institution not just for Boston, but of Boston. The MFA wouldn’t exist without the communities that surround it,” says Thüring.

“

I think these artists that we’re bringing in will bring an enormous amount of energy that will really help shake off some of the lenses through which we’ve been looking at art history.”

(above) Resting, 2019, Ramiro Gomez.

Acrylic and house paint on canvas.

Courtesy of Ramiro Gomez, P·P·O·W, New York, and Charlie James Gallery, Los AngelesCourtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (left) Lumumba’s Harp, 2013, Jas Knight. Oil on linen. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST.

— Reto Thüring “It is a huge number of works by a younger generation of artists that we haven’t really added to that degree at such a pace in a really long time, or if ever, to the collection.”

Concurrently, the museum is featuring a weekly “Instagram takeover” by a local or international artist every Friday. They plan to run the takeovers until the museum opens its doors again.

Anthony Young, one of the artists whose work is slated for acquisition, took over the Instagram

ON THE WEB Learn more about the acquisitions at

www.mfa.org/press-release/contemporary-art-initiatives-2020.

stories on Friday, June 12 to discuss his intimate portraits and exploration of police brutality and black manhood. His takeover can be seen in the ‘Artist Takeover’ highlight on the MFA’s Instagram.

This commitment not just to contemporary artists but to

young, diverse, Boston-based artists is an encouraging leap forward for the MFA, which has historically prioritized non-local, often white artists.

“This list of artists is certainly indicative of ways we can rethink the collection … by expanding our

understanding of what stories we tell, whose stories we tell,” says Thüring. “I think these artists that we’re bringing in will bring an enormous amount of energy that will really help shake off some of the lenses through which we’ve been looking at art history.”

“

Signing and inscribing the jug was both a bold act of creativity and a declaration of authorship on Drake’s part.”

— Adrienne Spinozzi, Metropolitan Museum of Art

made a year after the one at the MFA. Drake’s poem vessels can also be found in other museums, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Smithsonian collection of the National Museum of American History; and the McKissick Museum of the University of South Carolina, which in 1998 presented the first exhibition devoted solely to Drake’s pottery. A 2010 exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum curated by artist Theaster Gates Jr., featured the performance of a gospel choir that turned the potter’s couplets into songs.

Standing on their own,

inscribed in stone, Drake’s couplets — whether poignant or witty — often address us with disarming immediacy. One gives a glimpse of daily life: “Dave belongs to Mr. Miles / Wher the oven bakes & the pot biles.” Another looks beyond the work at hand: “I wonder where is all my relations / Friendship to all — and every nation.”

ON THE WEB One of David Drake’s works at MFA: https:// collections.mfa.org/objects/45055/storage-jar Learn more about David Drake: www.britannica.com/biography/Dave-the-Potter

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CITATION GIVING NOTICE OF PETITION FOR APPOINTMENT OF CONSERVATOR OR OTHER PROTECTIVE ORDER PURSUANT TO G.L c. 190B, §5-304 & §5-405 In the matter of: Gerard L Jones Respondent (Person to be Protected/Minor) Of: Boston, MA To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Jonathan M Spirn of Waltham, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Gerard L Jones is in need of a Conservator or other protective order and requesting that Jonathan M Spirn, Esq. of Waltham, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Conservator to serve Without Surety on the bond.

The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondent is disabled, that a protective order or appointment of a Conservator is necessary, and that the proposed conservator is appropriate. The petition is on file with this 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 at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 07/07/2020. 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.

If the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense.

Witness, Hon. Brian J. Dunn, First Justice of this Court.

Date: May 08, 2020

Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

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

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of: Charles Edward Brown Jr. Date of Death: 09/10/2017 To all interested persons:

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING AND PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD SUBSTANTIAL AMENDMENT TO FY20 ACTION PLAN AND AMENDMENT TO THE CITIZENS PARTICIPATION PLAN In accordance with 24 CFR 91.105(c)(2) of the federal regulations relative to citizen participation for Community Planning and Development Programs and applicable waivers made available to those requirements through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, notice is hereby given that the City of Peabody and the North Shore HOME Consortium, an organization comprised of thirty cities and towns in the Merrimack Valley and the North Shore, will hold a 5-day comment period beginning on June 19th through June 23rd regarding the substantial amendment of the program year 2019-2020 Action Plan and the Citizen Participation Plan.

IMPORTANT NOTICE You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return day of 07/15/2020. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return day, action may be taken without further notice to you.

The City of Peabody has been notified of an award of at least $260,000. In accordance with the CARES Act the funds must be used to prevent, prepare for, and respond to COVID-19. The purpose of the substantial amendment is to add this new allocation (CDBG-CV) to our program year 2019 Action Plan as an available resource. A copy of the Action Plan Amendment will be posted on the City’s website at www.peabody-ma.gov on the Community Development page under Community Development Block Grant.

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

The Citizen Participation Plan (available at www.peabody-ma.gov on the Community Development page under North Shore HOME Consortium) serves as a guide for how the City of Peabody and the North Shore HOME Consortium involves citizens in the 5-year Consolidated Plan and Annual Action Plan process. The amendment outlines the waivers and flexibilities provided by HUD in the administration of funds used to respond to COVID-19, such as reduction of public comment periods to 5 days and the allowance of virtual meetings.

A virtual public hearing will be held on Tuesday, June 23, 2020 at 5:00 pm, to invite comments on the Citizen Participation Plan Revisions and the Substantial Amendment to the program year 2019 Action Plan. Pursuant to Governor Baker’s March 12, 2020 Order suspending certain provisions of the Open Meeting Law, G.L. c. 30A § 18, and the Governor’s March 15, 2020 Order imposing strict limitation on the number of people that may gather in one place, this meeting of the City of Peabody and the North Shore HOME Consortium will be conducted via remote participation to the greatest extent possible. No in-person attendance of members of the public will be permitted, but every effort will be made to ensure that the public can adequately access the proceedings in real time, via technological means. Individuals may participate remotely in the meeting via a remote participation platform called Zoom. Members of the public and/or parties with a right and/or requirement to attend this meeting may access the remote participation through any one of the following ways: • Enter this link into your web browser to join the meeting: https:// us02web.zoom.us/j/84699829984 • Enter this link into your web browser to open the Zoom website: https://zoom.us/join. Enter the meeting/webinar ID# 846 9982 9984 as directed on the webpage and click “Join”. Follow the onscreen instructions to join the meeting.

• Participants can dial a toll-free number +1 312 626 6799 to join the meeting. When prompted, enter meeting/webinar ID# 846 9982 9984 and follow the instructions to join the meeting.

Questions may be sent to stacey.bernson@peabody-ma.gov. Public comments must be received no later than June 23rd, 2020 and may be submitted via email to stacey.bernson@peabody-ma.gov or by mail, postmarked no later than June 23rd, 2020 to the City of Peabody, Department of Community Development and Planning, 24 Lowell Street, Peabody, MA 01960. Written submissions received will be summarized and made available at www.peabody-ma.gov.

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Docket No. SU17P2498EA

A Petition for Formal Adjudication of Intestacy has been filed by Edward Tyrone Jones of Quincy, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. The Petitioner requests that Edward Tyrone Jones of Quincy, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond in an unsupervised administration.

The CDBG-CV funds will be utilized to meet emergency needs that are a direct result of the COVID- 19 virus. Funds will be provided to local service providers that have been assisting Peabody households directly affected by COVID-19. Projects include funding a local food pantry to meet the increased need for food stability, delivering prepared meals to elders, providing housing assistance, legal services to assist those in danger of losing housing and assisting a non-profit that provides essential services to some of our most vulnerable residents.

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WITNESS, Hon. Brian J. Dunn, First Justice of this Court.

Date: June 02, 2020

Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

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

Docket No. SU20P0593EA

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of: Carol Bullock Date of Death: 10/11/2019

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To all interested persons: A Petition for Formal Adjudication of Intestacy and Appointment of Personal Representative has been filed by Cheryl Cox of Mattapan, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. The Petitioner requests that Cheryl Cox of Mattapan, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve With Personal Surety on the bond in an unsupervised administration.

IMPORTANT NOTICE You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return day of 07/01/2020. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return day, action may be taken without further notice to you.

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

WITNESS, Hon. Brian J. Dunn, First Justice of this Court.

Date: May 13, 2020

CityView at Longwood shall not discriminate against any person because of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, handicap, veteran status or any basis prohibited by law. *Rents and income limits are subject to MHP approval and may change with HUD’s publication of area median income. **Reasonable accommodation

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