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Problems persist in Probate Court Employees cite ongoing discrimination, mismanagement under interim director By YAWU MILLER
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District 7 City Council candidate Angelina Camacho airs her views while rivals Brian Keith, Charles Clemons Muhammad and Rufus Faulk look on.
D7 candidates face off in debate over city issues Eleven of 13 display varying knowledge of policy By YAWU MILLER
The tone was mostly cordial as 11 of the 12 candidates for the District 7 City Council seat shared their views during a candidate forum last week held at ABCD’s Thelma D. Burns building in Grove Hall. But the answers the candidates gave on issues — from gentrification and displacement to safe injection sites — showed a wide range
in their understanding of public policy and the City Council’s role. Former state Rep. and Department of Neighborhood Development Director Charlotte Golar Richie posed questions to the candidates, alternating among them. When asked about the lack of affordable housing in Boston and the displacement of low- and moderate-income renters, Brian Keith, an executive with a startup airline company, said he would rely on his experience as a neighborhood activist, engaging for-profit developers
to negotiate more affordability in their developments. Youth worker Rufus Faulk said he would galvanize neighborhood associations to advocate for more affordability. Education advocate Kim Janey cited a menu of policies she supports, including regulating shortterm rentals, supporting the Jim Brooks Stabilization Act and creating more home ownership opportunities by leveraging funds from the city’s Affordable Housing Trust.
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In the four months since Felix D. Arroyo was removed from his post as the Suffolk County Register of Probate, lines remain long, case files still go missing and staff treat people of color — including filers, attorneys and staff — with blatant disrespect, according to staff and attorneys interviewed by the Banner. Two weeks ago, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice issued a report alleging “a toxic racially-charged hostile environment that fosters identity-based harassment” in the Trial Court, which administers the registry of Suffolk Probate Court. Registry employees say instances of racial and sexual harassment have gotten worse since Arroyo was deposed by a court administrator.
Questionable impact
Three registry employees, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Arroyo’s successor, Terry Klug Cafazzo, has turned a blind eye to instances of discrimination. The staff members recounted instances of discrimination and assert that changes Cafazzo has instituted has done little to improve the office environment. In some cases, they say things are worse. Two attorneys who file cases regularly with the registry, also speaking on the condition of anonymity, backed up the employees’ claims, noting
that they routinely spend hours waiting in line just to be seen by registry staff. “The average for me is three to four hours, just to put in a case,” one attorney said. “It can take up to seven hours.”
Forced out
Arroyo’s dismissal occurred on February 3, after a report prepared by Cafazzo cited him for mismanagement. Arroyo has maintained that he sought to improve registry operations, but was sabotaged by longtime office staff and denied requests to bring on senior managers to make needed adjustments. After Arroyo’s departure, Cafazzo was allowed to bring in two assistant managers and three additional case specialists. But probate staff interviewed by the Banner said that the changes she put in place have not improved workflow or productivity. For example, staff report that Cafazzo halted use of case tracking software, thereby making it impossible to accurately quantify how many cases go missing. “The cases get lost easily,” a probate staff member said. “Almost every day there are cases missing.” Cafazzo also eliminated a separate “language line” Arroyo set up to service complainants who are not fluent in English. Attorneys cited in news reports say the separate line made overall wait times longer, but those interviewed by the Banner said
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Cop suspended for offensive video Clip suggests blacks are police’s enemy By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
Boston Police Commissioner William Evans declared on Thursday that he would suspend the Roxbury-based cop behind a racially-derogatory video that appeared to denigrate members of the district the officer is charged with serving. For many, the incident inflames long-standing fears that the police department cannot be trusted to treat people of color with respect and equality.
Joseph DeAngelo Jr. is a patrol officer who has served in District B-2 for four and a half years. He created a mock buddy-cop movie trailer that implies black people are synonymous with crime. The trailer spoof introduces a white officer friend of DeAngelo’s and an injured dog as heroes “in the fight between good and evil.” The video closes with an image of black women in carnival costumes and the line, “This summer, black people have met their match.” DeAngelo told superiors
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kGNa30dicov he created the video during work hours and that the image of black men it included (directly prior to the carnival image) was a photo he took of residents in his district, according to June 12 interview transcripts released by the BPD. DeAngelo texted the video to friends
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Adjunct faculty call for pay equality By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
The majority of students attending public higher education institutions to prepare for their careers are likely being taught by those whose own teaching careers challenge them to make ends meet. So said advocates who turned out to the State House last week to champion legislation that would ensure that when adjunct professors teach a course, their pay resembles what a tenured professor would be paid for that same course. The plight of adjuncts is widespread: About 70 percent of classes at the state’s community colleges are taught by such parttime, freelance instructors, according to Barbara Madeloni, president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association. Adjuncts say they come highly qualified, with master’s and doctoral degrees, and are asked to perform to the same teaching standards as tenured peers. But they receive vastly less pay, no benefits and no guarantee that a class they signed on to teach actually will be held — and thus no guarantee that they will be paid, despite having completed all the curricular planning. “We teach in the same classrooms, we meet the same educational standards, the students get the same credits, they read the same textbooks and they pay the same tuition and fees [as they would with a tenured professor],” Jeff Seideman, vice president of Massachusetts
Community College Council, said. “[Yet] when you combine the value of benefits and salaries that full-timers receive for doing the identical teaching work, we’re paid less than half of what they get.”
An “unlivable” career
For many, adjunct work is their full-time occupation. Adjuncts earn about $2,900 to about $5,000 per class, depending on the institution, they said. John Donovan said by cobbling together six to seven courses a year at three different institutions, he manages to earn about $25,000 annually, with no health care, retirement prospects or other benefits. “It’s an unlivable environment,” Donovan said. “I’m lucky — I married a lawyer. That’s how I pay my bills.” Rep. Thomas Stanley said he knows of adjuncts who rely on food stamps and Medicaid to support their families. Stanley is the sponsor of a bill, H2236, that would recalculate per-course pay for adjuncts using a formula that takes into account full-time instructors’ salaries. The bill also stipulates that before colleges and university administrators can hire a new faculty member to teach a course, they first offer it to any adjunct they have who has previously taught that course or a similar one. Another provision requires adjuncts be given more advance notice of teaching assignments or cancellations, and be provided with an alternate course assignment or
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Walter Harper, an adjunct anthropology instructor at Bridgewater State University, said he often is forced to conduct office hours in hallways. An adjunct instructor is not lesser quality to a tenured professor, Harper said, nothing that he has a doctoral degree, several master’s degrees and decades of experience. established percentage — also known as a “kill fee” — should their classes be cancelled near to the intended start date. A separate bill, “An Act Investing in Public Higher Education,” would create a state public higher education fund targeted at providing comparable pay and benefits to parttime and non-tenure-track faculty, increasing the number of undergraduate courses taught by tenure and tenure-track faculty and providing adequate support staff. The bill also requires public institutions to give first notice of tenure-track job openings to their non-tenure-track faculty and a establishes new scholarship grant for students. In some ways, the struggle of adjuncts belies the promise of
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higher education, some said. “We shouldn’t ever have to have a person with a Ph.D. going to the department of transitional assistance asking for welfare benefits,” said Peter MacKinnon, president of SEIU local 509.
Student experience
The constraints of adjunct teaching — including lack of office space and the need to travel between institutions to create a sufficient course load — can impede their ability to fully serve students, adjuncts and students said. Walter Harper, an adjunct at Bridgewater State University, said he often is relegated to giving office hours in hallways or snatching the occasional empty classroom. Michele Nash, adjunct biology professor at Springfield Technical Community college, said that any out-of-classroom work performed by an adjunct is not factored into their compensation. “We volunteer time,” Nash said. “All work outside of the classroom is unpaid — returning emails, advising, listening to them after they’ve lost someone to a gunshot in Springfield.”
Doctoral student Kenneth Farineny said students feel the effect in the level of time faculty is able to allocate to them — something depleted when instructors need to leave after class to travel to another teaching engagement. Full-time positions facilitate relationship-building with faculty and let instructors better focus on students by eliminating distractors such as worries about making rent, students said.
Money crunch
Many advocates said they believe colleges and universities increasingly lean on and deliberately exploit adjuncts as a cost-saving measure. Zac Bears, executive director of Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts (PHENOM), said the current state stems from chronic state underfunding of public higher education since 2001. “Costs have shifted to students and families while our campuses have been forced to increase their reliance on adjunct faculty who are exploited through low pay and no access to healthcare or retirement,” Bears said.
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The Boston Planning & Development Agency (BPDA) invites the community to continue the conversation about vacant parcels owned by the BPDA in the Washington Park Urban Renewal Area. We will discuss the prospect of offering the parcels in a Request for Proposals for use as infill housing sites. The following parcels will be included in our dialogue: 7 Westminster Avenue / 9 Westminster Terrace, 11-13 & 14 Catawba Street, 52-58 Alpine Street & 4 Alpine Terrace, 68 Dale Street, 44 Maple Street and 48 Townsend Street, all in Roxbury.
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Rivera builds support for immigrant rights By SAPHIA SUAREZ
Roxana Rivera had just come from an action to protest the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement efforts to deport Francisco Rodriguez when the Banner met up with her at the District 615 32BJ SEIU office in Downtown Boston last week. As head of the union, Rivera represents 18,000 property service workers in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. This includes custodial workers, janitors and security officers. After working at Local 615 for nearly a decade, Rivera was appointed to head up the New England chapter. Rivera attends and speaks at dozens of actions each year, but this one in particular struck a chord with her. The pain in her voice was evident as she spoke about Rodriguez. And as she spoke about her work at SEIU during the first six months of the Trump administration, it became clear that unions are entering uncharted territory. But according to Rivera, plans are in the making.
What made Francisco Rodriguez’s case so compelling? Rivera: Francisco has been in this country for ten years. He was given stays of removal each year, so he had to do an immigration check-in every year in order for ICE to extend his stay. But because of the new administration, this time, when he checked in on June 13, they told him to come in with his travel documents, and they detained him. I had the opportunity to come to the immigration check-in with him, and I’m glad that I did that, because now I’m even more committed to my work. Sometimes you have to walk in people’s shoes to understand the gravity of their situation.
When did you first join a union? Rivera: I was a teacher at a school in Mountain View, California, and the parents at the school were really freaked out because down the road immigration raids were happening. Day laborers were being picked up and local police were helping in those raids. One of the parents at my school asked me if I could go to a meeting and talk about how parents were feeling. So I went and I met Renaldo Herrera. We had a City Hall meeting and asked the mayor and the city council not to allow the city police to participate in these raids, to let that be a federal function and not a city function. The mayor said point-blank at the microphone, “I’ve never seen so many brown faces in my life.” I didn’t see overt
racism until I was placed in situations like that one. Then I worked against Proposition 187 (legislation that would require teachers to report undocumented students to the ICE), and the union was helping to lead the campaign against that proposition and asked me if I wanted to be an organizer, and I said yes. Then I became a political director at the union.
Since many of your workers are immigrants, how are the current anti-immigrant policies of the Trump administration affecting your members? Rivera: It’s a nightmare. Many of the immigrants here have been here for years. They have families here, they work, they’re critical parts of our community. Disrupting that from one day to the next is going to have implications for all of us. There’s extreme fear and folks can’t go about their daily lives because people are getting picked up arbitrarily. It’s becoming very clear who the administration is targeting, and what license the Trump administration is giving to local ICE offices. What’s going to be affected is the legal status people have had under temporary protective status. Honduran and El Salvadoran people will be affected in the coming months. Many of them have been here for years, and might be separated from their families. I feel like it’s just going to get worse. It’s already escalated numerically, much more than in previous administrations, and it’s only been a few months. But we have to have the courage to push back on this. As a union, we’re going to use our collective power to think about what we can do in this moment.
What are some of the labor strategies you’ve seen emerging in response to the Trump administration, if any? Rivera: One of the biggest strategies is uniting with other organizations that are working on these issues. When the Climate March happened in Boston, we provided resources and had our members be involved. Our strategy is to make those connections in the community, because we know we can’t win on our own. We also sponsored a meeting of immigrant activists. We came together and talked about how we are going to deal with possible immigration raids. That’s one of our bigger strategies, and SEIU as a union has always done that, but now we’re working on building organization together. Looking internally, we want to dedicate time to having one-on-one conversations with members about the purpose of the union and how they are much stronger because they are a part of the union. The Trump administration has been
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very clear that they want to go after organizations that support working families, such as unions. We can’t meet our goals if our organization isn’t intact, so we have to join with others and work externally on issues, but also work to keep our own union intact in order to serve our role. We’re experimenting a lot with how to engage our union and what our role should be.
Is there anything so far that the Trump
administration has done that has made it hard for you to organize, besides the obvious anti-immigration policies? Rivera: Certain states have already passed right-to-work bills. A right-to-work state says that union can’t obligate workers and members of their union to pay dues, that it has to be voluntary, but the union still has an obligation to represent all workers. It’s going to make it harder for unions to function. Twenty-eight states have already
passed right-to-work. There’s a decision that’s going to be made at the Supreme Court, and given that the Supreme Court is not in favor of working families, we believe that there’s going to be a law that the unions that represent public sector workers cannot obligate them to pay dues, but the unions still have to represent all workers. Then that bill will start creeping into the private sector, and we’re largely a private sector union.
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Roxana Rivera heads SEIU 32BJ, which organizes janitors and security workers.
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Words now carry criminal liability People have always believed that words have power, but until the case of Commonwealth vs. Michelle Carter, it was not known that words uttered in a crisis could cause someone to be convicted of involuntary manslaughter. This case raised the complex question of what duty of care everyone owes to his or her fellow human being. American jurisprudence places extraordinary emphasis on individuality and freedom from liability for concern for others. There is no legal obligation to aid a neighbor in distress. In fact, at one time those who voluntarily provide aid to someone in danger could be sued if the intervention was negligent and caused greater harm. Now the so-called Good Samaritan Laws protect the intervenors from liability for harm caused under stress. Although there is not a legal requirement to come to the rescue of someone in a life threatening situation, society respects those who do, and there is disdain for those who fail to respond. An often-repeated example of callous indifference to a neighbor’s cries for help is the case of Kitty Genovese in New York in 1964. While numerous neighbors heard her screams for help during an assault that proved to be fatal, no one called the police. None of Genovese’s neighbors were legally liable for failing to act. Just being a neighbor does not create a duty of care of sufficient significance. However, once the law perceives that such a duty exists, the obligation to provide aid will arise. A man standing on a pier can passively watch someone struggling in the water below and fail to throw a life vest that is available nearby. If the troubled swimmer is a stranger there is no liability. But
if the swimmer is a spouse, his or her child or a sibling, then the legal issue changes. The district attorney decided to prosecute Carter for encouraging the suicide of Conrad Roy III, even though she was many miles away at the time of his death and her involvement was entirely verbal. This raised the dramatic issue of whether words alone could kill. Carter’s lawyer wisely refused a jury trial, and chose instead to place the case before a judge. There was no binding legal precedent of a defendant being found guilty of manslaughter solely on the basis of the power of words. Without the personal relationship between Carter and Roy that created a duty of care there would probably be no case. They were boyfriend and girlfriend. It is reported that they once had a suicide pact. While speaking from a distance on cellphone, Carter urged Roy to get back in his truck, which was filling with lethal carbon monoxide fumes. She did not call the police or Roy’s family to rescue him. If this conviction stands on appeal, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will have to define a more nuanced definition of the duty of care; otherwise a crowd of onlookers could be charged with yelling “jump” to encourage a man poised perilously threatening suicide from the upper balcony of a building. What duty of care do Americans now really owe to one another? Conservatives in the U.S. Senate propose a health plan that will deny care to 22 million citizens, and many senators are fine with that. There now seems to be even less concern for one another than there was for Kitty Genovese.
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By EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON “The White House judges nominees on the merits of their character and not on the clients they once represented as counsel.” This was the terse statement that #45 Trump issued in defense of the instant and loud criticism of his pick, Eric Dreiband, to head the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. The division has been described as the gold standard for civil rights enforcement and direction in the nation. It’s an appropriate designation, considering that for much of the last half century the CRD has set the tone and the tempo for forcing, monitoring and implementing federal civil rights initiatives. The criticism of Dreiband is more than well-deserved. He made his reputation not as a civil rights attorney, law professor specializing in civil rights or working with a state or federal agency tasked with civil rights legislation and enforcement. He made his reputation doing just the opposite, as a corporate attorney who specialized in trying to beat back age, gender and racial discrimination lawsuits against corporations. This makes him Trump’s perfect choice not to strengthen but gut the federal government’s flagship civil rights agency. His nomination comes at the midpoint of Trump’s first year in the oval office. This makes it the perfect time to take a hard look at just what Trump has done to wreak even more damage on civil rights. His unrelenting vow to get a Muslim travel ban has got much of the ink and attention in his war on civil rights and liberties. But he has wasted no time in quietly inflicting as much damage as he can in other areas of civil rights enforcement and compliance. Just hours after he set foot in the White House he deleted the White House webpage on civil rights. The Obama administration had proudly cited and filled the White House website with loads of information about his administration’s initiatives on civil rights. Trump’s quick deletion of the page was more than symbolism. His first nomination out the box was Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions to head the Justice Department, the umbrella agency for the Civil Rights Division. The message was clear: A total remake of the department was a top priority for Trump. Sessions hit the ground running. He demanded the delay, if not the end, of federal consent decrees on police misconduct, a new war on low-level drug offenders, silence on criminal justice reforms and a full-throated endorsement of private prisons. Given Sessions’ intense dislike of the Voting Rights Act, enforcement of the law is even more imperiled. For decades, the hearts of the EPA, and departments of Education, Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Labor, have been their civil rights compliance units. They have monitored, overseen and, most importantly enforced compliance by corporations on fair labor practices, elimination of racial disparities in school districts, reduction of toxic hazards in inner city neighborhoods and an end to housing discrimination. Trump’s proposed funding cutbacks and his unstated policy of benign neglect of the compliance units sends the strong message that civil rights enforcement in federal agencies is a thing of the past. Civil rights organizations no longer can automatically look to the Supreme Court or other federal courts for the redress of inequities. Trump made good on his long-standing promise to appoint judges who are the spitting legal image of Antonin Scalia to the high court with his pick of Neil Gorsuch. In the short space of time he’s been on the high court, he’s been a civil rights opponent’s dream come true. He has joined his ideological twin Clarence Thomas in conservative rulings on same sex, gun-owners’ rights, and the right of religious institutions to government funding. The issues directly impact on civil rights law. The SCOTUS is only the start of Trump’s civil rights remake of the courts. With little fanfare, he named nearly a dozen judges to fill vacancies on lower courts in several judicial districts. His picks read like a Who’s Who from the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation. They are conservative, with deep ties to the GOP and corporations. They have shown no evidence of any legal sympathy to civil rights law and labor protections. There are hundreds more vacancies on the federal judiciary that Trump will try and fill in the months to come. The picks aren’t likely to vary one bit from the template of judges that he deems his ideal: judges that are conservative, pro-corporate and hostile to labor and civil rights. They will speedily be confirmed and have a deep influence on law, public policy and, especially, the criminal justice system for decades to come. This is only the start. In the coming months, there will be renewed challenges to the Voting Rights Act, affirmative action, housing discrimination, public school funding, corporate abuses, and environmental and consumer regulatory issues. The challenges will come in the courts and within federal agencies. Trump’s ugly mid-year record on civil rights tells exactly what the horrific outcome could be. It won’t get any prettier.
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LECOLION WASHINGTON Community Music Center of Boston has appointed Lecolion Washington as executive director after a national search process. Washington begins at the Music Center in September 2017 and is currently executive director of the PRIZM Ensemble and director of In-Schools Programs for the Memphis Music Initiative. He succeeds David Lapin, who has been the Music Center’s executive director for 34 years. “I am extremely honored that the board of Community Music Center of Boston has selected me as the incoming executive director”, Washington said. “After meeting with the board and spending time with the senior staff, I feel like I was born to be part of the work that the Music Center is doing in Boston. I’m very excited about the future.” Washington was the co-founder and executive director of the PRIZM Ensemble, an organization whose mission is to build a diverse community through chamber music education,
youth development and performance. Under his leadership, PRIZM created community engagement and youth development programs such as the OMusic Project, the PRIZM in the Schools Program and the PRIZM International Chamber Music Festival. Washington was invited to serve as the Director of In-School Programs for the Memphis Music Initiative after having served for several months on an advisory council and as a consultant for the MMI. He led a team that created and implemented a teaching artist program, led teacher/principal professional developments and fostered partnerships between schools and local music nonprofits — much like the Music Center has done in its historic partnership with Boston’s public schools. In 2015, he was named by the Memphis Business Journal as one of the Top 40 under 40. As a performer, Washington served on the faculty of the Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival in South Africa
from 2006-2013. At this festival, he was a featured soloist on multiple occasions. In addition to his performances he coached chamber music and taught masterclasses along with distinguished faculty from all over the world. His CD entitled “Legacy: Music for Bassoon by African-American Composers” was released on the Albany Records label to much acclaim. Washington studied at the University of Texas at Austin, the Manhattan School of Music and Southern Methodist University.
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Business owner and activist Deeqo Jibril spoke about her experience as a single mother living in subsidized housing and suggested that 30-40 percent of all development should be affordable. Attorney Hasan Williams spoke from his experience as a formerly homeless person, proposing the city allow the development of more rooming houses. When asked about curbing police abuse, most candidates called for establishing a civilian review board. Janey recommended expanding the department’s bodyworn camera pilot program to all officers. Jibril, who came to Boston from Somalia when she was 12, spoke about her experience forging better relations between police and Somali teens. Hasan Williams said the police Cadet Program ought to be housed at Madison Park High School. “That tells our students their education means something,” he said. Henriquez noted that changes to police policy would have to go through the other 12 city councilors. He said he would establish a close working relationship with the captains in Area B2 in Roxbury and D4 in the South End, as well as supportstate legislation sponsored by Rep. Russell Holmes that would institute reforms to civil service exams aimed at increasing the number of people of color eligible for to become police officers. Charles Clemons Muhammad — who began every answer by standing up and announcing, “I’m Charles Clemons Muhammad, and when I’m your next city councilor…”
— suggested the department deploy more officers on walking beats. Muhammad also said that men in the community take responsibility for preventing crime. “Men need to take responsibility for their families and their streets and make sure they’re safe for our women and children,” he said.
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There are 13 candidates in the race. Not in attendance at the Grove Hall forum were Steven Wise and Roy Owens. Among the 11 who did show up, there was little apparent difference of opinion on any of the issues raised, although the assembled gathering of politically-active District 7 voters was able to assess the candidates’ grasp of the issues and working of the council. With the mayoral race on the ballot, as many as 9,000 voters could turn out for the September 26 preliminary. Due to a larger universe of likely voters, campaign funding for items such as mailings and candidate promotion could be a key factor in this year’s race, due to the need for a larger base of volunteers and staff. With little more than 11 weeks to the preliminary, each campaign will need a small army to identify likely voters. So far, Kim Janey leads in fundraising with $30,569 in her account as of the June 15 filing date, the most recent available on the Office of Campaign and Public Finance website. Other war chests by mid-June: Jibril had $18,067, and DePina came in third, with $13,377 on hand. Hasan Williams reported $12,505 in his account, $10,000 of which he loaned his campaign. No other candidate had raised $10,000.
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The SAMH Summer Enrichment Program at Twelfth Baptist Church is participating in the Summer Food Service Program. Meals will be provided to all eligible children free of charge. Children who are part of households that receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly food stamps) benefits, or benefits under the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR)or Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) are automatically eligible to receive free meals. Acceptance and participation for the Program and all activities are the same for all regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability, and there will be no discrimination in the course of the meal service. This is a closed enrolled site. Meals will be provided at the site as follows:
Twelfth Baptist Church Summer Enrichment Program Breakfast - 7:30 AM - 8:40 AM Lunch 12:00 Noon - 12:50 PM If you wish to file a Civil Rights program complaint of discrimination complete the USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form found on line at http:/www.ascr.usda.gov/complaint_filing_cust.html, or at any USDA office, or call 866-632-9992 to request the form. You may also write a letter containing all of the information requested in the form. Send your completed complaint form or letter to us by mail at U.S. Department of Agriculture, Director, Office of Adjudication, 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20250-9410, by fax 202690-7442 or email at program.intake@usda.gov. Individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing or have speech disabilities may contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at 800-877-8339; or 800-845-6136 (Spanish).
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Future Reggie Lewis Cntr management disputed By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
Debate swirls over the future of the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center. Legislation proposed by Rep. Russell Holmes and Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry would move the state facility out of Roxbury Community College oversight and into the hands of a to-be-established independent board of directors. Coaches, Roxbury community members, elected officials and others weighed in at a State House hearing last Thursday. Those supporting the bill envision a board including community members, as well as potential representation from RCC and the Boston Public Schools. A memorandum of agreement could be established that guarantees RCC use of the center for important events, several people testified.
Scheduling and ownership
A common theme emerging from the testimony was dissatisfaction with the current administration of the Reggie Lewis Center, following the controversial 2016 dismissal of long-time director Keith McDermott. Francine Johnson, representing the Sensational Seniors exercise group, said McDermott’s removal seemed to be part of an RCC bid to seize greater control of the center. Many said they felt the RCC administration was too domineering and showed bias in awarding space to its own events. Members of the Massachusetts State Track Coaches Association (MSTCA) listed a slew of grievances against the interim director who took over from McDermott, including diminished communication and event scheduling overlaps and omissions. Advocating for the bill, Rep. Holmes said that independent management would ensure that all constituents have equal voice and ability to share in a state asset,
without undue favor being granted to RCC leadership’s wants. McDermott underscored the importance of upholding the center’s mission by prioritizing its use for track, RCC programs and community programs. He supported the bill, saying that use of an independent board is not unusual and would eliminate any conflicts of interest. “I love Roxbury Community College, but at the same time we need to preserve the mission of the facility,” McDermott said. He added that he does not want his job back. Those who want to keep the Reggie Lewis Center with RCC include the college president, Valerie Roberson, who said a split would create confusion and undermine the authority of RCC’s board of trustees. She said that without RCC to regulate the center, constituent demands on the space would overlap — something that MSTCA members say already is occurring now. Donna Harris-Lewis, Reggie Lewis’ widow, also opposed the bill, saying that remedying the alleged current administrative disorder does not require such a drastic fix as overhauling the management structure. “You’re reinventing the wheel,” Harris-Lewis said, insisting that better communication could be enough to solve the current problems. Sadiki Kambon, facilitator of Friends of Roxbury Community College, also argued against the bill. Kambon said he finds RCC’s administration problematic but fears that a management structure upheaval could allow other forces to take control and remove the center from the community.
Financial health
Roberson argued that the RCC administration has worked diligently to support the Reggie Lewis Center. One example, she said, is that for several years, the college has picked up cost overruns to the tune
of about $200,000 a year. But Frank Mooney, MSTCA executive director, and McDermott, former Reggie Lewis Center director, said they had never heard of such a deficit occurring, and Mooney said that if it is the case, then the center needs better leadership. Others added that splitting away center management would
spare RCC that expense. Kent Taylor of the MSTCA charged the RCC’s struggles with its own finances speak poorly of its ability to improve the Reggie Lewis Center’s finances. Cross-country track and field coach Michael Miller said detaching the center from RCC’s image would improve its ability to attract funders.
Community discussion
Rep. Chynah Tyler opposed the bill, saying it was premature and that there had not been community discussion on it. She also said the situation was too complex for the bill to resolve.
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Valerie Roberson, Roxbury Community College president, said the center would be best served by remaining under RCC management.
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within and outside the force, and it later reached the public. “People already think the police don’t like them,” Rahsaan Hall, director of the racial justice program at the ACLU of Massachusetts, told the Banner. “Many people of color already think the police are racists. There’s this prevailing narrative and view in our communities that the police are not there to serve and protect us. Then we have a video like this come out and it overshadows those officers who are trying to make inroads and overcome perceptions.” On June 15, DeAngelo was put on administrative leave. The BPD recently announced he will be suspended without pay for six months, with another six-months suspension held in abeyance for one year. DeAngelo would also be required to undergo sensitivity training and unconscious bias training and participate in community service.
Sufficient response?
Commissioner Evans told the Banner that meetings with community leaders and DeAngelo’s taking ownership of his guilt factored into BPD decision on punishment. “He’s very remorseful. Very sincere. I met with a lot of community residents in the last two weeks. They agreed he deserved a second chance. They helped me make the decision,” Evans said. “He’s going to meet with community leaders. He’s going to meet with the NAACP, the Urban League.
They’re going to see what kind of kid he is. Six months is severe discipline.” Evans acknowledged that officers already undergo unconscious bias training in the academy. DeAngelo will undergo such training again. However, not everyone feels safe with the idea of DeAngelo returning to the police force, says Larry Ellison, president of the Massachusetts Association Minority Law Enforcement Officers (MAMELO), based on what he has heard from members of the community. “[Those who called in to MAMLEO] felt like, in a lot of ways, their voice is not being heard, and that if this had taken place in other parts of the city or with other detective groups, it would not have been the same,” Ellison told the Banner. DeAngelo’s return presents some risks for how matters will be perceived, should DeAngelo in the future be involved in any incident involving a person of color, Ellison said. “No one [I’ve heard from] has said they’re comfortable with this,” he said. Ellison said that here, the BPD seemed to show a greater willingness to exercise alternative punishments to termination than it traditionally has done for incidents involving officers of color. For some, the incident also calls up memories of former officer Justin Barrett, who called a black professor a “banana-eating jungle monkey” in 2009. Under the administration of then-Mayor Thomas Menino, Barrett was terminated. Mayor Martin Walsh did not respond to a Banner request for
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David Ortiz speaks during the dedication of David Ortiz Drive across from Fenway Park in Boston. comment by press deadline. City Councilor Tito Jackson did not call for the officer’s termination but said whether DeAngelo should return to the district remains to be seen. He told the Banner that DeAngelo deserves to serve the full one-year suspension. “His actions were unacceptable,” Jackson said. “The trust of the police department is paramount in importance to doing the work of the department, and this officer has harmed that trust,
not only from the community, but he has harmed the trust with his fellow officers.”
Departmental issue
The incident also reveals a need for department-level reforms, Jackson said, such as comprehensive implicit bias training for all officers scheduled on a regular basis and a robust civilian review board with greater authority over investigation of internal affairs complaints and cases along with sanctions proposed by the BPD. Tanisha Sullivan, president of the Boston Branch of the NAACP, said that DeAngelo’s actions demonstrate that current efforts to incorporate implicit bias training into the academy are not sufficient. Like Jackson, she called for department-wide racial bias training and expansion of the scope and authority of the Community Ombudsmen Oversight Panel in order to build trust and satisfy community concerns, along with disciplinary action for DeAngelo. “[The incident] tells us is that despite previous efforts to incorporate implicit bias training into the Police Academy, there continues to be an entrenched issue with the racial culture and climate within the BPD specifically and Boston generally,” Sullivan said. The ACLU’s Hall said DeAngelo’s behavior demonstrates issues of culture in the BPD, wherein an officer could believe that such behavior would be acceptable and go unpunished. The persistent racial homogeneity of the force may contribute to such an environment, Hall added, and noted that the incoming police class is 80 percent white. “I’m less concerned about this individual officer’s behavior
than I am about the culture that exists within the department where something like this would happen,” Hall said. Hall said one important measure is for the BPD to take steps to get DeAngelo to comprehend structural racism and to develop his understanding of, and empathy for, the people in the district he intends to serve. “He needs to serve in the communities that he’s policing, not [just] as a police officer but as a volunteer,” Hall said. “He needs to go the Boys and Girls Club and spend some time there. And spend time at a church that has families who are impacted by crimes, and also with the individuals who are accused of the crimes, and understand the complexity and the depth and the history and the beauty and the struggle and the victory that all exists in these communities.”
DeAngelo’s explanation
DeAngelo told superiors that the video was created to tease a fellow officer, the movie’s subject, whom police say they do not believe was aware of or involved in the movie creation. DeAngelo said that his statement on black people was meant as a reference to the fact that both officers work in a primarily African American district, and not meant as a racist attack. In an open apology letter, DeAngleo stated, “To my family, my friends, my police department co-workers who I have embarrassed, and the people of the City of Boston, I offer a deep and sincere apology for the thoughtless, childish, insensitive, and offensive racial references contained in a video I made attempting to poke fun at a longtime friend and coworker.”
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LOOK bill would expand options for teaching English language learners By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
The Massachusetts House in late May voted 151-2 in favor of a bill that would free schools to tailor their approaches to educating English Language Learners, deviating from the current one-size-fits-all method. Since 2002, when the state ballot measure known as Question 2 severely curtailed bilingual education, schools have been required to educate ELL students through an approach known as sheltered English immersion. Under SEI, students are expected to spend one year learning core subjects primarily in English while also receiving instruction on English language acquisition, before moving into s tandard English-language classrooms. Supporters of the Language Opportunity for Our Kids (LOOK) bill say that this timeline and approach may not be effective for all ELL students, whose needs and backgrounds vary widely. For instance, a young student able to read in their own language may not have the same needs as a teenager whose formal education has been interrupted. SEI has not managed to close gaps fully: In 2009, a state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education English Language Learners Subcommittee found that only 20 percent of ELL students attain English
proficiency, and for many it takes five or more years in Massachusetts schools. Requiring students to learn core subjects in a language in which they are not fluent in may damage their academic performance overall. Under the current system, families seeking an alternative to SEI must meet certain strict criteria or seek a waiver. “Our English learner population is diverse, with students of different ages and language and educational backgrounds, and their needs are different,” said Helen Solorzano, executive director of the Massachusetts Educators of English Language Learners, also known as Massachusetts Association of Teachers of Speakers of Other Languages (MATSOL), and a member of the Language Opportunity Coalition steering committee. “Currently only 2% of districts offer alternative programs.” Such alternative programs could include options such as dual language programs, or transitional bilingual education. An earlier version of the LOOK bill, filed by Rep. Jeffrey Sánchez, cleared the House and Senate last year but legislators failed to reconcile the different versions before the legislative session ended. Now legislators are trying again. With the bill having passed in the House, eyes turn to the Senate, where legislators are considering a similar
bill, based on the version filed by Sen. Sal DiDomenico that passed in the Senate last year. Solorzano said MATSOL is hopeful that the bill will become enacted this time, thanks to “an increased understanding that we must do more to address the needs of English learners.” The current LOOK bill establishes a 17-person commission charged with collecting
ELL data, disseminating that information, and making recommendations for improvements. To engage families more effectively, English Learner Parent Advisory Councils would be established for any district that has more than 100 ELL students or in which more than 5 percent of the student population is ELL. Districts would be able to submit for state approval their own ELL education program plans, and the waiver process for parents to opt their children out of SEI would be expanded. Additionally, current reporting requirements on ELL
students’ academic progress would be strengthened. Transitional bilingual education once was more widely utilized, but the 2002 state ballot vote ushered in a requirement that public school students be taught all subjects in English and placed in English-language classrooms whenever possible. The law mandated that public school teachers should not speak a language other than English in their classrooms for extended periods of time. Advocates of this change had stated belief that it would result in quicker English acquisition.
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A fresh start in business Teacherentrepreneur serves up fish in Uphams Corner
On a given afternoon at Dudley’s Seafood Market in Dorchester, owner Cassandra Morgan can be found working the cash register, helping to cook and serve up seafood combo plates with sides of cole slaw, fries and plantains, advising customers on fresh fish selection and keeping the shop clean. “We pride ourselves on being very clean. It doesn’t smell like a seafood market,” she says of the bright, narrow shop, painted white and lined with display cases of live lobsters and crabs and whole fish ready to be cleaned and cut to order. The kitchen is in the back, behind a light blue accent wall. The compact space at 744 Dudley St. has a few bright red chairs and two wood tables that fold out from the wall for inside seating when needed, but most customers come in for meals-to-go or fresh seafood to cook at home. A typical day’s selection is likely to contain whole grouper, porgy, red snapper, jackfish and tilapia and filets of whiting and salmon. A chalkboard lists many other fish types she can stock on request.
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Morgan did not grow up planning to be a seafood expert. In fact, she has degrees in sociology and educational technology and has worked for 15 years as a Boston Public Schools math and special education teacher, currently at Dorchester’s McCormack Middle School. But even while pursuing her professional career, the business ownership urge persisted. The idea for a seafood market came early last year when she drove past a shuttered fast-food restaurant site on Blue Hill Avenue. It sparked a question: Was there room for a healthier food business in the area? “I decided to start looking into it,” she says. “I’d been doing research on eating healthy, and I feel seafood is adding something healthy to the community.” With a full-time job and her three children grown and mostly on their own, Morgan felt she had some freedom to take on the financial risk and labor of starting a brick-and-mortar business. She began soaking up information
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Dorchester native Cassandra Morgan opened Dudley’s Seafood Market last September at 744 Dudley St. The market offers a variety of whole fish for sale, ready to be cleaned and cut to order.
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continued from page 10 from the fishmongers at Boston Fish Pier, who helped educate her on which types of fish to carry, and from her own staff members who knew how to clean and cut seafood. “I had to learn everything,” she says. “But I like to do different things, so it’s natural for me to take this on.” During the school year she worked a double shift, heading to the fish market after a day of teaching. Behind the scenes and often from home, she handled purchasing, keeping the books and starting to build the market’s social media presence.
Building a space, serving a community
Before opening the market last September, Morgan and her team spent the summer transforming the former retail store into a food establishment. They saved money at every possible step by scouring Craigslist and eBay for equipment, even traveling to Georgia to pick up some large items found on eBay. “We had to get a walk-in cooler and display cases,” she says. “A lobster tank. A cash register system. We had to put a floor in, get a handwash sink in and a mop closet — we basically built the whole space out. But we were frugal and got some really good deals.” Uphams Corner is home to Cape Verdean, West Indian and African American populations
as well as a growing white presence. To cater to various cuisines, the market offers favorites such as strawberry grouper, porgy, kingfish, catfish and salmon. One of her team members who is Puerto Rican added seafood-stuffed pastelitos to the menu. Morgan herself has Southern family roots, and fish and grits will be part of a new breakfast menu. Her entrepreneurial and teaching lives are not totally separated. Many of her McCormack students live in the neighborhood, and they’ll pop in to say hello or come in with their families to buy fish, she says. At school, she sees an opportunity be a role model, showing students that business ownership is achievable and can be combined with other careers.
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If she had it to over again, she says she might seek a space that’s food business-ready instead of having to build it out from scratch, though she was able to survive the time lag of getting the shop set up. Her main advice to would-be entrepreneurs is to not underestimate startup costs. “Everything seems cheaper on paper,” she says. “When people tell you you won’t always anticipate the true costs, they’re right. You have to add about 30 percent more to what you think it will cost.” Dudley’s Seafood Market seems to be filling a need in the neighborhood. The business racked up 630 customer transactions in a recent month, more than needed to break even. Now, Morgan would like to
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On June 28, 2017, Wayne Budd and Jacqueline “Jacqui” Budd were honored with Eastern Bank’s 2017 Community Advocacy Award for their commitment to advocating for freedom and justice for the African American community. Eastern Bank Chairman and CEO Bob Rivers announced at the event that the Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation is making a $10,000 donation to Dress for Success Boston in their honor. The event was held in celebration of Juneteenth at the Museum of African American History. Pictured, from left: Bob Rivers, Eastern Bank Chairman and CEO; Jacqui Budd; Kimberly Todd, Executive Director of Dress for Success; Wayne Budd; and Quincy Miller, Eastern Bank President and Vice Chairman
triple that number. With school out, Morgan will have some time over the summer to catch her breath and push forward on a few plans. She hopes to acquire a stove necessary for offering steamed seafood, a lighter
alternative to fried. Other ideas include creating recipe cards, organizing a sushi night and partnering with Amazon Fresh to offer delivery. “Our visibility has to increase, and we have to continue to offer
what our customers want,” she says. “We want to be knowledgeable about what we offer, and we want to be clean and fresh and offer phenomenal customer service. Hopefully, we’ll become a name and a logo people recognize.”
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2017 Toast to Tom May Chairman of Eversource Energy Power, Purpose, Partnership, Progress Whittier Street Health Center’s 2017 annual fundraiser was a rousing success, as Tom May was honored by the Toast Committee to raise funds to support Whittier’s programs and services. Event attendees enjoyed a celebratory evening full of reflection and steel drum music.
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Venice Biennale The international contemporary art show on view through Nov. 26
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Shakespeare, race and America — not necessarily in that order — are explored as AUDELCO award-winning “American Moor” takes the stage at the Boston Center for the Arts’ Plaza Theatre this summer for a four-week engagement. The 85-minute solo play, written and performed by Keith Hamilton Cobb, “American Moor” examines the experience and perspective of black men in America through the metaphor of William Shakespeare’s character, Othello.
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topias, dreams, losses, memories and hard truths all have a place in the carnival midway that is the Venice Biennale, which every two years for more than a century has turned its host city on the Adriatic into a showcase of both the state of contemporary art and the state of the world. The 57th edition opened in May and remains on view until November 26, providing a sampling of spectacles from 86 countries and 120 artists, including 103 first-time participants. Some works occupy the permanent pavilions of 30 nations in the Giardini, a forested park along the Venetian Lagoon. Still more fill the cavernous Arsenale, where Venice built its ships during the 12th through 18th centuries, when it ruled the Mediterranean in trade and military might. A big draw is the pavilion of Germany, which received the Golden Lion, the Biennale’s the top prize, for its portrayal of angst. Frankfurt-based artist Anne Imhof, 39, gutted the large structure, transforming it into a glass house with transparent walls and floors that offers visitors views of each other and, underfoot, a spare assortment of cast-off objects suggesting the left-behind possessions of young drifters, including a guitar, shell casings, eating utensils, clothing and a sleeping mat. At scheduled intervals, a cadre of young actors accompanied by Doberman Pinschers marches in unison and strikes sculpted poses, as if in an edgy fashion show. More connected to the real world is the installation by Mark Bradford in the US pavilion, a structure modeled on Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia mansion, Monticello, complete with Doric columns. A MacArthur genius award recipient, Bradford turns the pavilion into a symbol of ruin, starting with its courtyard, which he filled with debris and a cement slab inscribed with a Greek poem about Hephaestus, the god of the forge. Hero of artists and outsiders, the god was cast off Mount Olympus for his singular flaw — a lame foot. As visitors enter the first of five galleries, they squeeze around a massive, blotchy structure entitled “Spoiled Foot.” The pavilion’s elegant rotunda is now a raw grotto, coated with black and gold coils of bleached paper.
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Why is the play called “American Moor”? Keith Hamilton Cobb: It is a riff on Shakespeare’s play “Othello.” Moor is a person who was not white. In our country and American culture, there is a need to have someone to point at. Someone who is not better than us, to say is the root of the problem. Basically using them as a scapegoat. This issue is not just happening in the black community, but crosses all lines of gender, sexuality and color.
What are the advantages and limitations of doing a one-man show? PHOTO: JOSHUA WHITE/COURTESY THE ARTIST AND HAUSER & WIRTH
Above: Mark Bradford, “Tomorrow Is Another Day,” La Biennale di Venezia, US Pavilion, Venice, Italy, 2017. Below: Sheila Hicks, “Escalade Beyond Chromatic Lands,” 2016-17, mixed media, natural and synthetic fibres, cloth, slate, bamboo, 6 x 16 x 4 m, installation view, Arsenale, 57th Venice Biennale.
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More connected to the real world is the installation by Mark Bradford in the US pavilion, a structure modeled on Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia mansion, Monticello, complete with Doric columns. A MacArthur genius award recipient, Bradford turns the pavilion into a symbol of ruin ... ”
KHC: The advantage is that it is a one-man show and I only have to deal with myself. The limitations are that it is a one-man show. I have to do all the work, so
See COBB, page 14
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Triggered: One-man show reveals reality of abuse By CELINA COLBY
On July 20, actor and filmmaker Keith Mascoll will host a live rehearsal of his latest project, “Triggered,” at the Dudley Public Library. The one-man show starring Mascoll and directed by John Oluwole ADEkoje, discusses the experience of black men who have survived abusive relationships. “It’s an issue in the black community that a lot of men and boys are dealing with,”
says Mascoll. “It’s time for men to be open, and to heal.” Mascoll and ADEkoje have been working on the project with Dr. Martin Pierre, a staff psychologist at Brandeis University Counseling Center. His clinical research focuses on the impact of trauma and race-related stress on people of color. Mascoll received a Boston Foundation L.A.B. grant for the performance. The show is in the development stages and the first open-rehearsal was held
at Dudley Library on June 26. “Triggered” centers on a main character named Malik who is struggling with the psychological after-effects of abuse. Since the open-rehearsal, the team has decided that Malik will be having a dialogue with Mascoll as himself. The actor, an abuse survivor, will play both parts. The open-rehearsal, workshop-style preparation of the piece is an unusual and wonderful
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continued from page 13 it can be emotionally draining — no place to go, to hide or to catch my breath.
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KHC: I would love to give you a hopeful answer, but it’s difficult. It ends when we just evolve out of it. It ends when other things become more important to us. I believe we will reach a point in our history when it will finally happen. Until then, we should continue to stand
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Keith Mascoll, here with Yvonne Murphy, is starring in “Triggered,” a one-man show that delves into issues of trauma. up for what is right and have the tough conversations needed to help facilitate change.
all need to continue to ask ourselves, “How can I love, care, or embrace each other better?”
What is your deepest desire for the world?
What is the message with which you are hoping the audience will leave the show?
KHC: If I could have a superpower, it would be the power of healing. I fear for this world. It is horribly broken. I would love to fix America. We can’t build a great culture on something that is broken. We need to have more honest conversation in order to make this a better place to live. We are injured. There are no survivors in the creation of America. Instead of growing, we hide. We
KHC: What I give them is this play, what they take away is up to them. I want them to walk away thinking, “This is what I learned. What am I going to change or what am I going to do?” Make it their own story by what they have experienced in life. To generate a discussion and see it through the lens of your own experience and the experiences of others.
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continued from page 13 Black and gay, Bradford often addresses intolerance and injustice in his semi-abstract works, many composed of end papers used by his late mother, the owner of a beauty salon, to straighten her clients’ hair. Her salon is now part of his studio in South Los Angeles, where he runs a project engaging vulnerable youth in art projects. In Venice, Bradford has developed and funded a six-year program that trains and employs inmates in two local prisons to produce luxury accessories, preparing them for life after release.
Imagined past
An outsider’s perspective is also rendered in the Australia pavilion, where Tracey Moffatt, an artist of mixed-race heritage, creates suggestive dramas evoking the Aborigine experience. In her series of large-format photographs entitled “My Horizon,” she portrays herself wearing mourning earrings and attired in a maid’s uniform, honoring the livelihood of her mother and grandmother, as she visits barren landscapes. Her haunting video, “The White Ghosts Sailed In,” simulates a grainy reproduction of a video showing the headlands of Sidney Harbor, where in the 18th century, ships carrying convicts expelled from England first entered the
country, setting in motion a migration of European settlers that claimed Aborigine lands. Vancouver-based Geoffrey Farmer turns Canada’s pavilion into an installation that intertwines stories of his family with the history of Canada, which this year celebrates its 150th anniversary. Entitled “A way out of the mirror,” the ensemble of water works and evocative objects evokes personal losses as well as Canada’s epic narrative, including construction of its transcontinental railroad. Farmer exploits the site, currently roofless as it undergoes renovation, and its leafy view of the Venetian basin and incoming ships, as a setting for lyrical water sculptures and objects laden with personal and national meaning — including a vintage clock from Vancouver, a hammer, tools and, carved into a weeping stone, lines from a poem by Alan Ginsberg mourning the death of his mother, “Kaddish.” Waterworks spout, spray, and leap and the centerpiece, a geyser, shoots skyward and falls in a grand cascade.
Northern perspective
Looming over a corner of the South Korea pavilion is Cody Choi’s satirical neon fantasia, “Venetian Rhapsody,” complete with an Asian tiger and blinking disco lights. Inside the pavilion is a poignant installation by another young Korean artist, Lee Wan, who evokes the life of a fictional Korean everyman,
Mr. K, through a meticulous display of the man’s possessions and photographs spanning decades of dictatorship, war and economic rebirth. Finland’s unassuming, tentlike pavilion, designed by renowned Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, is a viewing gallery for a bracingly funny show entitled “The Aalto Natives.” Surrounding the audience with four videos and giant, muppet-like puppets, this production by UK-born Nathaniel Mellors and Finn Erkka Nissinen satirizes Finland’s resilient social democracy and such quirks as its love of herring, as well as broader preoccupations such as the origin of life and the meaning of human existence.
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As Egypt endures a failed revolution and the return of violent political repression, artist Moataz Nasr gives voice to his country’s abiding desire for a better future through a video folk tale performed by a cast of more than 100 actors and citizens. Entering Egypt’s modernist pavilion, visitors step into a rural setting, with straw and sand underfoot and a wooden railing encircling the seats. Projected on five screens in a 135-degree arc that simulates an expansive mountain landscape, his gorgeous 12minute film, “The Mountain,” tells the story of a young girl who challenges her village’s fear of going outside after sunset,
a superstition that has turned them into prisoners within their own homes.
Individuals
Some pavilions highlight individual artists. Romania devotes its galleries to an enchanting retrospective of venerated artist Geta Bratescu, 91. Featuring works on paper, videos, and photographs spanning six decades, the show includes this pioneering artist’s surrealistic drawings, illustrations of fairy tales, and multimedia experiments — many infused with her searching female perspective. Among the highlights is a self-portrait, “Lady Oliver in Traveling Costume” (1980-2012), in which she photographs herself embracing her mother’s Oliver typewriter as if it were part of her. In the vast chambers of the Arsenale, a quietly compelling series of small prints depicting a whale unit by Inuit artist Kananginak Pootoogook (1935-2010), holds its own. A monumental stack of colorful yarn globes by Nebraska-born Sheila Hicks, 83 (“Escalade Beyond Chromatic Lands,” 2016–17) fills a 50’ wall. In the Italian Pavilion, a trio of artists turns an entire wing of the Arsenale into a brooding exploration of the occult. Entitled “Il Mondo Magico,” their works include a mirrored ceiling that reflects an enormous pool of water and corpse-like figures undergoing alchemical transformation, defying death.
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innovation in the Boston theater scene. Not only does it allow viewers to witness, and even be involved in, the making of the art, it provides a forum for survivors to connect with others who have experienced trauma. Mascoll says that sexual abuse on men isn’t something that’s discussed in most households. He hopes that viewers will come away from “Triggered” knowing there is support available to them. Mascoll is a full-time actor and filmmaker. His film “Confused by Love” was shown at both the Las Vegas Film Festival and the Hollywood Film Festival and is now available on Amazon Prime. His films, like his theater work, feature African American talent and delve into the black experience. Mascoll traveled to Cannes, France to debut “Confused” at the Pan African Film Festival last year. He says the experience was eye-opening. The French attitude to art and black art especially was much more celebratory than that of Boston. A Cambridge native, part of Mascoll’s mission is to bring artists of color into the forefront of the local art scene. He co-founded the Front Porch Arts Collective, a performing arts group that tells stories from the perspective of black and brown artists. “We want to see more stories of color being told. We don’t just want to watch them, we want to tell them ourselves,” says Mascoll.
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hen it comes to eating healthy, the importance of a good vinaigrette cannot be overstated. Among the many competing nutritional paradigms to believe, raw leaves are never shunned. None of the diets that focus on carbohydrate, fat and protein have any problem with raw leaves. Nor do clans like Paleo or vegan, or fads with names too silly to print. Even Dr. Atkins ate leaves. Raw greens deliver a broader spectrum of nutrients than cooked because raw greens are alive, with functioning enzymes and uncooked proteins. The most negative thing that anybody has ever said about raw leaves is they don’t care to eat them. And cooks respond to this objection by adding evermore non-leafy materials. That’s why I’ve been distinguishing “raw leaves and greens,” rather than just saying “salad,” which has become a code word for “whatever you really want to eat, atop plant parts.” Croutons, dried fruit, extra protein and other toppings are weighing down the salads of America, and the raw leaves are getting suffocated and left behind.
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It’s one thing to avoid adding a bunch of unnecessary business to your raw leaves, but making them taste good is another matter. Bottled salad dressing can be as disappointing as it is expensive, and can be so rich that if you were to eat a big salad, which you should, then you would be consuming a lot of calories from dressing. Even the fancy ones can have cheap ingredients, or empty oils
like soy, canola, corn or safflower. When you dress from a bottle, you dress with stabilizers, preservatives and sugars like maltodextrin that don’t sound like sugar but are just as bad, if not worse. It makes all the sense in the world to spend your money on good ingredients. Mostly, this means good olive oil. A good vinaigrette often sounds like a great idea, but in practice, mixing your own oil and vinegar can result in a less satisfying salad than had you just dumped some bottled Italian on your foliage. A proper homemade dressing won’t upstage your leaves or fill you up like bottled dressing often does. And you can make it with the finest ingredients available and still save money. Included are two easy vinaigrette recipes that will turn a pile of leaves into something more satisfying. These recipes need to be stirred well and tossed into the salad. You can’t leave it in a bottle on the table and let people dress their own, because it will have separated. Alternatively, you can dip your leaves into the dressing, like my wife does. She created these recipes, so she should know. She’ll toss a vinaigrette into a salad if we are having company; otherwise she dips. We all do, now.
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Her vinaigrettes use the following ingredients: n Extra virgin olive oil: It has to be good stuff, at a price where you can afford to dump it on. My favorite is California Ranch. It’s cheaper than almost any so-called specialty oil, and superior. Where I shop, Lucini is a comparable Italian option. A fine XVOO will offer its own range of bitterness, and form a bond with the bitterness of the greenery. n Four kinds of acid: Vinegar is the
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SOY SAUCE VINAIGRETTE n 2 parts XVOO n 1 part soy sauce n 1 part vinegar (the vinegar part being an equal mix of apple cider, balsamic and white balsamic) Mix well with a fork or a whisk. Test by dipping a leaf. Adjust the proportions to taste. Toss into a salad and go. SALT VINAIGRETTE One serving: (Use the same proportions for larger batches) n 2 tablespoons XVOO n 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon or lime juice n 1 tablespoon white balsamic n ¼ teaspoon salt Mix the dressing well. Pour into the salad, toss and serve.
back bone of a vinaigrette. You can’t even say “vinaigrette” without saying “vinegar.” Diversity in the acid department brings complexity, depth of flavor and mystery. For these recipes we’ll need apple cider vinegar, balsamic vinegar and white balsamic vinegar (aka white Modena vinegar and white Italian condiment. If this can’t can’t be found, seek another dry vinegar made from white grapes, like sherry or Champagne vinegar. Alternatively, rice vinegar.) The fourth acid is lime or lemon juice. n Sodium: Salt is the most overlooked and easiest pitfall for the novice vinaigrette-maker to remedy. These two recipes are distinguished by their use of soy sauce or salt crystals.
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If your herb garden is producing far more yield than necessary for your daily cooking needs, drying is the best way to preserve herbs for future use. The National Center for Home Food Preservation recommends: n For sturdier herbs like rosemary, sage, thyme, summer savory and parsley tie them into small bundles and hang them to air-dry. Better color and flavor retention usually result from drying indoors. n Basil, oregano, tarragon, lemon balm and the mints have a high moisture content and will mold if not dried quickly. Hang inside paper bags to dry. Tear or punch holes in the sides of the bag. Suspend a small bunch of herbs in a bag and close the top with a rubber band.
EASY RECIPE Fun combos for fruit-topped toast To enjoy fruit flavors on toast, there’s no need to reach for the jar of overly sweetened jam. Here are some innovative toast combinations from the California Strawberry Commission: n Avocado, sliced strawberries, queso fresco finished with a drizzle of olive oil n Berries, fresh mint or basil leaves and cream cheese n Strawberries, goat cheese, pomegranate seeds topped with a drizzle of balsamic vinegar n Cottage cheese, strawberries, walnuts and honey n Mangos, strawberries, sliced mozzarella and a sprinkle of Tajin seasoning
GRILL TIPS Weeknights are for grilling thanks to this recipe This chicken entree from the American Barbecue Association is grill-ready for a quick and relaxing weeknight meal. UNBELIEVABLE CHICKEN n¼ cup cider vinegar n 3 tablespoons prepared coarseground mustard n 3 cloves garlic, peeled and minced n 1 lime, juiced n ½ lemon, juiced n ½ cup brown sugar n 1 ½ teaspoons salt n Ground black pepper to taste n 6 tablespoons olive oil n 6 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves In a large glass bowl, mix the cider vinegar, mustard, garlic, lime juice, lemon juice, brown sugar, salt and pepper. Whisk in the olive oil. Place chicken in the mixture. Cover and marinate 8 hours. Preheat an outdoor grill for high heat. Lightly oil the grill grate. Place chicken on the grill, cook 6 to 8 minutes per side, until juices run clear. Discard marinade. — Brandpoint
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1 Person - $54,750 2 Persons - $62,550 3 Persons - $70,350 4 Persons - $78,150 5 Persons - $84,450 6 Persons - $90,700 7 Persons - $96,950 8 Persons - $103,200
*Rents are listed as net, after current utility allowance. Maximum Income per Household Size (HUD) 2016 Limits
HH Size
30% of AMI
60% of AMI
HH Size
30% AMI
60%AMI
1 Person
$18,960
$37,920
4 Person
$27,060
$54,120
2 Person
$21,660
$43,320
5 Person
$29,250
$58,500
3 Person
$24,360
$48,720
6 Person
$31,410
$62,820
Asset Limitation $75,000, as defined in application packet Other Restrictions Apply
INFORMATION MEETING: Sherborn Town Hall, 7/24/2017, 6-8PM
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Applications and Information Packet with additional details at: Sherborn Public Library Sherborn Town Hall 3 Sanger St (Temp Location) Board of Selectmen’s Office
Applications will be Available June 26, 2017 thru July 25, 2017 at the following Locations: Bourne United Methodist Church, 37 Sandwich Rd., Bourne, MA 02532, Mon, Tues, Wed, & Fri 9:30 am to 4:30 pm Simpkins School Residences, 134 Old Main Street, South Yarmouth, MA 02664, weekdays 1 pm to 3 pm Manomet Place, 170 Riverside Avenue, New Bedford, MA 02746, Mon/Thurs/Fri 1 pm to 3 pm Bourne Council on Aging, 239 Main Street, Bourne, MA 02532, weekdays 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Bourne Town Hall, Clerks Office on 24 Perry Avenue, Buzzards Bay, MA 02532, weekdays 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Bourne Housing Authority, 871 Shore Road, Pocasset, MA 02559, weekdays 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Housing Assistance Corporation, 460 Main Street, #1, Hyannis, MA 02601, weekdays 9 am to 5 pm Informational and Lottery Public Meetings Wednesday, July 5, 2017 at 10 am Wednesday, July 12, 2017 at 6 pm Bourne United Methodist Church, 37 Sandwich Rd., Bourne, MA 02532 Bourne Community Building, Room 1, 239 Main Street, Bourne, MA, 02532 Lottery Jonathan Bourne Public Library, 19 Sandwich Road, Bourne MA 02532 Tuesday, August 1, 2017, at 2 pm Lottery – Public Welcome, applicants are not required to be present Applications must be mailed to: P.O. Box 3026, Bourne, MA 02532 Fax to: 508-672-0466 or Email to: coadyschool@winnco.com
Submission of an application will not guarantee housing for occupancy, there will be a screening process. Once the initial lease up has been completed, your housing application lottery placement number will become your waitlist number for future occupancy. Only completed and signed applications will be considered for the Lottery. Anticipated occupancy is September 2017. A Smoke Free Community! For more information or reasonable accommodations, call COADY SCHOOL RESIDENCES at (774)338-4800, TTY/TDD: (800) 439-2370, or email coadyschool@winnco.com Equal Housing Opportunity updated 6/22/17
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Community Center Director
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The Town of Randolph is seeking a highly qualified individual to lead the Town’s new Intergenerational Community Center. The Director’s responsibilities include: overseeing daily operations of the facility, developing a marketing strategy, coordinating activities, and managing the annual budget. Bachelor’s degree in related field, with master’s degree preferred, as well as at least five years management in public recreation, elder services, or closely related field. One to two years experience working in a community recreation facility desired but not required. Experience managing large scale events/programs in a community setting. The salary range for this position is $54,403-$70,275. Full job description and application can be found at www.Randolph-Ma.Gov. All interested candidates should send their resume and cover letter to MCraig@Randolph-ma.gov with “Community Center Director” as the subject line, before July 11th 2017. The Town of Randolph is an EOE Employer
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Re: Harmon Street Apartments When: Tue July 18, 2017 Where: Codman Sq. Health Ctr. @Great Hall Function Room 6 Norfolk Street, Dorchester, MA 02124 Time: 3-6pm Union Construction Workers, Minorities, Females and Section 8 residents are encouraged to apply
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Or Write To: JTE Realty Associates, LLC, P. O. Box 955, North Andover, Ma.01845 Or e-mail: whitney@jterealtyassociates.com MAILING ADDRESS MUST BE PROVIDED 978-258-3492
Application Deadline Received by 8/29/2017
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Executive Director Description: The Framingham (MA) Housing Authority is seeking highly qualified and experienced applicants for the position of Executive Director. The Executive Director is responsible for the management of 713 State conventional public housing units, 110 Tax Credit Units, 235 Federal Public Housing Units, 983 Section 8 units, an MRVP Program and two (2) non-profit housing corporations. The candidate must be familiar with both Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) Requirements and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Federal Housing Programs. Qualifications: n A Bachelor’s Degree plus Eight (8) years’ experience in housing management, community development, public administration, or a combination of education, training, and experience in Public Housing which provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the essential functions of the job. A Master’s Degree in a related field is desirable. n Five (5) years in a significant supervisory or management capacity at a public housing authority or other similar experience. The preferred candidate must have demonstrated ability to successfully manage a staff of ten (10) or more for at least one (1) year. n Working knowledge of fiscal management, including grant procurement, maintenance systems, personnel and administrative management systems in public or private housing. n Excellent written and oral communication skills, proven leadership ability, and skills necessary to provide management consultation, guidance and advise to officials on a broad range of public housing programs. n Possess a Public Housing Managers (PHM) certification from accredited organization as recognized by HUD or DHCD or obtain within one (1) year of employment. Also, must be bondable. n Demonstrate sensitivity to the problems and concerns of resident groups and the needs of people of various socio-economic backgrounds. Start date: To be determined Salary range: Salary is commensurate with experience and education, and will include excellent benefits in accordance with DHCD and HUD guidelines. Location: Framingham, MA Instructions: The candidates will be subject to certain qualifications verifications prior to employment. More detailed information will be required of applicants that advance to the next level of consideration. Submit a cover letter and resume by emailing to: Jbibo@framha.org The deadline for receipt of applications is July 25, 2017 at 12 noon EST. Late applications will not be accepted. The Framingham Housing Authority is an EOE.