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Walsh won’t promise to enact full program, will wait on study By JULE PATTISON-GORDON PHOTO: RICHARD HEATH

Patricia Chalinaru Dones (right), representing a Taino native, gives her blessing to the Cabin/Praise House created by artist/performer Ife Franklin (left) Sunday, Sept. 10 at Franklin Park.

What does it take to re-energize Dudley Sq? Business changes spark questions on the district’s needs By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

The storefront at a prominent corner junction near the Dudley Square transit hub has transformed from an Afrocentric goods and convenience store to a check cashing operation. The replacement of a culturally-focused store with a business that generally serves low-income clients with few other financial options raises questions about the shape Dudley Square’s business

future will take. PLS Check Cashers already was in the area, but shifted location when A Nubian Notion shuttered. According to Rodney Singleton, a resident long active in the community, a check casher does not help community members advance. He says the area would be better served by a hardware store, dry cleaners, bank or credit union. “Why is it that our community always gets the check cashing storefronts? It’s either a dollar store, MetroPCS or check

cashing. We don’t seem to aim high when it comes to storefronts or businesses in our community,” Singleton said. He argues that there are enough local dollars to support other economic options and therefore tenants. He underscores his point by citing the tendency of many to spend outside the district for groceries, as well as the robust sales of Black Market, a recently opened space that regularly

See DUDLEY SQUARE, page 10

The Boston Police Department’s body-worn camera pilot program came to a close on Monday, with its future unclear. While activist Segun Idowu says the police could — and should — roll out a formal program, Mayor Martin Walsh declined to commit to full body camera implementation in Boston. Instead, he said, he would review the pilot program data to inform his next actions. “My administration is committed to looking at what happens with the program,” Walsh told the Banner. “It’s my understanding that the program went really well —that we didn’t have any concerns with it, meaning there were no big problems. We’ll look at the information and see what we need to do here.” He later provided a statement to the Banner suggesting his thinking on use of the devices remains exploratory. “We want to be sure any new investment in public safety supports the transformative progress we have made in community

policing,” he said. “We look forward to learning more about the role body cameras can play in advancing this progress.” A spokesperson for the mayor said that a preliminary analysis of the pilot is expected to be completed within two to three months. Dr. Anthony Braga of Northeastern University is charged with conducting the independent review, which will include a cost-benefit analysis. Police spokesperson Mike McCarthy stated in 2016 that the pilot’s success would be evaluated based on factor such as costs, complaints received and impact on community relations. Activists have faced a lengthy battle to get to this point. Boston Police Camera Action Team, formed in 2014, pushed for several years to get a body a camera program enacted. In 2016, the city agreed to test one out. After overcoming police union resistance that delayed the program’s start, a six-month pilot was launched in Sept. 2016, and later extended to a full year in order to capture more data. One hundred officers were equipped with cameras.

See BODY CAMERAS, page 6

Re-writing Boston’s history of slavery Efforts underway to change historic names By YAWU MILLER

Dorchester activist Kevin Peterson wants Boston to remove Peter Faneuil’s name from the iconic building he built for the city in 1742. Roxbury activist Sadiki Kambon is calling for the city to strike the name “Dudley” from Roxbury’s commercial center and replace it with the name “Nubian Square.” These renaming efforts come as municipal leaders in cities across

the South are bringing down statues of Confederate generals who fought to uphold slavery in the Civil War. Peterson and Kambon are seeking their respective name changes for similar reasons: Peter Faneuil was a slave trader and Dudley family members are believed to have owned slaves. “The name Faneuil Hall is an odious symbol that reflects historical lies,” Peterson says. “The lie is that Faneuil Hall is a cradle of liberty. It is, in fact, a place that has a

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www.middlepassageproject.org substantial link to the enslavement of other people.” The National Park Service, whose rangers give guided tours of the building, makes no secret of the fact that Peter Faneuil, a wealthy colonial merchant, derived much of his wealth from the trans-Atlantic slave trade — and built Faneuil Hall with the proceeds.

See FANEUIL HALL, page 8

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The crypt in which eight members of the Dudley family’s remains are entombed in the Eliot Burying Ground. Legend has it that the pewter memorial that once graced the top was melted down to make bullets during the Revolutionary War.

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Defying the odds: Dr. Thomas William Patrick and his successful school of pharmacy By ANTHONY W. NEAL

In defiant disregard of late nineteenth-century racial attitudes and Boston’s racial demographics, Dr. Thomas William Patrick founded the profitable Patrick School of Pharmacy and wrote two highly regarded textbooks on prescription writing. Born November 11, 1872, in Haiti, he was the son of Caroline DeWitz Patrick and William Andrew Patrick, a teacher, clergyman and saddle-maker for the general staff of the Haitian military establishment. His family moved to Trinidad, British West Indies, when he was still a child. There he began the study of pharmacy in 1885, his father having apprenticed him to one of the pharmacists on the island. After completing six years of study and acquiring his license in pharmacy, seeking greater economic opportunity, Patrick immigrated to America, arriving in Boston on May 10, 1892. He initially found a home at 31 Phillips Street in the West End. After just three months in the city, Patrick took and passed the Massachusetts State Board of Pharmacy examination. The number of black pharmacists in the country at that time was relatively small. A few months later, he found employment with the firm of E. L. Patch Company,

pharmaceutical chemists in Boston. That same year, 1892, he began to tutor students desiring to take the state board examination in pharmacy. By the end of the year, Patrick’s keen foresight, ceaseless energy, and audacious ambition led him to formally establish the Patrick School of Pharmacy at 19 Essex Street in downtown Boston. For his school, he adopted the slogan “If you study at Patrick’s School of Pharmacy, you won’t fail.” Shortly after, he established his own apothecary at 13 Blossom Street. At a time when African Americans made up less than 2 percent of Boston’s population, it never occurred to Patrick that there was anything exceptional in a black man starting a school of pharmacy in a city where there was no chance of creating a black student body. In fact, during the school’s first five years of existence, no black student enrolled. Over the course of more than forty years as a tutor and teacher of pharmacy, Patrick trained about five thousand pharmacy students—almost all of them white. Most were either foreign-born or the children of immigrants. Among his school’s graduates were four members of the Massachusetts State Board of Examiners in Pharmacy, a treasurer of the City of Boston, an ex-mayor of New Bedford, and other men of distinction. Not

only did Patrick teach classes in his school, but he also created correspondence courses that reached students all over the United States.

Continuing education

Patrick enrolled at the Boston College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1892 as well, graduating with a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1894. He passed the New York State Board of Pharmacy examination in 1897. The doctor thought that in the field of pharmacy his color was no obstacle to success. “I have conducted or taken charge of several drugstores in different parts of Boston,” Patrick remarked in 1897, “and here let me venture an opinion: The belief that some proprietors have, that their customers would cease their patronage were a colored man employed to do all that is comprehended in the term of pharmacist, is a belief more imaginary than real.” He added, “I have never had any unpleasant or reflective remark made to or about me as to my color.” Patrick became a United States citizen on October 1, 1903. That year, he presented a paper before the National Negro Business League’s fourth annual conference in Nashville, titled, “The Negro in Pharmacy and as Druggist.” In 1906, he published, Patrick’s Course in

(left) Thomas William Patrick. (right) Pioneering pharmacist Thomas William Patrick opened a school of pharmacy in 1892 on Essex Street, in present-day Chinatown. Pharmacy, and later wrote the book, Essentials of Prescription Compounding, which had long been a standard text in the pharmacy field. In 1909, he presented a paper in Boston at the eleventh annual session of the National Medical Association, entitled, “The Pharmacist in His Relation to the Physician and the Public.” In 1904, Patrick purchased a house at 129 Centre Street, Roxbury, and on November 2, 1905, he married 28-year-old Helena Irene Wilson, a Barbadian. She gave birth to a daughter, Charlotte Elizabeth Patrick, on August 3, 1906, and to a son, Thomas William Patrick Jr., on September 17, 1908. Thomas Jr. earned a bachelor’s degree from

Harvard University, a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Berlin, and eventually became a pediatrician in New York City. Patrick moved his school of pharmacy to 699 Washington Street, and finally, to his home at 129 Centre Street by 1920. His daughter, Mrs. Charlotte E. Gridiron, recalled in 1979, “My father’s school was always crowded. Cars were always lined up on the street in front of our house.” Dr. Patrick operated his school until 1937. He was a member of the Bay State Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Association. He died in a Roxbury rest home on March 5, 1953, after a brief illness.

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Mandela, MA and the bid to separate from Boston By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

This Thursday, Epicenter Community convenes a talk and reflection on a dramatic point in local history — the late-1980s effort by some in Boston’s black communities to detach their neighborhoods from Boston and form a new city. The idea was formally posed in 1986, in the form of a nonbinding ballot question. Despite the fact that it was intended to gauge the sentiments of residents in the proposed neighborhoods and would not of itself create a new city, the measure nonetheless was fiercely opposed by then-Mayor Raymond Flynn. “It’s a great grassroots campaign story,” said Malia Lazu, president of Epicenter Community. “The campaign reads like a Who’s Who of Roxbury history, from Mel King to Byron Rushing to Sarah-Anne Shaw.” The envisioned new city, originally dubbed the Greater Roxbury Incorporation Project and later retitled “Mandela,” was intended to include Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan, Jamaica Plain, the South End and Columbia Point. Encompassing 12.5 square miles, Mandela would have carved out one-quarter of Boston’s land, taking with it one-quarter of Boston’s population — and an estimated 90 to 98 percent of its black residents. Andrew Jones, co-leader of the campaign, said at the time that the needs of black neighborhoods were not being met under the white governance of Boston. Inspired by other community self-determination movements, Jones said that the solution for these neighborhoods was self-government. Nationally, many newspapers regarded the vote as a referendum on the quality of the white-led city government’s service to black communities. “We feel that we have a ‘colonial relationship’ with the city of Boston,” Jones reportedly said. “We feel that the city of Boston has treated us like second-class citizens and we’re fighting for basic rights of citizenship.” The 1986 ballot question vote came just three years after Mel King became the first person of color to be a leading mayoral candidate in Boston. While he lost to Flynn, King was favored by more than 90 percent of the black voters. “The black community elected a black mayor but didn’t have a city to put him in,” Jones told the paper. Now in 2017, the city is due for its first black mayoral finalist since Mel King, and some are looking back to try to say what Mandela meant, and what it has achieved.

Divided communities

The Mandela plan was spearheaded by Jones, a violinist and television producer with a master’s degree in journalism from Boston University, and Harvard-educated architect Curtis Davis. With support from the likes of State Rep. Byron Rushing and then-State Rep. Gloria Fox, the campaign garnered the necessary signatures to bring a nonbinding question to ballot in the ten state representative districts that roughly encompassed Mandela’s proposed boundaries. Opponents to municipal separation included the Flynn

administration, along with black leaders and clergy such as Rev. Bruce Wall and Rev. Charles Stith, whose campaign adopted the moniker “One Boston.” Bruce Bolling, Boston’s first black City Council president, told The Boston Globe in November 1986 that he supported the referendum as a way to get feedback, but opposed secession. The 1968 measure was defeated nearly 3-1. The night of the election, Flynn, Stith and Bolling released a celebratory statement, stating, “They [the people of Boston] have rejected the divisiveness of the past and have embraced unity. The secession proposal was counterproductive and polarizing in its attempt to divide Boston.” Two years later, supporters successfully put the issue on the ballot, once again. The 1986 initiative was spurred largely by economic inequality, among other issues. In 1979, the average per capita income in Roxbury was less than two-thirds the average for Boston as a whole, according to a 2016 Trotter Review report by Zebulon Miletsky and Tomás González. In 1988, two years after the original bid, Jones told the Globe that service issues afflicting the neighborhoods remained inadequate, including what he said was failure of police to prioritize crime in those areas. Former City Councilor Chuck Turner told Trotter report authors at the time that the push also was driven by fears of gentrification and awareness of the high amounts of vacant, developable land in Roxbury and Dorchester. After the ballot question was defeated for a second time, the effort was dropped.

What stopped Mandela, MA?

The Mandela bid ran head on into issues of practicality, organization-building and shifting circumstances. The Flynn administration insisted that Mandela would incur steep debt, and advocates were not able to dispel concerns that a new city would not be economically feasible. According to Rep. Rushing, an early participant in Mandela discussions, Jones drew attention to the issue with strong charisma and communication skills, but failed to establish an organization that would continue to lobby and secure ballot status again and again, once its founding members departed. The organization never could secure binding action on establishing the municipality. Organizers also may have sent the wrong message by holding their planning meetings at the Harvard Faculty Club, rather than at residents’ homes in Roxbury — something Jones later acknowledged was a mistake, according to former Banner writer and managing editor Brian Wright O’Connor. Davis said the faculty club was chosen in order to lend seriousness and credibility to the idea in its early days, according to the Trotter report.

Legacy

Rushing told the Banner that the Mandela initiative advanced a new kind of thinking. “The main thing that came out of it was the community beginning to organize in different ways and see that there were radical possibilities for solutions,” Rushing said.

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The Lower Roxbury Mandela apartment complex sits near what would have been the northern extent of the planned Mandela, Massachusetts municipality. “It did get a lot of black people and white people to think about new ways of political organizing.” Trotter report authors also assert that the campaign encouraged Mayor Flynn to grant eminent domain powers to Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, an idea made more palatable when compared to the Mandel movement’s goal of having community control over far more land. Epicenter president Lazu said that the campaign raised ideas

that continue to be relevant. “Roxbury decided it was going to explore its autonomy and power of self-determination, and it did that really well,” she said. “Roxbury may be at a time where it needs to once again circle up and think about autonomy and how to move forward to protect the people of Roxbury. We hope [the event] shines a light on some new ideas and new ways for us to think about protecting our neighborhood.”

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Higher education now more necessary than ever Labor Day has passed and college classes are about to begin. But a change is occurring that most people are unlikely to notice. The number of American students in colleges and universities has been declining annually since 2011. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, student enrollment reached a low of 19.1 million in 2015. That amounts to 1.2 million fewer students than in 2011. There is a broad consensus that the reason for the decline is the growing cost of a college education. The cost of education is now so expensive that some have concluded that it makes economic sense to get a job right after high school. The problem with that conclusion is that by 2020, it is projected that 65 percent of available jobs will require postsecondary education. That was not always the case. According to the report “Recovery: Job Growth and Education Requirements Through 2020,” back in 1973, just 44 years ago, high school grads qualified for 72 percent of available jobs. That percentage is predicted to be only 36 percent by 2020, only half the amount. The problem is that the cost of a college education has become unaffordable. According to the U.S. Department of Education, tuition alone at four-year public colleges increased an average of 7.2 percent in 2016. Students have been forced to assume burdensome debt loads in order to get college degrees. Student loans have now become the greatest consumer loan category, with the exception of mortgage debt. U.S. students owe $1.3 trillion. In last year’s graduating class, the average student began

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By ALBERTO LEDESMA, NEW AMERICA MEDIA I first became a “dreamer” more than 40 years ago. That is when my parents brought my sisters and me to the heart of East Oakland for what we thought was a summer vacation. Since then, I have not returned to Huisquilco, Mexico, the town where I was born. We were brought as undocumented children by our undocumented parents because they wanted a better life for us and they understood that a life in the shadows in the United States was so much better than a life of economic uncertainty in Mexico. “Keep your head down, work hard, don’t complain!” These were the precepts that guided our lives as we incorporated ourselves into our new American society. Eventually, after a decade of living in the shadows, amnesty came and thus we transitioned out of our precarious legal status. Forty years later, all four of us children have graduated from UC Berkeley, three with advanced degrees, including two with PhDs from Berkeley and UCLA. But ours is not a story that means to boast about our achievements. Rather, ours is a story that reveals to what degree the hegemony of anti-immigrant terror consumed our lives and motivated us to show that we were more than our legal status. We went from being undocumented immigrant kids to being hyperdocumented students (award after award, degree after degree), as Professor Aurora Chang likes to call it, all in an effort to escape the “illegal alien” taboo. After having been on the faculty at various universities across California, I am now an administrator at Berkeley. It is in this capacity that I often interact with current DACA students. Almost all of them, save a few eccentric nonconformists, remind me of the student I once was: quiet, perpetually smiling, with a slight melancholic torpor pulling at the edges of our eyelids. All of them will tell you that they foresaw Trump’s viciousness because that is what being undocumented does — it gives you prescience about oncoming doom. Still, all of them would trade their prophetic talents for the promise, however tenuous, that things might get better. A few days ago, when I heard Jeff Sessions read his carefully worded statement on behalf of the president, I was again reminded that in this country civil rights are not gained without consistent and active struggle. Civil rights for undocumented immigrants is precisely the kind of possibility that the repeated use of the words “illegal alien” are meant to foreclose. And those who are guided by malignant nationalism know that. There, at the podium, Sessions stood like a reincarnated George Wallace blocking the entrance to the University of Alabama. There, as the camera narrowed its focus on his legalistic monologue, he asserted that America could only be made great again if it segregated itself from so many unlawful overachievers. How dare they aspire towards a better life? He seemed to ask. And, of course, not all undocumented students, DACA or otherwise, are overachievers. Too many of them are weighted down by the pressures of just making it in Trump’s America that doing okay is already the result of a herculean effort. A few days ago, I was reminded that there is a difference between justice and the so-called “rule of law,” especially when that law is selectively applied. What kind of world gives a convicted felon like Joseph Arpaio amnesty and summarily condemns 800,000 young people to a life in the shadows? Conservative recalcitrants like Steve King take it a step further and argue that undocumented immigrant kids and their families should live in the shadows forever. That’s where they belong. What the Civil Rights Movement and the 1986 amnesty made clear to me was that sometimes America is capable of showing compassion. Still, it is not hard to surmise that there were some back in the 1980s who predicted the downfall of this nation because more than three million undocumented people, including my family and me, were pardoned from our immigration sin. Most likely, among those people were the Arpaios, Sessions, Kings and Trumps of the world. Indeed, it is that undoing, that desire to erase what those new Americans brought to the United States, that has seemingly motivated the Make America Great Again campaign. I can honestly say that I am still a dreamer today though I have been a citizen since 1992. What I dream of today, however, is a United States where we can have a just discernment of policy instead of the selective application of draconian laws.

Alberto Ledesma was an undocumented immigrant student in the 1980s. He is now the Diversity Director for the Arts & Humanities at UC Berkeley.

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MONALISA SMITH JRI, a nonprofit provider of trauma-informed care to children and families in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, has announced the addition of Monalisa Smith, Founder, President and CEO of Mothers for Justice and Equality, to its board of trustees. After the loss of her nephew due to violence in 2010, Smith founded MJE, a nonprofit agency aiming to eradicate local violence in Boston neighborhoods by educating and engaging individuals and families within those communities. She and other mothers, many of whom suffered through the loss of their own child, joined together to make it their mission to end neighborhood violence by empowering mothers and youth to become effective catalysts for change. For seven years now, Smith has been engaged in every facet of the organization including administration, finance, fundraising, communications and human

resource management. During this time, she has received the City of Boston award for Community Leadership as well as the Madison Park Development Corporation “Catalyst for Change” YMCA Black Achievers award. Prior to founding MJE, Smith served as State Director of Community Investment for Citizens Bank, Massachusetts. Her

responsibilities included directing the development and implementation of a community investment program, creating and managing a faith-based lending portfolio and managing over $32 million in deposit balances. During her time there she received the Citizens Bank Area of Excellence Award for Outstanding Community Leadership and Involvement. Smith holds a B.A. in Business Management from Simmons College and has received executive leadership training from Babson College. She is also author of the book, “Reflections to My Sisters,” which details stories of mothers and their daughters overcoming some of life’s greatest challenges. She currently resides in Dorchester with her husband and three children. JRI works in partnership with individuals, families, communities and government to pursue the social justice inherent in opening doors to opportunity and independence.

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Percussionist Cornell Coley performs during the annual Big Head Festival at the Museum of the Center for Afro-American Artists in Roxbury. T:6”

Now BPCAT is pushing for full implementation of police body cameras by the year’s end, Idowu, BPCAT co-founder, told the Banner. “We want [body cameras] to be in the budget — we want to see numbers that he’s investing in the program, not just lip service,” Idowu said. “One thing to note is only one of the candidates who’s running for mayor has supported body cameras from the beginning, and it’s not Marty Walsh.” In his view, there is no need to hold off on equipping cameras until the study is completed. Camera usage is inevitable, he said, and the study will only demonstrate what parts of the current usage policy are effective and what needs to be tweaked. “The study isn’t [about], does it work for Boston, but how it works for Boston,” Idowu said.

The usage policy is a key concern for BPCAT, which presented its version to the city in 2015, a year before the pilot’s launch. That policy was developed based on community feedback, examination of other urban body camera policies and via collaboration with groups such as ACLU of Massachusetts, the Boston Branch of the NAACP, Digital Fourth and the Harvard Black Law Student Association. Thus far, Idowu says all the feedback he has received about the pilot has been positive or neutral. Civilians tended to tell him either that they believed a full camera program already was in place or that they wanted one implemented following the pilot, he said. During the pilot’s duration, Idowu informally approached and spoke with officers he saw wearing cameras, who he says spoke positively of the program. “I’ve not heard anyone make an argument or case against body cameras,” Idowu said.

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Trump administration announces repeal of DACA program By JULE PATTISON-GORDON

Hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrant youth across the U.S. will begin to lose their legal presence status, under a Trump administration policy change. On Sept. 5, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced gradual repeal of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA). The Obama-era DACA policy provided temporary legal protection from deportation as well as a means to work and study for residents who were brought into the U.S. as children, as long as they met certain criteria. A DACA permit shielded an eligible young person from deportation for two years, with possibilities for renewal. It did not provide a specific path to legal permanent residency, but did grant DACA recipients time to remain in the country, during which they might pursue such status. As of Sept. 5, the Trump administration stopped accepting new applications for DACA permits, and unless legislative protections are put in place, legal status granted by DACA will be phased out, starting in March 2018. Young people whose permits expire by March 5, 2018 may apply for renewal as long as they do so by Oct. 5, 2017. Once the phase-out process begins, all current recipients, known as “Dreamers”, stand to lose their protections by March 2020. A number of media polls indicate strong public support for the program, a sentiment that was on display as Sessions’ announcement

sparked protests across the country, including several in the Greater Boston area, with further demonstrations planned. Jocelyn Antonio was one of several who joined a Cambridge Area Stronger Together (CAST) information distribution event, held in Central Square last Thursday. “I’m the daughter of [Mexican] immigrants who was fortunate enough to be born here, and I know what opportunities that affords you,” Antonio said, holding a sign protesting the repeal. Not all Antonio’s friends are so lucky — those who are Dreamers “will lose opportunities for reasons that are essentially racist,” she said, noting that most Dreamers are Latinos. David Miranda, also present at the CAST rally, said that he believes Trump is motivated by a desire to dismantle Obama’s work. “[Obama] put this country back on its feet,” Miranda said. “Trump wants to destroy everything that he worked for.” Nationally, more than 800,000 immigrants are expected to be at risk of deportation under this wind-down— including about 7,900 Massachusetts residents. Carol Rose, executive director of the ACLU of Massachusetts, stated that the loss of these youth, often called Dreamers, may cost the state economy about $606 million.

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Members of Cambridge Area Strong Together protested the DACA repeal and distributed information at an event in Central Square last week. after an attempt to secure Congressional authorization was narrowly defeated in 2010. Sessions is among those who have asserted that Obama overreached his authority in creating the program. Efforts to create a federal policy protecting young immigrants from eviction from the country in which they were raised have been attempted periodically for more than a decade.

Local outcry

The day after Trump announced his plan, a group of 16 Democratic Attorney generals, including Massachusetts AG Maura Healey, filed a lawsuit aimed at preventing the wind down of DACA. The attorney generals allege several claims, including

that the loss of DACA recipients would damage states economically, was enacted improperly and is motivated by racism, given Trump’s history of anti-Mexican comments and the fact that the majority of DACA recipients are Mexican. Locally, elected officials and civil rights lawyers decried the Trump administration’s move. Gov. Charlie Baker and Mayor Martin Walsh added their voices to the dissent, with Baker issuing a statement calling the phase-out “the wrong decision that could negatively impact our economy and many of the Commonwealth’s families.” During a press conference, Walsh said ending the program amounted to persecution. Iván Espinoza-Madrigal,

executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice said the programs’ end threatens DACA recipients’ well-being. “Deporting Dreamers would send them back to countries to which they have little or no connection and subject them in many cases to intense violence or poverty present in some of those countries,” Espinoza-Madrigal said in a statement.

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Fo l l o w i n g S e s s i o n s ’ a n nouncement, Trump called upon Congress to create a new policy within six months, tweeting that if they failed to he would “revisit the issue.”

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continued from page 1 “It’s not an issue we shy away from,” said Sean Hennessey, director of the Park Service’s Boston public affairs office. In addition to noting Faneuil’s ties to the slave trade on its website and incorporating the information into its tours, the Park Service participates in the Middle Passage Port Marker Project, a national effort to erect memorials in U.S. ports including Boston, where slaves were auctioned. While the NPS includes Faneuil Hall in its Boston National Historical Park, throughout the 275 years since its construction the city of Boston has owned it. Boston Mayor Martin Walsh has expressed reluctance to rename the building. Peterson says he would like to see it called Crispus Attucks Freedom Hall, in honor of the ex-slave who died in the Boston Massacre.

New England states named in his honor. And he owned three slaves. “There’s nothing like being dead young,” Rushing notes. “They were commemorating Warren before the war was over.” The adoration of Warren extends into the Roxbury community, where activists including Rushing have been lobbying to repatriate a bronze statue of the fallen general to Roxbury proper from its present perch on the grounds of the West Roxbury private boys school, Roxbury Latin.

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State Representative Byron Rushing, a past president of the Roxbury Historical Society, says he favors the Park Service’s approach to highlighting Boston’s ties to slavery. “My feeling is that historic buildings are different from statues,” he says. “They are the history. Most statues are propaganda. But taking the name off a building is erasing history.” Kambon seems to have little regard for the Roxbury history of the Dudley Family, which originated with Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor Thomas Dudley. “We’re a Nubian people,” he

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The National Park Service incorporates information on Faneuil Hall’s connection to the trans-Atlantic slave trade in its tours of the building. says, adding that the name is also a tribute to the longtime Dudley Square business, A Nubian Notion, which closed last year. Rushing says Kambon’s choice of the name Nubian undercuts his stance against the Dudley family’s supposed ties to slavery. “Because Nubians never owned slaves?” he jokes. Rushing says he has no

problems with streets, squares and New England towns named after the whites who settled here. In addition to the town of Dudley, Massachusetts, Roxbury’s Dudley Street bears the family name. One of Roxbury’s most prominent sons, Gen. Joseph Warren, who died in the battle of Bunker Hill, had no fewer than five streets in present day Boston and towns in all six

Then there’s the issue of other prominent colonial-era families who may have owned slaves before slavery was abolished in Massachusetts in 1783. Their names — Seaver, Shirley, Eustice, Lambert, Weld, Williams — adorn streets and their bones lie a-mouldering in the old Roxbury burial ground. Add in slave-breeding Gen. George Washington, who has streets named in his honor in Roxbury, Dorchester and Brighton. Kambon says he wouldn’t have second thoughts about erasing those names. “Our community has monuments to people who oppressed us,” he says. “You wouldn’t go to

the North End and find a statue of Mussolini or to Newton and find a statue of Hitler.” Kambon has scored two notable wins in recent decades. In the 1980s, he was part of a coalition that renamed Washington Park, in honor of the iconographic black rights advocate whose sister lived on adjacent Dale Street. In the 1990s, he and other activists persuaded the city to change New Dudley Street to Malcolm X Boulevard. Rushing says the renaming of New Dudley Street was not a historical erasure, given that the throughway was constructed in the 1970s and had no real history to it. And Malcolm X’s ties to Boston are well-established. Commemorating prominent black Roxbury residents, Rushing says, is a worthy project. “The question is, are there other black people in Roxbury who should have things named after them?” he says. “I think there are. But there should be a committee that makes those decisions.” But commemorating an ethnic group or a region where forms of slavery are still being practiced? “Even if I wanted the name changed, Nubians wouldn’t be high on my list,” he says.

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features a pop-up market of arts and Afrocentric goods. David Price is the executive director of Nuestra Comunidad, the development corporation that rented out the corner space to PLS Check Cashing. He says he believes this particular check cashers is a good actor and provides a valuable service. Price did not consider other potential tenants, but says that doing so could have meant letting the space lie vacant — and thus feed a discouraging image for the business district. “The retail market here is weaker than a lot of folks realize,” Price said. “There was an expectation that when the Bolling Building opened, there’d be tremendous demand by retail stores to open here. …[But] if you look around Dudley Square, about a month ago I counted eight vacant spaces — not counting those vacant spaces that were under agreement to have a new tenant come in.” The debate raises questions that stakeholders have to address as they seek to revitalize the Main Streets District, which has declined in vitality since its heyday in the ’60s.

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Price believes that strengthening Dudley Square can include marketing aimed at recruiting desirable businesses, but that the first step is increasing the presence of would-be-customers with a range of incomes. “It’s more than trying to come up with some ideal mix of businesses — you can’t wave a magic wand and get your preferred business to open here like Starbucks or Fridays. They’re going to come because there’s purchasing power,” Price said. “We need more purchasing power and that means people of all incomes.” Joyce Stanley, executive director of Dudley Square Main Streets, said in a separate conversation that one barrier to attracting some businesses that local residents want, such as cafés, is the lack of a sufficiently large base of customers with the disposable income to regularly patronize them. The area’s high concentration of affordable housing skews the customer base toward those with low monthly incomes, but the planned 25-story Rio Grande Tower could supply an influx of middle-class purchasers, she said. “Right now, until we get more market rate housing, we don’t have the incomes to support a lot of the restaurants and cafés and

things that people want,” Stanley said. “Eighty percent of Roxbury is low-income housing. We still can have low-income housing, but they need to spread it throughout the city so as not to undermine the economy of a neighborhood.” Another strategy involves encouraging patronage from non-residents. During the week, large employers in the area — such as the school department, court house and welfare office — bring in workers with a greater mix of incomes. Traditionally, the challenge has been to draw them out of the office to shop during lunch hours or in the evening. The entry of Haley House and Walgreens started to achieve this, along with the openings of Dudley Café and other local restaurants, Stanley said. To further this effort, Stanley now holds monthly food tours promoting the area’s offerings. On her latest tour, 20 people attended, with roughly half stating they had never patronized a store in Dudley. Meanwhile, crime also has ticked up recently, with an increase in the number of people coming into the district to sell or use drugs. That scares off customers and, Stanley said, resolving it calls for more social services and drug treatment beds.

New approaches

Business success lies in adapting to current trends, not recreating the ‘60s, Stanley said. Dudley’s main customers tend to be employees or residents, often those who are elderly or above 40 years old. Meanwhile, despite nearby schools, members of the younger generation rarely patronize shops and tend to do their shopping online. “If we’re developing for the future, we can’t be developing things like we did for the ‘60s,” Stanley said. “People talk about ‘back in the day’ in Dudley, but stores and things are not going to be like back in the day.”

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Currently, Dudley is well supplied with barber shops, beauty shops, phone stores and computer repair places, but capturing a broader audience means providing unique cultural and art offerings and “destination” establishments such as restaurants, Stanley said. One example is the Black Market. Singleton said in just a few weeks it has generated significant sales. Stanley also pointed to a business sector that has been showing particular promise: culturally- or ethnically-tailored stores. This trend is seen in the 19 Somali businesses in Dudley that offer items ranging from fashion to meats.

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The Boston Ujima Project took a step forward last weekend with an inaugural assembly to launch its effort to build a new community-controlled economy in Boston’s neighborhoods of color. Called “Dreaming Wild,” the two-day event opened with a Friday evening reception and speaker program at the Bruce C. Bolling Building, followed by arts, social and networking events at nearby cafés, and continued with a daylong general assembly Saturday at the First Church of Roxbury, where founding members voted on the Ujima Project governance and board structure. Nia Evans, Ujima Project’s executive director, said the opening event’s title is a riff on the phrase “I am my ancestors’ wildest dreams,” which has come into use in various justice movements. “We think about the Ujima Project as a concrete manifestation of possibility,” she told the audience during Friday’s speaking program. Ujima is a Swahili word and the Kwanzaa principle of “collective work and responsibility.” True to that, the project is a joining of many entities to build and sustain local wealth in Boston communities. A major piece will be its community capital fund, into which community stakeholders of many types will pool money. The Ujima Project’s members, through a democratic one-person-one-vote process, will share the task of allocating the accumulated funds to support local businesses, artists and organizations. Launching formally now, the Ujima Project last year conducted a pilot project to test the process

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Ed Whitfield, co-managing director of the Fund for Democratic Communities, delivers a keynote speech at the Boston Ujima Project’s “Dreaming Wild” launch event.

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of raising and allocating community capital. At an August 2016 “Solidarity Summit,” $10,000 was raised from 175 small lenders and investors and doubled with matching funds from larger funders. The $20,000 was then allocated through a participant vote to five local black-owned and immigrant-owned businesses, each of which received zero-interest loans of $3,000 to $5,000. The businesses selected for loan support at the pilot summit were Bowdoin Bike School, Fidalgo Wholesale, Fresh Food Generation, Sydney Janey Design and Norma’s Catering — locally-owned enterprises that were judged to be both good business prospects and contributors to the well-being of their communities. The Ujima Project now is setting its sights higher. Starting this fall, the goal is to raise $2.5 million to $5 million over the next two years, and starting to allocate funds in early 2018. In future rounds, the capital fund goal could rise to $20 million. The loans will not typically be interest-free in the future, but rates will be capped. Individual membership is open to all, though only Boston residents will have voting rights. The standard membership fee is $25, with discounts for various groups, such as youth age 14–24. Investment beyond the membership fee is encouraged, but not required. The Ujima Project emerged from a year-long cross-sector study group hosted by the Center

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for Economic Democracy, Boston Impact Initiative and City Life/ Vida Urbana, seeking more sustainable ways to fund grassroots organizations. After examining the feasibility of starting a public bank and looking at existing community-focused models such as participatory budgeting initiatives, cooperatively-run businesses and land trusts, the group concluded that while each of these models was good, none by itself was enough. “We thought we needed to knit these models together,” Evans explained, “so the individual models can be stronger, and the system is more than the sum of its parts.” Besides the community capital fund, part of the Ujima Project plan is to recognize and certify local businesses if they fit the community standards that members of Ujima will decide on together.

The standards will consider business practices such as living wages, inclusive hiring, CORI-friendly hiring, environmental impact and affordability. These Ujima-certified “Good Businesses” will be eligible to join Ujima’s Business Alliance to gain access to capital, technical assistance and support from the community. The Ujima Project will support the recognized Good Businesses with an alternative electronic “currency” that offers discounts to encourage customers to buy from them.

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In addition, a skills- and timeshare bank will allow individuals to trade skills and labor with neighbors on an hour-to-hour exchange. A worker services network will help employees of small businesses gain access to essential benefits, from group health insurance to workplace mediation services. The “Dreaming Wild” opening program included a talk by Ed

Whitfield, co-managing director of the Fund for Democratic Communities in Greensboro, North Carolina. The longtime activist for justice, anti-war and community causes put the importance of community control of capital in strong terms as an issue of freedom. “We have an economy that’s not granting us human agency and happiness,” he said. “A handful of people can legally own and control the very things people need to stay alive. And we’re basically told there’s no alternative.” But Whitfield believes there are alternatives. “Freedom is possible,” he said. “It is possible that people can be in control of the products of their own labor.” He sees promise in “these new, creative, innovative, democratic ways to create that access within the community, so that people who have ideas on meeting needs and elevating the quality of life are able to utilize that wealth for those purposes.”

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The New York-based organization that last year bankrolled an effort to lift Massachusetts’ charter cap violated campaign law, according to the office of Campaign and Political Finance. When Families for Excellent Schools — Advocacy funneled $15 million into the Yes on Question 2 campaign, the organization illegally hid its donors’ identities. “Massachusetts voters deserve to know the identity of those who attempt to influence them before Election Day,” Michael Sullivan, OCPF director, said in a media statement. After receiving individual donations, FESA channeled those funds to the Great Schools Massachusetts Ballot Question Committee in a manner designed to obscure the money’s true source, according to the disposition agreement. This money comprised 70 percent of all receipts reported by the ballot committee. In general, nonprofits are not required to reveal donors so long as the nonprofit does not engage in political activity. However, OCPF officials assert that during the 2016 ballot season, FESA specifically fundraised in order to donate to the political campaign committee — which then would only have to state FESA as its donor and not the original source of the money. FESA appeared to engage in further efforts to hide its funding — in one instance, FESA received $2.5 million

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As part of its legal settlement with the OCPF, Families for Excellent Schools—Advocacy paid more than $425,000 to the Massachusetts general fund. This is the largest civil forfeiture negotiated in the 44-year history of the OCPF. The amount also represents all the cash that FESA and its related organization, Families for Excellent Schools, had on hand as of Aug. 21, 2017. Under the settlement, Families for Excellent Schools — Advocacy will dissolve and Families for Excellent Schools is barred from fundraising, soliciting or

engaging in election-related activity in Massachusetts for four years. FESA also was required to reveal its donors. The list includes notable billionaires as well as two officials from Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration. Baker was an out-spoken advocate in favor of passing Question 2 to lift the charter cap. Paul Sagan, who Baker appointed to chair the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, donated $496,000 to FESA. Baker administration official Mark Nunnelly provided $275,000 and his wife contributed another $275,000. Other heavy spenders include Walmart heir Alice Walton, who donated $750,000; former cable television magnate Amos B. Hostetter Jr, who contributed $2 million; and Boston hedge fund executive Seth Klarman, who kicked in $3.3 million.

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Relatives of undocumented children caught up in ICE dragnet By HANNAH DREIER, PROPUBLICA

This summer, a Kansas City man named Edwin got a call from immigration officials. They had picked up his nephew at the southern border and wanted to release the teen into his care. So Edwin went online and bought a bed.

Later that week, he was contacted again, this time by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detective who knocked at his door. The agent gave Edwin a letter saying he needed to come to headquarters for an interview about three federal crimes: conspiracy, visa fraud and human smuggling. Across the country, people

like Edwin who have taken in young undocumented relatives are being swept up in what ICE calls a crackdown on guardians who pay human smugglers. More than 400 people were arrested over the course of two months this summer as part of the new approach. Others are still dodging ICE interviews, have agreed

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to go through deportation proceedings or have gone on the run. Some of those affected admit that they paid “coyotes” to reunite them with their young children. But many are collateral damage: People who just happened to be in the house when ICE showed up, or relatives who agreed to take in teens after they traveled to the U.S. on their own. “The message is getting out: Don’t sponsor someone if you’re here illegally, or you’re going to get in trouble,” said Claude Arnold, a former ICE Homeland Security Investigations special agent who supports the new policy. “The idea is to have a deterrent effect, so when a teenager says, ‘Uncle, I can pay my own way, but can I stay with you?’ the uncle is going to say, ‘No way.’” Edwin, who asked that his last name be withheld because of possible pending criminal charges, has been living in the U.S. for more than 15 years and says he never paid anyone to help his nephew cross the border. He points out that he has done everything by the book since emigrating from El Salvador to Missouri in 2001. He immediately got a job at a dry cleaning company and obtained Temporary Protected Status, which allows him to live and work in the U.S. so long as he keeps a clean criminal record. He doesn’t follow the news and didn’t know he was risking deportation by agreeing to take in his nephew. But he said it wouldn’t have mattered; he couldn’t have refused to welcome his sister’s son. “My nephew is grown and he makes his own choices. Everyone pays their own way. But he’s my family and it’s my duty to take him in,” Edwin said. Edwin’s nephew Wilbur lived in Kansas City with Temporary Protected Status himself as a child, but his parents decided to take him back to El Salvador when he was 6. He said he made up his mind to return to the U.S. after graduating high school this spring because he felt threatened by gangs. Wilbur took a bus across Guatemala, traveled through Mexico by pickup truck, then crossed into Texas in the back of a tractor trailer a month before his 18th birthday. He was picked up almost immediately by U.S. officials. About 90 percent of minors detained at the southern border are eventually turned over to a family member. It’s a system intended to spare the state from having to take care of children, and allow young people to live in normal homes while their visa and asylum claims work through the courts. Under President Barack Obama, ICE was instructed not to go after people who came forward to claim relatives, even if they were in the U.S. illegally. Guardians were told they had no reason to fear revealing themselves to authorities. Under President Donald Trump, that policy has been reversed. Trump administration officials say it’s less of a policy change than a commonsensical return to the enforcement of existing immigration laws. In a February memo,

then-Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly said that while all immigration laws should be enforced, it’s especially important to go after people “directly or indirectly” involved in smuggling, because the journey north can be so dangerous for children. “Regardless of the desires for family reunification, or conditions in other countries, the smuggling or trafficking of alien children is intolerable,” he wrote. Edwin said he felt bewildered when an immigration detective showed up at his door one morning in July, and was further confused by the letter instructing him to come to ICE headquarters the following week to talk about crimes related to smuggling. Because Edwin has protected status, he was able to take the letter and go on with his day. For people in the country illegally, things have been playing out much differently. A couple living in New Mexico fled the state after ICE agents turned up in August asking about a nephew they had recently taken in. They told their attorney that they hadn’t even known the high school junior was on his way up from Guatemala. In Tennessee, two ICE agents came with pistols and flak jackets to arrest a mother who hid in her trailer home. The mother said she had no idea her 16-year-old daughter was coming from Honduras. The agents left once others in the trailer park started taking photos. The Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, which has a contract from the U.S. government to help place unaccompanied minors with relatives, has seen cases in recent months of cousins and half-siblings swept up in the crackdown. In June, three members of a single Missouri family that had been working with the agency were put in deportation proceedings after ICE came around asking about smuggling. In all, more than 400 people were arrested between late June and late August as part of what ICE describes as an enforcement surge to bolster the strategy of going after guardians. The great majority of those 400 were charged with immigration violations, not smuggling-related crimes. A group of Democratic members of Congress asked ICE in July for specifics about the change in approach, including the protocol for deciding which sponsors would be targeted, but have yet to receive any answers. For now, Edwin is ignoring his summons. He said that when he failed to appear at ICE headquarters, an agent responded by going to the dry cleaner where he works to review his employment verification papers. He is hoping the agent loses interest, but no longer feels like he knows what to expect. “I’ve been here more than a decade and I’ve never had a single problem with the authorities. Now, it’s like the government is changing everything around,” he said. “Now, ever ything is dangerous.”

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(above) “Mugshot 2” and (below) “Josephine” are two of the works by Roxbury-born artist Richard Yarde featured at the University Hall Gallery at UMass Boston.

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osephine Baker’s visage demands attention from the moment visitors step into the University Hall Gallery at UMass Boston. “Richard Yarde: Portraits,” an intimate but dynamic exhibit on view until Oct. 27, features a number of figures, but Baker’s portrait exudes the effusive charm she bore in real life. A Roxbury native and UMass teacher, Yarde (19392011) is known for his prolific and expert use of watercolor. He blends colors with a patchwork technique that can be seen in one scale or another in almost all of the works in this exhibition. The use of such a fluid medium for a geometric portrayal demonstrates the control of a master painter. “One of the things that was so intriguing about Richard was that his portraits are often overlooked,” says curator Carol G.J. Scollans. “I thought it was a really poignant time to show these cultural figures.” One of these is Inman Page, one of the first two African American graduates of Brown University. The portrait was given to Ralph Waldo Ellison, author of “The Invisible Man,” who had been a student of Inman’s and long admired him. The images represent a long history of African American talent and community support. When Yarde wasn’t painting the famous and influential, he turned inward. After a series of medical problems he began creating exploratory self-portraits. “Back with Dots” reads like a clinical study you might find in a medical book. Against a black background we see Yarde’s body, twice over from behind. His arms hang by his sides. In one he appears to stand straighter, or perhaps be younger, than the other. This may be a meditation on his

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Actor, singer and performer Derrick Davis was born into a non-musical family. So much so that he laughingly responds when asked the familiar question, “Do you come from a musical family?” with, “Not at all.” He continues, “We often joke that God got tired of hearing everybody in my family sing until he gave me a voice.” Davis, who began acting in local church plays in Long Island, New York, stars as the Phantom in producer Cameron Mackintosh’s striking new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Phantom of the Opera,” which is currently playing at the Boston Opera House through Oct. 1. The Tony Award-winning musical includes newly reinvented staging, stunning scenic design and a cast and orchestra of 52, making it one of the largest productions on tour in North America. The multi-talented performer, who studied opera in college, is the first African American to play the legendary character on tour, and the third within the entire production, including Broadway. It’s a moment in time that has come full circle for Davis. “Phantom” is the first show that his parents took him to see as a child, and it’s where he first fell in love with theater. “It’s humbling to think that I could dream

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Jugglers, acrobats to gather at MIT By SUSAN SACCOCCIA

Bringing together juggling aficionados, first-timers and fans of all ages, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology hosts JuggleMIT 2017, a three-day festival of juggling and kindred circus arts, from Sept. 22-24. The largest gathering of jugglers in the region, JuggleMIT offers a weekend of family-friendly events, including more than 30 workshops for all, from novices to pros, as well as two evening shows showcasing top local and international performers. Friday night’s show presents 10 seasoned local acts, many from area colleges. Saturday night’s spectacular, the JuggleMIT Circus Show, features 10 world-renowned jugglers and circus performers, including its MC, comedian and acrobat Cate Great (Cate Flaherty), an alumna of the Quebec Circus School. Held from 7 to 9 p.m. at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium, the show has a varied lineup, from veterans to newly emerging stars. Performers include the Red Trouser Show (David Graham and Tobin Renwick), a popular Faneuil Hall duo whose props include machetes and flaming torches; and Jonah Botvinick-Greenhouse, the youngest-ever Overall Champion of the World Juggling Federation, a title he won twice, first, in

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2013, at age 14. Susan Voyticky, who performs and teaches at the Circus Warehouse in New York City, will orbit the stage in a Cyr wheel, blending acrobatic daring with balletic grace. Performers also conduct workshops, held on Friday and Saturday in MIT’s Walker Memorial Building, at 142 Memorial Drive. Among the workshops are onehour sessions in which beginners can learn to ride a unicycle or develop and perform a creative act with a partner.

Longstanding tradition

Sunday afternoon, juggling games take place in the lobby of Building 10, at 222 Memorial Drive, where since the ‘70s MIT Juggling Club members have met on Sundays for drop-in juggling sessions open to all. Their year-round tradition distinguishes the group as the oldest continuously operating drop-in juggling club in world. Visitors have included the late MIT Professor Emeritus Claude E. Shannon, the founder of modern digital communications and information theory, whose feats also include building the first juggling robot. He constructed

the robot with an Erector Set and gave it a head that resembles the great comedian W.C. Fields (1880-1946), who got his start as a juggler. (See Shannon introducing his robot at https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=sBHGzRxfeJY ) JuggleMIT builds on MIT’s tradition as a hub of juggling enthusiasts and, now in its third year as an annual festival, the event draws participants from throughout the Northeast. The first JuggleMIT, held in 2014, was a one-day affair that drew about 40 attendees. They braved a blizzard to take part in a one-trick show. Each performer spent about five minutes on stage. But the small gathering struck a chord, notes JuggleMIT cofounder, Ian Chesser, MIT ‘16, now a Ph.D. student in materials science at Carnegie Mellon University. Chesser organized the inaugural JuggleMIT with Stephen McCrory, MIT ‘14, then-president of the MIT Student Juggling Club. “We assembled a critical mass of jugglers in one place in the Boston-Cambridge area for the first time in a long time,” says Chesser. “We simply wanted there to be more jugglers in one place at the

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Paris Sirap, a.k.a. the Hip-Hop Juggler same time. There are lots of good jugglers in the area, but they are rarely in the same place.” Word spread and the following year, JuggleMIT ‘15 drew 200 attendees over three days, including performers from New York and Philadelphia.

An epicenter

JuggleMIT ’17 organizer Cole Perkinson, a Ph.D. student in physical chemistry, describes MIT as “an epicenter of recreational juggling in the Boston area,” just as Faneuil Market is a hub for street performers. JuggleMIT fulfills a unique role by taking the lead in bringing artists together, says Perkinson, the current president of the MIT Student Juggling Club. “This event bridges the gap between street and recreational juggling and also extends to circus

artists and acrobats.” “Artists come from all over,” says Harlem-based Paris Sirap (a.k.a. “The Hip-Hop Juggler”), a Saturday night headliner who has performed on the “Today Show,” “Sesame Street” and at the White House. “We get to see what others are doing and after, meet and talk about what we like to do. It’s an all-in-one package with a great show plus workshops and games for people at all levels.” Last year, at JuggleFest ’16, Sirap led a workshop on juggling to music. “Each has its own timing,” says Sirap. “You have to trick juggling out of its normal timing so that it works with the timing of the music.” A 2004 graduate of Manhattanville College, Sirap recalls

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Interactive MIT exhibit asks students what they leave behind By CELINA COLBY

Every year the MIT List Visual Arts Center hosts a lottery for students at the university. Any student can enter to win a piece of art from the center’s collection, which they are allowed to hang in their dorm for the remainder of the school year. Artist Elisa Hamilton says, “I was impressed with the generosity of letting the students live with the art instead of hoarding it.” From there, her interactive installation “Community Legacy” was born. “Community Legacy” provides an opportunity for students and PHOTOS: CELINA COLBY the public to consider what they’re Artist Elisa Hamilton’s “Community Legacy” project is on view at MIT’s List Visual Arts Center. leaving behind. Hamilton has set up stations in the lobby of the List Center with pieces of colored vellum and transparent boxes. Guests are encouraged to write what they leave behind at MIT on the paper, put it in a box and place it on a bookshelf-like structure. At the end of the project Hamilton will read the contributions and preserve them online. The work is especially poignant as our political and environmental future becomes increasingly uncertain. It invites the question of not only what are we leaving behind, but what kind of world are we leaving it to?Page “It’s AD a physical, growing, bt Half Bay State Banner 17.qxp_Layout 1 8/14/17 1:50 PM Page 1

flowering exhibition reflecting the voices of the MIT community,” says Hamilton. With each contribution the aesthetic of the installation will change, and so will its meaning. MIT’s unique tradition of art lending dates back to 1969; the collection has been exhibited annually every September for student perusal since 1977. Though only students are eligible for the lending program, the exhibition is open to the public and offers a powerful look at the university’s extensive collection. Hamilton chose bright orange, green and purple vellum for “Community Legacy” to create a visual that grabs the passerby. “One of the reasons I chose the transparent boxes and the vellum is because you can see the hint of handwriting but not specifically what it says,” she says. Similarly, one’s contribution to his or her community may not be fully apparent until they’ve left it. Hamilton’s exhibition allows viewers not only to consider their own contributions, but those of the people around them. Hamilton is a New England native and graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where she now serves on the Board of Trustees. Her work focuses on community engagement. She hopes people come away from the project more attuned to the impact they’re having on their communities, and the one they’d like to have. She says, “As an artist that’s something we think about in every choice we make: ‘How can I have an impact?’”

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getting his own start at age nine from an outreach program of the Big Apple Circus. “Performers came to my school in Harlem and taught us to use trapezes and trampolines. By age 12, I was juggling, too.” On Sunday, some JuggleMIT games will take an MIT spin, says Sirap, who recalls a challenge from last year’s Simon Says session. “Players were asked to juggle three balls and throw one under the leg as many times as the 8th digit of pi after the decimal point.” But JuggleMIT is no nerd fest and plenty of activities suit newcomers. “JuggleMIT draws lots of bucket-list people who always wanted to try juggling but had no idea how,” says Sirap. “Some of the best jugglers on the planet will be here to help you.”

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What would you say to any young performer who wants to go down this path, whether it’s theater, film or television, about one of the biggest lessons that you’ve learned?

continued from page 17 something and work hard enough to actually achieve the dream that I had, and to be able to play the role that mystified me and really set me on a path to this career, to be able to now step into the role I play, is truly just an overwhelming sensation,” says Davis. The actor, who spoke to the Banner recently, talks about the challenges of the role and what it means to follow in the footsteps of fellow actors Robert Guillaume and Norm Lewis.

DD: Put one foot in front of the other and every day do better than you did the day before. If you’re moving in a forward direction then you’re going to get closer and closer and closer to your goal. Don’t be afraid of changes in your heart’s direction, because sometimes you think you want one thing, and then halfway down that journey you realize, “Oh my gosh, that was me being equal to realizing that I want this instead.” Just keep moving forward. Keep moving forward and trust your heart.

What has been the most challenging aspect of portraying the Phantom? Derrick Davis: The most challenging aspect has been, I guess, just the stamina that it takes to be able to give the emotion and the energy required to tell this story properly eight times a week. If you get a chance to see me perform it, I perform it in a way that is just very honest and raw, and very aggressive when it needs to be aggressive, and loving when it needs to be loving — as so many others have. It takes a lot out of you, and performing and giving 100 percent. As I’ve said before in interviews, I had a director in New York once that told me whenever you get on the stage “you have to give 110 percent of yourself because someone is seeing theater for the first time and someone is seeing theater for the last time,” and that motivates

What do you hope that audiences take away when they come and see the show?

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Derrick Davis, as The Phantom, and Eva Tavares, as Christine Daaé, in “Phantom of the Opera.” me, especially the person who is seeing theater for the first-time, because that was the show that I saw for the first time that gave me this career. I’m very cognizant of that, and that is the more challenging thing to bring 100 percent every day.

I’m sure that you’ve been asked this question numerous times, but I do think it’s important to ask again. You’re the third African American actor to play the Phantom. What does it mean to you to step into this role after

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Robert Guillaume and Norm Lewis? DD: It is such an honor to be named after those two men in particular because the history that they’ve created for black men in the arts is literally legendary. It makes me very happy that this company is not giving up on giving people of color an opportunity to play the role, but they’re actually ramping up their aggression in it. I’m not the only person of color in this show. Ubaldo Piangi (played by Phumzile Sojola) is also a man of color and

he’s absolutely brilliant. His voice is insane. It also makes me happy because the march forward in musical theater in general is being exemplified in roles like mine, in shows like, of course, “The Lion King” and “Hamilton” as of late, and so many other shows. I just can’t wait for the day when it won’t matter anymore, where it won’t be something special that somebody of color is playing a role, but that it will just matter that somebody of excellence is playing the role.

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healthier days. In the 1990s Yarde created a “Mug Shot” series that continues to resonate, in light of media coverage of police brutality. He collected photos and rap sheets of African American “criminals” and painted their portraits. Many were arrested with little or no reason and prosecuted outside of the law. In the paintings Yarde separates the individuals from their supposed crimes, showing us their humanity as folks suffering from these racist arrests. Yarde represents a legion of unknown and underrepresented African American artists. “Richard Yarde: Portraits” pulls his impressive body of work out from the dark and reminds Boston of the talent born on the city’s streets. The gallery will be hosting a public reception and fundraiser Sept. 28, from 5-7:30 p.m. Amidst the breadth of work represented, Josephine Baker won’t be the only thing to capture your attention.

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The Trustees of Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, Massachusetts, the Awarding Authority, request bids for the restoration of Steinway Library, which is listed in the State and National Registers of Historic Places. Work of this project includes restoration of a Guastavino tile vaulted ceiling, restoration and painting of plaster wall surfaces, restoration of the mosaic tile and terrazzo floor, and cleaning of interior stone.

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 Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is soliciting Program Management/Construction Management (PM/CM) Consulting Services for Green Line Accessibility Improvements at 26 Stations that include 9 Stations on B Line, 9 Stations on C Line, 4 Stations on D Line, and 4 Stations on E Line. The services include, but are not limited to: development of strategic program plans; development of program management plans; preliminary design; preparation of consultant Request for Proposals; schedule and budget preparation and oversight; program controls; third party negotiation and coordination; review of third party submissions; recommendations for alternate project delivery; construction cost estimating; bid phase support services; partnering services; resident engineering and inspection services; construction cost control and schedule monitoring; testing and commissioning; project close-out; implementation of a Project Management Information System; and ensuring State and Federal requirements are met. The amount of $7,000,000.00 has been budgeted for the first phase and task of the program. The estimated total budget for this program is $35,000,000. This contract will utilize Federal and State Funds. The DBE Participation Goal is seven percent (7.0%) of the total amount authorized under task orders which utilize federal funds. The complete request for qualifications can be found on the MBTA website. Please use the following link: http://www.mbta.com/business_center/bidding_solicitations/current_solicitations/

The project is being partially funded with a grant from the Massachusetts Preservation Projects Fund through the Massachusetts Historical Commission. All work must be performed in accordance with the documents prepared by Building Conservation Associates, Inc. (BCA), (10 Langley Road, Suite 202, Newton Centre, Massachusetts 02459, Telephone: 617-916-5661) and meet the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties. State law prohibits discrimination. Awarding of this contract is subject to Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity guidelines. A copy of the bidding documents may be obtained by writing or telephoning BCA at the above address.

INVITATION TO BID The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is seeking bids for the following: BID NO.

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DATE

OP-361

Air Compressor System Service 10/12/17

TIME 2:00 p.m.

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

LEGAL NOTICE MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY 10 PARK PLAZA BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02116 Public Announcement of Request for Letters of Interest for Design Build Services for the Red Line and Orange Line Signals Systems Upgrades Project Contract No. Q09CN01 The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (the “MBTA”) hereby solicits Letters of Interest (LOI) from firms or teams (the “Design Build Entities”) interested in providing Design Build (DB) services for the Red Line and Orange Line Signals Systems Upgrades Project (the “Project”) in Boston, Massachusetts under MBTA Contract No. Q09CN01 The Project is being procured using a two-phase best-value DB procurement process pursuant to M.G.L. c. 149A, s. 14, et seq. and consistent with the MBTA’s Design Build Procurement Procedures. The MBTA intends to enter into a DB contract with the best-value Design Build Entity identified through a two-phase selection process including a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) with a subsequent Request for Proposals (RFP). The RFQ will be utilized to identify qualified Design Build Entities to submit a proposal pursuant to Section 19 of M.G.L. c. 149A. The best-value selection criteria detail will be provided in the RFP. Respondents to this request for LOI will receive future notifications of the RFQ’s availability and its amendments. The Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) participation goal is 4% of the design services and 7% for the construction portions of the work to be performed under the DB contract. Design Build Entities shall affirmatively ensure that in regard to any contract entered into pursuant to this solicitation, minority and female consultant firms and construction contractors will be afforded full opportunity to submit proposals and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, age or national origin in consideration for award. Design Build Entities will also be required to comply with FTA Civil Rights Provisions including EEO, DBE, Labor Work Force and Title VI. Because the MBTA reserves the right to use federal funding, respondents should assume that FTA requirements for federally funded projects will apply. Submittal: One electronic copy of an LOI from Design Build Entities or firms interested in receiving a notice of the availability of the RFQ should be received by the MBTA at 2:00pm on September 28, 2017. All responses must be submitted via email to RLOLSignalsDB@mbta.com with the subject line labeled “Letter of Interest – RLOL Signals Systems Upgrade Project”. Project documentation and instructions for submitting a Letter of Interest are available on the MBTA website. http://www.mbta.com/business_center/ bidding_solicitations/current_solicitations/ Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Stephanie Pollack MassDOT Secretary & CEO

Steve Poftak Interim MBTA General Manager

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

Bids shall be evaluated on the basis of price, previous experience with similar types of construction projects, ability to perform the work in a timely manner, and references. All bids must be delivered to BCA’s offices at the above address prior to Friday, October 6, 2017 at 12:00 PM, to be eligible for consideration and all of the grant-funded work must be completed by April 30, 2018. Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU17P1722GD

Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 In the matter of Pepsi Nguyen Of Dorchester, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person

NOTICE AND ORDER: Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor 1.

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 09/21/2017. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date.

NOTICE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES Hearing Date/Time: A hearing on a Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor filed on 07/31/2017 by Sherrie L Cox of Roxbury, MA will be held 10/06/2017 08:30 AM Guardianship of Minor Hearing Located at 24 New Chardon Street, Boston, MA 02114 - 3rd floor - Probation.

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

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

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

Counsel for Parents: If you are a parent of the minor child who is the subject of this proceeding you have a right to be represented by an attorney. If you want an attorney and cannot afford to pay for one and if you give proof that you are indigent, an attorney will be assigned to you. Your request for an attorney should be made immediately by filling out the Application of Appointment of Counsel form. Submit the application form in person or by mail at the court location where your case is going to be heard.

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

To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Carney Hospital of Dorchester, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Pepsi Nguyen is in need of a Guardian and requesting that (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve Without Surety on the bond. The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondent is incapacitated, that the appointment of a Guardian is necessary, that the proposed Guardian is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court and may contain a request for certain specific authority.

THIS IS A LEGAL NOTICE: An important court proceeding that may affect your rights has been scheduled. If you do not understand this notice or other court papers, please contact an attorney for legal advice. Date: August 7, 2017

WITNESS, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: August 11, 2017 Terri Klug Cafazzo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department Docket No. SU17P1754EA

SUFFOLK Division

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Fermina R. Grandoit Date of Death: 05/10/2017 To all interested persons: A Petition for Formal Adjudication of Intestacy and Appointment of Personal Representative has been filed by Stephen Copper of Newton, 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 Stephen Copper of Newton, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve 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 09/28/2017. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return day, action may be taken without further notice to you. UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM PROBATE CODE (MUPC) A Personal Representative appointed under the MUPC in an unsupervised

Terri Klug Cafazzo Register of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

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.

Docket No. SU17P1611GD In the interests of Najih R Boulware of Roxbury, MA Minor

Pre-bid meetings will be held at Pilgrim Hall Museum, 75 Court Street, Plymouth, Massachusetts, 02360, on Friday, September 15, 2017 at 10:00 AM and Tuesday, September 26, 2017 at 10:00 AM.

This is not a request for proposal. The MBTA reserves the right to cancel this procurement or to reject any or all Statements of Qualifications. Stephanie Pollack Steve Poftak Mass DOT Interim General Manager Secretary & CEO

WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: August 16, 2017 Terri Klug Cafazzo Register of Probate

SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU17P0565GD

Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 In the matter of Adrian K Prentice Michel Of Roxbury, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Rhonda M Prentice of Roxbury, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Adrian K Prentice Michel is in need of a Guardian and requesting that (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve on the bond. The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondent is incapacitated, that the appointment of a Guardian is necessary, that the proposed Guardian is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court and may contain a request for certain specific authority. 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 09/19/2017. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date. IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person. If the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense. WITNESS, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: July 24, 2017 Terri Klug Cafazzo Register of Probate

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*Rents subject to change in 2018. Utilities not included. Tenants will pay own Gas Heat, Gas Water Heating, Gas Cooking, Electricity, Natural Gas Hot Water. Cirrus Apartments is a 398 unit luxury rental apartment community located on 1 Cirrus Drive in Ashland. 40 of these apartments will be rented to households with incomes at or below 80% of the Area Median Income. Affordable units will have stainless steel appliances, gas-range stoves, walk in closets, and washer-dryers in every unit. Maximum Allowable Income Limits: $54,750 (1 person), $62,550 (2 people), $70,350 (3 people), $78,150 (4 people) Completed Applications and Required Income Documentation must be delivered, or postmarked, by 2 pm on October 30, 2017. Applications postmarked by the deadline must be received no later than 5 business days from the deadline. A Public Information Session will be held at 6 pm on September 18th, 2017 and the Lottery on November 14th, 2017 in the Ashland Public Library, 66 Front Street, Ashland, MA.

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HELP WANTED STAFF ATTORNEY

(Environmental Justice and Energy) Massachusetts Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) is seeking an experienced staff attorney with a background in environmental justice, transportation, and/or energy matters to work out of its Massachusetts Advocacy Center. Working with the directors of the CLF’s Healthy Communities and Environmental Justice and Clean Energy and Climate Change programs, as well as the Massachusetts Advocacy Center, the staff attorney will be responsible for identifying and implementing cutting-edge solutions to a variety of compelling environmental justice, transportation, and energy problems in Massachusetts and regionally. Responsibilities will include coalition and network building, advancing policy changes, negotiating, litigating, and communicating with the press and the public. Please visit our site: www.clf.org for more information about the position.

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Application packets can be obtained by: • Downloading on the internet at www.ncdfinc.org; • Telephone at 617-244-4035 X29 /TDD 800-439-2370; • In person at the Newton Free Library during usual business hours, 330 Homer Street, Newton Centre; • In person Tuesday’s and Thursday’s only between the hours of 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. in the Management Office at Houghton Village, 37 Hamlet Street, Newton Centre. Applications must be received by mail, fax or hand delivery in the Houghton Village management office by 4:00 p.m. on Friday, September 29, 2017. Eligible applicants will be notified in writing of their control number at least 10 days in advance of the lottery which will be held on Thursday, October 26, 2017 at 1:00 p.m. at The John W. Weeks House, 7 Hereward Road, Newton Centre, MA 02459. Applicants do not need to be present. Newton Community Development Foundation, Inc. does not and will not discriminate on the basis of age, gender, pregnancy, disability, perceived disability, sexual orientation, race, national origin, citizenship, religion, color, marital status, veteran’s status, genetic background, familial status, gender identity and any other class of individuals protected from discrimination under state or federal law.

HELP WANTED CODMAN SQUARE NDC DIRECTOR OF SYSTEMS AND DATA MANAGEMENT Senior level, experienced, organized and methodical person capable of working collaboratively, across multiple lines of business/departments, to coordinate the development, implementation and maintenance of policies and procedures and to develop appropriate systems, protocols and forms in support of achieving of organizational goals and objectives sought. Position is key to providing parameters for decision making, meeting regulatory, legal, contractual, and other requirements and increasing efficacy and efficiency at the departmental and programmatic goal level. This position provides all staff and the Board with an understanding of the “ways of doing things” within CSNDC. Systems, policies and procedures developed, including databases, may be agency-wide or department-specific, to facilitate staff and Board understanding of who CSNDC serves and the outcomes and impact these services have on clientele. Bachelors or Masters degree in Business, Management, Information Technology or related field, with at least 5 years of relevant experience, including demonstrated experience developing policies, procedures, systems and databases required. Solid knowledge of Microsoft Office programs, including Excel, Access, or other spreadsheet and data management programs or software required. Proven experience in achieving results, working in tandem with a diverse senior management team also required. Coaching experience desired. Must have excellent organizational skills, keen listening skills as well as excellent verbal and written communication skills. Send resume by September 22 to Marcos Beleche, Codman Square NDC, 587 Washington St, Dorchester, MA 02124 or to marcos@csndc.com. Visit www.csndc.com for full job description. No phone calls please. Women and people of color encouraged to apply.

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The Brookline Housing Authority (BHA) seeks a Director of Redevelopment to lead its efforts to renovate and recapitalize its public housing developments. The BHA is now actively engaged in preparing for approximately $100 million in rehabilitation at six of its properties. This position is an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated person with broad skills and experience. The Redevelopment Director will work closely with the Executive Director, other BHA staff, the Development Committee of the Board, and consultants on the redevelopment of State and Federal Public Housing properties. They will bring at least 3-5 years of experience in affordable housing, public housing, or real estate development. See www.brooklinehousing.org for a complete position description. Submit your qualifications and salary requirements to: Brookline Housing Authority Redevelopment Director Search, Ann L Silverman Consulting, BHARedevelopmentDirector@gmail. com. No phone calls or letters please. The Brookline Housing Authority is an equal opportunity/affirmative action, Section 3 employer. Females, minorities, veterans, Section 3 qualifying individuals, and persons with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.

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