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Powell calls out GOP on race — now what? Republican leaders must ask themselves how their party can become more racially tolerant and relevant in 2013 Keli Goff
This is a mid-2012 design rendering of the Dudley Square municipal building, which will combine new construction with the historic facades of the Waterman and Curtis buildings and the Ferdinand building (not seen in this view). Possible uses for the new building’s 18,000 square feet of ground floor retail space will be discussed at a Jan. 31 meeting. (Image courtesy of Mecanoo/ Sasaki Associates)
Restaurant, shops anticipated for first floor of Ferdinand site Sandra Larson When Boston Mayor Thomas Menino announced in March, 2011 that the city would redevelop the long-vacant Ferdinand’s Furniture site in Dudley Square, he described the plan as not only a way to consolidate the Boston Public Schools (BPS) department and move it closer to where the city’s school-aged children live, but also to help restore Dudley Square’s vibrancy as a business district. At the groundbreaking ceremony last spring, Menino reiterated that hope. “Our goal is simple: to bring more people and economic life to historic Dudley Square,” he said.
The new six-story building will bring an influx of some 500 new employees, adding foot traffic for local shops and food and service providers. If all goes well, when the building opens in early 2015, many of these workers will stop for morning coffee here, buy lunch there, pick up groceries or go out to dinner after work, drop off dry cleaning or do some shopping at lunch hour — giving a boost to existing and new area businesses. Street-facing storefronts will fill the ground floor of the new building, which occupies the entire block bounded by Washington and Warren Streets and Dudley station. The hope is that these businesses will inject extra
Dr. King’s impact on freedom of speech The “New York Times v. Sullivan” case redefined libel and enabled the press to cover the Civil Rights Movement without fear of economic reprisal Howard Manly “... debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wideopen, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials …” — U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Before Brennan’s opinion, de-
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livered on March 9, 1964 and written for the unanimous court under Chief Justice Earl Warren, white Southerners hell-bent on preserving their “cultural traditions” were having a field day with the New York Times. One of those Southerners, L.B. Sullivan, the Montgomery, Ala. commissioner in charge of police, had already won a $500,000 libel Malice, continued to page 10
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life into the area beyond workday hours. Adding evening activity, rather than having businesses go dark at 5 p.m., has long been desired by community members. What sort of businesses will move into these storefronts is still undetermined. But with the building’s overall design plans solidified and construction underway, project planners are now ready to address the what, when and how of the retail. On Jan. 31, a Dudley Vision Advisory Task Force meeting will address the building’s retail component. Consultant Chris Gordon, a Harvard Business School lecturer who has been an adviser to the city on the Dudley plan, will presFerdinand, continued to page 25
As President Obama grapples with criticism that his Republican predecessor’s cabinet better reflected the diversity of our country than the first black president’s, one of former President George W. Bush’s most high-profile black cabinet members is harshly criticizing the GOP for racial insensitivity. In an appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press, Colin Powell declared himself still a Republican but also made it clear that the party has a long way to go in gaining the trust and votes of African Americans. Citing specific instances of racially offensive comments, Powell said, “There’s also a dark vein of intolerance in some parts of the party. What do I mean by that? What I mean by that is they still sort of look down on minorities.” He referred to Sarah Palin’s use of the term “shuck and jive” — which Powell called “a racial-era slave term” — in a Facebook post about the president. He also referenced Mitt Romney campaign surrogate John Sununu’s dismissal of the president as “lazy” after his poor performance in the first presidential debate. Powell went so far as to insinuate that historically, racial slurs often followed when a black man
was called lazy. “He didn’t say he was slow, he was tired, he didn’t do well; he said he was ‘lazy.’ Now, it may not mean anything to most Americans, but to those of us who are African Americans, the second word is ‘shiftless,’ and then there’s a third word that goes along with it.” Powell’s critique rippled through the political chattering classes, in part because he is the highest-profile black Republican to speak so candidly on the record about the party’s racial baggage. But his comments also highlight one of the major hurdles the GOP faces in its quest to reclaim the White House and the Senate: how to avoid stepping on the land mine that is race in the age of Obama and how to remain politically relevant when you are a predominantly white party in an increasingly brown country. The pre-Obama GOP was not the complete disaster the modernday one is when it comes to minority voters. In 1996, Bob Dole won 21 percent of the Latino vote and 12 percent of the black vote. In 2000, George W. Bush won 8 percent of the black vote and 35 percent of the Latino vote. In 2004, George W. Bush won 11 percent of the black vote and 40 percent of the Latino vote. John
The modernday GOP has become known for Tea Party extremism. Much of the extremism has become synonymous with racial intolerance.
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Glaucoma among African Americans on the rise Banner Staff In recent years, glaucoma among the African American community has been on a steady rise. More than 520,000 African Americans have glaucoma, and the National Eye Institute (NEI) of the National Institutes of Health projects this number will rise to approximately 865,000 cases by 2030, a 66 percent increase. African Americans have the highest prevalence of glaucoma
open-angle glaucoma is the most common form. In this condition, fluid builds up in the front chamber of the eye, and the optic nerve is damaged by the resulting increase in eye pressure. “Glaucoma affects more than 2.7 million people nationwide and is a leading cause of vision loss and blindness in African Americans,” said Dr. James Tsai, chair of the Glaucoma Subcommittee for the NEI National Eye Health Education Program. “In fact, African
decreasing. “If the disease is left untreated,” Dr. Tsai said, “the field of vision narrows and vision loss may result.” NEI Director Dr. Paul Sieving said that studies have shown that at least half of all persons with glaucoma don’t know they have this potentially blinding eye disease. “The good news is that glau-
coma can be detected in its early stages through a comprehensive dilated eye exam,” Dr. Sieving said. “NEI encourages all people at higher risk of glaucoma — African Americans age 40 or older; everyone age 60, especially Mexican Americans; and those with a family history — to get a dilated eye exam every one to two years, because early detection and timely treatment may save your sight.” During a comprehensive dilated eye exam, drops are placed in your eyes to dilate, or widen, the pupils. This allows your eye care professional to see inside your eye and examine the optic nerve for signs of glaucoma and other vision problems. A test for
eye pressure alone is not enough to detect glaucoma. “It’s very important that people don’t wait until they notice a problem with their vision to have an eye exam,” adds Dr. Tsai. If you have Medicare, are African American age 50 or older, have diabetes, or have a family history of glaucoma, you may be eligible for a low-cost, comprehensive dilated eye exam through the glaucoma benefit. Call 1–800–MEDICARE or visit http://www.medicare.gov for more information. For more information about glaucoma, visit http://www.nei.nih. gov/glaucoma or call NEI at 301– 496–5248.
African Americans have the highest prevalence of glaucoma among minority groups. Last year, NEI invested $71 million on a wide range of studies to understand causes and potential areas of treatment for glaucoma. among minority groups. Last year, NEI invested $71 million on a wide range of studies to understand causes and potential areas of treatment for glaucoma. Glaucoma is a group of diseases that can damage the optic nerve of the eye and result in vision loss and blindness. Primary
Americans are at risk of developing it at an earlier age than other racial and ethnic groups.” Dr. Tsai explained that primary open-angle glaucoma often has no early symptoms. But he says that as the disease progresses, a person may eventually notice his or her side vision
City Councilor Tito Jackson, City Councilor At-Large Felix G. Arroyo and State Representative Gloria Fox at Felix’s 5 th Annual Three Kings Day Party held last Thursday. (Photo courtesy of Councilor Arroyo’s Office)
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Glover’s ‘SoLe Sanctuary’ honors artistic ancestors Susan Saccoccia Years before he starred in the Broadway musical “Tap Dance Kid” at age 12, Savion Glover had begun his ceaseless growth as a tap artist, nurtured by great hoofers who recognized his gifts. Now age 39, he is regarded by many of his peers and mentors as the best living heir to the tap tradition. Glover’s numerous Broadway credits include his 1996 production “Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk,” which earned him Tony and Drama Desk Awards and two Obie Awards. He devotes his latest production, “SoLe Sanctuary,” to honoring his artistic ancestors. Not that he has forgotten his mentors at any stage of his career. Every production, including his 2011 show at the Boston Opera House, “SoLo in TiME,” invokes his dance predecessors. Scion of a living tradition that he is preserving and reinventing, Glover embodies what he has learned from his mentors. And passing on the art of tap to other generations is a priority for Glover. His productions often engage young cast members he has mentored. A teacher of tap since age 14, his Savion Glover Productions HooFeRzCLuB School for Tap in his hometown, Newark, N.J., immerses children in the improvisational joy of tap as well as its tradition. Returning to the Boston Opera House Saturday night in a joint presentation of Celebrity Series of Boston and World Music/CRASHarts, Glover performed the Boston premiere of “SoLe Sanctuary,” which opened at the Joyce Theater in New York on June 21, 2011. Its program states that the show is “directed and choreographed by spirits known.” He dedicates all performances of “SoLe Sanctuary” to a lengthy list of dancers as well as John Coltrane, who together comprise “some of the greatest entertaining hooferz and musicians to date.” Dancing for 80 minutes with few pauses and no intermission, Glover was joined by his close friend and fellow tap prodigy Marshall Davis Jr. At age 13, Davis was voted 1991 Star Search Teen Dance Champion and he was a lead dancer in Broadway and touring productions of “Bring in
‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk.” The curtain rose to reveal a simple set. Its centerpiece was an elongated platform, miked to capture every footfall — from scrapes and ripples to hammerpounding rhythm. Suspended above were poster-size black-andwhite photographs of Glover’s departed mentors: Jimmy Slyde, Lon Chaney, Gregory Hines, Sammy Davis Jr., Buster Brown, Dianne Walker and Honey Coles. Adding to the shrine-like atmosphere were a row of blue votive candles and a tap shoe that Hines designed for Glover. Off to the side, a red-haired woman in a white leotard held a meditative pose throughout the production, a still counterpoint to the men’s vehicle of contemplation — dance. Crowned with dreadlocks, Glover too was dressed in white, wearing a loosely draped ensemble of top, shirt and pants. A cinematic soundtrack evoking intergalactic travel accompanied this opening scene, but it faded away as Glover began to slide, pound and tickle the boards beneath his feet. After a long solo in which his feet, legs and arms moved to inner promptings, Glover was joined by Davis. With trim gray hair and everyday attire — a dark shirt and pants — Davis stepped up to the platform with a lowkey, workmanlike air. The two entered a dialogue, first mirroring each other and then trading roles, one delivering the bass line to the other’s solos. In contrast to Glover’s expansiveness, Davis seemed to be holding himself in check, maintaining the ferocious drilling pace with his legs and feet while bending low like a wounded man. As they joyfully challenged each other and switched roles, one improvising while the other was his metronome, Davis escalated in fervor. Around a spine of rhythm, they generated spirals of textured sounds, gliding on currents of improvisation. Shifting in and out of unison, at one point the two locked into a rapid-fire sequence of rippling legs and feet, their limbs moving as one. Slowly, Davis let the rippling climb up his whole body, his legs and torso vibrating in an astonishing moment of self-transfiguration.
Throughout his solos and duets, no matter how intense, Glover maintained a playful spirit. Smiling in ecstasy, he kicked up his heels and burst into song while sweat glistened on his neck and the powder on the platform rose like smoke from his feet. Providing his own percussive backbeat, Glover delivered warm renderings of phrases from ‘40s standards including “Give Me the Simple Life” and “There Will Never Be Another You.” He wordlessly chanted a passage of John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” as he spun his own rhythmic threads around Coltrane’s jazz psalm, which played low in the background. As the evening came to a close, Glover gave a silent salute to his mentors. He nodded to the portraits above him and the curtain fell.
Tap artist Savion Glover brought his latest production “SoLe Sanctuary” to Boston. (Lois Greenfield photo)
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Defense — an excessive expense More than 50 years ago, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned Americans about the military-industrial complex. He was especially qualified to issue such an advisory. As a five-star general and commander of the D-Day invasion, he was well aware of the military culture. As the nation’s 34th president (1953-1961), he witnessed the aggressive sales effort by those who provide the country’s armaments for the Pentagon. Military commanders always desire the latest weaponry to bolster their position regardless of cost — and industrialists are eager to provide them to generate profits. This creates a great national expense even when there is no threat to the nation. Unfortunately, Americans failed to heed Eisenhower’s warning. Over the years, the defense budget became bloated. By 2010, the $698 billion U.S. defense budget was larger than the amount spent on defense by the next 17 largest spenders combined. This group includes China, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, Japan and Germany. The U.S. defense budget is six times that of China and 11 times that of Russia. One rationale for such an expansive defense budget is that Americans enjoyed being viewed as the global guardian. However, the increasing cost of health care has made it fiscally impossible to secure the world and provide health care for U.S. citizens. The effort to do both by increasing public debt is unsustainable. Polls have shown that Americans oppose by a substantial margin any cuts to Medicare. However, the military-industrial complex (M-I complex) is prepared for a political battle to prevent substantial cuts in the defense budget. In the fiscal cliff debate, conservatives insisted that America has a spending problem. Any effort to solve the problem by raising taxes, they argued, would discourage the wealthy, who are job creators. President Obama has continually
insisted that wealthy Americans ought to pay a bit more in taxes to relieve the financial burden on the middle class that will result from the inevitable coming austerity. That is essentially the financial conflict confronting America. Conservatives plan to win with the backing of the M-I complex. Citizens who are just recovering from the anxiety of a possible defeat on the fi scal cliff issue must recuperate and provide political support for President Obama. In order to be effective supporters, citizens have to understand the nature of the problem. According to the Urban Institute, an ordinary couple will pay about $109,000 into Medicare in a lifetime, but will receive $343,000 in benefits. That is a gap of $234,000. The problem in Social Security is that people are living so much longer that Social Security taxes from those working will one day be inadequate to meet the demand for payments to retirees. However, cuts to the defense budget alone will be inadequate to provide the funds to solve the problem. While a solution to the problem is pending, the government can borrow money to pay the expenses that are not covered by tax revenue. No family and no government can indefinitely borrow to pay for operating expenses. When the debt of a government is a small percentage of the value of the goods and services produced by that country (GDP), then the government is solvent, and the interest on loans will be moderate. But when the debt owed is a high percentage of the GDP, insolvency threatens. Some of the wealthy would like to cut taxes to the bone even if it means the elimination of the entitlements on which those of more modest means depend. Obama is assembling an administration to prevent that from happening. It is important for Americans who support the president’s view to join the battle.
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LETTERSto the Editor An update on the school choice process All across our city this month, parents are choosing the schools where they would like to send their children to kindergarten. The Boston Public Schools are better than ever — but our school assignment process is 25 years old. Under the current system, we ask prospective families to visit as many as 30 schools — some of which may be across the street, others miles from home — and then wait and hope they’ll get what they wanted. Our school choice process can be confusing, unpredictable and unnecessarily complicated. We can do better. Rather than building strong communities, today’s system begins by splitting up communities, sending students from one street to different schools across the city — even when families would rather have their children attend school close to home. This is why one year ago, I announced that we would spend this year on a comprehensive process to reform the current three-zone student assignment system, which puts complexity before community and ensures quantity of choices rather than quality of schools. Today, I’m proud to report that [we] are on the home stretch. We are closer
than ever to finding a new way forward — one that makes sense for families, lifts up our communities and gives every Boston student, regardless of where they live, a more equitable opportunity to attend a quality school closer to home. As we work to improve the student assignment system, we also continue to improve each of the schools across our city, because we know that changing the student assignment system, alone, will not improve school quality. Next week, I’ll file statewide legislation that, if adopted, would extend the District’s turn-around powers and support grants to the Level 3 schools that need them most; eliminate the cap on In-District charter schools; and extend the school day for additional instruction and professional development. This legislation will help to bring quality up to the
highest levels for all our students, and combined with a new student assignment system, will offer families better school choices by expanding the tools we’ve already proven are successful. We’re glad that so many voices agree that it’s time for a change and I hope you will stay involved by visiting bostonschoolchoice.org. There, you will see that we are closer than ever to successfully reforming our school choice system. Of course there will be a push to maintain the status quo. But if anything is worth fighting for, it’s an equitable school system that delivers what residents have asked us to deliver: stronger communities through quality schools, close to home. Mayor Thomas M. Menino City of Boston
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OPINION GOP still aims to make Obama a failed president Earl Ofari Hutchinson GOP Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell drew much derision for falling flat in fulfilling his oft repeated goal to make President Obama a one-term president. Obama’s smash electoral vote and solid popular vote win made the GOP’s aim seem more comical. The fiscal cliff battle seemed to render it even more absurd. Obama was the big winner. He preserved the Bush tax cuts for the middle and working class, got a big portion of cuts scrapped for the highest income earners, took Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid off the budget slice table, delayed debate on proposed draconian GOP budget cuts that will slam the poor and needy, and delayed the battle over the debt ceiling. But that was just the opening shot of what the GOP loudly claims will be a bitter fight to stymie President Obama’s second term presidency. The GOP is under even more intense pressure from ultra conservatives who have screamed at those GOP congresspersons for supposedly giving too much away to Obama in the fiscal cliff debate and not taking the hardest line stance they could against deals. GOP House leaders reeling from the criticism say they won’t even consider talking with Obama behind closed doors in the future to try to iron out their differences. McConnell went further and couched his war-like challenge to Obama as a battle to save the nation’s future. The GOP has several formidable weapons to hammer Obama. One is its power to say no in Congress. It has done that repeatedly in the Senate on one issue that has flown under the public’s radar. It has refused to confirm legions of Obama’s judicial appointees. He’s had fewer of his judicial picks confirmed than any first-term president in the last quarter century. That includes even district court nominees. In years past, their confirmation has been routine. The GOP has given no hint that it will reverse course and approve many of his picks in the future. Conservative judges have already shown they can obstruct Obama administration policies with their antienvironmental, anti-gun control and pro-corporate rulings. GOP leaders also showed that they will harass, harangue and try to intimidate Obama on his cabinet picks. The GOP’s assault on the possible nomination of UN ambassador Susan Rice to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State was a prime example of that. Rice’s withdrawal from consideration under pressure will only embolden the GOP to use the tactic to constantly send the message that it has the political muscle to get some of its way on public policy issues, and to keep the Obama administration off balance. Its next target will be Chuck Hagel, Obama’s pick for Secretary of Defense. The GOP also can delay and obstruct implementation and funding of health care reforms, tax and budget proposals, and regulatory reforms that still need bipartisan cooperation to pass. This is crucial since Obama needs to strike deals and make compromises with the GOP to get anything done in Congress. That necessity is even more compelling given the coming, potentially rancorous battle over the debt ceiling, immigration reform, spending cuts, and reforms of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. A prolonged war with the GOP that results in the White House getting little or none of its legislative agenda through Congress runs the risk of souring public opinion not just on the GOP but the White House. This has been the bane of other presidents during their second term and has marred their legacy. Then there’s the power of money. Since many well-heeled corporate bankrolled candidates went down to defeat in the presidential election, some saw this as a grand rejection of the corporate, banking and wealthy ultra-conservative bankrollers ability to buy their way into office with their handpicked conservative candidates. That is a wrong read. Money will continue to be a potent weapon at the GOP’s disposal. The astronomical cost of winning an office virtually assures that. The difference will be that in future elections, the GOP will be more selective and prudent about the conservatives that its campaign financiers bankroll. The GOP’s greatest weapon is the frozen political divide in the country. Nearly 50 percent of the nation’s voters not only did not support Obama, but expressed total contempt for his policies and his administration. The GOP banks that it can swivel this divisiveness into sustained opposition to those policies, and that it can buy enough time with that until the 2014 midterm elections and further boost its numbers in the House and especially the Senate. The 2012 election defeat did not in any way sate the GOP’s thirst to regain its dominance in national politics and that includes its ultimate goal of winning back the White House. If it can succeed in tarring Obama as a failed president, then it cynically calculates that will make that goal much easier to attain.
The GOP’s greatest weapon is the frozen political divide in the country.
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Have you already broken your New Year’s resolutions?
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I didn’t make one this year on purpose, because I’m turning 50 and I want the last 50 to be better than the first 50.
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INthe news Henry Louis Gates Jr. Yale University recently created a lectureship in the name of Henry Louis Gates Jr. that will provide a forum for “cutting-edge thinking” on the history and culture of people of African origin dispersed throughout the world. Elizabeth Alexander, chair of the Department of African American Studies, describes the annual lectureship as an “extraordinary opportunity” for the department, for Yale and for the greater New Haven community. The inaugural Henry Louis Gates Jr. lecture, “Being DuBois: Lessons in the Management of Identities,” was delivered on Oct. 16 at the Whitney Humanities Center by Kwame Anthony Appiah, the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton, and one of Gates’ life-long friends. A prodigious writer, critic, teacher, cultural historian and host of his own PBS documentary series, Gates is the author or editor of over two dozen books. He is the
recipient of more than 50 honorary degrees, as well as a MacArthur Foundation award, often referred to as the “genius grant.” At Yale, Gates was a member of
Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year. He graduated summa cum laude. He earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in English at Clare College, University of Cambridge.
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Civil Rights leader the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, displays the poster to be used during his Poor People’s Campaign on March 4, 1968. (AP photo/Horace Cort)
EDITOR’S NOTE: On March 31, 1968, less than a week before he died in Memphis (where he went to support the city’s garbage workers on strike), the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at the National Cathedral about the changes going on in the world, the challenges and opportunities they presented, and about the Poor People’s Campaign he was part of organizing. What follows are excerpts from his speech titled “Remaining Awake Through A Great Revolution.” There is another thing closely related to racism that I would like to mention as another challenge. We are challenged to rid our nation and the world of poverty. Like a monstrous octopus, poverty spreads its nagging, prehensile tentacles into hamlets and villages all over our world. Two-thirds of the people of the world go to bed hungry tonight. They are ill-housed; they are illnourished; they are shabbily clad. I’ve seen it in Latin America; I’ve seen it in Africa; I’ve seen this poverty in Asia … As I noticed these things, something within me cried out, “Can we in America stand idly by and not be concerned?” And an answer came: “Oh no!” Because the destiny of the United States is tied up with the destiny of India and every other nation. And I started thinking of the fact that we spend in America millions of dollars a day to store surplus food, and I said to myself, “I know where we can store that food free
of charge — in the wrinkled stomachs of millions of God’s children all over the world who go to bed hungry at night.” And maybe we spend far too much of our national budget establishing military bases around the world rather than bases of genuine concern and understanding. Not only do we see poverty abroad, I would remind you that in our own nation there are about 40 million people who are poverty-stricken. I have seen them here and there. I have seen them in the ghettos of the North; I have seen them in the rural areas of the South; I have seen them in Appalachia. I have just been in the process of touring many areas of our country and I must confess that in some situations I have literally found myself crying … This is America’s opportunity to help bridge the gulf between the haves and the have-nots. The question is whether America will do it. There is nothing new about poverty. What is new is that we now have the techniques and the resources to get rid of poverty. The real question is whether we have the will. In a few weeks, some of us are coming to Washington to see if the will is still alive or if it is alive in this nation. We are coming to Washington in a Poor People’s Campaign. Yes, we are going to bring MLK, continued to page 7
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the tired, the poor, the huddled masses. We are going to bring those who have known long years of hurt and neglect. We are going to bring those who have come to feel that life is a long and desolate corridor with no exit signs. We are going to bring children and adults and old people, people who have never seen a doctor or a dentist in their lives. We are not coming to engage in any histrionic gesture. We are not coming to tear up Washington. We are coming to demand that the government address itself to the problem of poverty. We read one day, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” But if a man doesn’t have a job or an income, he has neither life nor liberty, nor the possibility for the pursuit of happiness. He merely exists.
We are coming to ask America to be true to the huge promissory note that it signed years ago. And we are coming to engage in dramatic nonviolent action, to call attention to the gulf between promise and fulfillment; to make the invisible visible … One day we will have to stand before the God of history and we will talk in terms of things we’ve done. Yes, we will be able to say we built gargantuan bridges to span the seas, we built gigantic buildings to kiss the skies. Yes, we made our submarines to penetrate oceanic depths. We brought into being many other things with our scientific and technological power. It seems that I can hear the God of history saying, “That was not enough! But I was hungry, and ye fed me not. I was naked, and ye clothed me not. I was devoid of a decent sanitary house to live in, and ye provided no shelter for me. And consequently, you cannot enter the kingdom of greatness. If ye do it unto the least of these, my brethren, ye do it unto me.” That’s the question facing America today.
On March 31, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. discussed his planned Poor People’s Campaign from the pulpit of the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. “This is America’s opportunity to help bridge the gulf between the haves and the havenots,” King said. “The question is whether America will do it. There is nothing new about poverty. What is new is that we now have the techniques and the resources to get rid of poverty.” (AP photo)
President Joseph Aoun and the
John D. O’Bryant African-American Institute present the
Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Convocation Keynote Speaker:
Honorable Setti Warren Mayor of Newton Thursday • January 24, 2013 • 12:00pm Blackman Auditorium
Reception to follow the Convocation at the African-American Institute — Cabral Center. Admission is free. Ruggles T-Stop on the Orange line. For more information, call: 617-373-4911
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The day Dr. King visited Boston Common in 1965 Hasan Sharif “Designated Driver.” This was my title when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. arrived in Boston in April 1965. On that cloudy, intermittently rainy day, the designated driver was later assigned to be an “umbrella man,” shielding Dr. King as much from the elements as the possibility of a lurking assassin within range of Boston Common, where the civil rights icon would address an estimated crowd of 22,000 supporters. For a current generation witnessing an anemic economic recovery, Congressional gridlock, Occupy Boston and unpredictable climate changes, it is instructive to revisit the excitement and challenges facing the spring 1965 march in Boston. At that time, the Ministerial Alliance of Boston was addressing issues of diversity, race, education, employment and economics. But school desegregation would be the major focus of the march and the subsequent April 23 speech on Boston Common. The Rev. Dr. Michael E. Haynes, Minister Emeritus of the Twelfth Baptist Church, initiated this adventure. Rev. Haynes asked both James Loving Jr. and me for assistance, as Dr. King and Rev. Ralph Abernathy would be coming to Boston. I recall Dr. Hayne visiting my employer, Carroll’s Cut Rate in Roxbury, with a plan. I was to be given the assignment of lead driver for Dr. King; James, the lead driver for Dr. Abernathy. The first to pull out en route to any destination would be the decoy for safety, so that no one would know which limo carried Dr. King. Both of us were in our early 20s, crazy and excited at the prospect of driving without complications, speeding everywhere in the drive of a lifetime. James and I were directed onto the tarmac at Logan International Airport. Having picked up our passengers, we were to proceed through the Sumner Tunnel into Boston at speeds in excess of 65 mph — a major adrenalin rush! Both of us were instructed to follow police directives for speed was of the utmost importance, which made us even more excited viewing our motorcycle escort. Yet we were deeply aware of being part of history in the making. Nineteen sixty-five was the year when Dr. King also led the SelmaMontgomery voting rights march. It was the year of escalating warfare in South Vietnam, the death of Malcolm X, a massive power failure in the northeastern U.S. and Canada. Additionally, Patricia Harris became the first African American ambassador and U.S. Marines landed in the Dominican Republic. Meanwhile, in the racially volatile local environment, the Civil Rights Movement had arrived, no longer confined to the South, but now here in America’s “Cradle of Liberty.” Despite the passage of years, the agenda remains crystal clear: the meeting with Mayor John F. Collins at City Hall; an address at the Statehouse; demonstrations at the Campbell and Sherwin Schools in Roxbury. Another demonstration was held at the Boston Public Schools headquarters; another speech at Temple Israel on Longwood Avenue; and a visit with Cardinal Richard Cushing were also on the hectic schedule. And there was the march — a de-
termined and resolute crowd (“A Mile of Marchers” declared the headline in The Boston Globe) walking with solemn deliberation from the William E. Carter playground in lower Roxbury, down Columbus Avenue to the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common. But my most memorable moment, however, remains the very uncommon speech I witnessed that day in the heart
of a divided city. After parking the limos under close police scrutiny, a light rain began to fall, sprinkling the crowd, perhaps an unexpected benediction. I pulled out an umbrella to cover myself, realizing moments later that the priority should be shielding Dr. King, who was calmly taking a few notes. Introducing Dr. King, Dr. Abernathy reminded in the throng: “We may live
down South, but you live up South!” Delivering a speech from memory, Dr. King thanked Boston for its hospitality and keeping him from harm. With the Rev. Gilbert Cardwell of Union United Methodist Church on Dr. King’s left, and I on the right, we stood impassively, absorbing Martin Luther King’s eloquence; his plea for the demonstrators to be agents of change instead of leading lives of passive acceptance within an accelerating worldwide struggle for equal rights and dignity. “Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy,” King declared, “Now is the time!” Nearly a half-century later, one is moved to reflect on much of the complacency and hedonism all around us.
What a contrast to the ambience of 1965, when access to and the pursuit of education were uppermost in the minds of so many Roxbury residents. Today, access to easy credit, the warp speed of digital communications, social stratification and self-gratification mark some of the preoccupations of our times. These present no fewer challenges to social consciousness and racial harmony than the prejudice, segregation, discrimination and fear physically palpable back in the Boston of the ’60s. Hasan Abdullah Sharif, formerly known as Arnold M. Walker, is a senior counselor with the Upward Bound program at Roxbury Community College.
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verdict in an Alabama lower court. That decision was affirmed in 1961 by the Alabama Supreme Court which assessed another $500,000 in penalties. Standing in line were several other claims of disgruntled Southern officials, including a $500,000 suit by Montgomery Mayor Earl James and $1 million suit filed by Alabama Gov. John Patterson. The case would then go to the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 6, 1964 and become one of the seminal cases on freedom of the press in the nation’s history, establishing new standards for proving defamation. A public official, Brennan wrote, cannot recover “damages for a defamatory falsehood relating to his official conduct unless he proves that the statement was made with ‘actual malice’ — that is, with knowledge that it was
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false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.” But at the time, none of that mattered to four black preachers, many of whom were lost in the shadow of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth, Joseph Lowery and S.S. Seay Jr. All four were also named in the suit against the New York Times. For these members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, freedom of the press was not a theoretical issue but rather a tangible — and mounting — debt that Alabama courts were forcing them to pay. As it was, Taylor Branch reported in the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63,” the automobiles of Shuttlesworth, Abernathy and Lowery had been sold at a state-ordered auction. Some of the Seay’s real estate was attached for quick sale. A lien had been fixed on the land Abernathy had inherited from his father, and lawyers
were moving to discover other property that could be seized. Abernathy later disclosed that he stood to lose as much as $200,000. And that was the point of all the legal challenges — to make their commitment to the Civil
fronted the American court system with a delicate political dilemma ... Eventually, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court avoided the racial content of the facts by inventing a new standard.” That in itself was especially dif-
And that was the point of all the legal challenges — to make their commitment to the Civil Rights Movement and fight against segregation so unbearable that they would pack up, shut up and stop bringing in those “outside agitators.” Rights Movement and fight against segregation so unbearable that they would pack up, shut up and stop bringing in those “outside agitators.” From its beginning, Branch wrote, the Sullivan case “con-
ficult, largely because the specifics of the case revolved around a paid advertisement that mentioned no names and was not reviewed by a single reporter nor vetted by a single editor. The Committee to Defend
Martin Luther King and the Struggle for Freedom in the South collected $4,800 for a full-page ad in the New York Times. Both groups sought donations to help pay for Dr. King’s growing legal bills. Bayard Rustin, then Struggle for Freedom’s executive director, sat down with Harry Belafonte and drafted the fundraising ad. Entitled “Heed their rising voices,” a phrase lifted from a New York Times editorial, the ad offered a brief history of the efforts to prosecute and intimidate King. “As the whole world knows by now,” the ad read, “thousands of Southern Negro students are engaged in widespread non-violent demonstrations in positive affirmation of the right to live in human dignity as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.” The ad went on to charge: “In their efforts to uphold these guarantees, they are being met by an unprecedented wave of terror by those who would deny and negate that document which the whole world looks upon as setting the pattern for modern freedom.” King’s perjury indictment, the ad continued, was part of a southern strategy “to beat this affirmative movement, and thus to demoralize Negro Americans and weaken their will to struggle.” The appeal ran on March 29, 1960. A week later, the attorney general of Alabama announced that Gov. Patterson had instructed him to examine the possibility of suing the New York Times and the four preachers for libeling the official representatives of Alabama. Though no one was named in the ad, Alabama officials argued that they were personally damaged by implication. They based their libel claim primarily on the general characterization of the Southern law enforcement officials as “violators of the constitution” in their actions to suppress the sit-ins. Of the 600,000 copies of the newspaper that were printed, only a couple hundred went to Alabama. In fact, Sullivan only learned of the ad through an editorial in a local newspaper. He sued on April 19, 1960 in the Alabama Circuit Court of Montgomery County. To a certain extent, the text of the ad did contain several factual errors: the Montgomery students had sung “the Star Spangled Banner,” not “My Country ‘Tis of Thee,” as the ad read. And the police never had “ringed” the Alabama state campus, as the ad stated, but instead they had massed along one border. But at the time, factual mistakes were enough to win a libel case, largely because First Amendment protections stopped at state lines. And the legal merits of the case weren’t really the point anyway — as the New York Times and four preachers learned in court during the hearing of the initial Sullivan case. Fearing his presence would inflame white jurors, defense attorneys urged Dr. King not to appear in court, or for that matter, in Montgomery. The trial started as expected: an all-white jury was selected. As Branch reports, there followed an “unceremonious argument over courtroom use of the word ‘nigger,’ which was won in the end by the Malice, continued to page 11
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The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, left, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., center, and Bayard Rustin, leaders in the racial bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., leave the Montgomery County Courthouse on Feb. 24, 1956. The civil rights leaders were arraigned along with 87 other black activists. Thousands of supporters walked in protest against the mass indictments and arrests. (AP Photo)
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plaintiff’s lawyer who told the judge that he was merely following the customary pronunciation of a lifetime.” It took three days before the jury came back with a guilty verdict and an award to Sullivan of $500,000 in damages. The appeal was equally devastating. The case before the Alabama Supreme Court ended on Feb. 1, 1961. It was not without its moments of absurdity. Five members of the jury wore beards in preparation for centennial celebrations of the Civil War. Quite naturally, the defense attorneys objected to the Confederate symbols and argued that their presence created an atmosphere biased against the defendants. Of course, that objection was overruled. Judge Walter B. Jones, who was presiding over the appeal, had been chosen to administer the oath of office to a Jefferson Davis stand-in at a ceremony marking the confederate’s 100th birthday. “After rejecting various mistrial motions,” Branch wrote, “Judge Jones moved the case swiftly to the jury, which assessed another $500,000 libel penalty against the defendants.”
Not until the case landed in the U.S. Supreme Court did reason come into play. In his opinion, Brennan took direct aim at the ad’s mistakes. “That erroneous statements are inevitable in free debate,” Brennan wrote, “and that it must be protected if the freedoms of expression are to have ‘breathing space’ that they ‘need to survive.’” On that point, Brennan later quoted a 1942 D.C. Court of Appeals decision in a Congressman’s libel suit based upon charges in a newspaper that he opposed a judicial appointment because the candidate was Jewish. “Cases which impose liability for erroneous reports of political conduct of officials reflect the obsolete doctrine that the governed must not criticize their governors,” the unanimous decision read. “The protection of the public requires not merely discussion, but information. ... Errors of fact, particularly in regard to a man’s mental states and processes, are inevitable. Whatever is added to the field of libel is taken from the field of free debate.” There was no free debate with L.B. Sullivan. Words mattered to him, as did the Southern way of life. At least
that is what he told the officers of the local White Citizens Council and their honored guests — the top officials of the city, county and state police forces — during a celebration of “Law and Order” at the Montgomery City Hall. Dan Wakefield, a writer for the Nation, attended the meeting and wrote a piece published in May 1960 that detailed what he described as “respectable racism.” “Since the infamous Supreme Court decision rendered in 1954,” Sullivan said, referring to the landmark end of legalized segregation, “we in Montgomery and the South have been put to a severe test by those who seek to destroy our time-honored customs … I think I speak for all law enforcement agencies when I say we will use all the peaceful means at our disposal to maintain our cherished traditions.” Sullivan didn’t stop there. “Not since Reconstruction have our customs been in such jeopardy,” he explained. “We can and must resist outside forces hell-bent on our destruction … we want these outside meddlers to leave us alone. If they do otherwise, we’ll do our best to ‘accommodate’ them here in Montgomery.” But not everything was bad, Sullivan said before pointing out that white vigilante mobs were “cooperating” with law enforcement officials in protecting “cherished traditions.” “Spring is here, and birds are singing,” Sullivan said. “But with the help of our law enforcement people, the blackbirds aren’t
gonna sing on the capital steps.” This was the same Sullivan who allowed the mobs to beat and harass freedom riders without police intervention. In one particular case, Abernathy and other members of the Montgomery Improvement Association, the group that led the Bus Boycott, had to rescue a group of freedom riders shortly after they arrived at the Montgomery bus station. But not before a mob had let loose with chains and clubs. Among those beaten was the justice department representative, John Seigenthaler, who was knocked unconscious. As Branch described, an official of the Anti-Defamation League concluded several days later, after making careful inquiries, that “Police Commissioner L. B. Sullivan had conspired with mob leader Claude Henley to allow the mob 10 minutes to do with the freedom riders as they saw fit.” It was not just about the Freedom Riders. Ordinary black citizens fell victim to racial attacks. One such attack was captured by the local Alabama newspaper: a woman shopper was blind-sided with a baseball bat. The newspaper published a photograph of the woman with the name of the attacker. “The white photographer and reporter at the scene both said the police had stood by passively, and that the crack of the baseball bat on the woman’s head could be heard from a block away,” Branch wrote. Of course, Sullivan blamed the newspaper for publishing the photograph. Grove Hall, the
editor of the newspaper, was no fan of Sullivan, and while he divided the larger blame between “rash, misled young negroes” and “white thugs,” he dismissed Sullivan’s claim as ridiculous. “Sullivan’s problem is not a photographer with a camera,” Hall wrote. “Sullivan’s problem is a white man with a baseball bat.” It’s hard to imagine these days that Sullivan’s case, given his history of rabid segregation and attempt to silence all those advocating for integration, made it to the nation’s highest court. That point was not lost on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, who wrote a concurring opinion. “The half-million-dollar verdict does give dramatic proof,” Black wrote, “that state libel laws threaten the very existence of an American press virile enough to publish unpopular views on public affairs and bold enough to criticize the conduct of public officials. The factual background of this case emphasizes the imminence and enormity of that threat.” But the case rested with Brennan. He went back to James Madison and the founding father’s intent of the First Amendment. “In every state, probably in the union,” Brennan wrote, “the press has exerted a freedom in canvassing the merits and measures of public men, of every description, which has not been confined to the strict limits of the common law. On this footing the freedom of the press has stood; on this foundation it yet stands.”
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Martin Luther King Jr. chronology 1929 • Born at noon on Jan. 15 to the Rev. and Mrs. Martin Luther King Sr. of 501 Auburn Avenue N.E. in Atlanta.
1951 • Enters Boston University for graduate studies.
1955 • Receives Ph.D. in systematic theology from Boston University on June 5. Dissertation title: “A Comparison of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Wiseman.” • Joins the bus boycott after Rosa Parks was arrested on Dec. 1. • On Dec. 5, he is elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, making him the official spokesman for the boycott.
1956 • On Nov. 13, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that bus segregation is illegal, ensuring victory for the boycott.
1957 • King forms the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to fight segregation and achieve civil rights.
1958 • The U.S. Congress passes the first Civil Rights Act since reconstruction. • King’s first book, “Stride Toward Freedom,” is published. • In Harlem for a speaking engagement, King is nearly killed when stabbed by an assailant. • Meets with President Eisenhower along with Roy Wilkins, A. Philip Randolph and Lester Grange to discuss problems affecting black Americans.
1959 • Visits India to study Mohandas Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolence. • Resigns from his role as pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery to concentrate on civil rights full time.
• Moves to Atlanta to direct the activities of the SCLC.
1963 • On Good Friday, April 12, King is arrested with Ralph Abernathy by Police Commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor for demonstrating without a permit. • The following day, the Birmingham campaign is launched. This would prove to be the turning point in the war to end segregation in the South. • During the 11 days he spent in jail, King writes his famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” • The March on Washington, held Aug. 28, is the largest civil rights demonstration in history, with nearly 250,000 people in attendance. At the march, King makes his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. • On Nov. 22, President Kennedy is assassinated.
1964 • On Jan. 3, King appears on the cover of Time magazine as its Man of the Year.
• King attends the signing ceremony of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 at the White House on July 2. • During the summer, King experiences his first hurtful rejection by black people when he is stoned by black Muslims in Harlem. • King is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Dec. 10. At age 35, he is the youngest person to receive the award.
1967 • In January, King writes his book, “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?” while in Jamaica. • On July 26, black leaders King, Randolph, Wilkins and Whitney Young appeal for an end to the Detroit riots, which they say “have proved ineffective and damaging to the civil rights cause and the entire nation.” • On Oct. 30, the Supreme Court upholds the contemptof-court convictions of King and seven other black leaders who led the 1963 marches in Birmingham. King and his aides enter jail to serve fourday sentences. • On Nov. 27, King announces the formation by SCLC of a Poor People’s Campaign, with the aim of representing the problems of both poor blacks and whites.
1968 • King announces that the Poor People’s Campaign will culminate in a March on Washington, demanding a $12 billion Economic Bill of Rights that guarantees employment to the able-bodied, incomes to those unable to work, and an end to housing discrimination. • King marches in support of sanitation workers on strike in Memphis, Tenn. • On March 28, King leads a march that turns violent, the first time this has happened during one of his events • On April 3, King delivers the “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech at Mason Temple in Memphis. • At sunset on April 4, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. There are riots and disturbances in 130 American cities that culminate in 20,000 arrests. • King’s April 9 funeral is an international event. • Within a week of King’s assassination, Congress passes the federal Fair Housing Act.
1986 • On Nov. 2, a national holiday is proclaimed in King’s honor.
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N.C. Governor grants pardon to ‘Wilmington Ten’ Cash Michaels RALEIGH, N.C. — In what civil rights leaders across the nation are calling a “significant” moment in the Civil Rights Movement, North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue has granted individual pardons of actual innocence to members of the Wilmington Ten. “I have decided to grant these pardons because the more facts I have learned about the Wilmington Ten, the more appalled I have become about the manner in which their convictions were obtained,” Perdue, a Democrat, said in her Dec. 31 statement.
lence erupted, with white supremacists driving through Wilmington’s black community, fatally shooting people and committing arson. A white-owned grocery store in the black community was firebombed, and firemen came under sniper fire. It wasn’t until a year later that Rev. Chavis and the others were arrested and charged with conspiracy in connection with the firebombing and shootings. The Ten were falsely convicted, and sentenced to 282 years in prison, some of which they all served. It wouldn’t be until 1977, after years of failed appeals in North Carolina courts, that the three
“These convictions were tainted by naked racism and represent an ugly stain on North Carolina’s criminal justice system.” — Gov. Beverly Perdue “Justice demands that this stain finally be removed. The process in which this case was tried was fundamentally flawed. Therefore, as Governor, I am issuing these pardons of innocence to right this longstanding wrong.” The Wilmington Ten — nine black males and one white female — were activists who, along with hundreds of black students in the New Hanover County Public School System, protested rampant racial discrimination there in 1971. In February 1971, after the arrival of Rev. Benjamin Chavis to help lead the protests, racial vio-
state’s witnesses all recanted their testimonies, admitting that they perjured themselves. Amnesty International issued a blistering report declaring the Wilmington Ten “political prisoners of conscience.” The CBS News program “60 Minutes” did a one-hour exposé proving that the evidence against the Wilmington Ten had been fabricated by the prosecution. And after then N.C. Gov. James B. Hunt refused to pardon the Ten but did commute their sentences in 1978, the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
overturned all of the convictions, based on gross prosecutorial misconduct and various violations of constitutional rights. The appeals court directed North Carolina to either retry the defendants or dismiss all charges, but the state did nothing for the past 32 years. In March 2011, the National Newspaper Publishers Association, at the urging of Wilmington Journal publisher Mary Alice Thatch, voted to pursue pardons of innocence for the Wilmington Ten. That effort got underway in earnest in January 2012, and after a series of NNPA stories based on an investigation that revealed neverbefore-seen court records proving prosecutorial corruption, the mainstream media — including The New York Times, The News and Observer, The Wilmington StarNews and MSNBC’s Prof. Melissa Harris-Perry — caught on, and began editorially pushing for pardoning the Wilmington Ten. Change.org, the NAACP and The Wilmington Journal garnered over 144,000 petition signatures for the cause. Gov. Perdue’s pardons legally mean that the accused did not commit the crimes they were convicted of. The governor’s decision was roundly hailed. “Gov. Perdue’s historic action today doesn’t remove the past 40 years of injustice against 10 innocent American citizens — North Carolinians who stood up for equal treatment under the law in our public education system,” the Wilmington Ten Pardons of Innocence Project, a justice outreach effort of the National Newspaper Publishers Association and the Wilmington Journal newspaper, said in a statement.
“But [the governor’s pardon] does correct the historical record, that Connie Tindall, Jerry Jacobs, William Joe Wright, Anne Sheppard, Wayne Moore, Marvin Patrick, James McKoy, Willie Earl Vereen, Reginald Epps and the Rev. Dr. Benjamin Chavis were indeed innocent of all charges falsely assessed to them by a corrupt prosecutor who, to this day, has not answered for what he did.” Governor Perdue agreed that revelations of the racist and illegal trial tactics of Wilmington Ten prosecutor Jay Stroud — which included documented handwritten evidence of seeking “KKK and Uncle Tom-type” jurors; bribing witnesses to commit perjury; hiding exculpatory evidence of a witness’ mental illness from the defense; and deliberately forcing a mistrial so that he could get both
the judge and jury that would guarantee convictions — corrupted the criminal justice system and shamed the state. Perdue called it “naked racism.” “This conduct is disgraceful,” the governor said in her statement. “It is utterly incompatible with basic notions of fairness, and with every ideal that North Carolina holds dear. The legitimacy of our criminal justice system hinges on it operating in a fair and equitable manner, with justice being dispensed based on innocence or guilt — not based on race or other forms of prejudice.” “That did not happen here,” Perdue continued. “Instead, these convictions were tainted by naked racism and represent an ugly stain on North Carolina’s criminal justice Wilmington, continued to page 14
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system that cannot be allowed to stand any longer.” “This is a great day for the people, and the movement,” Dr. Benjamin Chavis, leader of the Wilmington Ten, told the Wilmington Journal Monday. “This is a very rare victory.” N.C. NAACP Pres. Rev. William Barber, who partnered with the Wilmington Ten Pardons of Innocence, noted the history. “Not only will the civil rights and human rights communities honor this act, but history itself will record this day as groundbreaking,” Barber told reporters in Raleigh. “On the eve of the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, Governor Perdue has proclaimed a contemporary emancipation for these freedom fighters.” For his part, former prosecutor Jay Stroud, who was disbarred in 2008 and has been arrested more than 12 times in the past six years, according to the Associated Press, says that Gov. Perdue has “made a mistake.” Though he has admit-
ted that the handwritten notes in the Wilmington Ten prosecution files are his, Stroud is now suggesting that some of them may have been forged. “…[H]is son told The Gaston Gazette in 2011 that his father suffers from bipolar disease and that [Stroud] was diagnosed about the same time he graduated from law school,” the AP reported. New Hanover County District Attorney Ben David, who originally found the box containing the Stroud files in a closet at his office, and turned them over to historian Duke Prof. Tim Tyson, also issued a statement. “As prosecutors, the truth is our only client,” David wrote. “For guilty defendants, the truth hurts. For the innocent, the truth will set them free.” “Sometimes the truth remains elusive. Where, as here, the process that was in place to search for the truth is determined to be so fundamentally flawed that we cannot know it, the verdict cannot stand the test of time. My job, as District Attorney, is to make sure that this does not happen again.” The Wilmington Journal
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NIH on mission to find and fund black science Jimmie Briggs In many ways, Raynard Kington sees himself as incredibly privileged. After attaining his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Michigan, he later completed his MBA at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and served in various capacities at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including deputy director. Board-certified in internal medicine, public health and preventive medicine, Kington has been president of Grinnell College in Iowa since 2010. As a prominent African American medical professional and scientist, he recognizes the challenges that can exist for researchers of color in the biomedical community, a reality borne out by the findings of a heavily scrutinized study he co-authored in Science magazine in the fall of 2011. More than a year later, that study, which showed that black scientists were less likely to be awarded research monies from the NIH than their white counterparts, has inspired the agency to launch a comprehensive effort to bolster grants made to researchers of color, and increase their overall presence in the scientific community. These are goals Kington and others see as critical to achieving necessary breakthroughs for all
communities. “I made good choices and the people around me helped me make good choices,” Kington explained in an interview. “I was able to achieve my goals. It wasn’t without challenges to race, but each person has their own journey.” Commissioned by NIH, the Science study was published in August, 2011. Approximately 83,000 grant
prestigious source of financial support for an independent researcher, other than private institutions, is two-fold. A prospective application goes before a committee possibly comprised of up to 40 researchers from outside the agency. Each proposal gets a preliminary score before going to the full selection body for a final score, though only the top half of applications get
“… Any time we have a group of people who have the potential to become great scientists, and there’s a risk of not carrying those great minds forward, then the entire country needs to address it.” — Raynard Kington applications to the institution were reviewed for the period between 2000 and 2006. The figures were stark for black researchers: For every 100 applications made by a white applicant, 29 received awards; while for every 100 queries made by black scientists, only 16 were funded. A black scientist was one-third less likely than a white counterpart to get a research project financed, the study found. The disparity for Latinos, Asians, Native Americans and women were not as great. The process of seeking a research grant from NIH, which is arguably the primary and most
a second score. The submissions aren’t anonymous but the race and ethnicity of researchers is not requested, either. “There was a lot of attention related to the fact as to how applications are reviewed,” Kington noted. “My belief is that that is a relatively small part of the problem.” He continued: “The issue is how they’re trained, and the peer network developed. The peers who help them take the best decisions ... It’s not what sort of fellowships or schools scientists are coming from, but scientists of color are steered toward a differential outcome even when at-
tending the best research institutions. It points to mentoring, and informal networks scientists have. Who’s available to read your applications before they’re submitted? Who’s available to give advice about career decisions? It’s the informal networks which are the more profound problem.” Somewhere around 500 doctoral degrees are awarded annually to minorities in the biological sciences, and within the medical education environment specifically, approximately 3 percent of full-time medical school faculty members are black, even though African Americans are more than 13 percent of the general population. Lawrence Tabak, the principal deputy director of the NIH, embraces the findings of the Science study and is optimistic for longterm solutions. “In our current finding climate, many investigators fail to secure grants,” Tabak said. “The real challenge we faced, was given the evidence, how do we address this? The group who authored the paper, pointed to a cumulative benefit that majority investigators enjoy, which unfortunately many minority investigators do not. It’s the type of papers you publish, where you publish and where you go to school. “Our intervention is at the college level, where we hope to entice young people of color, people who must get one-on-one intensive mentorship,” Tabak explained. “This is important in any walk of life, but it’s particularly important in science when you’re trying to advance. There’s a need to get more people in the pipeline and maintain them. We’ve laid out a decade-long plan, encompassing many elements.”
NIH assembled a task force following the publication of the Science study and, among other recommendations it is looking to implement, will examine the review process for grant applications. It will also seek out young researchers from underserved populations to be application reviewers. Tabak outlined a decade-long effort in response to the findings of racial disparity in research grant awards by his agency. He looks to recruit 600 minority students within that time through post-doctoral fellowships, and intervene at the undergraduate level to keep young people and students of color in the sciences. Many tend to drop out of it in their sophomore year and the new NIH initiative will include scholarships, loan repayment, faculty mentorship and enticement into Ph.D. programs. “They’ve come forth with a set of programs which I think are a good start,” Kington said. “But, we have to be realistic. There will be no magic bullet. We’ve done the easy stuff and it hasn’t worked. The communities that study disparities in health [are] very diverse, not just scientists of color. Any time we have a group of people who have the potential to become great scientists, and there’s a risk of not carrying those great minds forward, then the entire country needs to address it.” New America Media Hurt no one. If you plant fear in others, you will never become fearless. If you make others dauntless, fear will not touch you. You will attain victory. — Swami Muktananda
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Paranormal Marlon Marlon Wayans talks about his latest film, “A Haunted House,” a spoof of “Paranormal Activity”
Kam Williams Multi-talented Marlon Wayans graduated from the prestigious High School of Performing Arts in New York and Howard University’s Film School. He is best known for getting his start in Hollywood as a cast member of the Emmy Award-winning comedy series, “In Living Color.” Marlon then went on to create, executive produce and star in The Wayans Bros. on the WB. To g e t h e r w i t h b r o t h e r s
Keenen and Shawn Wayans and producer Rick Alvarez, he formed the successful production company Wayans Brothers Entertainment. Some of his noteworthy credits include “The Ladykillers,” directed by the Coen Brothers; the record-breaking “Scary Movie” and “Scary Movie 2,” “White Chicks,” “Norbit” and “Dance Flick.” Marlon’s compelling dramatic performance as a drug addict in Darren Aronofsky’s “Requiem for a Dream” proved he could do
more than comedy. Most recently, Marlon was seen starring opposite Channing Tatum in the boxoffice smash, “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.” Next, he will play the title role in Sony Pictures’ “Richard Pryor: Is It Something I Said?” Marlon will also star in the upcoming Harmony Korine film “Twinkle, Twinkle.” Marlon continues to publish books under the 101 Ways title including 101 Ways to Know You’re a Golddigger, 101 Ways You Know It’s
Time to Get Out Of Your Mama’s House and 101 Ways to Know You’re Having a Ghetto Christmas.
Where did you find the inspiration to write this film? I was watching “Paranormal Activity” 1 and [“Paranormal Activity”] 2, which were very successful hits at the box office, and I just thought to myself, “If I want to do a movie, how am I going to approach this?” Then, I had this epiphany that,
“Damn, white people do a lot of stupid stuff in these movies.” Wouldn’t it be funny if a lot of paranormal activity happened to a black couple? Now, how do I keep them in the house longer than five minutes? That became the comic premise for the movie. From there, it just snowballed into a bunch of jokes. So, I got together with Rick Alvarez, my producing partner, and we decided to write it together. Marlon, continued to page 19
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Are you the only Wayans in this film? Yeah.
That must be a first. How do you explain that? We’re used to seeing multiple Wayans in a Wayans production. Nobody loves me. [Chuckles] No, everybody wanted me to do this one by myself, and I wanted to do it by myself. So, this is sorta like my first solo album. I didn’t pull any tricks out of my hat, and just went with the natural flow of
the film.
What audience are you trying to attract? The same crowd that went to see “Scary Movie”? Not just them. They’re older now. I really want to hit the next generation of kids, the YouTube Generation. And also women, because it’s a relationship movie with romantic elements. I think anybody who wants to laugh is the intended audience.
When was the last time you had a good laugh? I was just watching “The Campaign” on video. Will Ferrell makes me laugh. So does
Zach Galifiniakis. But when Will punched the kid in the face, I was hurting. And then when he punched the dog, too, I was hurting some more. Those two scenes made me laugh hysterically.
What is your guiltiest pleasure? My piano. Although I don’t know if playing piano is a guilty pleasure. My guiltiest pleasure would be wine.
What was the best business decision you ever made? To make this movie. I took no money up front. I did it out of love, and hopefully it will be successful and keep the Wayans brand growing. It’s an extension of the brand,
not a departure from it.
If you only had 24 hours to live, what would you do? Would you do the bad stuff you never got a chance to do, or would you do good stuff to make sure you make it into heaven? I’d absolutely spend it with my family, laughing.
What is your favorite charity? The Wayans family. [Laughs] And the Hudson Guild. It’s a community center that helped us out when we were kids. So, we definitely give back to it.
What advice do you have for anyone who wants to follow in your footsteps? Don’t follow mine, create your own, trailblaze your own. Success is not a destination, but the road that you’re on. Being successful means that you’re working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard toward it. That’s living your dream.
How do you want to be remembered? As a guy who’s not going to change your life, but who is going to change your mood. As a guy who made you smile and say, “I miss him. He was a lot of fun.”
January 17th 7pm Last Thursday at the Coffeehouse
Haley House Bakery Cafe 12 Dade Street, Roxbury, MA 02119
Our final Coffeehouse of the season will feature The Treehouse Boston, a collective of three women of color working towards recreating the culture of Boston in an authentic, unique, and inclusive environment. The documentary Marley about the life, music, and legacy of Bob Marley will screen, followed by dialog and Open Mic.
Marlon Wayans on the set of his new film, “A Haunted House.”
January 24th 7pm Welcome Back for
Art is Life itself! Haley House Bakery Cafe – 12 Dade Street, Roxbury, MA 02119 Screening of Documentary Short, “Re-Enter: My New Community,” film made by Emerson College Service Learning & Community Students on Haley House Bakery Cafe’s Transitional Employment Program followed by Panel Discussion on “Incarceration, Business and Community” followed by London Bridgez, Soul Word Artist & Founding Member of the Neo.Logic Beatnik Assembly + Open Mic. Donations accepted – come early for dinner! January 31st 7pm – Art is Life itself! Haley House Bakery Cafe – 12 Dade Street, Roxbury, MA 02119 “Daddy King,” a one-hour presentation of storytelling, song & dance on Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Storyteller Performers, Linda & Sumner McLain + Open Mic. Donations accepted – come early for dinner! February 7th 7pm - Art is Life itself! Haley House Bakery Cafe – 12 Dade Street, Roxbury, MA 02119 Nubian Queens of Rhythm, a 10 Woman Drumming Group with the Rhythms of Africa + The Fulani Haynes Jazz Collaborative + Open Mic. Donations accepted – come early for dinner!
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From Boston to the Bayou Two-night Mardi Gras Ball benefit concert features party atmosphere, top-shelf local talent Matt Robinson The New Orleans party spirit is alive and well at the annual bacchanal known as “Wolf’s Mardi Gras Ball.” This year, to mark its 20th anniversary, the Ball will double in size, offering a double dose of Delta dancing as it turns Cam-
bridge’s Central Square into Boston’s slightly milder version of New Orleans’ Congo Square on Feb. 8 and 9 at TT the Bear’s. Ball founder Shaun Wolf Wortis said the idea was one of the many experimental “theme” shows conceived with his old band, Slide. “We had been to New Orleans both on tour and as a pilgrim-
age, and thought that it’d be fun to play some old NOLA R&B at a show and see if anyone would show up in masks,” he said. Not only did people show up, but some have been coming back year after year to keep the show and the spirit of New Orleans going strong. Thanks to the critical mass of Massachusetts-based talent, the Ball has long been one of the top nights on the Boston-area musical and social calendar. “Musicians in Boston seem to love to get involved,” Wortis said. “The hardest thing is just trying to keep up with who is on the scene.” Though he and the show are both physically based in Cambridge, Wortis’ heart is deep in Dixie and he makes regular pilgrimages to find the deepest and Delta-est musical cuts and costumes to fuel his annual fest. “I’ve got a pretty massive collection of New Orleans music,” Wortis explains, “and I love to pore through it to find the ‘perfect’ matches for guest singers.” Thus, regulars of Wolf’s Balls could be the only folks outside of the Crescent City to be familiar with Oliver Morgan’s “Who Shot the La La,” the Pelicans’ “Drunk Drunk Drunk” and the many other N’awlins nuggets that Wortis offers them. “New Orleans R&B is unpretentious, ragged, irreverent, sexy, [and] funky,” Wortis said. “Once they hear the music, they’re hooked.” The musical attraction is so strong that many Ball guests come back year after year, often bringing their own songs and sounds and creativity to the musical gumbo. “Shaun first asked me to do the Mardi Gras Ball in 2006,” recalls Jen D’Angora of Jenny Dee and the Deelinquents (among other
Revelers rejoice at a recent Mardi Gras Ball. bands). Though she did not know Wortis well at the time, she could sense his love for music and his love for his fellow musician. “Shaun is a great guy, even greater musician, and what an awesome person to boot,” D’Angora says. “He’s always thinking of the other guy (or gal), and he’s one of my favorite guys to sing with.” Though the Ball features some of the most talented musicians and artists around, Wortis gives praise to his “house band.” “My band is incredibly dedicated,” he says. “Paul Ahlstrand has played in over 20 Mardi Gras Balls and Bastille Day A-Go-Gos. Chandler Travis has been in 19 of these. Ducky Carlisle [has done] 25, and, of course, the guys in Slide … have been in dozens each.” As much as the veterans love the Ball, some of the newer talents get into it just as much. “I performed for the first time on this two or three years ago at Shaun’s invitation,” recalls vocalist Gabrielle Agachiko, who regularly performs with fellow NOLA-lover Ken Field of Revolutionary Snake
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A Lecture Series by Professors in the Africana Studies Department at UMass Boston
January 24, 2013 at 6:00pm Role Modeling the African Wisdom of Kemet/Egypt A Lecture Series by Professors in the Africana Studies Department at UMass Boston, will be hosting free of charge empowerment lecture series at the Dudley Branch Boston Public Library 65 Warren Street, Roxbury, Ma 617-442-6186
Discussion of the African Wisdom of Kemet/Egypt, highlighting the magnificent contributions that African people have made to the world civilization and history. —Professor Nteri Nelson
Ensemble. “I love the show because the music is always outstanding.” Even Boston legends and fellow impresarios like Rick Berlin (most recently of the Nickel and Dimed Band) give Wortis all the credit for launching and maintaining his spring and summer music fests. “It’s Mr. Wortis throughout,” Berlin explains. “The idea
“New Orleans R&B is unpretentious, ragged, irreverent, sexy, [and] funky. Once they hear the music, they’re hooked.” — Shaun Wolf Wortis wouldn’t exist without him.” It’s not just about the music. Wortis also has a cause — the New Orleans Musicians Clinic, which has benefitted from this Bayou-d bash for the past 10 years. “At some point, I got to know the New Orleans Musicians Clinic and was really psyched about the work they were doing,” Wortis explains, noting that his Balls have raised thousands of dollars for the NOMC. “I felt turning the Ball into a benefit show was an opportunity to give back to musicians whose work I’d been loving for years and whose work is so important to all the music all of us play in the rock sphere.” In encouraging bands to donate their time and talent to benefit other artists, Wortis and his fellow musicians make sure that fans in Boston and in New Orleans all benefit from his efforts. “It’s good for New Orleans, but it’s good for the heart and soul of Boston music, too,” said singer Jordan Valentine. “[It’s] a rare opportunity to see pure unadulterated joy on the dance floor, a world-class band, amazing guests, incredible tunes that you never get to hear, and all sorts of people coming together for one really, truly, awesomely good time.” Wolf’s 20th Anniversary Mardi Gras Ball takes place on Feb. 8 and 9 at TT the Bear’s, 10 Brookline St., Cambridge.
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Obama’s Second Term Journalists John Avlon, Ryan Lizza and Martha Raddatz examine the challenges President Obama faces in his second term with Callie Crossley, host of WGBH’s Boston Public Radio. This forum will be held from 67:30pm in Stephen Smith Hall at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Columbia Point, Boston. All forums are free and open to the public. To make reservations and for further information, visit the Kennedy Presidential Library web page at www.jfklibrary.org or call 617514-1643.
Millennium Park Bird Walk The Boston Parks and Recreation Department and Mass Audubon host a walk for those residents interested in looking for winter birds at Millennium Park in West Roxbury. Meet at the parking lot near the canoe launch. At 3:30pm, Millennium Park, 300 Gardner St., West Roxbury. Free parking. For further information, please call 617-635-4505 or visit online at www.facebook.com/ bostonparksdepartment.
Eclectic Expressions From 6-8pm, the BCYF Roslindale Community Center will host “Eclectic Expressions.” This is a free musical event which will explore diversity through vocal music. All ages welcome. The event will include rhythm-nblues, spoken word, Americana, world jazz, Gospel, Afro-pop, and more! Organized by Lisa Marie Garver. For more information please call the BCYF Roslindale Community Center at 617635-5185 or Lisa Marie Garver at 503-902-2140.
Saturday January 19 Boston Community Choir Starting at 4pm, at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1 Roanoke Ave., Jamaica Plain, JP CONCERTS presents Boston Community Choir (BCC), inspired performers of gospel music, to commemorate Martin Luther King Day. Tickets are $10 at the door. For more information and directions please see www. jpconcerts.org.
Monday January 21 Dr. Martin Luther King Celebration Celebrate the legacy of Dr. King by creating a Prayer Flag for President Obama at a free workshop from 4-6pm at Hawthorne Youth and Community Center, 9 Fulda St., Roxbury. The event features performances by youth and light supper. Contact hyccroxbury@hotmail.com or 617427-0613 for information. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Open House The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a free open house from 10am –4:45pm. Underwritten by The Citizens Bank Foundation, the day of family-friendly presentations will include an original performance commemorating the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, live broadcast of the 57th Presidential Inauguration, and art-making activities. 465 Huntington Ave, Boston, www.mfa.org. Free.
A Tribute to Whitney Houston Berklee faculty and students will join former collaborators of Whitney Houston for a concert tribute. Special guests include Gary Michael Houston, her nephew, and background singer Shalotte Gibson. Professor Jetro Da Silva, Houston’s arranger and keyboardist, will direct this memorable evening. An afternoon symposium offers stories and memories from friends. Berklee Performance Center, www.berk lee.edu/events. $8 in advance.
Thursday January 24 Knowledge is Empowerment Lecture Series WALK AS KING, WALK AS QUEEN - Role Modeling The African Wisdom of Kemet/Egypt. Professor Nteri Nelson will discuss the African Wisdom of Kemet/Egypt, highlighting the magnificent contributions that African people have made to world civilization and history. Knowledge is Empowerment is a series of monthly presentations and discussions, led by faculty and quest lecturers from the Africana Studies Department at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. 6pm, Dudley Branch of the Boston Public Library, 65 Warren St., Roxbury. Contact: 617-2877138 UMass Boston or Prof. Nteri Nelson 617-296-7797. Free.
Upcoming Through Barbed Wire presents 4th Friday Series Friday January 25. Monthly reading of prisoners’ writings, with featured guest Maurice Alves, Veterans Employment Specialist for Project Place, a work force development program that focuses on reentry and homelessness, speaking about reentry. Audience participation encouraged; light refreshments provided; wheelchair accessible. Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston St., 2nd flr (above Globe Cafe), in Copley Sq. For more info: throughbarbedwire@ yahoo.com or visit www.arnold king.org; tel. 857-492-4858. Free; donations graciously accepted. Franklin Park Snow Festival Saturday, January 26, 1-4pm at the Golf Clubhouse. Come sledding, try snowshoes, track animal prints in the snow, or build a snowperson. Bring your own cross country
skis for a gliding tour of the park at 1:30pm. If you have a sled or snowshoes feel free to bring them, we’ll have plenty to borrow. You can warm up with hot chocolate and board games in the clubhouse. FREE, for all ages. Questions? Need directions? www.franklinparkcoalition.org or 617-442-4141.
Is There Value in Your Old & Rare Books? Learn the basics of book collecting from an expert Thursday, January 31, at 6:30pm, at Cambridge Public Library, Lecture Hall, 449 Broadway. Kenneth Gloss is the second generation owner of the Brattle Book Shop and has appeared on PBS’s Antiques Roadshow. Discover popular genres for collectors and how to get started. Find out why some 20th Century books may go up in value, while books hundreds of years old may not. See some of Gloss’s favorite finds. And bring a book! After the talk, Gloss will give free verbal appraisals of the audience’s items. Simmons College presents Body Coverings An exhibition of design, costume and sculpture by Ruby Chishti, Sally Eyring and Mariann S. Verheyen from February 4 – March 7 at the Trustman Art Gallery, located on the fourth floor, Main College Building, 300 the Fenway in Boston. A reception from 5-7pm will be held on Thursday, February 7 (snow date 2/12). Closed: February 18. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public. Body Coverings is a show that intersects at the corners of social commentary, sculptural invention and theatrical fantasy. The three artists are beyond fashion — energetically investigating the ways wearables or objects that reference body decoration have subtext, and fire our imaginations. The human desire to adorn, escape ourselves or intimidate others has been with us for all of our history. These artists offer us the opportunity to look at that process more clearly as their objects and designs are not made to be worn in any commonplace way. The Revere Family at Work We d n e s d a y, F e b r u a r y 20 and Friday, February 22, 10:30-12:00 — Both Paul Revere his wife Rachel worked hard to keep their large family fed, clothed, and healthy. During this program discover what kinds of chores the Reveres (adults and children) completed in each room in their house. Then try your hand at engraving metal as Revere did in his silversmith shop and make an herbal remedy Rachel may have used to treat her children’s headaches. Participants will take home both an engraved piece of copper and a small cloth bag of dried herbs. Each presentation is limited to 20 people. Reservations are required and may be made by calling the Revere House at 617523-2338. Fee: $4.50 for children ages 7-11, and accompanying adults. Price includes admission to the Revere House.
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www.lucycobos.com/. FREE and open to the public.
ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage Continues its third season of independent and repertory films by screening several works exploring the legacy and Boston roots of Martin Luther King Jr., as well as taking a look at issues of gender diversity. Jan. 18, 6pm – Freedom Riders; Jan. 18, 9pm – Talk to Me; Jan. 19, 1pm – Akeelah and the Bee; Jan. 19, 6pm – Can We Talk; Jan. 19, 9pm – Do the Right Thing; Jan. 20, 1pm – Medicine for Melancholy; Jan. 25, 6pm – Boys Don’t Cry; Jan. 26, 1pm – Tomboy; Jan. 26, 6pm – XXY; Jan. 26, 9pm – Transamerica. Films are screened at Emerson College’s Paramount Center (559 Washington St., Boston), in the Bright Family Screening Room unless otherwise noted. Tickets are $10, or $7.50 for members unless otherwise noted, and are available in advance at www.ArtsEmerson. org, or by calling 617-824-8400. Discounted tickets for seniors are $7.50, and $5 for all students with valid ID and children under 18 unless otherwise noted. Discounted tickets are available in person at the Box Office only. For more information visit www. ArtsEmerson.org.
Hans Tutschku: Unreal Memories The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University presents Hans Tutschku: Unreal Memories, a sound installation conceived for the rooftop of the building, occurring from through May 29. Specially conceived for the rooftop of the Carpenter Center of the Visual Arts in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the building, Unreal Memories is composed of transformed voices from many different cultures. Original recordings serve as models for computer transformations that create an imaginary intercultural journey, where voices from elsewhere come together. They call us, they celebrate, they open a short sonic window into our busy everyday lives. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge.
“Impressions of the Voyageur” The Multicultural Arts Center will be hosting an exhibition of photography by artist Lucy Cobos titled “Impressions of the Voyageur” running through April 5. “Impressions of the Voyageur” is a collection of photographs taken by the artist over a period of two years. During this time she travelled all over Massachusetts photographing hulls of boats guided by the desire to experiment with the abstract images she saw within them. Her odyssey resulted in documentation of a series of distinctive imprints of the hulls. Lucy Cobos graduated from the New England School of Photography. She went on to establish the first photography department at the NBC affiliate station in Boston. For 10 years she created imagery for billboards, media publications, exhibits and animation and received awards from the broadcast design industry for her photography work. She currently lives in Cambridge and works primarily as a commercial portrait photographer. Her interest in fine art portraiture led her to a commission by the Berklee College of Music to photograph faculty jazz musicians. Gallery website: http:// www.multiculturalartscenter.org/ galleries/, Artist website: http://
King’s Chapel announces the TUESDAY NOON HOUR RECITAL programs for JANUARY 2013. Historic King’s Chapel is located in downtown Boston at the corner of School and Tremont Streets. Hailed by residents and visitors alike as a treasure in the midst of a bustling city, this year-long series features a wide range of programming from classical to jazz and more! Admission to the Noon Hour Recitals is by suggested donation of $3 per person; the donations are given to the performing musicians. Programs begin at 12:15pm and last approximately 35 minutes; for more information, please call 617227-2155. Families Creating Together A free art class for children and parents. Come create art with your child every Tuesday morning from 10:30-12 at the Family Resource center at 1542 Columbus Ave, Jamaica Plain / Roxbury. Please call 617-522-1018 if you have any questions. Wheelchair accessible. Handreach Beatbrigade Drum Circle First Tuesday every month. Handreach Beatbrigade Drum Circle starts up for the fall from 7-9pm. No Charge! Bring a drum! Director Cornell Coley facilitates improvisational drumming, drawing from African and Latin traditions as well as certified drum circle facilitation techniques and healing drum strategies. Spontaneous Celebrations, 45 Danforth St., JP. Contact: Cornell Coley www.afrolatin.net. 617-298-1790 cc@afrolatin.net.
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Social Security, Medicare safe from cuts until March Thandisizwe Chimurenga The dreaded “fiscal cliff” of government spending cuts and tax raises that was to take effect on Jan. 1 has been averted for now, thanks to a last minute agreement by the White House and Congress. Congress and the Obama administration have only temporar-
A N A LY S I S ily averted the “cliff” by about two months when they will return to the issue of sequestration — the automatic, across-the-board federal spending cuts. For now, the agreement that was reached calls for ending a payroll tax “holiday” that reduced the tax by 2 percent; establishing permanent tax relief for low-income and middle-class families and extending federal unemployment benefits. Tax cuts will end for individuals with incomes of $400,000 or more ($450,000 for couples).
Political “third rail” Although Social Security and Medicare were left pretty much intact, the entitlement programs may very well be on the table when Congress takes up the issue again. Carroll Estes, professor at the University of California, San Francisco’s Institute for Health
and Aging, said that Social Security is still a “third rail” — politicians need to remember, “If you step on it you’ll get electrocuted.” Social Security, created during the Great Depression, provides workers a basic level of income once they retire, in addition to disability pay and life insurance before they retire that provides income to the surviving spouse and their children. In fact, almost half of Social Security beneficiaries in African American and Latino families are covered by these disability and survivors benefits, compared with one-fourth of whites. Cuts to the program have been touted by Republicans, in particular, to help trim the $16 trillion national debt. However, because workers automatically pay into the system and their contributions are matched by employers, the program does not add to the deficit. Medicare, which provides health coverage to people ages 65 and older and those under 65 with permanent disabilities, was established in 1965 as part of the Social Security Act. According to Estes, immediate past-president of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, what we’re seeing now is a “Social insurance hijack attack. It’s our money. We paid for and earned our benefits; we deserve and need them.” The Committee, headquar-
tered in Washington, D.C., opposes any effort to raise the age of eligibility for Social Security or Medicare. The Congressional Black Caucus, in a statement released in December, has also said they will oppose any plan that raises the eligibility for Medicare, as well as any plan that cuts benefits to Medicaid beneficiaries. The Caucus also states, “Social Security does not contribute to our deficit and should be completely off the negotiating table.”
tributed and income has declined in the past year for African Americans and Asian Americans in the “Baby Boomer” age range (born from 1946 through 1964). This group also had the highest level of income decline. Half of ethnic elders in the U.S. are in poverty or close to it, Wallace said, and they have the least amount of reserves to fall back on; they are the most impacted by economic uncertainties. U.S. Rep. Karen Bass, DCalif., who represents much of South Los Angeles, expressed excitement about portions of last week’s fiscal deal that was reached with Congress, but she was also
worried about its implications for many of her constituents. “I remain very concerned about cuts to programs like Medicare and Social Security that are important to many seniors across my district,” Bass said. “Included were cuts to services for diabetes, end stage renal disease and other illnesses disproportionately impacting seniors, and we need to look at ways to restore that funding.” Thandisizwe Chimurenga wrote this article as part of the MetLife Foundation Journalists in Aging Fellowship, a program of New America Media and the Gerontological Society of America.
Ethnic elders will double Steven P. Wallace, a researcher with the University of California, Los Angeles CLA Center for Health Policy Research (UCLA) since 1980, was one of many speakers who put a human face on the issue of aging for the participants. In 2010, elders numbered 40 million people in the United States; that number is expected to double by the year 2040. Currently, 20 percent of those elders are people of color, and that number is also expected to double by the year 2050. While an increase in longevity has been seen in the U.S. and other parts of the world overall, life expectancy has increased in general from age 47 in 1900 to more than age 78 today, according to the Centers for Disease Control. According to Wallace’s research, wealth is not equally dis-
The Dudley Square Elder Housing Development, above, provides supportive housing to 57 elders locally in the heart of Roxbury. It was developed by Central Boston Elder Services (CBES), the largest Aging Service Access Point in Massachusetts that provides in-home care services to more than 7500 elders, the disabled and caregivers in Boston. This is the first housing complex built by the agency. For more information, visit www.centralboston.org. (Photo courtesy of Central Boston Elder Services)
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The former Ferdinand’s Furniture Store’s historic facade will become part of the new municipal building now under construction, set to house the Boston Public Schools department in early 2015. A Jan. 31 meeting will discuss uses for the building’s 18,000 square feet of street-facing retail space, which the city hopes will boost economic activity in Dudley Square. (Sandra Larson photo)
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ent information about the retail space, how it could be divided up and utilized, and what steps business owners should take if they are interested in leasing space. The meeting will be held at Central Boston Elder Services in Dudley Square from 6 to 8 p.m. and is open to the public. The total amount of space available is about 18,000 square feet, according to Gordon, and could be subdivided in a number of ways, depending on what types of businesses want to locate there. The space will probably hold about four or five establishments, he estimated. Last June, the Task Force and members of the public heard the results of the Dudley Retail and Consumer Survey administered in spring of 2012. The survey was commissioned by the Boston Redevelopment Authority to measure where people who live, work, or travel through Dudley Square tend to shop and dine, and what types of businesses they want to see in the area. The survey was also given to BPS employees. Among the most desired businesses were a sit-down restaurant, live music lounge and bakery. Other top choices included clothing outlet store, sandwich shop, burrito cafe, sports bar, ice cream/ yogurt shop and a coffee shop with seating, evening hours and
Internet access. In public meetings over the past 16 months, area residents have repeatedly expressed hope for a full-service, sit-down restaurant. With that in mind, city representatives have said that one of the more prominent spaces — where the “nose” of the former Ferdinand building juts into the intersection of Warren and Washington Streets — will be built with the right venting and plumbing to potentially hold a restaurant.
square-foot store. Base rent for the Ferdinand retail space has not been finalized, but will depend on market conditions at the time, Gordon said. Stanley and others have suggested that the city should try to subsidize or support local businesses in the new building, but so far, there has been no word on any subsidy plans. “I think we all like the idea of seeing local businesses,” Gordon said. “On the other hand, we
current Mall of Roxbury location, rent is $12 per square foot, he said — half of the going rate in Dudley Square. Relocating would likely mean higher rent for a smaller space, but Egerton feels being in a revitalized Dudley Square could be worth it. “The market rate doesn’t scare me,” he said. “Moving to Dudley would enhance the growth of the business. More people would see it, and there’d be more foot traffic.” For him, the rewards would be symbolic, too. “I’m 48 years old, and I’ve never seen a business in operation in that location,” he said. “Having grown up here, riding the elevated train around that building, seeing it boarded up — to get into that building would be a tremendous success for me.” Bing Broderick, business and marketing manager at the Haley House Bakery and Cafe, shares the hope that the new building will bring independent businesses that can’t be found in malls. He mentioned the recent success of the “pop-up” art and craft space that operated during the holiday season in a vacant Dudley Square storefront during. “The pop-up shop was a wonderful opportunity for local crafters to sell their wares. I think
there’s a demand for that,” he said. “I don’t think we’re going to get people if we offer the same things they can find everywhere else.” He also imagines the new building as a site for telling the story of the community, with features such as a community bulletin board and exhibits of “old Dudley” history and artifacts. “I see it as an opportunity to create a hub where there’s been a hole for a long time,” he said. As for a retail timetable, Gordon said the city plans to issue a request for proposal (RFP) this summer, put the word out to brokers and take proposals in early fall. Retail tenants would build out their spaces in fall of 2014, in preparation for the building’s expected opening in the beginning of 2015. He encouraged interested people to attend the Jan. 31 meeting to learn more. “We just think it’s [a] great space, and people need to hear about it,” he said. “The retail survey showed there’s an untapped need in retail. If people don’t know about it, that would be too bad.” For more information about the Dudley municipal building project, including meeting notes, construction job information and a webcam, see www.dudleyvision.org.
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Among the most desired businesses were a sit-down restaurant, live music lounge and bakery. Other top choices included clothing outlet store, sandwich shop, burrito cafe, sports bar, ice cream/yogurt shop and a coffee shop with seating, evening hours and Internet access. Small start-up entrepreneurs might like to be in the heart of Dudley Square, but they have to face the reality that rents could be steep, on top of the difficulty getting financing for untested ventures. Joyce Stanley, executive director of Dudley Main Streets, said average rent for retail space in the area is currently $24 per square foot. That means about $2,000 per month for a 1,000-
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Longevity: Engine for growth — or fiscal nightmare? Eileen Beal SAN DIEGO — Keeping older people healthy so they can be independent and productive well into their 70s — and even 80s — isn’t just a medical challenge, it’s also an economic challenge, said Michael
A N A LY S I S W. Hodin, executive director of the Global Coalition on Aging at a recent Gerontological Society of America workshop.
Due to the longevity revolution the world is experiencing, it’s a challenge that even developed nations aren’t addressing well. Take the age of retirement here in the United States, for example. Back in the 1930s, the United States, still reeling from the Great Depression, created Social Security for older people (while other developed nations were creating their cradleto-grave social insurance programs).
Increasing vitality beyond 65 In 1935, Social Security’s first actuaries calculated when people could
begin collecting their government pensions and were surprisingly accurate in estimating the percentage of seniors in today’s American population. But they assumed that by the time people reached 65, they’d only live a few more years. In 2013, though, someone reaching age 65 in the U.S. can expect to live another 17 years on average. The vitality of the senior population has increased in every age bracket discussed by experts in aging, the young old (those 65-74), middleold (75-84) and old-old (85 and up). “It’s obvious,” Hodin said, “that
20th century ‘norms’ [for retirement] aren’t conforming to 21st century realities.” It’s not just retirement “norms” that aren’t addressing the reality that we are aging differently than Social Security’s actuaries thought we would. Health care “norms” aren’t keeping up either. For starters, said Hodin, in this longer-lived population, the U.S. needs to increase vaccinations, not just flu and pneumonia vaccination rates. The country needs to address hearing and vision loss — and develop cheaper drugs to manage the later. We need more dermatologists — there’s an explosion of skin cancer looming. We need better options for treating osteoporosis. Also, we need to cure or slow the progress of Alzheimer’s disease. Hodin said, “No one saw that coming, and it’s a game-changer in health care.” In his data- and chart-filled presentation, Hodin zeroed in on the major factors that have come together around the world to create either a health care fiscal nightmare or an engine for economic growth. The first is the longevity bonus: Life expectancy has skyrocketed. “By mid-century, 75 percent of those over the age of 60 will be living in developed nations,” said Hodin. He added that due to migration to cities and other nations, rural areas all over the world will be “hollowed out, populated mostly by the elderly.” The second key development is that women — all over the world, not just in developed nations — are having fewer babies. So, while more hands-on care providers and services will be needed, fewer younger people will be available to fill those roles.
Lag between policy and opportunity The third factor is what Hodin
called “structural lag.” We don’t have the political, societal and economic policies and infrastructure in place to grasp the opportunities that come with population aging. “When policy lags,” said Hodin, “so does development of infrastructure and programs.” To address that lag and turn this potential nightmare into an economic boom, Hodin suggests leaders, policy experts and those who work with older adults need to: • Create opportunities for the marketplace to drive innovation and change. • Find ways to improve health literacy. • Create age-friendly cities and communities. • Design financial instruments for retirement that provide and promote financial security for those benefiting from the longevity bonus. • Align program development with government resources. • Think about how the longevity bonus can and should alter the education-work-leisure lifecourse. • Develop replicable and culturally appropriate — not one-size-fits-all — models for all the above. That last item is key. “Every nation has similar issues,” said Hodin, “but they have vastly different infrastructures for solving the challenges and taking advantages of the opportunities.” Eileen Beal wrote this article for Reporting on Health with support from the MetLife Foundation Journalists in Aging Fellows program, a collaboration between the Gerontological Society of America and New America Media.
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NOTICE AND ORDER: Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor
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NOTICE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES Hearing Date/Time: A hearing on a Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor filed on 09/25/2012 by Latiya Walker of Dorchester, MA will be held 01/28/2013 09:00 AM Review Hearing Located at 24 New Chardon Street, 3rd floor, Boston, MA 02114.
ORDERED that copies of this Notice and the Petition for Appointment of a Guardian of a Minor be served on all interested persons at least fourteen (14) days prior to the hearing date by publishing a copy of the Order and Notice once in Bay State Banner, Boston publication to be at least Seven (7) days prior to the hearing date.
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If required, service on the United States Veteran Administration and the Department of Children and Families may be accomplished by regular first class mail at least Seven (7) days prior to the hearing.
IT IS ORDERED THAT copies of this Notice and the Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor be served in hand on the minor; (if 14 or more years of age and not the petitioner), the guardian, the parents of the minor, and any other person if ordered by the Court, at least fourteen (14) days prior to the hearing date listed above.
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: January 14, 2013
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NOTICE AND ORDER: Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor
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ORDER TO PETITIONER(S) IT IS ORDERED THAT copies of this Notice and the Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor be served in hand on the minor; (if 14 or more years of age and not the petitioner), the guardian, the parents of the minor, and any other person if ordered by the Court, at least fourteen (14) days prior to the hearing date listed above. If Service in hand cannot be accomplished on any interested party, IT IS ORDERED that copies of this Notice and the Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor be served on the interested party by leaving at and mailing by regular first class mail to last and usual place of residence of the interested party at least fourteen (14) days prior to the date of the hearing listed above. If the identity or whereabouts of an interested party is not known, IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that copies of this Notice and the Petition for Appointment of a Guardian of a Minor be served on all interested persons at least fourteen (14) days prior to the hearing date by publishing a copy of the Order and Notice once in Bay State Banner, Boston publication to be at least Seven (7) days prior to the hearing date. If required, service on the United States Veteran Administration and the Department of Children and Families may be accomplished by regular first class mail at least Seven (7) days prior to the hearing. 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: January 14, 2013
Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate
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Docket No. SU12P1826GD In the interests of Ja'Bruen D. Bailey of Dorchester, MA Minor
NOTICE AND ORDER: Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor
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NOTICE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES Hearing Date/Time: A hearing on a Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor filed on 09/25/2012 by Latiya Walker of Dorchester, MA will be held 01/28/2013 09:00 AM Review Hearing Located at 24 New Chardon Street, 3rd floor, Boston, MA 02114.
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NOTICE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES Hearing Date/Time: A hearing on a Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor filed on 09/25/2012 by Latiya Walker of Dorchester, MA will be held 01/28/2013 09:00 AM Review Hearing Located at 24 New Chardon Street, 3rd floor, Boston, MA 02114.
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IT IS ORDERED THAT copies of this Notice and the Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor be served in hand on the minor; (if 14 or more years of age and not the petitioner), the guardian, the parents of the minor, and any other person if ordered by the Court, at least fourteen (14) days prior to the hearing date listed above. If Service in hand cannot be accomplished on any interested party, IT IS ORDERED that copies of this Notice and the Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor be served on the interested party by leaving at and mailing by regular first class mail to last and usual place of residence of the interested party at least fourteen (14) days prior to the date of the hearing listed above. If the identity or whereabouts of an interested party is not known, IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that copies of this Notice and the Petition for Appointment of a Guardian of a Minor be served on all interested persons at least fourteen (14) days prior to the hearing date by publishing a copy of the Order and Notice once in Bay State Banner, Boston publication to be at least Seven (7) days prior to the hearing date. If required, service on the United States Veteran Administration and the Department of Children and Families may be accomplished by regular first class mail at least Seven (7) days prior to the hearing. 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: January 14, 2013
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ORDER TO PETITIONER(S) IT IS ORDERED THAT copies of this Notice and the Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor be served in hand on the minor; (if 14 or more years of age and not the petitioner), the guardian, the parents of the minor, and any other person if ordered by the Court, at least fourteen (14) days prior to the hearing date listed above.
NOTICE AND ORDER: Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor
If Service in hand cannot be accomplished on any interested party, IT IS ORDERED that copies of this Notice and the Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor be served on the interested party by leaving at and mailing by regular first class mail to last and usual place of residence of the interested party at least fourteen (14) days prior to the date of the hearing listed above. If the identity or whereabouts of an interested party is not known, IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that copies of this Notice and the Petition for Appointment of a Guardian of a Minor be served on all interested persons at least fourteen (14) days prior to the hearing date by publishing a copy of the Order and Notice once in Bay State Banner, Boston publication to be at least Seven (7) days prior to the hearing date. If required, service on the United States Veteran Administration and the Department of Children and Families may be accomplished by regular first class mail at least Seven (7) days prior to the hearing. 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: December 10, 2012
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division
Docket No. SU92P0670
Citation Giving Notice of Petition to Expand the Powers of a Guardian In the Interests of Kenneth James Of Boston, MA RESPONDENT Incapacitated Person/Protected Person To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Department of Developmental Service of Boston, MA in the above captioned matter requesting that the court: Expand the powers of a Guardian. The petition asks the court to make a determination that the powers of a Guardian and/or Conservator should be expanded, modified, or limited since the time of the appointment. The original petition is on file with the court. You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this Court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 01/24/2013. 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: December 17, 2012 Sandra Giovannucci Register of Probate
Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division
Docket No. SU12D2686DR
Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Maria V Fabian-Espinal
vs.
Rafael Espinal
To the Defendant: The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court grant a divorce for irretrievable breakdown of the marriage to pursuant G.L. c. 208, Section 1B. The Complaint is on file at the Court.
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If Service in hand cannot be accomplished on any interested party, IT IS ORDERED that copies of this Notice and the Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor be served on the interested party by leaving at and mailing by regular first class mail to last and usual place of residence of the interested party at least fourteen (14) days prior to the date of the hearing listed above.
NOTICE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES Hearing Date/Time: A hearing on a Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor filed on 11/06/2012 by Diana Weston of Roxbury, MA will be held 02/21/2013 09:00 AM Review Hearing Located at 24 New Chardon Street, 3rd floor, Boston, MA 02114.
An Automatic Restraining Order has been entered in this matter preventing you from taking any action which would negatively impact the current financial status of either party. SEE Supplemental Probate Court Rule 411.
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:
You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Maria V FabianEspinal, 20 Amory Ave, Roxbury, MA 02119 your answer, if any, on or before 02/14/2013. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court.
File the original with the Court; and Mail a copy to all interested parties at least five (5) business days before the hearing. 3.
If the identity or whereabouts of an interested party is not known, IT IS FURTHER
Docket No. SU12P2165GD In the interests of Xenia Kha'ny Weston of Roxbury, MA Minor
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.
ORDER TO PETITIONER(S)
Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate
Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department
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.
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.
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:
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.
Docket No. SU12P1828GD In the interests of La'Darell M. Bailey of Dorchester, MA Minor
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. 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.
Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate
Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department
Response to Petition: You may respond by filing a written response to the Petition or by appearing in person at the hearing. If you choose to file a written response, you need to: File the original with the Court; and Mail a copy to all interested parties at least five (5) business days before the hearing.
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LEGALS
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.
Witness, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: December 10, 2012 Sandra Giovannucci Register of Probate
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LEGAL NOTICE REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATION
LEGAL NOTICE REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS
The MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY (Authority) is soliciting consulting services for MPA CONTRACT NO. A310-S1 DISASTER AND INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCY PLANNING STUDY. The Authority is seeking qualified teams, with proven experience to provide professional services for Disaster and Infrastructure Resiliency Planning. The Authority is looking for a comprehensive team in which one or more Educational Institutions (College and/or University) are partnering with a consulting team. The Consultant must be able to work closely with the Authority and other interested parties in order to provide such services in a timely and effective manner.
The MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY (Authority) is soliciting consulting services for MPA CONTRACT NO. MPA CONTRACT NO. A264-D3 TERM ROOFING/BUILDING ENVELOPE CONSULTING SERVICES. The Authority is seeking qualified multidiscipline consulting firm or team, with proven experience to provide professional services including planning, design, and construction related services including resident inspection”. Consultant to provide roofing/building envelope engineering services on an on-call, asneeded basis The Consultant must be able to work closely with the Authority and other interested parties in order to provide such services in a timely and effective manner.
The consultant shall demonstrate experience in several disciplines including but not limited to Project Management, Disaster Planning/Recovery, Cost Estimating, Horizontal and Vertical Infrastructure and Climate Adaptation. Each Educational Institution must have a strong track record in research on Disaster Preparedness, Climate Science, Adaptation and Preparedness to Climate Change, Extreme Weather analysis of data and Global and Regional Climate Model Simulations. The scope of work shall include, but not be limited to the following: (1) Preparation of a Hazard Analysis including a review and profile on historic occurrences and predictable natural hazard events until 2033, identification of worst case scenarios for Logan International Airport and Maritime Facilities as well as identification of lessons learned from previous events in the United States or abroad and other airports. (2) Once the Hazard Analysis has been completed the Consultant will review and profile internal and external threats and hazards related to the hazard events, inventory critical infrastructure, facilities and operations and assess vulnerabilities to critical infrastructure and operations based on hazard profiles. (3) The Final Deliverable will be a Mitigation Action Plan that will include three levels: eliminating the hazard or vulnerability, minimizing the vulnerability (resiliency) and development of redundancy to minimize the impacts. The Plan shall include at a minimum recommendation for: Short Term-Proactive Steps, Long Term-Specific Projects for implementation including a timeline and budget for implementation. The contract will be work order based, and Consultant’s fee for each work order shall be negotiated; however, the total fee for the contract shall not exceed $500,000. Each submission shall include a Statement of Qualifications that provides detailed information in response to the evaluation criteria set forth below and include Architect/Engineer & Related Services questionnaires SF 330 (www.gsa.gov/portal/forms/download/116486) with the appropriate number of Part IIs. The Consultant shall also provide an original and nine copies of litigation and legal proceedings information, signed under the pains and penalties of perjury, in a separate sealed envelope entitled “Litigation and Legal Proceedings”. See www.massport.com/doing-business/Pages/ CapitalProgramsResourceCenter.aspx for more details on litigation and legal proceedings history submittal requirements. The submission shall be evaluated on basis of: (1) current level of experience and knowledge of the team for similar projects, particularly the Project Manager, (2) geographic location and availability of the Project Manager, and other key personnel to be assigned to the project, (3) experience and expertise of subconsultants, (4) experience of the educational primary investigator on disaster planning/recovery and Climate Science and Model Simulations, Extreme Weather analysis (5) demonstrated experience in disaster planning and recovery with emphasis on infrastructure resiliency planning not security prevention, (6) current level of work with the Authority, (7) past performance for the Authority, if any, (8) project understanding and technical approach to this project.
The consultant shall demonstrate experience in several disciplines and including but not limited to, Architectural, Civil, Structural, Code Compliance, Cost Estimating, Construction Phasing, and Sustainable Design. The scope of work shall include, but not be limited to the following: 1) 2) 3)
Roof and building envelope inspection, peer review, design, preparation of construction drawings and specifications for public bidding under Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 149. Cost estimating, bid and construction phase services including full time resident inspection. The Consultant’s design services shall include, but shall not be limited to, verification of existing conditions, recommended replacement program and performing all necessary field investigation to identify and document recommended modifications.
The contract will be work order based, and Consultant’s fee for each work order shall be negotiated; however, the total fee for the contract shall not exceed $490,000.00. Each submission shall include a Statement of Qualifications that provides detailed information in response to the evaluation criteria set forth below and include Architect/Engineer & Related Services questionnaires SF 330 (www. gsa.gov/portal/forms/download/116486) with the appropriate number of Part IIs. M/WBE Certification of the prime and subconsultants shall be current at the time of submittal and the Consultant shall provide a copy of the M/WBE certification letter from the Supplier Diversity Office, formerly known as State Office of Minority and Women Business Assistance (SOMWBA) within its submittal. The Consultant shall also provide an original and fourteen copies of litigation and legal proceedings information, signed under the pains and penalties of perjury, in a separate sealed envelope entitled “Litigation and Legal Proceedings”. See www.massport.com/ doing-business Pages Capital Programs Resource Center.aspx for more details on litigation and legal proceedings history submittal requirements. In order to be eligible for selection, all aspects of Section 38A1/2, Chapter 7 of the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts shall be satisfied including the majority of the firm’s Board of Directors or ownership shall be registered in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in accordance with the applicable provisions of the statute. Consultants shall furnish professional registration status of the firm’s board of directors or ownership. All individuals responsible for technical disciplines shall, upon commencement of the project, be registered Architects or Engineers, in that discipline, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The submission shall be evaluated on basis of: (1)
current level of experience and knowledge of the team for similar projects, particularly the Project Manager, geographic location and availability of the Project Manager, resident inspectors and other key personnel to be assigned to the project, (3) experience and expertise of subconsultants, (4) demonstrated ability to perform work with minimal disruption to airport operations, (5) familiarity with MGL, including filed sub-bid experience, (6) cost management and scheduling capabilities, (7) M/WBE and affirmative action efforts, (8) current level of work with the Authority, (9) past performance for the Authority, if any, (10) experience with sustainable design concepts, and (11) project understanding and technical approach to this project. (2)
The selection shall involve a two-step process including the shortlisting of a minimum of three firms based on an evaluation of the Statements of Qualifications received in response to this solicitation, followed immediately by a final selection of the consultant by the Authority. The Authority reserves the right to interview the firms prior to final selection, if deemed appropriate.
The selection shall involve a two-step process including the shortlisting of a minimum of three firms based on an evaluation of the Statements of Qualifications received in response to this solicitation, followed immediately by a final selection of the consultant by the Authority. The Authority reserves the right to interview the firms prior to final selection, if deemed appropriate.
By responding to this solicitation, consultants agree to accept the terms and conditions of Massport’s standard work order agreement, a copy of the Authority’s standard agreement can be found on the Authority’s web page at www.massport.com. The Consultant shall specify in its cover letter that it has the ability to obtain requisite insurance coverage.
By responding to this solicitation, consultants agree to accept the terms and conditions of Massport’s standard work order agreement, a copy of the Authority’s standard agreement can be found on the Authority’s web page at www.massport.com. The exception to this standard agreement is the insurance requirements as follows; (1) $1,000,000 of commercial general liability and (2) $1,000,000 of automobile liability insurance. The Consultant shall specify in its cover letter that it has the ability to obtain requisite insurance coverage. The Consultant shall specify in its cover letter that it has the ability to obtain requisite insurance coverage.
Submissions shall be printed on both sides of the sheet (8 1/2" x 11"), no acetate covers. Ten (10) copies of a bound document and one PDF version on a disc each limited to: 1) an SF 330 including the appropriate number of Part IIs, 2) resumes of key individuals only each limited to one (1) page under SF 330, Section E, 3) no more than ten (10) projects each limited to one (1) page under SF 330, Section F, 4) no more than 3 sheets (6 pages) of information contained under SF 330 Section H addressing the evaluation items (except for the litigation and legal proceedings history), and 5) no more than 2 sheets (4 pages) of other relevant material not including a 2 page (max.) cover letter, SDO certification letters, covers, dividers, and other required information. This submission, including the litigation and legal proceedings history in a separate sealed envelope as required shall be addressed to Houssam H. Sleiman, PE, CCM, Director of Capital Programs and Environmental Affairs and received no later than 12:00 Noon on Thursday, February 14, 2013 at the Massachusetts Port Authority, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, Suite 209S, Logan International Airport, East Boston, MA 021282909. Any submission which is not received in a timely manner shall be rejected by the Authority as non-responsive. Any information provided to the Authority in any Proposal or other written or oral communication between the Proposer and the Authority will not be, or deemed to have been, proprietary or confidential, although the Authority will use reasonable efforts not to disclose such information to persons who are not employees or consultants retained by the Authority except as may be required by M.G.L. c.66. The procurement process for these services will proceed according to the following anticipated schedule: EVENT
DATE/TIME
Solicitation: Release Date
January 16, 2013
Deadline for submission of written questions
January 29, 2013
Official answers published (Estimated) Solicitation: Close Date / Submission Deadline
Submissions shall be printed on both sides of the sheet (8 1/2" x 11"), no acetate covers. Fifteen (15) copies of a bound document and one PDF version on a disc each limited to: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5)
an SF 330 including the appropriate number of Part IIs, resumes of key individuals only each limited to one (1) page under SF 330, Section E, no more than ten (10) projects each limited to one (1) page under SF 330, Section F, no more than 3 sheets (6 pages) of information contained under SF 330 Section H addressing the evaluation items (except for the litigation and legal proceedings history), and no more than 2 sheets (4 pages) of other relevant material not including a 2 page (max.) cover letter, SDO certification letters, covers, dividers, and other required information.
This submission, including the litigation and legal proceedings history in a separate sealed envelope as required shall be addressed to Houssam H. Sleiman, PE, CCM, Director of Capital Programs and Environmental Affairs and received no later than 12:00 Noon on Thursday, February 7, 2013 at the Massachusetts Port Authority, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, Suite 209S, Logan International Airport, East Boston, MA 02128-2909. Any submission which is not received in a timely manner shall be rejected by the Authority as non-responsive. Any information provided to the Authority in any Proposal or other written or oral communication between the Proposer and the Authority will not be, or deemed to have been, proprietary or confidential, although the Authority will use reasonable efforts not to disclose such information to persons who are not employees or consultants retained by the Authority except as may be required by M.G.L. c.66. The procurement process for these services will proceed according to the following anticipated schedule: EVENT
DATE/TIME
Solicitation: Release Date
January 17, 2013
February 8, 2013
Deadline for submission of written questions
January 24, 2013/5:00 p.m.
February 14, 2013 – 12:00 PM
Official answers published (Estimated)
January 29, 2013/Noon
Solicitation: Close Date / Submission Deadline
February 7, 2013/Noon
Times are Eastern Standard Time (US). Questions may be sent via email to CPBidQuestions@massport.com subject to the deadline for receipt stated in the timetable above. In the subject lines of your email, please reference the MPA Project Name and Number. Questions and their responses will be posted on Capital Bid Opportunities webpage of Massport http://www.massport.com/doing-business/_layouts/ CapitalPrograms/default.aspx as an attachment to the original Legal Notice and on Comm-PASS (www.comm-pass.com) in the listings for this project. MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Times are Eastern Standard Time (US). Questions may be sent via email to CPBidQuestions@massport.com subject to the deadline for receipt stated in the timetable above. In the subject lines of your email, please reference the MPA Project Name and Number. Questions and their responses will be posted on Capital Bid Opportunities webpage of Massport http://www.massport.com/doing-business/_layouts/ CapitalPrograms/default.aspx as an attachment to the original Legal Notice and on Comm-PASS (www.comm-pass.com) in the listings for this project. MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY
LEGALS THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. L1237-C1, HVAC IMPROVEMENTS FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY, LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, will be received by the Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Programs Department Office, Suite 209S - Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 27, 2013 immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly. Sealed filed sub bids for the same contract will be received at the same office until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 13, 2013, immediately after which, in a designated room, the filed sub bids will be opened and read publicly. NOTE: PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT, SUITE 209S - LOGAN OFFICE CENTER, ONE HARBORSIDE DRIVE, EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02128-2909, AT 11:00 A.M. TUESDAY JANUARY 22, 2013. The work includes: A.) CHILLED WATER SYSTEM MODIFICATIONS, INCLUDING: 1. REWORK CHW PIPING AND REMOVE CHW PUMPS IN SELECTED LOCATIONS 2. INSTALL CHW CONTROL VALVES 3.
INSTALL VARIABLE FREQUENCY DRIVES ON PUMPS AND COOLING TOWER FANS
4. CHILLED WATER BALANCING FOR SELECTED SYSTEMS 5. DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEM INTERFACE FOR SELECTED SYSTEMS B.) STEAM TRAP, STATION REPLACEMENT IN MULTIPLE LOCATIONS C.) INSTALL FLOW AND ENERGY METERS AND COMMUNICATIONS TIE-IN D.) PROGRAMMING TO SUPPORT METER REPORTING E.) REPLACE PIPE INSULATION IN SELECTED LOCATIONS F.) 480 VAC & 120 VAC BRANCH CIRCUITS TO SUPPORT MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT AND METERS G.) UPGRADE BAS SYSTEM GRAPHICS Bid documents will be made available beginning FRIDAY JANUARY 11, 2013. In order to be eligible and responsible to bid on this contract General Bidders must submit with their bid a current Certificate of Eligibility issued by the Division of Capital Asset Management and an Update Statement. The General Bidder must be certified in the category of MECHANICAL SYSTEMS. The estimated contract cost is $2,300,000.00 (TWO MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS). In order to be eligible and responsible to bid on this contract, filed Sub-bidders must submit with their bid a current Sub-bidder Certificate of Eligibility issued by the Division of Capital Asset Management and a Sub-bidder Update Statement. The filed Sub-bidder must be certified in the sub-bid category of work for which the Sub-bidder is submitting a bid proposal. Bid Documents in electronic format may be obtained free of charge at the Authority's Capital Programs Department Office, together with any addenda or amendments, which the Authority may issue and a printed copy of the Proposal form. Bidding procedures and award of the contract and sub contracts shall be in accordance with the provisions of Sections 44A through 44H inclusive, Chapter 149 of the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A proposal guaranty shall be submitted with each General Bid consisting of a bid deposit for five (5) percent of the value of the bid; when sub bids are required, each must be accompanied by a deposit equal to five (5) percent of the sub bid amount, in the form of a bid bond, or cash, or a certified check, or a treasurer's or a cashier's check issued by a responsible bank or trust company, payable to the Massachusetts Port Authority in the name of which the Contract for the work is to be executed. The bid deposit shall be (a) in a form satisfactory to the Authority, (b) with a surety company qualified to do business in the Commonwealth and satisfactory to the Authority, and (c) conditioned upon the faithful performance by the principal of the agreements contained in the bid. The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a performance bond and a labor and materials payment bond, each in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract price. The surety shall be a surety company or securities satisfactory to the Authority. Attention is called to the minimum rate of wages to be paid on the work as determined under the provisions of Chapter 149, Massachusetts General Laws, Section 26 to 27G, inclusive, as amended. The Contractor will be required to pay minimum wages in accordance with the schedules listed in Division II, Special Provisions of the Specifications, which wage rates have been predetermined by the U. S. Secretary of Labor and /or the Commissioner of Labor and Industries of Massachusetts, whichever is greater. The successful Bidder will be required to purchase and maintain Bodily Injury Liability Insurance and Property Damage Liability Insurance for a combined single limit of $1,000,000.00 (ONE MILLION DOLLARS). Said policy shall be on an occurrence basis and the Authority shall be included as an Additional Insured. See the insurance sections of Division I, General Requirements and Division IIB, Special Provisions for complete details. Filed sub bids will be required and taken on the following class of work: ELECTRICAL The Authority reserves the right to reject any sub bid of any sub trade where permitted by Section 44E of the above referenced General Laws. The right is also reserved to waive any informality in or to reject any or all proposals and General Bids. This contract is subject to a Minority/Women Owned Business Enterprise participation provision requiring that not less than TEN PERCENT (10%) of the Contract be performed by minority and women owned business enterprise contractors. With respect to this provision, bidders are urged to familiarize themselves thoroughly with the Bidding Documents. Strict compliance with the pertinent procedures will be required for a bidder to be deemed responsive and eligible. This Contract is also subject to Affirmative Action requirements of the Massachusetts Port Authority contained in the Non Discrimination and Affirmative Action article of Division I, General Requirements and Covenants, and to the Secretary of Labor's Requirement for Affirmative Action to Ensure Equal Opportunity and the Standard Federal Equal Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications (Executive Order 11246). The General Contractor is required to submit a Certification of Non Segregated Facilities prior to award of the Contract, and to notify prospective subcontractors of the requirement for such certification where the subcontract exceeds $10,000. Complete information and authorization to view the site may be obtained from the Capital Programs Department Office at the Massachusetts Port Authority. The right is reserved to waive any informality in or reject any or all proposals. MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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HOMEOWNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY 4 AFFORDABLE CONDOMINIUMS Post Road Village 137 Boston Post Road Wayland, Ma.
Attractive and Affordable This beautiful privately owned apartment complex with subsidized units for elderly and disabled individuals is just minutes from downtown Melrose.
TO BE SOLD BY LOTTERY TO ELIGIBLE HOMEBUYERS (2) 2-Bedroom, 1-1/2 Bath Garden Style Units – $168,000, 1200 sf apprx. (2) 3 Bedroom 1-1/2 Bath Townhouse - $187,500, 1250 & 1450 sf apprx. 1 Person -$45,500 2 Persons - $52,000
Maximum income: 3 Persons - $58,500 5 Persons - $70,200 4 Persons - $65,000 6 Persons – $75,400 Other Restrictions Apply
OPEN HOUSE: 19 Wadsworth Lane, Unit #201, Wayland, 1/6/2013, Noon-2PM INFORMATIONAL MEETING: Wayland Town Bldg, Senior Ctr., 1/7/2013, 6-8PM Applications available at: Wayland Town Bldg, Front Lobby Wayland Public Library Or Write To: JTE Realty, P. O. Box 955, No. Andover, Ma. 01845
Close to Public Transportation • Elevator Access to All Floors • On Site Laundry Facilities Heat Included • 24 Hour Closed Circuit Television • On Site Parking Excellent Closet and Storage Space • 24 Hour Maintenance Availability On site Management Office • Monthly Newsletter • Weekly Videos on Big Screen T.V. Resident Computer Room • Bus Trips • Resident Garden Plots
Call for current income guidelines
Or e-mail: postroad@jterealtyassociates.com
Joseph T. Cefalo Memorial Complex
MAILING ADDRESS MUST BE PROVIDED 978-258-3492 Application Deadline Received by: 2/4/2013
245 West Wyoming Avenue, Melrose, MA 02176 Call our Office at (781) 662-0223 or TDD: (800) 545-1833, ext. 131 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday through Friday for an application
SENIORS LIVE ROYALLY AT CASTLE COVE
visit us on the web at www.cefalomemorial.com
Castle Cove Cooperative Apartments D & West Second Streets
A unique community of seniors managed by CSI Support & Development Services of Malden. A cooperative apartment is a building controlled by the members. All major operating decisions are voted on by the members. Coop apartments help to keep quality housing affordable. We Have: • Our own separate apartment • A non-profit organization; any profits are put back into coop services to benefit its members • Open voluntary membership without social, political, racial or religious discrimination • A building democratically controlled by the residents.
MARSHFIELD HOUSING OPPORTUNITY PURCHASE PROGRAM • ROUND 8 The Marshfield Housing Partnership is accepting additional applications from qualified applicants for grants to assist them in purchasing an existing market rate home or condominium in Marshfield. A deed restriction will be recorded on each unit purchased with a grant to secure affordability in perpetuity. MAXIMUM GRANT AMOUNTS
Each building has their own activities run by a committee of residents such as entertainment, bingo, gift case
1 Bedroom
2 Bedroom
3, 4 and 5 Bedrooms
$45,000
$60,000
$80,000
MAXIMUM HOUSE/CONDOMINIUM AMOUNTS
We have: A library, game room, community room, lounges on each floor, our own laundry room
BEDROOMS
SALE PRICE
MAXIMUM GRANT
NET PRICE AFTER GRANT
The success of a Cooperative depends on the active participation of its members
1 BR Condo
$189,000
$45,000
$144,000
1 BR House
$223,000
$45,000
$178,000
If you would like more information or to apply please call
2 BR Condo
$222,000
$60,000
$162,000
2 BR House
$260,000
$60,000
$200,000
1-800-225-3151
3 BR Condo
$266,000
$80,000
$186,000
3 BR House
$302,000
$80,000
$222,000
4 BR House
$320,000
$80,000
$240,000
5 BR House
$338,000
$80,000
$258,000
MAXIMUM ANNUAL HOUSEHOLD INCOME 1 Person
2 Person
3 Person
4 Person
5 Person
6 Person
7 Person
8 Person
9 or more
$47,150
$53,900
$60,650
$67,350
$72,750
$78,150
$83,550
$89,950
Please call
Subject to periodic change by the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Net family assets may not exceed $75,000. Households interested in applying should attend one of the two informational sessions being provided. Informational sessions will be held at the following locations: Wednesday, February 6, 2013, 7:00 PM: Hearing Room # 2, Marshfield Town Hall, 870 Moraine Street, Marshfield Saturday, February 9, 2013, 10:00 AM: Hearing Room # 2, Marshfield Town Hall, 870 Moraine Street, Marshfield A lottery will be held on Thursday, March 7, 2013 at 7:00 PM at the Marshfield Town Hall, Hearing Room # 2, to select grant recipients. Successful grant recipients are required to have at least one family member attend and complete a Homebuyer Education Workshop. For additional information or to receive an application please contact either the Marshfield Housing Authority (781-834-4333) or the Marshfield Housing Coordinator: (781-834-1051). Applications are also available at the Marshfield Town Hall. All applications must be received and date stamped by the Marshfield Housing Authority no later than 12:00 PM (Noon) on Friday, February 22, 2013. Marshfield Housing Authority, 12 Tea Rock Gardens, Marshfield, MA 02050 MHOPP Funding was made possible by the Town’s adoption of the Community Preservation Act
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Unquity House 30 Curtis Rd., Milton Unquity House is a 139 unit apartment complex offering activities and security for ages 62 and over. Studio and One bedroom apartments with utilities included, prices range from $695 to $872. Accepting applications, some income restrictions apply. Please call 617-898-2032 or visit our website at www.mreinc.org
Our innovative, residential program for teen mothers and their young children in Roxbury seeks enthusiastic, highly motivated woman for a direct care staff position (Fulltime, per diem, overnight and weekends). Candidate must be able to work as part of an interdisciplinary team to support, model and encourage teen mothers in parenting roles, completing educational goals and working toward self-sufficiency. Associates Degree desired, but high school diploma and life or work experience with single families would be acceptable. Bilingual and/or woman of color are strongly encouraged to apply.
Send resume and cover letter to: Human Resources Family Service of Greater Boston 31 Heath Street, Boston, MA 02130
OfďŹ ce Space Available
or email to: hr@fsgb.org AA/EOE
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OfďŹ ce Space available for rent to a Non-ProďŹ t 501c3 Organization. Located in Jamaica Plain just a short distance from the Orange Line (Jackson Square) and Green Line (Heath St.).
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