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Mayor Thomas M. Menino, the longest serving mayor in Boston history, tells a packed crowd at Faneuil Hall last week that he would not seek re-election. (Photo courtesy of Mayor Menino’s Office)
Menino’s exit triggers flood of love, support and thanks Howard Manly In announcing that he would not seek an unprecedented sixth term, Mayor Thomas Menino, the former Hyde Park City Councilor, touched off a wave of accolades, including one from President Barack Obama. “Boston is the vibrant, welcoming and world-class city it is today because of Tom Menino,” Obama gushed in a statement. “His efforts to revitalize neighborhoods, schools and businesses, better integrate police officers into their communities and reduce gun violence, reach out to the homeless and marginalized, and engage young people in the life of their city has charted Boston on a course for a better future.”
Recently elected U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren received a key endorsement from Menino during her campaign against GOP darling Scott Brown and was equally profuse: “Tom Menino is the best. Period. He is the best mayor in America. He is the best friend to the neighborhoods and people of Boston. He is the best example of how a city can and should be governed.” For Menino, his work in Boston starts and ends with his love for a city that has sometimes painfully moved past the ugly days of court-ordered busing to taking major strides in becoming a world-class, inclusive city. “My No. 1 thing is bringing racial harmony to the city,” he told the New York Times last year.
For the last 20 years, Menino, the first Italian-American to hold the seat, breaking an Irish stranglehold on the job since the 1930s, has held the reigns without much political competition in large part because of his commitment to the city’s core — its neighborhoods. “I am here with the people I love, to tell the city I love, that I will leave the job that I love,” Menino, 70, the city’s longestserving mayor, told the standingroom-only crowd of well-wishers that included Gov. Deval Patrick, Treasurer Steven Grossman, U.S. Sen. William “Mo” Cowan, U.S. Reps. Stephen F. Lynch and Michael Capuano, and Attorney General Martha Coakley, along with Menino, continued to page 11
Jarecki’s interest in the Drug War stems from personal expeIn 1971, President Rich- rience. Days after he was born, ard Nixon launched the War on Jarecki’s affluent, Jewish parDrugs and argued that drug abuse ents hired an African American was “public enemy number one” migrant from the South named in the United States. Nannie Jetter to look after him. But instead of framing drugs When the family decided to move as a matter of public health, the from Connecticut to New York government placed them in the a few years later, they offered to realm of law enforcement. Four double Jetter’s salary if she foldecades later, this country has ar- lowed them. She agreed, leaving rested 45 million people and spent her own children behind in order more than $1 trillion in the name to care for Jarecki. of fighting drugs. It now locks But this was “the wrong thing up more people than anywhere to do,” Jetter says in the film. In else in the world — 2.3 million her absence, Jetter’s youngest son, — all while the James, started rate of illegal experimentdrug use has “This modern era of ing with drugs, remained un- black people being so and eventually changed. died of AIDS. overrepresented in The failure Seeing his own of America’s who gets arrested, connection to drug war is the who gets charged James’ addics u b j e c t o f a with crimes, who tion, Jarecki new documenset out to untary by Eugene gets sentenced … is derstand the Jarecki, “The the critical feature of deeper social House I Live and economic our system of mass In,” named forces at play in after the song incarceration.” America’s relaby Paul Robetionship to ille— Eugene Jarecki son. The film, gal substances. which won the The film is Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance filled with personal stories similar Film Festival and premieres next to James’, showing the intersecweek on PBS, explores the human tion of poverty and drugs, and the toll the War on Drugs has taken ripple effect it has on families and on the nation, particularly in black the broader community. America. A man loses his job, turns to “This modern era of black low-level drug dealing to pay his people being so overrepresented bills and after his third offense in who gets arrested, who gets gets a life sentence behind bars. A charged with crimes, who gets man is sent away to prison and is sentenced and the severity of unable to raise his son; his son is those sentences, is the critical fea- sent away to prison and is unable ture of our system of mass incar- to raise his son; his son is sent ceration,” Jarecki says. “It’s just away to prison and is unable to the latest chapter of America using raise his son. drug laws as a thinly veiled means “It’s a system that basically Drugs, continued to page 20 of social and racial control.”
Reflections on life as a Tuskegee airman Scott Hass When he learned that his grandson Thomas was graduating from Harvard, Hillard Pouncy did what any other proud grandfather would do. He got in a car and drove overnight to see him. Climbing into his Jaguar and putting on his golfer’s flat cap, he made it to his son’s house just outside of Philadelphia, and there joined the family for the trip further north. At 86 years old, this was no easy feat, especially considering his drive started in Geor-
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gia, some 1,000 miles away from Harvard Square. But Pouncy’s family was used to how he did things. His independence, his unwillingness to discuss his plans or collaborate, and his belief that he could still get things done no matter his age were the norm. That independent streak was cultivated in part during his days as a Tuskegee Airman. As a member of this elite group of black U.S. military, Pouncy developed a conviction that he was on Tuskegee, continued to page 19
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The Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association (MBLA) celebrated its 40th anniversary at the Annual Gala on March 28. MBLA President Rachel Rollins was the host, with honorees including Justice Rogerlee Thompson and Professor Derrick Bell (posthumously). Among those in attendance were (L to R) Middlesex District Attorney Gerard Leone; Rollins; Theodore Wells Jr., keynote speaker; Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley; Wayne Budd and MBLA Director Adam Foss. (Don West photo)
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BOSTON scenes Seated: (L to R) Janet Dewart Bell, Theodore Wells Jr. and Judge Rogeriee Thompson. Standing: (L to R) MBLA Board members Pratt Wiley, Doree n Rachal, Donald Deng, Angela Gomes, Wesley Alexander, Adam Foss, Natashia Tidwell, Rach ael Rollins, Tavares Brewington, Abim Thomas, Deke Mathieu and Serge Georges.
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n March 28, 2013, the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association hosted its Annual Gala and celebrated its 40th anniversary. MBLA President Rachael Rollins hosted the event and honorees included Justice Rogeriee Thompson, the first African-American Justice appointed to the United States First Circuit Court of Appeals, and Professor Derrick Bell (posthumously), the first African American Professor granted tenure at Harvard Law School. Theodore V. Wells, Jr. was the keynote speaker for the evening.
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Attn. Justice Scalia — Voting is a basic right, not a special privilege Marc Morial “No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice or procedure shall be imposed or applied by any State or political subdivision to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color.” Voting Rights Act of 1965 Last month during Supreme Court oral arguments in [Shelby County v. Holder], Justice Antonin Scalia called a key part of the Voting Rights Act — Section Five — a “racial entitlement.” Section Five requires that the Justice Department or a federal court “pre-clear” any changes made to voting procedures by cov-
jected to intimidation, economic sanctions, beatings and even murder. The 1964 murders of three voting rights activists at the hands of Mississippi Klansmen and the March 7, 1965 Bloody Sunday beating of peaceful voting rights marchers by Alabama State troopers are horrific examples. While there has been undeniable progress since 1965, voting rights abuses are still sadly a part of the American electoral landscape. In fact, every presidential election of this new century has been plagued by voting problems — from “hanging chads,” to Tea Party-backed campaigns of Election Day intimidation to new
As long as blatant voter suppression measures like voter ID laws and district gerrymandering are being used to keep certain groups from the polls, the Voting Rights Act — in its entirety — remains necessary. ered jurisdictions to ensure they do not “deny or abridge the right to vote on account of race or color.” This act was established to fix a broken system, and it remains relevant today. As long as blatant voter suppression measures like voter ID laws and district gerrymandering are being used to keep certain groups from the polls, the Voting Rights Act — in its entirety — remains necessary. And to clear up any confusion that Justice Scalia or anyone who found merit in his argument has, let’s be clear: Voting “rights” are indeed that — a right guaranteed to every citizen of the United States. They are not a special privilege. They are not a gift. Justice Scalia’s comments are a shameful reiteration of a rightwing political interpretation of the Constitution. The fact is, the Voting Rights Act was in response to an inarguably unjust and unfair system for voting in this country. Prior to the Voting Rights Act, millions of African Americans, primarily in the South, were forced to run a gauntlet of “voting qualifications or prerequisites,” including ludicrous literacy tests, discriminatory poll taxes and other bureaucratic restrictions. And when those measures failed, blacks were routinely sub-
voter ID restrictions. Cutbacks in early voting even led to a Florida woman, 102-year-old Desiline Victor, having to stand in line for three hours to vote in November’s presidential election. The Voting Rights Act, and specifically its Section Five preclearance provisions, is still needed to protect against such abuses. While Justice Scalia is either confused or misguided in his characterization of the right to vote as a racial entitlement, in 2006, Congress upheld this basic right by overwhelmingly reauthorizing the Voting Rights Act for another 25 years. House Speaker John Boehner said at the time: “The Voting Rights Act has been an effective tool in protecting a right that is fundamental to our democracy and renewing this landmark law will ensure that each and every citizen can continue to exercise their right to vote without the threat of intimidation or harassment.” We intend to hold the Speaker to those words. If the Supreme Court declares any part of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional, Congress will have a final chance to keep Section Five alive. Marc Morial is President and CEO of the National Urban League.
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A tough act to follow Nothing is more complex and more challenging than to be mayor of a major city. The diversity of religion and ethnicity assure multiple reactions to any policy decision, and varied vested interests battle over economic issues. It is no wonder that most mayors endure the conflicts for only a few years and move on. Tom Menino has continued to lead Boston with vigor for a record 20 years, and he has performed superlatively. His open secret has been his love for the city. It is unremarkable for politicians to state that they love Boston, but few love the city like Menino. Everyone understands that the greatest recommendation for a proposal vying for the support of the mayor was
that it offers the greatest benefit to the citizens of Boston. There was never a back story to be concerned about on any issue. Menino would take enormous political risks for the benefit of his fellow Bostonians, and he would change his public support on a position if it turned out that a better plan was proposed. It is indeed rare for a powerful politician to acknowledge that he might have erred. And in 20 years there has been no indication of unseemly payoffs or favors. Tom Menino always maintained a nobility of purpose with which other highly principled citizens could affiliate. Mayor Menino has established a high standard for his successors to emulate.
“This old age stuff is not all that it’s cracked up to be.”
A decline in cultural values Easter is the holiest of Christian holidays. Christmas festivities are replaced by solemnity. The devout contemplate the importance of the religious teachings of their own denominations. People normally underestimate the sociological importance of such teachings and the customs of their community. When community values change and social stability goes awry, people rarely attribute the result to a failure to observe social values. It is usually easier to attribute the phenomenon of things falling apart to factors outside of one’s own culture, but Koreans assumed responsibility. The New York Times recently published an article about the social impact of a major deviation from Confucian principles in South Korea. There has been an alarming increase in suicides among people 65 and older. In 2000, there were 1,161 such deaths but by 2010 there was a substantial increase to 4,378. Research by sociologists concluded that ignoring some Confucian principles was responsible for the tragic statistic. One of the five major principles of Confucius is the development of love within the family: Parents are to be unstinting in the care and
education of their children and they are to be rewarded by the filial piety of their sons. The rapid industrialization of South Korea forced a change in this principle. Parents have had to be excessive in assuming the cost of education for their children. These expenses made it difficult for parents to provide for their old age. However, when it came time for their children to step up and support their parents, the children were absorbed in their own industrially ambitious lives. What made it worse, elderly parents could not get aid from the government unless they certified that their children were unable or unwilling to care for them. Many parents felt that suicide was preferable to such a humiliating admission. If the sociological analysis is accurate, members of the younger generation were induced to deviate from the social pattern. This left the elderly with a choice between humiliation or annihilation, and the annual suicide rate increased by 277 percent in only 10 years. One must wonder what changes in the black culture have induced the sharp growth in homicides by urban black youth.
I was very impressed by the article written by Anthony W. Neal (“Edgar P. Benjamin: Philanthropist, noted attorney and banker,” Bay State Banner, March 28, 2013.) I knew Mr. Benjamin. I am a centenarian, who was born, educated and still living in Boston. Benjamin was the attorney for a real estate company called the Eureka Reality Company that my father, James E. Guilford, was the accountant [for]. In 1934 I bought a barbershop that was located on Tremont Street and I needed an attorney to help me use the social security system to pay my employees properly. Mr. Benjamin helped me and I never had any trouble with the IRS during the whole 40 years that I was in business. Mr. Neal’s story was so accurate about the accomplishments of Mr. Benjamin, some of which I didn’t know. I do know this. My great aunt, Mrs. Rose Randolph, a centenarian, resided in what was then called the St. Monica Rest Home for the el-
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OPINION Democrats have few cards to play on gun control Earl Ofari Hutchinson Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took heat from some Democrats and gun control advocates for dumping provisions for restarting the ban on assault weapons sales, and from early appearances, the requirement for more stringent background checks. Both are the cornerstones of any meaningful gun control legislation. Without them, whatever the Senate finally comes up with would be tepid and ineffectual. But Reid isn’t to blame for the cave on these proposals. The votes weren’t there to get the assault weapons ban through for reasons that anyone who has watched the doings in Congress on gun control for the past two decades knows full well. That’s the double wallop of the NRA’s iron grip on key legislators, and the deep-seated, passionate belief of millions that gun rights are inviolate no matter how much carnage and grief they wreak. The two can’t be separated. A tip of just how the two go hand-in-hand came when the Obama Administration got nowhere when it renewed its push to get Caitlin Halligan a judgeship on the influential D.C. Court of Appeals. GOP senators torpedoed the confirmation, but her confirmation was DOA when the NRA said it didn’t want her on the bench because she was a key player as New York Solicitor General in filing lawsuits against gun manufacturers. An even more ominous tip of the fears of gun owners over alleged government overreach on gun control legislation is the skyrocket in gun sales since the Sandy Hook massacre, and the soar in profits of gun manufacturers. The NRA’s coffers have been immeasurably enriched by both the manufacturers and the individual contributions of gun rights advocates. This, in turn, has enabled the NRA to double down even harder on There was great legislative pressure on GOP Senators to hang tough against meaningful hope after the Sandy gun control bans and to cowl into siHook massacre that lence protests against the NRA from Congress would some Democrats. heed the will of The NRA has been wildly successful in sending that message for the majority of the past decade through a well-oiled, Americans that well-versed, labyrinth of PACs, lobwant tough and byists, legal counsels, divisions, funds meaningful gun and a foundation. In 2008, it was directly or indirectly involved in nearly control legislation on 300 campaigns for the House and the books. Senate. NRA-backed candidates or incumbents won 230 of them. It has spared no expense in padding its congressional win scorecard. It ranked in the top tier of contributions received, lobbying dollars spent, and money garnered and spent by its PACs. In 2012, 15 out of its near 30 lobbyists had government ties. The assumption that the NRA is basically a front for conservative GOP business and political interests is another bad misread. Though a big share of the NRA’s campaign dollars went to Republicans, it has been adept at spreading the largess around. In 2012, Democrats received over $250,000 in NRA campaign contributions. In the decade since the assault ban expired in 2004, nearly 20 strong gun control bills have died still-born in House and Senate committees. The political jockeying by Reid and some Democrats to get consideration for the background checks proposal was a textbook example of a back pedal on a legislative proposal. There was optimism that it was a done deal to get this into the final bill that the Senate will consider. Some Republicans seemed to give their consent to it, and indeed it did pass the Senate Judiciary Committee, but then it went stillborn, ostensibly over the worry that enforcing background checks for private sales would tramp on Second Amendment rights. Translated, a wider requirement for background checks on sales would chill gun ownership and would open the door for a ban on even more gun sales. This is the dreaded bogeyman of the NRA top cats and they have never been shy about screaming loudly every chance they get that any gun control measure, no matter how seemingly innocuous, will take the country down the supposedly dark and dangerous road to a gun sale ban. This was plainly evident when the power behind the congressional throne, specifically the NRA’s top congressional lobbyist, virtually ordered that Congress “reject” the tougher provisions. The provision for universal background checks is still on the congressional table for consideration, but given the NRA’s dogged determination to wipe that off the table too, few are betting they’ll lose on this either. There was great hope after the Sandy Hook massacre that Congress would heed the will of the majority of Americans that want tough and meaningful gun control legislation on the books. Polls still show that that hope hasn’t diminished. But neither has the power of the NRA and the millions of fervent gun rights advocates to thwart it. Put bluntly, Democrats still have few legislative cards to play on gun control. Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst.
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Now that Mayor Menino has decided to not seek reelection, what are you looking for in the next mayor?
Get doctors to do better by addicts. Some folks with substance abuse and HIV/drug issues are not getting the service they deserve.
At least half the action Menino put in in terms of jobs and development. We got lots of able-bodied folks who are not on these construction sites.
Someone who cares about the youth in black communities who keep committing crimes against themselves.
Samuel Rivera
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Better education, more programs for young people and opening up more community centers.
I want to see a mayor put brothers to work.
Summer jobs, cleaner streets, more outdoor events during the summer in my neighborhood.
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INthe news José Massó The Massachusetts Port Authority recently announced that José C. Massó III is the Authority’s new director of community relations. Massó has a long career in government, community affairs, communications and consulting. He will be responsible for directing the development and implementation of programs designed to lessen the impact Massport’s facilities have on its neighbors. Massó, 62, lives in Boston. He began his public service career in 1983 in the Governor’s Office of Community Services and has held key posts at the MBTA, Northeastern University and the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration. He has had a successful career in broadcasting and was inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2010. He is fluent in Spanish and skilled in crosscultural communications. “Massport is fortunate to have someone of Massó’s caliber heading community relations,’’ said Thomas J. Keady Jr., who worked with Massó at Northeastern University
and is now vice president for governmental and community affairs at Boston College. “He has a great understanding of Boston and its
neighborhoods and has a great attitude about helping people. He likes to get to ‘yes,’ and in community affairs, it is all about getting to yes.’’
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Report: Payday loans drain up to $1B from communities Charlene Crowell One of the worst ironies of the nagging economic recession is that consumers with the fewest financial resources have lost the
most. Now, a new report finds that payday loans not only strip much-needed income from lowincome families, but also harm the economic viability of the communities where they operate, drain-
ing nearly $1 billion a year. Written by the Insight Center for Community Economic Development (Insight Center), it also reveals other net negative impacts of these small-dollar, high cost
Prime Minister Jose Maria Neves of Cape Verde visited a community forum at Dorchester House on Sunday as part of his official visit to the United States. The Prime Minister delivered remarks about his meeting with President Obama, his vision for Cape Verde and his commitment to good governance and democracy. Seated (L-R) are Cape Verdean Minister of Communities Fernanda Fernandes, Prime Minister Neves and President and CEO of the Dorchester House Walter Ramos. (Photo courtesy of Dorchester House Multi-Service Center)
loans on economic growth and personal bankruptcy filings. The Insight Center examined the net economic impact of the $3.3 billion in interest that borrowers paid to non-bank payday lenders in 2011. The study found that if consumers collectively had an additional $3.3 billion in discretionary spending, it would have resulted in $6.34 billion in economic activity and created 79,000 jobs. In comparison, payday lending activity added $5.56 billion to the national economy and created 65,000 jobs. Combining these figures shows a net loss from payday lending of $774 million in economic growth and over 14,000 jobs — in addition to $169 million lost through Chapter 13 bankruptcies. “This nearly $1 billion loss in economic activity should serve as a strong signal that, in addition to the well-documented harm to the families directly receiving payday loans, payday lending harms local community economies and the overall economy,” the report states. “Payday lending drains over $2.5 million from the economy each day,” the report continued. “In addition, we estimate that more than 38 people lose their jobs each day due to the economic drain of payday lending.” Payday lending has been a centerpiece of the Center for Responsible Lending’s (CRL) research and policy efforts over the past decade. CRL also supported the new report’s development. Earlier CRL research determined that each year, 12 million Americans become entrapped in
payday loans, taking out an average of nine loans per year. With more than 22,000 locations, there are more than two payday stores for every Starbucks coffee store. CRL has also documented how storefront payday lenders tend to concentrate locations in lowincome and communities of color. The Southern states of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and South Carolina had the highest number of payday stores per 10,000 residents. Outside of the Deep South, Missouri and Nevada were the only states with comparable density of payday storefronts. Similarly, the Insight Center found that five states that charged the greatest amount of payday loan interest were California, Texas, Florida, Mississippi and Illinois. In these locales, financial payday losses ranged from $135 million in California to $55 million in Illinois. Remarking on the Insight Center’s new findings, Keith Corbett, CRL executive vice president said, “Payday lending is really financial assault on communities of color. By preying on consumers with few resources, this predatory product takes what little they have and winds up leaving borrowers worse off than before these loans.” Corbett’s comments are underscored by the Insight report. “Far from creating opportunity, payday lending creates impoverished households and endangers local economies,” the report concluded. Charlene Crowell is a communications manager with the Center for Responsible Lending.
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BPS needs bold approach to ensure quality schools Kelly Bates Boston families eagerly awaited a new plan to assign our children more equitably to seats in the public schools. The Three Zone system had too many shortcomings, including no assurance that a child would be assigned to a high-quality school in their neighborhood. The new Home Based student
from a proud Boston public school teacher. Looking back three years, I was one of the lucky parents who won big under the old plan and the Boston Public School lottery system. My son got into our firstchoice school — one with a great reputation, good MCAS scores and teachers, a dynamic curriculum with arts, gym and music,
We can do even better than what the Boston School Committee adopted. We need a much bolder approach that will result in a system with consistent high quality. assignment plan adopted by the Boston School Committee and recommended by the External Advisory Committee on School Choice is equally problematic when it comes to the core issue of school quality. Because of the new plan’s inadequacy, I was one of two from among the 27 advisory committee members to vote against it. I am a proud Boston Public School parent, and the other vote came
and the strong supports of before and after school. But in neighborhoods across Boston, such as Hyde Park, Mattapan, Roxbury, Dorchester, South Boston and those with primarily low-income children and children of color, most families are nowhere as lucky. Many of their schools are failing. The reason is the absence of true quality, which comes down to excellent, well-paid and supported
teachers and school leaders, rigorous and dynamic school curricula, strong parental involvement, arts, technology, cultural programming and key supports such as before and after school. I accept that there is no perfect student assignment plan, but we can do even better than what the Boston School Committee adopted. We need a much bolder approach that will result in a system with consistent high quality, and one that gives teachers and schools the resources and tools to meet their students’ needs. Improving MCAS scores is one approach, but not the only measure of success. Throwing in a few charter schools surely isn’t enough to change an entire system. Bottom line, we cannot afford a public education system of the haves and have-nots. A child’s entire future can hinge on the education they receive. All the data prove it. It’s the difference between a great job and a good one; a path to college or a path to prison; access to social opportunities or access to trouble, like drugs, teen pregnancy or violence. At the final meeting of the External Advisory Committee where the home-based assignment plan was passed, I insisted that our report include a number
of recommendations aimed at going the next step. Most important is what should be at the top — to increase academic proficiency across all schools, all grade levels and all students. School Superintendent Carol Johnson agreed and immediately appointed a quality school advisors team consisting of community members and experts to advise the school district on ways to accelerate student achievement. Everyone inside and outside government now needs to embrace the goal of high quality
schools for everyone and for every neighborhood. It’s a matter of urgency for our children and families in the city. Student assignment is just that — an assignment process. School quality is really the ultimate issue, and we can’t claim victory in Boston until that is fulfilled. Kelly Bates is a parent with a child in the Boston Public Schools and a former member of the External Advisory Committee on School Choice. She is an attorney and the Executive Director of the Access Strategies Fund.
The Bay State has a new queen, as Janelle Woods-McNish was crowned Mrs. Massachusetts on Sunday, March 17 at the Boston Marriott-Newton. The Boston resident, mother of 4-year-old twins and MBA candidate at Simmons College is the first African American to win the title.
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Bottoms up: your guide to fruit and vegetable juicing
rots, eight large kale leaves, an entire handful of parsley, two apples, a lemon and a cucumber. Take all of those ingredients, put them in the juicer, and you’ve just ingested all the same nutrients in a few easy sips,” Thompson said. There are no limits to what fruits and vegetables can be included in a juice. And after pinpointing diet deficiencies, recipes can be catered to individual needs. Juicing can also be a remedy for weight loss and ridding the body of unwanted toxins from poor eating selections. While varying studies disagree on the advantages of juicing, proponents believe the practice can reverse the negative effects of unhealthy dining. Joe Cross, 46, founder/CEO of Reboot With Joe and creator of the hit film “Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead,” knows the power of juicing well. “I lost about 80 pounds in the two months I was juicing, and was able to get off all of the medication I was taking for my chronic autoimmune disease without even one flare-up,” said Cross, of Sydney, Australia. “And I’ve been able to maintain that for the five years since we filmed [the movie]. So I’m not exaggerating when I say that juicing saved my life.” Chef Giovanna Henry, 37, from Boston by way of Brooklyn and Grenada, can also relate. “I had a high blood pressure issue,” Henry said. “When I was pregnant with my third child, I had a lot of difficulty and actually delivered six weeks early because of that. So once I had her, I got more into juicing just to get healthier, do things in a more natural way and get off the medication.” Since then, it has become a bona fide passion for Chef Henry, who
Chef Giovanna Henry inserts organic kale into the juicer to prepare the Green Goblin juice. (Daniel Irvin photos) Shanice Maxwell According to the United States Department of Agriculture, it’s imperative to “make half your plate fruits and vegetables.” But in a society marked by fastpaced living, busy schedules, onthe-go meals and TV dinners, it
can be difficult to enjoy the proper fix of fruits and veggies needed to keep healthy and in tip-top shape. Juicing, though, makes consumption easier and increases the nutrients gained by processing fruits and vegetables in a juicer, separating the fibers from the liquid and leaving only the juice to drink.
It allows for high-boost absorption of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, says Jennifer Thompson, 41, certified iridologist, detox expert, raw food coach and author from Philadelphia. “In one meal, you wouldn’t normally have the capacity to eat half [a] bunch [of] celery, 10 car-
now specializes in juicing and works with clients to find the recipes best suited for their diet and lifestyle. She hopes more people of color will partake in juicing, since these communities are disproportionately affected by health disparities linked to diet, such as hypertension, high LDL cholesterol, diabetes and obesity. Carl ‘Crush’ Foster, 41, of Dorchester is the CEO/cofounder of Juice Hugger, a Brooklyn-based beverage company created to bring “affordable raw, pressed and organic unpasteurized juices to urbanites.” His affinity for juicing comes from winning a battle with weight control. “[It] gives you natural energy that we all have, we just deplete it … especially in the urban community,” Foster said. “We call it the ‘itis,’ but really it’s just the result of us eating heavy, ‘carby,’ greasy, salty, sugary foods. All of our blood rushes to our stomach to break all of that down [and] takes it away from our brains, our minds, our thinking, so we get tired and sluggish and we’re like ‘oh that’s the itis, that’s some good eating’ but it’s really not good at all. Food is not supposed to make you tired; it’s supposed to give you energy. Juicing does just that.” Vedet Coleman, 33, founder/ CEO of StraightJuicin’, a business devoted to helping people reclaim their health, agrees. “[In communities of color] I think the problem is access and exposure,” said Coleman, of Baltimore. “There really hasn’t been any exposure to juicing in our communities. I mean it’s not like Big Mama was a juicer when she was making Sunday dinner in ‘Soul Juicing, continued to page 9
Getting your juice on with Chef Giovanna: 3 RECIPES FOR BEGINNERS Green Goblin
Popeye’s Punch
Sweet Island Treat
INGREDIENTS:
INGREDIENTS:
INGREDIENTS:
3 leaves of organic kale 3 organic carrots with stalk 4 Granny Smith apples (use Pink Lady apples if you want more of a sweet flavor)
1 handful of organic spinach 1 organic kiwi ½ organic pineapple ¼ organic papaya 1 cup of coconut water (fresh as possible) 1 tsp. flax seeds
1 frozen organic banana 2 fresh organic bananas 2 cups of organic strawberries ¼ of an organic mango 1 cup of ice ½ cup of rice milk (may also substitute with almond or oat milk)
DIRECTIONS:
DIRECTIONS:
1. Cut the pineapple and papaya up into cubes. 2. Slice the kiwi. 3. Using a Nutribullet or blender, add in all ingredients. 4. Blend until contents reach a liquefied consistency and bottoms up!
1. 2. 3. 4.
DIRECTIONS: 1. Using a juicer, load these ingredients one by one — no need to peel them, and be sure to keep apple skins on. 2. Once everything has been juiced, pour, sip and enjoy!
HEALTH BENEFITS: • Kale is high in iron, antioxidants, Vitamins A, C and K • Carrots are a great source of Vitamin A, potassium, folic acid, magnesium and copper; they help to lower blood pressure • Apples contain Vitamins A and B1 and are a good source of calcium and potassium; they are a good cleanser.
HEALTH BENEFITS: • Spinach is rich in antioxidants, iron, fiber and Vitamin A • Kiwi is a powerful antioxidant, immune booster and full of Vitamin C • Pineapples are also an immune booster and contain Vitamin C • Papaya is chock full of fiber and lowers cholesterol levels • Coconut water is an excellent source of calcium and minerals • Flax seeds are high in Vitamin B, magnesium, manganese, antioxidants and omega 3 Contact Chef Giovanna at: wellfedcommunity@gmail.com
Cut mango and bananas. Slice strawberries. Add ice and pour in milk. Using a blender, allow the ingredients to mix until smoothie consistency is reached. Add more rice milk or ice depending on how thick or slick you want this beverage to be, and imagine yourself on the island of your choice with every swallow.
HEALTH BENEFITS: • Strawberries are high in fiber and sugar, so be careful if you’re a diabetic • Bananas are fibrous and full of potassium, magnesium, and cleanse your intestinal tract • Mangoes are full of fiber, Vitamin C, pectin, promoting heart health and minimizing constipation • Rice milk is a healthier alternative for milk that’s also high in Vitamins A and D as well as calcium
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Food.’ We do what we are taught to do, but when you know better, you do better. What we are trying to do is help folks know better.” “Folks should care about juicing because it literally can save
your life,” she added. “We have people who juice with us who have totally discarded their blood pressure medicine, got off their diabetes medicine, cured autoimmune diseases and the list goes on and on.” Many juicers say the shortand long-term health benefits of juicing outweigh any of its draw-
backs, such as spending slightly more on produce and a juicer, and foregoing the temptation of takeout. “I feel so lethargic after having an unhealthy meal, but with juicing, you feel amazing,” said Bianca Brown, 26, equity sales desk assistant for Canaccord Genuity from South Boston. “It’s enjoyable, it’s
relaxing, it’s therapeutic.” “It allows [me] to get all my nutrients in a sip and quickly. The benefits are infinite,” said Jihad Scudder, 30, school counselor and student advocate for Boston Public Schools from Roxbury. In the end, it is an investment in health. “If your health is important to
you and if living to see tomorrow is important, then juicing is something you should get into,” said Chef Henry. “Just like breathing, it should be a part of your life.” Chef Giovanna Henry may be contacted for juicing tips, advice, a free consultation and more at wellfedcommunity@gmail.com.
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Menino: ‘To tell the city… I will leave the job I loved’ Over the past few months, I have been weighing my own place in Boston’s bright future. During that time, I have been blessed to regain so much of my health. I am back to a mayor schedule, but not a Menino schedule. And I miss that. I miss hitting every event, ribbon cutting, new homeowner dinner, school play and chance meeting. Spending so much time in the neighborhoods gives me energy. Being with our
So I do plan to stay very engaged in Boston’s future. I am not retiring, but just turning one page on this chapter to the next. … I have no plans to pick the person to fill this seat. I just ask that you choose someone who loves this city as much as I have. … One of the great blessings of this job was meeting half the people who live in this city. I get asked all the time how I met so much of Boston. I just did what
You shovel dirt in Dudley Square to move what seemed like mountains. To build Boston’s waterfront with a new generation, you collaborate, because that’s what truly meeting people is. You open your arms to all new Bostonians and then stand with
them as they become citizens. And then you cut a ribbon on the small business they started. And then, when their children graduate at the top of their class, you have them for lunch and marvel at how fast they rise up in a city that welcomes them all. You stand with new homeowners in public housing and tell them they deserve a yard and a front door. You reach out to the homeless on cold winter nights and say they count also. You rally with gay friends and neighbors. You work with business executives to provide summer jobs and
then talk with teens about what they learned. You visit the younger kids at Camp Harbor View. If you want to meet half the people in our city, all you do is go to their homes, their jobs, where they raise their families and where they strive to improve their neighborhoods and say this: Boston is the greatest city on earth. The buzz around this city is amazing. … It gets better every day because of you, and as long as you work together that will never change. Excerpted from Menino’s speech last Thursday.
So I am here with the people I love, to tell the city I love that I will leave the job that I love. I can run, I can win, and I can lead, but not ‘in-theneighborhoods-all-the-time’ as I like. residents builds our trust. It may not be the only way to lead Boston, but it’s the only way for me. So I am here with the people I love, to tell the city I love that I will leave the job that I love. I can run, I can win, and I can lead, but not ‘in-the-neighborhoods-allthe-time’ as I like. … I will be very proud if I have changed our city in some ways that last. I know from community leaders, business executives, nonprofit champions and teachers of all types that there are more ways to impact our city than just this one.
I loved, and then it wasn’t too hard: All you do is start in Roslindale and rebuild its Main Street with neighbors. You walk with the proud residents of Bowdoin-Geneva every Christmas Eve as they survey their progress, and you keep walking until the job is done. You promise the people of Grove Hall a supermarket and shopping mall, and you deliver. You say in West Roxbury that a landfill will become a park and then you return for soccer games.
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On March 27, Mayor Thomas Menino met with the student government of Madison Park Vocational Technical High School in Roxbury. (Jeremiah Robinson photo via Mayor’s Office)
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city councilors and members of the city’s State House delegation. Known for his boundless energy and 18-hour days, Menino is said to have met at least half of the city’s nearly 635,000 during his tenure. He attended so many neighborhood meetings, braved so many frigid nights to count and care for the homeless, and shoveled so much dirt at new constructions sites that one former opponent once quipped that Menino was known to show up for the opening of an envelope. As he walked with a cane to the podium at Fanueil Hall to make his announcement last week, Menino was not the same “urban mechanic,” who had pledged years ago to eschew all the grand visions and trappings of modern day politicians and concentrate on the day-to-day grind of running a major municipality: public education, urban crime and, of course, pothole repairs. His health is just not the same. Last year, while on vacation in Italy, the 70-year-old mayor was treated
showed that Mr. Menino remained immensely popular and that almost three-fourths of respondents said the city was heading in the right direction. But it also showed that voters were concerned about his health and ambivalent about returning him to office for an unprecedented sixth term. Only 43 percent said they wanted him to run again, and 36 percent said they did not. Menino’s support is wide, deep and longstanding. Menino was president of the City Council when then-Mayor Ray Flynn was appointed ambassador to the Vatican. Menino became acting mayor for four months. Elected to his first term in November 1993, he won re-election by wide margins in 1997, 2001, 2005 and 2009. To Harvard President Drew Faust, Menino has been a “powerful advocate for the role that education and research play in fueling innovation and prosperity.” “Discoveries and degree holders are as much a part of his legacy as buildings and businesses,” Faust stated, “and his efforts to promote education will pay dividends for generations to come.” Menino’s departure creates a virtual free-for-all among lesser-
“I’m back to a mayor’s schedule, but not a Menino schedule. Spending so much time in the neighborhoods gives me energy... It may not be the only way to lead Boston, but it’s the only way for me.” — Mayor Thomas Menino for a respiratory infection. While in the hospital he suffered complications including a compression fracture in a vertebra in his spine and was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. After being discharged, he spent three months recuperating. “I’m back to a mayor’s schedule, but not a Menino schedule,” he said. “Spending so much time in the neighborhoods gives me energy... It may not be the only way to lead Boston, but it’s the only way for me.” Despite his health problems, Menino remains feisty, drawing the heartiest laugh when he boldly asserted: “I can run, I can win and I can lead, but not in the neighborhoods all the time as I like.” A Boston Globe poll last
known politicians. Boston City Councilor John Connolly had already declared his candidacy. Other potential candidates include state Rep. Martin Walsh, City Councilors Tito Jackson and Rob Consalvo, state Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz, and Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley. On April 17, candidates can apply for nomination papers, the first step in getting their name on the ballot for the preliminary election, scheduled for Sept. 24. The top two vote-getters will compete in the Nov. 5 final election. “I have no plans to pick the person to fill this seat,” Menino said. “I just ask that you choose someone who loves this city as much as I do.”
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Veni! Vidi!
Varis! Travaris Spears talks about co-starring in the new romantic comedy “Admission”
Kam Williams At an early age, Travaris Spears, known to many as “Varis” or simply as “V,” displayed a charm that was engaging and magnetic. An energy and passion for performing led him to sing and dance, often imitating his favorite artists and celebrities. Using the world as his stage, Travaris leaves a lasting impression, thanks to a gift for communicating and interacting with people from all walks of life. In fact, after performing in a Tiny Tots school play, the director and audience members expressed to his mother that he had something special. In 2007, he moved from Rochester to Brooklyn, N.Y., with his mother, Tanika. Although Travaris was blessed with natural talents, he committed himself to various activities that enhanced his character and improved his chances of blossoming as a professional artist. The discipline Travaris has displayed at such a young age is unrivaled and enables him to become fully engaged in a host of skill-building activities. His repertoire includes enrollment at
the American Tap Dance Foundation, weekly guitar lessons and voice and acting coaching. While maintaining excellent grades in school, he has appeared in music videos, print ads and several indie films. Here, he talks about his new movie, “Admission,” a romantic comedy co-starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd, where he plays Rudd’s adopted son, Nelson.
What interested you in “Admission”? I think the thing that made me most interested in this role was playing a kid that had a life totally different from mine. Nelson is adopted. He travels the world with his father … no stability, no mother. It was interesting preparing myself mentally for this role.
What was it like being on the set of your first feature film?
Yes, I was nervous at first. I actually auditioned with Tina Fey before I was offered the role, and she made me feel really comfortable. We connected immediately. I was also able to meet Paul Rudd before I came on set to discuss some of the scenes, and he was very friendly and cool to work with. After the initial meeting, I was no longer nervous.
How would you describe your character, Nelson? Nelson is an outgoing kid, very caring and outspoken. He loves to socialize like myself. Nelson is a kid who wants stability, a normal life, a mom and the same friends and the same school, instead of traveling the world with his father. Nelson hates traveling.
Are you anything like him in real life?
It was so exciting being on set for the first time. Everyone welcomed me with love. It was a great cast to work with.
Yes, Nelson and I are outgoing, caring, not shy and we like stability. I couldn’t imagine traveling the world, being taken away from my friends and family constantly.
Were you at all nervous acting around big stars like Paul Rudd and Tina Fey?
What message do you think people will take away from the film?
People will see that change is not always bad; you can find many things in change, including happiness.
What was it like to see yourself up on the big screen for the first time? It was amazing. I was so excited, I remember thinking “what will I look like?” and hoping I did a good job and that people would like my character. The one thing I was shocked about was everything I worked on was not in the movie. I learned about the editing of movies at my first screening of “Admission.” During the movie I said, “Mom, what happened to this scene? I worked really hard on that and it was taken out.”
Besides acting, you sing, dance, play guitar and even box. Which is your favorite? I’m involved in a lot of activities and I enjoy them all, but if I could pick a favorite it would be acting.
When was the last time you had a good laugh? I always have good laughs daily. I’m a happy kid. For example, I’m a member at Gleason’s boxing gym, and my nickname there is Happy.
What was the last book you read? The last book I read was “The Red Pyramid” by Rick Riordan.
What is your favorite dish to eat? Chicken Pad Thai and cheese pizza.
When you look in the mirror, what do you see? When I look in the mirror I see a handsome young man — smart, charming, willing to work hard for his dream, never giving up. And someone willing to help other people.
What do you like to do to unwind?
If you could meet any historical figure, who would it be?
On a busy day for me, once I finish work, I like to play video games or listen to music.
It would be Martin Luther King, because he never gave up on his dream.
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in[OLMix with Colette Greenstein
Get Konnected! Turns 5… Bathed in lights of purple (Colette’s favorite color as I’m told), as opposed to its usual emerald green, the jam-packed Emerald Lounge was the site of the fifth anniversary of Colette Phillip’s popular networking event Get Konnected! on Tuesday, March 26. It was an evening of celebration with a wide array of friends and supporters (including Gov. Deval Patrick) mingling, reconnecting and celebrating five years of Phillips’ success at bringing together urban professionals in Boston.
Nina LaNegra & The Roxbury Media Institute Present
Hey Young World… Old school hip hop came alive for a packed 20- to 40-something crowd at the Wilbur Theatre last Friday. DJ Kaos got the party started as he spun the best ’80s and ’90s hip hop from artists such as Poor Righteous Teachers, Chubb Rock, Eric B. & Rakim, MC Lyte and Onyx, just to name a few. The air was filled with anticipation for Slick Rick and Big Daddy Kane to hit the stage. The audience cheered as Rick the Ruler came out dressed in all black, sporting his famous eye patch, and performed his signature hits “Mona Lisa,” “La-Di-Da-Di” and “Children’s Story.” Still smooth at the age of 48, Rick slow-bopped on stage to the delight of the crowd. Next up was the Smooth Operator himself, Big Daddy Kane. Decked out in all-white with light grey shell-toes Adidas sneakers, a grey scully and sunglasses, Kane ripped the mic with his classics “Ain’t No Half Steppin’,” “Raw” and “Smooth Operator.”
The Performance Series That Embraces Art, Culture & Spirituality
Thurs April 4 Delighted to reconnect at Get Konnected!’s fifth anniversary, (L-R) Lisa Simmons, director of the Roxbury International Film Festival, and Rhonda DaSilva, recruiter/sourcer for Tufts University, were all smiles after seeing one another. (Colette Greenstein photo) boss and white Hollywood star struggling to reclaim her career. Vera Stark, played by the delightful and engaging Kami Rushell Smith, pulls you in with her winsome personality and expressive eyes, and Hannah Husband portrays the role of Gloria Mitchell with good comic timing mixed with a dose of vulnerability, heart and chutzpah. A commentary on race in the 1930s, but also for the present time, Vera Stark is worth spending a couple of hours at the theatre. The comedy is directed by Summer L. Williams and runs through April 27. Tickets can be purchased at www.lyricstage.com.
By The Way, Meet Vera Starck
Coming Up…
The latest offering by The Lyric Stage Company of Boston is the witty, charming and entertaining production of “By The Way, Meet Vera Stark,” written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage. The comedy takes a funny and irreverent look at racial stereotypes in Hollywood through the life of Vera Stark, a headstrong African-American maid and budding actress in the 1930s, and her tangled relationship with Gloria Mitchell, her
Tonight (April 4), the Boston Jewish Film Festival presents a screening of the documentary Koch, about former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, at the West Newton Cinema at 7 p.m. This Friday night, celebrate “MFA First Fridays” featuring an evening of fine art, music, signature cocktails and delicious tapas all at the Museum of Fine Arts. Music will be provided by DJ Denise LaCarubba. The fun starts at 6 p.m. and is 21+. On Saturday, April 6, World
Music/CRASHarts presents Dianne Reeves at the Berklee Performance Center for one show at 8 p.m. For tickets and information call World Music/ CRASHarts at (617) 876-4275 or purchase online at www.WorldMusic.org. Back in town for their annual visit are The Harlem Globetrotters this Saturday, April 6 and this Sunday, April 7 at 1 p.m. at the TD Garden. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.tdgarden.com. “Girl on Fire” singer Alicia Keys brings her “Set the World on Fire Tour” to The Agganis Arena along with opening act Miguel on Wednesday, April 10 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available at www.ticketmaster.com. The Orpheum Theatre presents Ben Harper on May 4 at 7:30 p.m. Something for the whole family: The Big Apple Circus has taken residency at City Hall Plaza now through May 12. Tickets are available at www.bigapplecircus.org. If you would like me to cover or write about your event, email me at inthemixwithcolette@gmail.com.
“THE NEW ROXBURY: Art, Culture & Spirituality” Featuring Brother Doumafis Lafontan, Gallery Musika Vanhu [previously Gallery Basquiat] and The Fulani Haynes Jazz Collaborative + Open Mic
Thurs April 11 Recording Artist Kendall Ramseur A Fusion of Vocal, Cello & Guitar Works + Community Teaching Artist Neil Horsky Collaborative Poetry Game + Open Mic
Thurs April 18: “SNEEZE: The Things I Used To Do,” Author, Monica Cost Reading Excerpts, Q&A, Book Signing + Def Jam & Slam Poetry Queen Iyeoka & BCAP, musician, lyricist, songwriter, recording artist Prepare to Tear It UP! + Open Mic
Thurs April 25 London Bridgez Soul Word Artist & Founding Member of the Neo.Logic Beatnik Assembly + Open Mic 7-10pm EVERY Thursday NO COVER ALL ARE WELCOME ALL ages, races, beliefs, shoe sizes & hairstyles Haley House Bakery Cafe Kitchen Open until 8:30pm
Coming on Wednesday April 17th: What is the Notion? The History of A Nubian Notion. Join us for an evening while Jumaada Abdal-Khallaq H. Smith (daughter of founder Malik Abdal Khallaq) and other family members share stories of A Nubian Notion Inc, at one time the largest one stop Afrocentric store in New England. For many years, A Nubian Notion Inc. was the only store in Boston selling African and African American products. Cards, jewelry, art, fabric, Afro-piks (an original design), dashikis (created by Mrs. Elva Lee C. Abdal-Khallaq, the wife of Malik Abdal-Khallaq), books and much more were available, providing the Roxbury community with knowledge, self-awareness and cultural identity. After the presentation about the store’s history, a panel (moderated by Candelaria Silva and including artist Ekua Holmes) will reflect on the impact A Nubian Notion had on them and on the Black community in Boston. The audience is invited to bring memories to share. The evening is free and open to the public. Program begins at 7pm. Dinner is available for sale from 5PM on. Seating is limited.
The cast of “By The Way, Meet Vera Starck” grace the stage during the Lyric Stage Company’s production of the play. (Photo courtesy of the Lyric Stage Company)
‘Smooth Operator’ Big Daddy Kane ripping it on the mic at the Wilbur Theatre last Friday. (Michael Helly photo)
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COMMUNITY Calendar Saturday April 4 Harold Night: Fresh Blend Longform Jam Every Thursday night our resident ImprovBoston Harold teams perform Harold, THE classic long form improv format, with occasional special guests. From a single audience suggestion, each Harold team creates a 25-minute comedy show from scratch, an original improvised set exploring a world of characters we guarantee you won’t soon forget. 9:30pm. Tickets: $10. ImprovBoston, 40 Prospect St., Cambridge. More information on ImprovBoston is available at http:// improvboston.com. Dr. Sara LawrenceLightfoot on Respect: Witness and Justice A Lowell lecture series presentation; free and open to the public; Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot will present a view that draws its contours from the African-American historic journey of liberation and focuses on the ways that respect creates equality, empathy, and connection. 6-8pm, Museum of African American history, 46 Joy St., Beacon Hill. Contact: 617-7250022 ext 222. More Info: http:// www.maah.org/. Simmons College/Beacon Press Race, Education and Democracy Lectures Co-sponsored by the Boston and Cambridge Public Schools. Lecturer: Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, President, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Chairperson of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans. Topic: Educating Achievers in Math, Science and Technology; 4:30–6pm, Raising a Generation of Achievers in Math, Science, and Technology — It Takes a Village/via SKYPE. For more information and to register, visit www.raceandeduca tion.com. Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston. Contact: Theresa Perry, theresaaperry@ gmail.com; 617-521-2570. Free and open to the public.
Upcoming The People’s Law School: Community Education Workshops & Open House The Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School presents The People’s Law School: Community Education Workshops & Open House. Saturday, April 13, 1-5pm, 122 Boylston St., Jamaica Plain, next to Stony Brook MBTA Station — Orange Line, Parking also available. Free & Open to the Public — For More Information Call 617-522-3003. Legal Clinics Include: Employment, Consumer Protection, Veterans, Tax, Social Security, Housing & Small Claims. Keeping Well in Mind, Body, and Spirit Patients and their family members, caregivers, and friends are invited to attend the American Cancer Society’s I Can Cope workshop, titled ‘Keeping Well in
Mind, Body, and Spirit’, Tuesday, April 16, 2-4pm, at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Cardinal Cushing Pavilion, Division of Hematology Oncology, 5th Floor, 736 Cambridge Street in Brighton. The free workshop will examine the physical, emotional, intellectual, social, and spiritual dimensions of wellness. Participants will be encouraged to think of ways of maintaining health in spite of cancer, and to explore strategies for increasing well being. The workshop will be facilitated by Lauren Schairer, MSW, LCSW. To register, or for more information, please contact Lauren Schairer at 617-789-2662 or Lauren.Schairer@steward.org.
Vento Chiaro The Boston-based woodwind quintet acclaimed nationally for its technical virtuosity, intrepid take on the classical repertoire, and educational mission will perform a free concert on April 16 at 5pm in Chelsea, MA at Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC), Chelsea Campus, Community Room. The concert is sponsored by the Free For All Concert Fund, which ensures that all Bostonians have access to high quality classical music in perpetuity. From North Square to Old North Church: A Paul Revere Walking Tour The Paul Revere House and the Old North Church are pleased to offer a new guided walking tour of North End sites related to Paul Revere, ending with a visit to the church’s bell-ringing chamber and the story of the Midnight Ride. Participants will gain a hands-on understanding of both Revere’s life in the neighborhood and what actually happened on April 18, 1775. Families with children in grades 5-8 are encouraged to attend. Reservations are required and may be made by calling 617-523-2338. $10 Adults, $6 Children (ages 5-17). A self-guided visit to the Revere House is included in the admission price. Tuesday, April 16, 23:30pm. The Paul Revere House, 19 North Square, Boston. Boston Debate League’s (BDL) Public High School Debaters Boston City Councillor Charles C. Yancey and the Boston City Council will host the Boston Debate League’s (BDL) Public High School Debaters on Wednesday, April 17, 5:30-7pm, in the Iannella Chambers on the 5th Floor at Boston City Hall. The debate, which is open to the public, will focus on whether or not the US federal government should increase investment in its transportation infrastructure. Two teams of debaters (one which will argue for increased investment and the other against increased investment) will be judged by a distinguished panel of Boston leaders and former debaters. National Poetry Month: Open Mic Night Thursday, April 18, 5:307:45pm; Showcasing a night of poets and singers. M.C. for
the evening is Art Collins. At the Dudley Branch Library, 65 Warren St, Roxbury. Open and free to the public. Call if you want to participate — 617-442-6186. bobrauschenbergamerica Tie a string to something, and see where it takes you. The biggest thing is don’t worry about it. You’re always gonna be moving somewhere … Join us on a kaleidoscopic road trip through an American landscape filled with hopes and dreams, violence, chicken jokes, ill-conceived business ventures, backyard barbeques, and love stories. An invigorating 3-D mash-up of low and high culture inspired by pop artist Robert Rauschenberg, bobrauschenbergamerica romps through an America both actual and mythical with song, dance, and the sheer exhilaration that comes from living in a country where people make up their lives as they go. Along the way, we encounter bathing beauties and lady truckers, derelicts and wouldbe farmers, lovers, more lovers, and, of course, Mom. April 18 at 8pm, all tickets $1! Tufts University Medford/Somerville Campus. Balch Arena Theater Box Office — 617-627-3493.
Midnight Ride Storytelling Program Find out what really happened on Paul Revere’s ride! Separate the facts from the myths, then retrace Revere’s route from his home to the banks of the Charles River. Participants don hats and carry props as they go, taking on the roles of Paul and Rachel Revere, their children, British soldiers, rowers, John Hancock and Samuel Adams. Particularly appropriate for kids in grades K-4. Reservations are required and may be made by calling 617-5232338. $4.50 for each adult and child age 5 and up. Friday, April 19, 10:30am – 12pm. The Paul Revere House, 19 North Square, Boston. Collections Up Close “Collections Up Close” is a series of free events to encourage a deeper appreciation of the Arboretum and plants in our lives. There will be guided tours, fun science and craft activities for kids, scavenger hunts, and knowledgeable staff and volunteers on hand. Magnificent Maples, Sunday, April 21, 1-3pm, Location: Maple Collection http://arboretum.harvard. edu/plants/featured-plants/maplecollection/. Explore our world-class maple collection as flowers bloom and new leaves unfurl. With support from Harvard Forest and the Boston Parks & Recreation Department’s ParkSCIENCE program. Freedom Rising: The 150th Anniversary of The Emancipation Proclamation and African American Military Service in the Civil War In commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation several Greater Boston educational, historical and cultural organizations are collaborating to present Freedom Rising: The 150th Anniversary of The Emancipation Procla-
mation and African American Military Service in the Civil War from May 2-4. Freedom Rising takes place throughout Greater Boston with lectures by Pulitzer PrizeWinning Historian Eric Foner and others, a Symposium focusing on the hemispheric impact of the Emancipation Proclamation, and Roots of Liberty, a performance with special guests Danny Glover, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and author Edwidge Danticat exploring the impact of the Haitian Revolution on the antislavery movement and the Civil War. All events are free and open to the public. No reservations necessary. For more information, to RSVP, or to join a mailing list to keep informed about Freedom Rising, the general public should visit Freedom Rising2013.com. To attend any of the events on May 2-4, please RSVP by April 26.
Collections Up Close “Collections Up Close” is a series of free events to encourage a deeper appreciation of the Arboretum and plants in our lives. There will be guided tours, fun science and craft activities for kids, scavenger hunts, and knowledgeable staff and volunteers on hand. Lilac Sunday, Sunday, May 12, 10am - 4pm, Location: Lilac Collection http://arboretum.harvard.edu/ plants/featured-plants/lilacs/. This beloved Boston tradition celebrates the lilacs as well as many other special collections at their peak at this lovely time of year. With support from Harvard Forest and the Boston Parks & Recreation Department’s ParkSCIENCE program. Franklin Park Kite & Bike Festival Saturday, May 18 11am 3pm — at the Shattuck Picnic Grove in Franklin Park, Circuit Drive, Roxbury. Join thousands of people in Boston’s giant backyard, Franklin Park, and celebrate spring! Bring your own kite or buy one in the park. Free bike “rentals” of all sizes, including training wheels, available from Boston Bikes. Enjoy a picnic from local food trucks. FREE. Brought to you by Discover Roxbury: www.dis coverroxbury.org and the Franklin Park Coalition: www.franklinparkcoalition.org For more information check the websites or call: 617442-4141. Collections Up Close “Collections Up Close” is a series of free events to encour-
age a deeper appreciation of the Arboretum and plants in our lives. There will be guided tours, fun science and craft activities for kids, scavenger hunts, and knowledgeable staff and volunteers on hand. Rhododendron Ramble, Sunday, June 2, 1-3pm, Location: Rhododendron Dell http://arboretum. harvard.edu/plants/featuredplants/rhododendron-dell/. Stroll through Rhododendron Dell at the foot of Hemlock Hill and enjoy the diverse display of rhododendrons in bloom. With support from Harvard Forest and the Boston Parks & Recreation Department’s ParkSCIENCE program.
Ongoing Point and Counterpoint Simmons College presents Point and Counterpoint, an exhibition of paintings and prints by Juan José Barboza-Gubo, Jennifer R. A. Campbell and Sydney Hardin through April 1 8 at the Trustman Art Gallery, located on the fourth floor, Main College Building, 300 the Fenway in Boston. Closed April 15. The exhibit is free and open to the public. Free Fitness Classes Each free class is 30 minutes and meets in the gym; anyone over the age of 16 welcome. Every Wednesday, 12:30-1pm or 1-1:30pm. Dorchester House Gym, 1353 Dorchester Ave. 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.
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NEWSBriefs Boston election department recruiting poll workers for upcoming elections The Boston Election Department is recruiting poll workers for the important work of staffing the City’s 254 precincts for all upcoming Elections in 2013. Special Elections for the U.S. Senate, the First Suffolk Senatorial District and the Eighth Suffolk Representative District will
take place this spring, and have placed a burden on the existing pool of poll workers, many of whom take days off from their regular jobs to serve. The dates for the Special Elections are April 30, May 28 and June 25. In order to guide voters through the electoral process and to ensure that all the polling locations are adequately staffed, the Election Department requires a full complement of poll workers. There is also a critical need for bilingual individuals to serve
in all the poll worker roles: wardens, clerks, and inspectors. Bilingual speakers of Spanish, Cape Verdean, Vietnamese, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Russian, Portuguese and Somali are strongly encouraged to apply. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following: assist with preparing the voting location for opening; hang signs in accordance with legal requirements; count ballots; check in voters; maintain a record of the Election Day’s activities; provide assistance to voters with disabilities; assist in
Simmons College/Beacon Press held the latest installment of their lecture series “Race, Education and Democracy” on Saturday, March 30. Dr. Freeman A. Hrabowski III, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, spoke at the event, sponsored by the Boston Public School system and the Cambridge Public School system. (L to R) Dr. Hrabowski, Cambridge Mayor Henrietta Davis, Simmons College Africana Studies and Education Professor Theresa Perry, and Alfred Fantini, a member of the Cambridge School Committee.
removing signage; pack up election materials; and help check counts at the end of the day. There are stipends ranging from $135-$175 for poll workers. While it is encouraged that all poll workers be available from 6 a.m. to the closing of the polls at 9 p.m., those workers serving as inspectors or interpreters may opt for a half-day shift: 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. or 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. (prorated pay rate of $9/hour). All first -time Poll Workers must attend a mandatory 2-hour training session prior to the elections. Poll workers must be registered voters in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Preference will be given to those applicants who have a strong voter history. All poll workers must exhibit a professional and helpful demeanor, and must be respectful and mindful of the ethnic and cultural diversity of Boston’s voters. For an application or more information, please contact 617635-4491 or email: election@ cityofboston.gov. Applications can also be printed out from: www.cityofboston.gov/elections. Submitting an application does not guarantee an assignment.
Senior whole health offers free exercise classes in Roxbury and Jamaica Plain Senior Whole Health (SWH), a health plan for seniors who have both Medicare and MassHealth, will offer free exercise classes
to residents of Roxbury and Jamaica Plain. Gladys Grullon, a well-known aerobics instructor and performer from “Seniors in Action,” will teach the classes in both English and Spanish. Classes will be held every Thursday to June 6 between 10 and 11 a.m. at the Boston Housing Authority’s Armory Apartments in Roxbury. “Healthy living and exercise is a life-long endeavor,” said Jamaica Plain City Councilor Matt O’Malley. “It’s a terrific initiative that will benefit scores of residents.” SWH Chairman and CEO Wayne Lowell said that regular exercise is an important part of a healthy lifestyle and helps seniors maintain their “quality of life and keep them living independently and at home.” The classes will include instruction on how to exercise properly and incorporate exercise into participants’ daily routines. “Exercise classes promote healthy living, help people prevent and deal with chronic diseases, and bring neighbors together to form strong social networks,” said Grullon. “They’re also a great way to get ready for walking and other outdoor activities available in the spring and summer.”
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Blacks want health care, not judgment Eleanor Hinton Hoytt As a long-time reproductive justice advocate, I have spent the better part of my career working to ensure that women, regardless of income or background, have access to the care that they need. For me, Women’s History Month provided a perfect opportunity to take stock of the work that still needs to be done so that women and girls can claim agency over their own destinies. A lot of progress has taken place over the past 100 years, but none has been as central to improving the lives of women and their families as access to safe and effective reproductive health care. Ironically, in many communities, we are still fighting to gain access to such basic care. In fact, the legislative battles of the past three years have been as intense and crucial as any we’ve fought since Roe v. Wade — the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the U.S. Numerous polls show overwhelming voter support for women’s access to affordable birth control, safe and legal abortion and preventive services, such as STD testing and treatment. Since 2011, legislators have introduced more than 1,100 rights-related provisions aimed at limiting or eliminating access to these services, according to the Guttmacher Institute. With almost 20 percent of African Americans uninsured and over 10 percent of black families living below the poverty level, African Americans have a lot at stake in this fight. Many efforts to eliminate access have been squarely targeted at communities of color, particularly African Americans. For example, In 2011, Mississippi legislators tried to pass a so-called “personhood” bill, which would have deemed a fetus a person and banned not only access to safe and legal abortion in the state but also emergency contraception, commonly known as the morning after pill. As the state with the highest percentage of African Americans — 37 percent — and one of the country’s highest poverty rates, Mississippi’s “personhood” bill would have had a disproportionate and devastating effect on the black community. African Americans have also been the target of vitriolic, anti-reproductive-rights campaigns in recent years, including one financed by Georgia Right to Life — a largely white, male conservative group — that put up billboards accusing black women who choose to end their pregnancies of committing genocide. All of this activity and notoriety has made black women’s bodies the topic of hot debate in recent years. And yet, few polls have actually looked at African American support for reproductive health services, including birth control and safe, legal abortion. A new survey commissioned by a coalition of reproductive justice organizations is providing some definitive insight that legislators would do well to consider and reproductive justice advocates would be smart to act on.
The poll (conducted by Belden Russonello Strategists and sponsored by Black Women for Wellness, Black Women’s Health Imperative, New Voices Pittsburgh, SisterLove, Inc., SPARK Reproductive Justice and individual reproductive justice activists, in partnership with Communications Consortium Media Center) queried a random sample of more than 1,000 African American adults. Surprisingly, 86 percent of African Americans believe that contraception is a part of basic health care. An even larger percentage believes that publicly funded health services should provide birth control to low-income women who want it. When questioned about abortion, 79 percent of respondents said they support it remaining legal and that they believe it should be available in their own communities. In fact, African American support for legalized abortion is nearly identical to the overall percentage of Americans who, in a recent USA Today/ Gallup poll, said they support legalized abortion. Most significant, an overwhelming majority of African Americans said that regardless of how they personally feel about abortion, it should remain legal, and women should have access to safe care if and when they need it. This belief held across political and religious lines, with 74 percent of conservatives, 88 percent of liberals and more than threequarters of regular churchgoers saying abortion should remain safe and legal. These findings are enlightening and can be a persuasive argument against continued efforts by some legislators and interest groups to reduce access to reproductive health-care services and vilify the women who use them. Even today, following a national election that was won largely on the basis of how women — particularly women of color — voted, too many lawmakers are working to rescind the broadened access to birth control provided by the Affordable Care Act. Given that African American women are more likely to experience pregnancies that result in poor maternal and infant health outcomes, we have an urgent need for our views to be accurately represented and seriously considered. This new poll makes clear to lawmakers and groups that would target our communities with racially charged rhetoric that a majority of African Americans — like most other Americans — believe women, not politicians, should be trusted to make decisions about their reproductive health. Getting out of the way of women and our ability to access the care we need is the best way to pay tribute to Women’s History Month. Eleanor Hinton Hoytt is the president and CEO of Black Women’s Health Imperative. 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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Masachusetts leads nation in creating life sciences jobs Banner Staff The Boston Foundation released a report last week showing that the Patrick-Murray Administration’s investments in the life sciences are making a measurable impact on job creation and spurring economic growth across the state. “The Life Sciences Initiative is meeting its growth objectives and then some,” said Gov. Deval Patrick in an event announcing the report at the Boston Foundation last week. “Because we chose to shape the future we wanted, rather than just wait to see what happens, Massachusetts is now the world’s leading life sciences supercluster, and we have the jobs and economic opportunity that come with that.” In 2007, Patrick proposed a 10-year, $1 billion Massachusetts Life Sciences Initiative. The initiative was passed by the Legislature in 2008, and the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) was charged with implementing it. The goal of this initiative has been to make the Commonwealth home to the most vibrant life sciences supercluster in the world, attracting investment dollars, creating wellpaying jobs, expanding a technically skilled workforce and supporting an energetic landscape for innovation and entrepreneurship. The report, “Life Sciences In-
novation as a Catalyst for Economic Development: The Role of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center,” was unveiled during an “Understanding Boston” forum at the Boston Foundation. The research found that the MLSC has had a measurable impact on job creation through its over $300 million in investments as of June, 2012. Over the last 10 years, the report stated, the life sciences cluster has created jobs in Massachusetts at a faster pace than any other industry sector in the Commonwealth, and since 2008, Massachusetts has overtaken all competitor states in the rate of life sciences job creation. The MLSC is driving job creation through several different programs, including loans to earlystage companies, grants to support industry-academic research collaborations, cutting edge infrastructure, growth incentives, workforce training and internships that help smaller companies access Massachusetts workers. The research found that the MLSC’s investments in start-up companies is an especially strong draw to Massachusetts for larger companies, which rely on smaller companies to help them access and develop new technologies at a faster rate. The MLSC’s role in helping these start-up firms gain
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Hillard Pouncy is shown here during his days as a bombadier with the Tuskegee Airmen, the celebrated African Americans who served during World War II. Pouncy would later earn a doctorate in organic chemistry from Syracuse University and have a long career with Union Carbide. (Photo courtesy of Hillard Pouncy) gave applicants an exam. If you passed, they would accept you. I was assigned to the 477th Bombardment Group. We were given training on B-25s — the same bombers that bombed Tokyo in the early part of the war.
And this term, ‘Red Tails,’ that was used to refer to the Tuskegee Airmen? What was that about? President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama greet Tuskegee Airmen prior to a movie screening of “Red Tails” in the Family Theater of the White House, Jan. 13, 2012. (Official White House photo by Pete Souza)
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a mission. After the service, he went on to earn a doctorate in organic chemistry from Syracuse University in the early 1950s, and then had a long career with Union Carbide traveling the globe. He was clearly one of the best and the brightest, able to flourish during one of the most oppressive times in American history. During WWII, the United States military was racially segregated, but the necessities of war created a need for talent regardless of color. The birth of the Tuskegee Airmen was a case in point. It started in 1939, when Congress passed the Appropriations Bill Public Law 18, which contained an amendment that allowed funds to be used to train African Americans to become pilots (in schools separate from white trainees). Then, in June of 1941, with war looming, the first squadron of black pilots was activated at Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Ala. Some historians credit the success of the Tuskegee Airmen with helping to inspire President Harry Truman to sign Executive Order 9981 in July, 1948, which ended segregation in the U.S. military, and arguably paved the way for the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision that integrated public schools. Nowadays, most of the Airmen are, of course, in their late 80s or 90s. Many have passed on. Pouncy is one of the few still alive.
How old were you when you enlisted in the Airmen? I must have been close to 20. Let’s see, I’m 90 now, so this was in about 1941. I stayed on active duty for about three years during
World War II and then was a reservist for 17 years in the New York Air National Guard, so we’re talking a good 20 years.
That’s where I saw the Airmen.
What were your responsibilities as a Tuskegee Airman?
Well, for one thing I saw that the girls had crushes on those guys! They liked their uniforms and how they carried themselves. So we went for it!
Well, let me say that I wanted to be a pilot. And then, less than two weeks before graduation, they told me I wasn’t good enough. I wasn’t fast enough. It was a crushing blow to my ego. They said I was ‘washed out.’
Please describe the training process to become a pilot. There were three phases. In primary, all the instructors were black. In basic, all the instructors were white — they were carefully selected to train the black cadets. Because if you hated black people, you couldn’t teach them flying! Flying is all about trust. Finally, there was advanced training.
The training was difficult. It was. We lost a great deal of people in training.
What were you going to do since you couldn’t become a pilot? So my choices then were navigation or bombardier. In December, 1944, I graduated as a bombardier. Second lieutenant.
Second lieutenant! [Laughs] Second lieutenant and a gentleman! It was by an ‘Act of Congress’ that I was made a gentleman! I want you to know that our Congress made me a gentleman.
Where did you grow up? I grew up in Eufaula, Alabama. There’s a Eufaula, Oklahoma, but I’m from Alabama. It’s on the Chattahoochee River, and I never had gone more than 30 miles from my home until I went off to college at the Tuskegee Institute.
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What was it like? The Tuskegee Airmen had very high standards. Initially, you were required to have at least two years of college training. But with the war, they changed the rules. They
The Tuskegee Airmen were part of the 332nd Air Group — we were the black guys that flew for the air force. And each group used colors to designate itself. All planes had some kind of I.D. We painted the wings red as our special emblem. We were the black guys with the red tails.
How many Tuskegee Airmen were there? I think that there were about 16,000 in total — not just the nearly 1,000 pilots, but the navigators, radio operators, bombardiers and a lot of people on the ground: Doctors, nurses, mechanics, instrument people and so on. The Haitian government
sent five men who became pilots, and after the war was over they went back to Haiti.
What was it like being part of a black elite group during a time when the country was deeply racist? [Laughs] You know, a lot of people ask me that. I don’t think we put a whole lot of energy or thought into that — we were so busy doing our job that we didn’t have time to think about it philosophically. We didn’t have a lot of time to discuss it — because we just wanted to come back in one piece.
Right, but after the war when you had time to reflect? Now? Now sometimes I ask myself: You were kind of foolish. Wasn’t that a stupid thing to do? Flying when the country didn’t care about us? Now I’m not an historian, but I also think: a lot of people tell us that our air corps, the Tuskegee Airmen, helped lead the Civil Rights Movement. So maybe it was worthwhile.
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chews people up and spits them back out again with shattered lives, destroyed families, destroyed communities,” Jarecki says. In addition to these personal stories, Jarecki’s film features law enforcement officials, judges and experts such as David Simon, creator of the hit television show “The Wire,” Harvard professors Charles Ogletree and William Julius Wilson and Michelle Alexander, author of “The New Jim Crow,” who explain the history of the War on Drugs, and how it came to target African Americans. As historian Richard Miller points out, the link between drug policy and race reaches back hundreds of years.
laws were taken to another level. “When Nixon launched the Drug War in 1971, that ad hoc, improvised history of drug laws with racial implications was suddenly codified into a federal and stateby-state program on a national scale,” Jarecki says. “Once a little law here or a little law there being implemented in improvised ways, became systematized.” In one of his previous works, the 2005 documentary, “Why We Fight,” Jarecki investigated the country’s military-industrial complex — and the filmmaker says that it bears striking resemblance to the system of mass incarceration produced by the Drug War. “They’re just two very good examples of our willingness to put profit before people and principle,” he says. “For wars that profit a specific subset of the popula-
“These laws set up a very dangerous precedent of racial control, target immigrant groups seen as threatening to the economic order.” — Richard Miller During the 19th century, many of today’s illicit drugs — such as cocaine, heroin and opium — were legal, and frequently used by upper-class whites. California was the first state to criminalize smoking opium, not coincidentally, around the same time that the drug was being used by upwardly mobile Chinese immigrants on the West coast. Similarly, hemp — which was once an agricultural staple in the United States — was banned in the 1930s as it became associated with Mexican immigrants and known by its Spanish name, marijuana, and cocaine was outlawed as African Americans migrated to Northern cities. “These laws set up a very dangerous precedent of racial control,” Miller says in the film, and “target immigrant groups seen as threatening to the economic order.” Decades later, these drug
tion, we trade the very lives of our own young men and women and a lot of men, women and children overseas. And the prison industrial system is the domestic sister of the military industrial complex, in the sense that here at home, we’re trading human lives for economic profit.” While Jarecki finds some hope that the Drug War may be crumbling after Colorado and Washington’s recent vote to legalize marijuana, he still says there’s a long way to go. “We’ve been at this for four decades,” he says. “And what do we have to show for it? A record of total failure: Drugs are cheaper, purer and more in demand and more in use today than ever before.” “The House I Live In” premieres on WGBH on Monday, April 8 at 10 p.m.
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Requirements and Division II, Special Provisions for complete details. 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.
You are required to make a defense to such pleading not later than forty (40) days after the first publication of this notice being March 28, 2013, and upon your failure to do so, the Plaintiff seeking service against you will apply to the Court for the relief sought.
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Docket No. SU13A0027AD In the matter of Takyi D'Moni Foster CITATION G.L. c. 210, § 6
To any unnamed or unknown parent and persons interested in a petition for the adoption of said child and to the Department of Children and Families of said Commonwealth. A petion has been presented to said court by Tiffany Foster of Dorchester, MA, Jaqueline Wingo, of Dorchester, MA requesting for leave to adopt said child and that the name of the child be changed to Ta'Kyi D'Moni Foster. IF YOU DESIRE TO OBJECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT BOSTON ON OR BEFORE TEN O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING (10:00 AM) ON 05/30/2013. WITNESS, Hon. Joan P Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: March 18, 2013 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate
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To all persons interested in the estate of Arthur Frederick of Boston in the County of Suffolk. A petition has been presented to said Court by Flagstar Bank and its successors and Or its assigns of Boston in the County of Suffolk. Praying that this Honorable Court ratify/confirm the deed executed by the Administratrix of the estate of Arthur Frederick which was recorded at the Suffolk County Registry Deeds at Book 11029, Page 295 (and attached hereto as Exhibit A), thereby confirming that Deshawn Parris and Oneika Parris are the rightful sole owners in fee of the subject property, and for such further relief as this Honorable Court may deem just and proper for the reasons more fully described in said petition. If you desire to object thereto you or your attorney should file a written appearance in said Court at Boston before ten o'clock in the forenoon on the 18th day of April, 2013, the return day of this citation. Witness, Joan P. Armstrong, Esquire, First Judge of said Court, this 18th day of March, 2013. Patricia M. Campatelli, Register. MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. AP1318-C1 FY13-15 AUTHORITYWIDE TERM WELDING & METAL FABRICATION, BOSTON, BEDFORD AND WORCESTER, 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, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013 immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly. NOTE: PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 10:30 A.M. LOCAL TIME ON TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013. The work includes PROVISION OF ALL EQUIPMENT, MATERIALS, LABOR AND SUPERVISION NECESSARY TO MAKE STEEL REPAIRS AND TO FABRICATE IRON TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT ON AN AS NEEDED BASIS OVER A TWO (2) YEAR PERIOD. WORK UNDER THIS CONTRACT WILL BE LIMITED TO NONBUILDING RELATED REPAIRS. Bid documents will be made available beginning THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2013. 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. The estimated contract cost is FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, ($450,000). 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 TEN MILLION DOLLARS, ($10,000,000.00). 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
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA CONTRACT NO. H219-C1 REHABILITATE OLD T-HANGAR TAXILANES, RELOCATE RUNWAY 29 END PERIMETER ROAD L.G. HANSCOM FIELD, BEDFORD, 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, APRIL 24, 2013, immediately after which, in a designated room, the proposal will be opened and read publicly. NOTE: PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT L.G. HANSCOM FIELD, 200 HANSCOM DRIVE, CIVIL AIR TERMINAL, SUITE 315 AT 1:00 PM LOCAL TIME ON THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013. The work includes PAVEMENT REMOVAL, FINE GRADING, REPAVING OF APPROXIMATELY 275,000 SF OF APRON AND TAXILANE PAVEMENT AT THE OLD T-HANGARS, RELOCATION OF THE PERIMETER ROAD AT THE RUNWAY 29 END INCLUDING EXCAVATION, GRADING AND SELECT MATERIALS PLACEMENT, APPROXIMATELY 3,300 LF, 12 FT WIDE. Bid documents will be made available beginning WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013. 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. The estimated contract cost is ONE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($1,500,000). 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 $5,000,000. 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 II, Special Provisions for complete details. This contract is subject to a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise participation provision requiring that not less than TEN PERCENT (10.0%) of the Contract be performed by disadvantaged 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 Article 84 of the 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. A Contractor having fifty (50) or more employees and his subcontractors having fifty (50) or more employees who may be awarded a subcontract of $50,000 or more will, within one hundred twenty (120) days from the contract commencement, be required to develop a written affirmative action compliance program for each of its establishments. Compliance Reports - Within thirty (30) days of the award of this Contract the Contractor shall file a compliance report (Standard Form [SF 100]) if:
LEGALS REPLACEMENT, LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, EAST BOSTON, MA., 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, APRIL 24, 2013 immediately after which, in a designated room, the proposal 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, APRIL 17, 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 (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 1:00 PM LOCAL TIME ON THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013. The work includes the removal of four (4) single ended electrical substations and replacement with four (4) double ended stations. To accommodate the double ended stations, the work also includes expansion of the existing substation rooms with steel framed, metal panel clad additions at each of the four (4) substations. The project also includes the provision of preconditioned air units, ground power units and the associated infrastructure at various Terminal B, Pier A aircraft passenger loading bridges. Bid documents will be made available beginning WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013. 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. 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 Maintenance and an Update Statement. The General Bidder must be certified in the category of GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION. The estimated contract cost is $12,000,000. 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 Maintenance and an 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. 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 $10,000,000. 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 II, Special Provisions for complete details. Filed sub bids will be required and taken on the following classes of work: HEATING, VENTILATING, AND AIR CONDITIONING WATERPROOFING, DAMP PROOFING, AND CAULKING MISCELLANEOUS AND ORNAMENTAL IRON ROOFING AND FLASHING PAINTING PLUMBING 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 Disadvantaged Business Enterprise participation provision requiring that not less than TEN PERCENT 10% of the Contract be performed by disadvantaged 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.
(a)
The Contractor has not submitted a complete compliance report within twelve (12) months preceding the date of award, and
A Contractor having fifty (50) or more employees and his subcontractors having fifty (50) or more employees who may be awarded a subcontract of $50,000 or more will, within one hundred twenty (120) days from the contract commencement, be required to develop a written affirmative action compliance program for each of its establishments.
(b)
The Contractor is within the definition of “employer” in Paragraph 2c(3) of the instructions included in SF100.
Compliance Reports - Within thirty (30) days of the award of this Contract the Contractor shall file a compliance report (Standard Form [SF 100]) if:
The contractor shall require the subcontractor on any first tier subcontracts, irrespective of the dollar amount, to file SF 100 within thirty (30) days after the award of the subcontracts, if the above two conditions apply. SF 100 will be furnished upon request. SF 100 is normally furnished Contractors annually, based on a mailing list currently maintained by the Joint Reporting Committee. In the event a contractor has not received the form, he may obtain it by writing to the following address: Joint Reporting Committee 1800 G Street Washington, DC 20506 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
(a)
The Contractor has not submitted a complete compliance report within twelve (12) months preceding the date of award, and
(b)
The Contractor is within the definition of “employer” in Paragraph 2c(3) of the instructions included in SF100.
The contractor shall require the subcontractor on any first tier subcontracts, irrespective of the dollar amount, to file SF 100 within thirty (30) days after the award of the subcontracts, if the above two conditions apply. SF 100 will be furnished upon request. SF 100 is normally furnished Contractors annually, based on a mailing list currently maintained by the Joint Reporting Committee. In the event a contractor has not received the form, he may obtain it by writing to the following address: Joint Reporting Committee 1800 G Street Washington, DC 20506 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 NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. L892-C1, TERMINAL B SUBSTATION
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Asset Manager March 2013 The Asset Manager manages the physical, financial and social health of the CSNDC’s 900+/- unit affordable housing and 50,000+ sf commercial RE portfolio. Manage financial workouts/restructurings for existing properties, fill commercial vacancies, develop and implement related marketing strategies, manage relationships with commercial tenants, develop/implement proactive asset management systems such as dash boards, deal books, lease interest protocols, asset management plans and automated systems to insure key benchmarks for financing, refinancing, lease and contract renewal, and tenant comportment etc, are timely identified and addressed. Connect systems and work with the work of other agency departments in furtherance of complementary goals. Manage reporting and communications, oversee and evaluate the third party property management company, represent the NDC in various public forums, work closely with NDC resident resources staff to insure social goals are met etc. Minimum Bachelor’s degree required in related field with 4-5 years relevant experience in affordable housing development and/or asset management required. Send resume and cover letter to, Executive Director, CSNDC, 587 Washington Street, Dorchester, MA 02124 or email: gail@csndc.com by May 1, 2013.
The Proteus Fund seeks a full-time Officer for Partnerships to work on the Death Penalty Abolition Fund, a new Proteus Fund program, and Proteus Fund. As a member of the Partnership Team who reports to the Director of Partnerships, the Officer for Partnerships will be responsible to develop and manage an outreach and engagement program for foundation funding partners. This includes proposal and report writing, promotional writing, special events management, and branding and communication. Qualified candidates will have a Bachelor’s degree and five to seven years of experience in philanthropy, fundraising, communications or relevant management-level position. Additional qualifications and a detailed job description can be found on the organization’s website, http://www.proteusfund.org/officerpartnerships-job-description. The organization prefers candidates who can work out of its office in Amherst, MA but strong candidates in other parts of the state or country will be considered. The Proteus Fund is a grant-making foundation committed to advancing justice through democracy, human rights, and peace. We partner with individual donors and foundations to achieve their goals, through strategy development, research and fund management. Proteus is known for tailored grant- making initiatives that are responsive, have high impact and integrate support for lobbying activity. Our work advances issues at the leading edge of democracy and social change. Interested candidates should submit a letter of interest with Subject Line: Officer for Partnerships, a resume, salary requirements, and contact information for three references. Our preference is to receive all materials via email at hr@proteusfund.org. Applications received by April 15, 2013 will be given priority consideration. Proteus Fund believes that one of the great strengths of community is the rich diversity of its residents in race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age and physical ability. Proteus Fund affirms publicly its moral and legal commitment to a policy of equal opportunity in employment. THE PROTEUS FUND 15 Research Drive, Suite B Amherst, MA 01002 Telephone: 413 256-0349, Fax 413 256-3536 www.proteusfund.org hr@proteusfund.org