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Bankers balked, arguing that In a policy change that could agreeing to write-downs would have profound implications for set a bad precedent and persuade struggling homeowners, the na- more homeowners to default on tion’s largest mortgage holders, their mortgages. And the nation’s Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two largest mortgage holders, the have agreed to allow homeown- federally-chartered Fannie Mae ers who have lost their homes to and Freddie Mac corporations, foreclosure to buy their properties flatly refused to entertain the back at current market value. notion.

The policy change comes after Founded in 1938 as part of the years of lobNew Deal probying by nongram, Fannie profits and Mae was charhousing activtered by Conists fighting “In some areas gress to stimuf o r e c l o s u r e s we’re seeing a new, late the housacross the ing market in ungrounded rampcountry. the United “This will up in property values.

States. The orhave a huge ganization buys impact for us,” We’re seeing speculators mortgages said Maureen buying up properties from banks and Flynn, Execumortgage comtive Director and renting them.” panies, freeing of the Coalientities — Grace Ross those tion for Occuup to write pied Homes in more mortForeclosure. gages. The “We’ll still be Federal Home negotiating with them about the Loan Mortgage Corporation — principal, but this is a huge game known as Freddie Mac — was changer.” founded in 1971 to compete with When the nation’s real estate Fannie Mae and further stimulate market hit the skids in 2008, after the home loan market. mortgage companies and invesBoth agencies are considtors drove up prices through spec- ered government-sponsored enulation and outright fraud, many terprises — 79 percent of their homeowners in Boston were stuck shares are owned by the governwith mortgages that far exceeded ment. Together, they own half of any reasonable valuation of their all mortgages in the U.S. homes.

When the real estate market As many of those mortgagees crashed in 2008, sending the U.S. went into default and faced fore- economy into a tailspin, blacks closure, many housing activists and Latinos were hit particularly settled on principal reduction — hard. Median wealth for blacks writing down the value of the loan dropped 53 percent. For Latinos, — as a preferred policy prescrip- median wealth dropped by 66 tion to bail out homeowners and percent.

Fannie Mae continued to page 19 stabilize neighborhoods wracked

Akunna Eneh addresses demonstrators gathered in front of the State House for a protest against police shootings. A crowd estimated at more than a thousand demonstrators marched through Downtown Boston Saturday while tens of thousands turned out to demonstrations in New York and Washington, D.C. (Banner photo)

Black Lives Matter protests sparking national debate Yawu Miller Protests over police shootings of black men continued for the third straight week, with major demonstrations in New York City and Washington, D.C. drawing tens of thousands, and a smaller protest of about 1,000 demonstrators in Boston last weekend.

As protesters white, black, Latino and Asian take to the streets, the “Black Lives Matter” theme has generated a wider discussion about racism and the criminal justice system in the United States.

Following the Ferguson, Missouri police shooting of teenager Michael Brown, many activists called for long-sought-after policy changes — body-worn cameras

for officers, shared data on police shootings, independent investigations of police shootings.

But it became clear that policies aren’t enough to protect blacks from the criminal justice system after a New York grand jury declined to indict Daniel Pantaleo, the New York police officer who killed Eric Garner in an illegal chokehold during an incident that was recorded on cellphone video by a bystander.

The grand jury’s refusal to see wrongdoing, despite the video evidence, points to entrenched racial attitudes among police and the U.S. public.

“The problem we have is a philosophy of white supremacy that’s pervasive,” said New York-based

author and news commentator Keith Boykin. “Until we address that, we’re pretty much putting Band-Aids on bullet wounds.

We’re not dealing with the root cause of the problem.”

A growing body of studies has demonstrated that white police officers harbor unexamined subconscious negative attitudes toward blacks. The studies include a 2005 Florida State University study that found that police are more likely to shoot unarmed blacks than unarmed whites.

The profound effects of these attitudes have played out with increasing frequency in the news media and on social media as one police shooting after another finds protests continued to page 21

BPS students embark on 7-year path to teaching Sandra Larson

Boston Public School students were inducted Dec. 13 into the High School to Teacher program, which offers training, reduced tuition, a fast track for a teaching position in Boston schools. Above, a group of students and mentors from East Boston High school. (BPS photo by Mark Pijanowski)

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Thirty-six Boston high school students are starting on a seven-year path through high school and college and into teaching careers, thanks to a new Boston Public Schools program aimed at developing a more diverse next generation of teachers.

The High School to Teacher program offers training, mentoring and support to promising students interested in pursuing teaching careers. Launched earlier this year, the initiative aims to help students achieve school and career success while at the same time

tackling a key BPS goal to increase diversity in the teaching ranks.

“This high school teacher initiative is part of Boston’s overarching initiative to increase workforce diversity. There’s been considerable strategy on building the pipeline, and this is part of it,” said Ceronne Daly, director of diversity programs at the BPS Office of Human Capital. “We’re reaching out to work with high school students throughout their entire high school career and into college.”

Recruiting for High School to Teacher’s first cohort began in BPS students continued to page 18

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Boston youth exploring self-expression with dance Laura Onyeneho Ta y q u a n P o m a r e - Ta y l o r wanted a place to fit in, somewhere he could express his bottled-up anger and negativity about the world around him. Struggling to find a place to express himself creatively, Pomare-Taylor stumbled upon krump dancing.

“I felt at home at Krump United,” Pomare-Taylor said.

Krump United is a weekly dance program hosted at the Perkins Community Center in Dorchester. Every Friday between the hours of 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., krumpers from around Boston organize dance battles during these sessions. Krump United expands its reach to other teams around the Northeast, from Rhode Island to Connecticut.

“Krump is deep. It allows me to tell stories,’ Pomare-Taylor said.

“The stronger and sharper I move, the more powerful it becomes. I’m a good kid, I don’t get into trouble, but I prefer to be in an environment where I am not judged or feel restricted. I have all this energy, I just want to make better use of it.”

Krump is an urban street dance form characterized by hard, high-energy improvisational moves. It is an aggressive and emotional dance that incorporates stomping, arm swinging and jab movements.

The Krump United program

began earlier this summer, in the hopes that youth could learn to express themselves and their struggles through the dance. The program is led by two of its originators, Traiquan Stroud and Adrian Major.

“This program is all about curbing violence,” Major said.

“Getting into the understanding that people came in with issues, and we resolve those issues through krump dancing.”

With 74 members and counting, Krump United’s retention rate has been successful through its open-door policies and mission.

“It doesn’t matter what you do, what ethnicity you are or spiritual denomination,” Major said.

“There is one ‘U’ in Krump and one ‘U’ in United, and it starts with you, and we are all about progressing collectively.”

Like Pomare-Taylor, other participants agreed that the program increases confidence, builds character, and is a creative alternative to negative behavior and activity. Though Krump United has seen much success in the last few months, the program continues to struggle with community acceptance of the art form.

“Life for me as a black educated dancer is pretty tough,” said Rodney Henry, a Roxbury resident who attends Fenway High School.

“Society expects little from us because of my environment. I refuse to be a statistic because of where

I live and what I do,” he said. “I have plans to become a lawyer and hopefully be able to open my own insurance company. I love where I come from, but it don’t make me who I am today in society.”

This year, Krump United represented Boston in “Phitted Talks,” a Rhode Island workshop hosted

by Thr3e Live Dance Company founders Dennis “Twin Knucklehead” Leggett and Tjay “Twin Basix” Martino, who’s also known as “Wonderbread.” The threeday event attracted hundreds of krumpers from around the East Coast to properly train dancers in the art. The workshops included dance battles by some of the finest krump dancers in the East and the legendary originator of krump, Ceasare “Tight Eyez” Willis.

“These sessions are the most important things about krump,” Leggett said.

The 10-year krump veteran said hosting events such as Phitted Talks gives dancers opportunities not only to hone their skills but to “cultivate relationships” with others.

“In 2014, krumpers are trying to expand more and learn different methods of dance,” he said.

“We want to show our community and the hip-hop world that this is a serious movement and we are really great dancers. Even our nicknames are a manifestation of ourselves.”

Leggett believes krump is all

about “freedom of expression.”

The nicknames are an exaggerated version of who they are, which is portrayed in each individual’s style of dance.

Krump sessions sometimes are organized by various crews or “fams,” which are dance teams that create unique moves according to their specific style. Structurally, these “fams” consist of seasoned dancers who take novice dancers under their wing. One representative from the crew will dance while the rest of the members cheer or “hype” the dancer.

Krump United’s goal to produce events such as Phitted Talks might seem far-fetched, considering the amount of time, dedication and resources to create such platform in Boston, but they believe it all starts with community support.

“This program has certainly drawn more than young people to our community center,” said Troy Smith, director of the Perkins

Community Center.

Krump United has attracted a wide range of ages, from 8 all the way to 65.

When Major asked Smith for permission to use the facilities for weekly sessions, Perkins Center staff members were delighted to have the krumpers on board. The Perkins Center provides programs to school-aged children, ranging from basketball to teen-talk programs.

“They came prepared with established ground rules and their willingness to open the doors for anyone in the community interested in learning about their craft,” Smith said. “Even a few of the participants in this program were active members of the community center at a very young age.

I couldn’t turn them down.”

Smith said he’s proud to see how much the program has grown. Originally, the group had krumping continued to page 21

Members of the dance group Krump United meet weekly to practice the physically-demanding dance form. (Laura Onyeneho photo)

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Dudley Square’s Bolling Building set to impress Sandra Larson When the long-dormant former Ferdinand’s furniture store reawakens as the Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building next month, Dudley Square will have a gleaming new centerpiece.

Set in motion in 2011 by former Mayor Thomas Menino, the redevelopment promises to grace Boston’s geographic center with a sophisticated exterior that knits together historic and contemporary architecture, an airy modern interior and a sixthfloor community space and roof deck with sweeping city views available to Boston School Department employees, visitors and the public.

About 500 employees of the school department and a few other education-related organizations will soon report to work in the new building, with a phased move-in starting sometime in January 2015, according to city officials. The building, whose name honors the first black president of the Boston City Council, will also house the Boston School Committee chambers, the new Roxbury Innovation Center and several ground-floor food and retail businesses.

The $124.9 million, 214,000 square-foot facility encompasses the former Ferdinand’s building with its iconic flatiron “prow” at the corner of Washington and Warren Streets along with the adjacent Curtis and J.S. Waterman Buildings. The redevelopment was designed by Sasaki Associates and the Netherlands-based Mecanoo in collaboration with the

City of Boston. The exterior facades of the three historic buildings were painstakingly preserved or restored, leaving pieces of history alongside modern brick-and-glass construction.

Inside, there are further nods to local history and culture. The building’s entrances, one facing Washington Street and the other facing Dudley Station, are aligned with the path of the old elevated orange line, whose inbound trains used to traverse the site. Curving parallel fluorescent light tubes on the ceiling trace a ghost image of the rail tracks. A large wall in the two-story lobby will display a map of Boston that reflects the Dudley area as the city’s center-point, and a photographic display of Dudley Square history is in the works for a sixth-floor community space. Three public art installations will be created by local professional artists Napoleon Jones-Henderson and Meejin Yoon and recent Burke High School alumna Clarita Stephens.

Visitors entering the Bolling building will see a grand staircase with steps crafted of black terrazzo flecked with silver connecting the first two floors of publicly-accessible space. On the second floor, a BPS concierge will be stationed to direct people to the services they seek. Also on the second floor will be the new Roxbury Innovation Center and the Boston School Committee meeting chambers. The high-ceilinged chambers, located in the front corner of the old Ferdinand Building with the familiar oval window looking out onto

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A recent tour of the building’s interior revealed sleek low-walled workspaces in open floor plans where all of the desk workers have access to natural light from tall windows. The whiteness of desks and cabinets contrasts with accent walls of rich green and deep blue-violet. Rolling whiteboards and file cabinets give the place a modular, flexible feel, as if a group of colleagues could gather at any time for a spontaneous brainstorming session.

While the middle floors will be the main BPS workplace and the two top floors are reserved for heating, ventilation and air conditioning machinery, the sixth floor offers a roof deck and enormous windows, providing breathtaking vistas far and wide over the city.

A walk around floor six’s windowed perimeter brings views of the Prudential and Hancock towers, the dual spires of the Mission Church, the Dillaway-Thomas House, the First Parish Church, and Dudley Station close by, with the Fort Hill water tower beyond. Beyond Roxbury is the city’s tall-building financial district skyline, Dorchester Heights, UMass Boston and the Boston Harbor.

The evolution of the Dudley area streetscape is on display from this high vantage point, with the new Area B-2 police station seeming to stand proudly near the site of its

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recently-demolished former self; the multi-hued Orchard Gardens homes and bright yellow school look new and thriving, while nearby vacant lots lie in waiting to become hubs of new retail and housing.

This sixth floor and its roof deck positioned atop the old Ferdinand Building were the subject of much discussion at community meetings back in 2011 and 2012, when city officials and the design team were presenting initial plans. Community members wanted the public to be able to access these views of the wider city. It appears they will get their wish.

Besides the roof deck furnished with bright blue chairs and tables and wooden benches and surrounded by “green roof” areas of hardy low greenery, the designers included community-accessible multi-purpose indoor space. Included here is the room that will hold rotating historical displays as well as a function area with a kitchen that could be used for meetings and celebratory gatherings.

It is not yet clear how people would arrange to use the indoor space, but a

city spokesperson confirmed that the roof deck will be freely accessible to the public.

Polished as it is so far, the building is still a work in progress. In mid-December, workers could be seen above, adjusting the colored LED lights that illuminate the building’s upper floors at night, and below, constructing the concrete plaza area near the station-facing entrance. The ceremonial ribbon-cutting is still unscheduled and likely won’t occur until at least late February.

The final tally of local, minority and female construction work-hours will likely indicate the project met some goals but fell slightly short on others. And the ground-floor retail is behind earlier projections, with businesses now expected to open weeks or months later than the BPS employee move-in. But when the last pieces fall into place, the Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building will without doubt stand tall as a monument to both the history and the future of a city and community. Mayor Menino, one imagines, would be proud.

The Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building, designed by Sasaki and Mecanoo, will be the new home of the Boston School Department starting in early 2015. (Banner photo)

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Rush to condemn Cosby premature African American elders become concerned when the character of prominent blacks is impugned by assertions of alleged sexual misconduct. There is a long, baleful history of the consequences of that tactic. Usually it turns out that the accusations are false. The uncorroborated complaints of sexual impropriety by Bill Cosby arouse the distressing memory among elders of similar past claims against black men.

In 1921, blacks developed one of the nation’s most affluent black communities in the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Okla. When whites attempted to lynch a 19-year-old black man for a sexual assault that never happened, armed blacks came to his defense. In the ensuing battle, whites with the help of the National Guard destroyed 35 city blocks and left 10,000 blacks homeless. An estimated 300 people were killed and 800 were injured.

Ten years later, the case of the Scottsboro Boys is more widely known. Nine black teen-aged hobos were charged with raping two white girls who were traveling on the train with them. Their trials violated the principles of equal justice. All were found guilty in several trials although the alleged victims admitted that they lied about being raped.

It is not even necessary to be accused of rape to run afoul of white injustice. In the summer of 1955, the 14-year-old Emmett Till was visiting relatives in Money, Miss. He was murdered for having a salacious gleam in his eye when looking at a white woman.

Clearly, it does not take much to run afoul of the white standards for proper sexual behavior for blacks.

According to reports, the Federal Bureau of Investigation wired hotel rooms in which Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was expected to stay. The FBI planned to publicize any dalliance by King in order to damage his reputation. Fortunately, government officials realized that such a strategy would be counterproductive. The people would rebel in defense of their civil rights leader.

Now the target is Bill Cosby. His achievements to improve the status of blacks in entertainment have been enormous. In his “I Spy” series he played a talented secret agent, capable of confounding his adversaries. In his stand-up routines he moved comedy beyond neo Amos ‘n’ Andy to a more sophisticated genre. And as Dr. Huxtable he presented the first television image of an upper middle class black family.

The current concern about college campus rapes has created an environment of general interest in the subject. Women have availed themselves of the opportunity to publicize their alleged rapes

by Cosby, some of which supposedly occurred more than 20 years ago. There have been no prosecutions and no convictions. In fact, the statute of limitations has already run out on most accusations, so it is too late for legal action. Why then go public?

Each complainant will undoubtedly have her own rationale, but it is unlikely that every account will be truthful. Rolling Stone magazine recently published a story of a 2012 rape in a frat house at the University of Virginia, and had to recall the article because of false statements from the alleged victim. Sexual issues are emotional and might inspire great drama, memory lapses or even falsehoods.

Men who are a bit worldly wise understand this. Why have they not been there to have Cosby’s back, at least until the question of criminal conduct has been satisfactorily decided? Could it be that they have resented the high standards Cosby has set over the years? He has criticized comedians who rely on profanity to draw a laugh.

And he has called upon black men to pull up their pants and work harder to succeed. Perhaps there are some who believe Cosby expects too much and he should be taken down a notch.

Black elders recognize that Cosby has generously shared his affluence to benefit everyone, and he has inspired progress for all. He certainly deserves support in these trying times.

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To see the raised consciousness in Cambridge and Boston and at schools and colleges across the country in response to the provocative brutality against African Americans by the police today reminds me of the 1960s. It brings to mind the powerful statement: “Perceived lawless enforcement of the law breeds contempt for the law.” I don’t recall who said it, but it captures the current outpouring of emotions displayed from one coast to the other—all these many years along.

Some of us have eerie memories of the fall of 1960 when the country was nervously awakening to new stages of the civil rights movement; namely, the “Sit-In Demonstrations” and later the “Freedom Rides” in 1961. Both were followed by ugly confrontations in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963 and the 1964 “Freedom Summer” in Mississippi.

Then, in March 1965, there would be “Bloody Sunday” at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. The righteous indignation spread like wildfire across the land and students from every-

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where (including now Congressman John Lewis) headed to the hotspots.

I am, therefore, inspired by the activist spirit abroad in the land today, but I am, at once, depressed by the widespread — and frightening — breakdown in communication between black males and law enforcement. This gap and the passion it generates on both sides gave us the reactions to the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner and have set the blogosphere on fire.

Racism in law enforcement in the 1960s was represented in media by the likes of Eugene “Bull” Connor in Birmingham, Sheriff Lawrence Rainey in Philadelphia, Mississippi and Sheriff Jim Clark in Selma, Alabama. There

was little or no communication between them and Dr. Martin Luther King or his emissaries. However, other well-meaning and consequential people (including President Lyndon Johnson) recognized that failure to communicate with Dr. King’s activism could lead to violence such as that in Harlem and North Philadelphia in 1964 and Watts in 1965…

Overall things aren’t as bad as they were in the 1960s, but I can’t help but think that, in some ways, the cycle is travelled anew. Let’s hope and pray we don’t need a nationwide repeat of the 1960s to address the obvious communication breakdown we now face.

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OPINION Black lives matter — it’s more than police killings David Muhammad I have struggled with the theme of “Black Lives Matter” in the protests against police killings of black men in America. I totally agree with the sentiment, but I have just had trouble with the message that seems so basic and demands a low bar. Then after an argument with a friend who thought the theme was ridiculous, I found myself defending it and eventually fully embracing the notion that one of our biggest challenges is that so many people in this country devalue the life of black youth. But it is much more than police killings.

I watched the march and rally organized by Reverend Al Sharpton in the nation’s capital recently. Toward the end of the event, he brought up numerous families of the countless black men murdered by police in cities throughout America. It was a stage full of pain. The mothers of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Amadou Diallo and many more. It inspired great emotion and passion.

Somehow, the everyday injustice in America does not evoke the same response. Gross racial disparities in arrests, prosecutions, incarceration, violations of probation and parole, and sentencing destroy millions of black lives. Though the magnitude is much greater, it does not inspire the level of anger that a video of a white officer murdering a black man does.

America incarcerates a greater percentage of black people than were jailed in Apartheid South Africa. There are more black people in America’s prisons than were enslaved in 1850. And though many articles are written, great books are published, and talk shows discuss the subject, we have not seen the type of organizing, outrage, and protest that we have for police shootings.

Black Lives Matter is the appropriate cry for this injustice. America would never stand for a million white people incarcerated for drugs and other non-violent offenses. But when black youth from poor neighborhoods are arrested, detained, given draconian sentences and locked away, we ignore it.

Even though research shows that white and black people use drugs at approximately equal rates, black people are 10 times more likely to be sent to prison for drug offenses. Black Americans represent 56 percent of Focus some of that outrage those incarcerated for drug crimes, and organizing on local even though they comprise only 13 policymakers. percent of the U.S. population.

A ground breaking report, “The Essence of Innocence: Consequences of Dehumanizing Black Children,” published earlier this year

by UCLA researcher Phillip Atiba Goff, showed the overwhelming prejudice and unconscious dehumanization of black people held by whites. Researchers conducted several experiments with mostly white police officers and white undergraduate students. The alarming results were that the white police officers and even the students viewed black children as much older, less innocent, and more animalistic.

“The evidence shows that perceptions of the essential nature of children can be affected by race, and for black children, this can mean they lose the protection afforded by assumed childhood innocence well before they become adults,” one of the researchers involved with the study said.

This dehumanization of black youth leads to the extreme disproportionality we see in the criminal justice system.

Even locally the disparities are stark. In Alameda County, blacks constitute just 12 percent of the population, but black youth make up half of all youth in the juvenile justice system here. In a report conducted last year by the Black Organizing Project, ACLU, and Public Counsel, it was revealed that black youth are on average 73.5 percent of all juvenile arrests in Oakland each year, even though they only make up 29.3 percent of the city’s population.

So I urge the protestors in cities around the country who have brought national attention to the great need for increased police accountability to maintain their vigilance. But I also humbly suggest that they focus their attention on why black lives must matter in the criminal justice system.

Focus some of that outrage and organizing on local policymakers. In addition to calling for greater police accountability, hold local district attorneys accountable for unnecessarily charging youth as adults, hold probation and parole departments accountable for arbitrary revocations and other decisions that lead to incarceration, hold state legislators accountable for draconian sentencing laws, and hold courts accountable to offer more diversion programs. But especially, use that power of protest marches and civil disobedience to apply pressure to local elected officials to take the many millions of dollars spent on incarceration and reinvest those resources directly into impoverished communities of color. Show that black lives really do matter!

David Muhammad is the National Director of Justice Programs at the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. He is the former Chief Probation Officer of Alameda County and the former Deputy Commissioner of Probation in New York City.

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Do you think the United States will ever overcome racism?

Not really. There’s a lot of politics around it. Elected officials are Caucasians who don’t live our reality.

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To be honest, I don’t think so.

We’ve come so far and we still haven’t got things right, even with a black president.

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Christine Araujo

Mayor Martin Walsh announced that Christine Araujo is the new chairperson of the Zoning Board of Appeals, which regulates appeals to the use and dimensional boundaries of privately owned buildings and land throughout the city of Boston.

Araujo will be the first woman to serve in this role.

“Christine is a forward-thinking leader who will help guide our city’s development to the next level,” said Walsh. “With her experience and education, she is an ideal fit for this role. She shares my strong commitment to both improving the quality of life of Boston residents, and promoting economic development for our neighborhoods. I’m grateful for her service and welcome her to this new role.”

A long-standing resident of Roslindale, Araujo has over 14 years in the design and planning field. She was the deputy director of Neighborhood Planning and Zoning at the Boston Redevelopment Authority. In 2001, she was appointed the executive

director of Boston Connects, Inc., where she was responsible for implementing the economic and human development goals of Boston’s federal Empowerment Zone.

In 1998, Araujo was appointed to the BOA and later served as the board secretary. She has an undergraduate degree from Vassar College and a Master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from Pratt Institute.

BOA members are appointed by

the mayor to serve three-year terms, and are charged with reviewing and making decisions for building or zoning code relief at public hearings. Current members of the BOA include: Bruce Bickerstaff, Peter Chin, Mark Erlich, Mark Fortune, and Anthony Pisani. Upon her appointment, Fortune will assume Araujo’s role as board secretary. Araujo will replace the former Chairman, Robert Shortsleeve, who resigned in November.

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Boston receives $1.35 million to create housing innovation lab Mayor Martin Walsh announced last week that Boston is one of 12 U.S. cities selected to participate in the $45 million expansion of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Innovation Teams program. The $1.35 million grant, to be awarded over three years, will initially be used to support the creation of Boston’s first Housing Innovation Lab. The Lab will research and implement new ways for the city to partner with the innovation sector to help create the 53,000 units of housing called for in the Walsh administration’s “Boston 2030” housing plan.

“We must do everything possible to ensure that everyone who wants to help make Boston a better place can afford to live here,” Walsh said. “I want to thank Bloomberg Philanthropies for this grant, which will help us pursue bold strategies to keep families and individuals here in our city. Potential partners surround us, from local architects to world-leading colleges and universities. The Housing Innovation Lab will help us strengthen these partnerships and create new ones to help us solve Boston’s housing challenges.”

Innovation teams function as in-house innovation consultants, helping agency leaders and staff through a data-driven process to assess problems, generate responsive new interventions, develop partnerships, and deliver measurable results. Boston’s i-team will operate out of the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics and the Department of Neighborhood Development, and will initially focus on establishing a consortium of government, academic, and private-sector partners with a mission of rapidly turning the region’s best ideas into new homes for Bostonians.

In keeping with the successful approach of past i-teams, the team will tackle at least one other mayoral priority during the course of the three year grant.

Boston was one of 14 cities selected worldwide to receive this support from Bloomberg Philanthropies. Innovation team grants will also go to the U.S. cities of: Albuquerque; Centennial, Colorado; Jersey City; Long Beach, California; Los Angeles; Mobile, Alabama; Minneapolis; Peoria, Illinois; Rochester, New York; Seattle; and Syracuse, New York.

Bloomberg Philanthropies also announced that two non-U.S. cities will receive innovation team grants: Jerusalem and Tel AvivYafo, Israel. In addition to the grants, cities receive robust implementation support and opportunities to exchange lessons learned and best practices with peers in other cities. Newly formed i-teams will be deployed in each city no later than spring 2015.

Patrick administration gets funds for advanced manufacturing talent pipeline Massachusetts Housing and Economic Development Secretary Greg Bialecki joined Labor and Workforce Development Secretary Rachel Kaprielian and State Senate Majority Leader Stan Rosenberg to announce nearly $2 million in funding to support manufacturing workforce training across the Commonwealth. The announcement was made at the Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative Pioneer Valley Summit, held at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

“I am proud of the work the AMC has accomplished over the years, creating opportunities for workers with a range of skill levels that will strengthen our economy for years to come,” said Bialecki. “Collaborative efforts like this are a critical reason why Massachusetts is leading the nation in growing a 21st century advanced manufacturing sector.”

Nearly $1.5 million of the total funding was awarded through the Advanced Manufacturing Pipeline Training Grants Program to

support five regional workforce investment boards throughout Massachusetts. This funding will help recruit and train approximately 280 unemployed or underemployed participants for careers in advanced manufacturing. The grants program is a cross-secretariat initiative between the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development and the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development.

In September, the Patrick Administration announced the launch of the Industry Training Capital Equipment grant program to expand support of training programs at career technical high schools and community colleges. The capital equipment program will fund large scale grants for the purchase of equipment to prepare students for careers in high demand industries such as advanced manufacturing, information technology, hospitality and mechanical and technical skills. The grant equipment program is designed to help improve the skills of students enrolling in these programs, increase the number of students who can access training and allow employers to have access to a greater pool of qualified talent.

Funding for the program is provided by the Commonwealth’s Capital Plan. The Patrick Administration’s five-year plan includes $10 million in funding for a grant program to benefit Massachusetts’s career technical schools and community colleges.

Massachusetts is home to over 7,000 manufacturers with 250,000

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In 2011, Governor Patrick launched the Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative (AMC), a partnership between industry and government to help build a globally competitive manufacturing industry in Massachusetts. Its five-point agenda brings together manufacturers, educators, academia, and other organizations to work on industry-identified priorities including promoting manufacturing; workforce and education; manufacturing innovation; the cost of doing business including energy management and sustainability; and access to capital resources.

The AMC’s AMP it Up! Program, launched in September 2012 and operated by MassDevelopment, works to build awareness among young adults and their families on the opportunities for well-paying careers in manufacturing. Massachusetts-based nonprofit organizations that address education and workforce can apply for funding at www.ampitup.com.

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When charter schools are nonprofit in name only Marian Wang A couple of years ago, auditors looked at the books of a charter school in Buffalo, New York, and were taken aback by what they found. Like all charter schools, Buffalo United Charter School is funded with taxpayer dollars. The school is also a nonprofit. But as the New York State auditors wrote, Buffalo United was sending “virtually all of the School’s revenues” directly to a for-profit company hired to handle its dayto-day operations.

Charter schools often hire companies to handle their accounting and management functions. Sometimes the companies even take the lead in hiring teachers, finding a school building, and handling school finances.

In the case of Buffalo United, the auditors found that the school board had little idea about exactly how the company — a large management firm called National Heritage Academies — was

spending the school’s money.

The school’s board still had to approve overall budgets, but it appeared to accept the company’s numbers with few questions. The signoff was “essentially meaningless,” the auditors wrote.

In the charter-school sector, this arrangement is known as a “sweeps” contract because nearly all of a school’s public dollars — anywhere from 95 to 100 percent — is “swept” into a charter-management company.

The contracts are an example of how the charter schools sometimes cede control of public dollars to private companies that have no legal obligation to act in the best interests of the schools or taxpayers. When the agreement is with a for-profit firm like National Heritage Academies, it’s also a chance for such firms to turn taxpayer money into tidy profits.

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Neither National Heritage Academies nor the Buffalo United board responded to requests for comment. (Update: NHA spokeswoman Jennifer Hoff said in an emailed statement, “Our approach relieves our partner boards of all financial, operational, and academic risks — a significant burden that ultimately defeats many charter schools. Freed from burdens like fundraising, our partner boards can focus on governance and oversight … NHA and its partner schools comply fully with state and federal laws, authorizer oversight requirements, and education department regulations — including everything related to transparency.”)

While relationships between charter schools and management companies have started to come under scrutiny, sweeps contracts have received little attention. Schools have agreed to such setups with both nonprofit and for-profit management companies, but it’s not clear how often.

Nobody appears to be keeping track.

What is clear is that it can be hard for regulators and even schools themselves to follow the money when nearly all of it goes into the accounts of a private company.

“We’re not confident that sweeps contracts allow [charters schools and regulators] to fully fulfill their public functions,” said Alex Medler, who leads policy and advocacy work at the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, a trade group for charter regulators. The organization discourages the arrangements. “We think this is an issue that needs attention.”

Officials have gotten glimpses of questionable spending by some firms using “sweeps” contracts.

Take the case of Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School, another National Heritage Academies school. In 2012, state auditors tried to track the $10 million in public funding given to the school, only to conclude they were “unable to determine ... the extent to which the $10 million of

annual public funding provided to the school was actually used to benefit its students.” From what auditors could tell, the school was paying above-market rent for its building, which in turn is owned by a subsidiary of National Heritage Academies. They also had concerns about equipment charges.

The auditors couldn’t ultimately tell whether the charges were reasonable because National Heritage Academies refused to share the relevant financial details. The firm also refused to provide detailed documentation for $1.6 million in costs recorded as corporate services, claiming the information was proprietary,

contracts.

“Unfortunately,” Ulbrich said, “it fell on deaf ears.”

The Internal Revenue Service has questioned some cases of sweeps contracts, but has not taken a consistent stand on whether the contracts are appropriate.

It’s not just charter regulators and auditors that have reason to be wary of such setups. Some charter-school boards that signed sweeps contracts have found themselves shut out of the operations of their own schools.

In Ohio, ten charter-school boards sued their management firm, White Hat Management, in 2010 after they couldn’t get

It can be hard for regulators and even schools themselves to follow the money when nearly all of it goes into the accounts of a private company.

according to the audit. The board president of Brooklyn Excelsior did not respond to our request for comment.

While the auditors in New York were disturbed by what they found, they could do little more than issue reports with advisory recommendations.

“We can’t audit the management company,” said Brian Butry, a spokesman for New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

In Michigan, where NHA is the largest charter-school operator, state education regulators have voiced similar frustrations about the degree to which these private firms are shielded from having to answer to the public about how money is spent.

“I can’t FOIA National Heritage Academies,” said Casandra Ulbrich, Vice President of the Michigan State Board of Education, referring to the right to request public documents from public agencies. “I don’t know who they’re subcontracting with, I don’t know if they’re bid out. I don’t know if there are any conflicts of interest. This is information we as taxpayers don’t have a right to.”

Last year, Ulbrich and the State Board of Education had called for more transparency to be brought to the financial dealings of charter-management firms. They specifically asked the legislature to outlaw sweeps

answers to basic questions about why their schools’ performance lagged and how the school’s money was spent.

Even so, it was a challenge for the schools to take back control. After handing over the bulk of their money to White Hat for years, the schools had little money of their own, said Karen Hockstad, an attorney who’s been representing the school boards in continuing litigation.

“Their hands are tied. They don’t have the money to build brand new infrastructure and get new desks and books and anything else,” said Hockstad. White Hat Management did not return a request for comment.

Some charter-school regulators — recognizing their limited authority over charter-management companies — are beginning to push back, requiring schools to get more information from management firms. Still, that hasn’t stopped some management companies from putting up a fight.

Regulators in the District of Columbia are seeking more legal authority over management firms after two recent scandals.

The DC Public Charter School Board has asked the city council to pass legislation that would allow access to the books of management companies under certain conditions. So far, that effort has gone nowhere.

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BusinessNews BU prof champions hospitality admin career potential Martin Desmarais The Boston University School of Hospitality Administration is becoming a force in fueling the hospitality industry with smart, young professionals from diverse backgrounds — the school boasts over 50 percent female students and about 20 percent international students.

It also has a major asset in Assistant Professor Erinn Tucker, who is teaching her students that hospitality experience opens doors well beyond just working at a hotel or restaurant, and that they can play a major part in the U.S.’s increasingly service-oriented economy.

“So many industries rely on professional services. Hospitality is even more relevant,” Tucker said. “Now, companies are coming to us because they need people who understand hospitality and customer service.”

As an example, Tucker cites law firms which are now looking for professionals that can handle client-engagement to keep customers satisfied and coming back.

They don’t need law school graduates for this kind of work — they need someone who knows customer-service inside and out. They need hospitality professionals like the students that graduate from BU and Tucker’s classes.

Tucker, who joined BU in 2011, says she can sit down with professionals in any industry, from finance to technology to medicine, and make a hospitality connection, and so can her students, which makes them very valuable.

Another evolution in hospitality education is the ambition of the students.

While the hospitality industry has been fueled by the labor of immigrant workers and their families on the front lines, many secondand third-generation children from hospitality families are now viewing college as a way to advance higher up the ladder in a business they grew up in.

A degree in hospitality is not just about getting a job at the front desk of a hotel. It is about learning the business behind the business,

Professor Erinn Tucker wants to impress upon her hospitality administration students that they can play a major role in the U.S. economy. (Photo courtesy of Boston University School of Hospitality Administration) including marketing, operations and ownership.

“Many of our students go into the corporate side,” Tucker said. “Those are the people you don’t see.”

What the best students are able to do is put their experience in the hospitality industry — jobs they had when they were younger working at hotels or restaurants and the 400 hours of industry experience required by BU to graduate — to good use in innovation that is changing the way the industry operates.

Tucker praises this changing attitude showcased by millennials.

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in hospitality as a career and not just a job,” she said.

And if you think Tucker’s illustration of the changing nature of the hospitality industry and hospitality education is superlative, she has only to point to herself as an example.

She is a hospitality professor with a background in event marketing and sales, corporate sponsorships and special events.

Tucker began her long road to academia at a sports agency in her native Chicago after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Florida A&M University in 1997.

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then-named Jillian’s Entertainment.

During her time with Jillian’s, she also picked up another degree, this time her MBA in business administration from Winthrop University.

But all the while her true calling was looming. She just didn’t know it.

A fortuitous collision with the

director of admissions from Johnson & Wales University in Charlotte in 2004 put her on a path to teaching. The Rhode Island-based school was opening a new campus at the time and booked an event — handled through Jillian’s by Tucker.

When the director heard about her sports management experience he asked her to come to speak to Johnson & Wales’ students about it.

The lightbulb went off for Tucker.

“When I went in and spoke, I

knew this is what I want to do,” Tucker said. “It was literally a calling.”

Soon Tucker was an adjunct faculty member at Johnson & Wales.

By 2005, she left Jillian’s to pursue teaching full time. Not long after that, she entered a doctoral program at Oklahoma State University — a Ph.D. is necessary for advancement in college academics — and after several years of parttime study back-and-forth from Charlotte, left Johnson & Wales to

finish her degree fulltime in Oklahoma in 2008.

When she graduated with her doctoral degree in 2011, with her Johnson & Wales experience and several summers teaching hospitality at the Singapore campus of UNLV, she was quickly snatched up by BU. It was another big move to another part of the country, but she has no regrets. She loves teaching and working with students every day, bringing all her varied

experiences to bear.

“What makes me happy is when I see them start thinking broader than what they have previously experienced,” she said.

Above all else, she wants her students to go out after graduation and find something they love to do — just as she has.

“I think it is really important that when they are pursuing their dreams they should be more concerned about finding a good fit than anything else,” she added.

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BETHANY VAN DELFT FINDS SUCCESS ON HER OWN TERMS Colette Greenstein

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founding member and producer of New England’s first and only women of color comedy showcase, Colorstruck: Women of Color in Comedy, Bethany Van Delft is redefining success on her own terms.

Performing stand-up for the past ten years, Van Delft recently came back to stand-up after taking some time off to have and raise her daughter.

“It’s a whole different perspective now that I’m looking for balance and comfort,” said Van Delft in a recent phone interview with the Banner.

When Van Delft first began her career as a stand-up comic, she was single-minded and focused on her goal of landing on television, getting latenight spots on talk shows or getting a writing gig. She had the flexibility to do so and would be able to jump on a bus to New York City to do a five-minute spot, if she needed to.

Her goals have somewhat shifted after having her daughter. Van Delft now defines success as a family life, raising her daughter, having a career in stand-up, and a creative life.

“Success looks like whatever allows me that,” she said, adding, “Now, maybe I can write books, or have a column in a magazine. I can really think about what I want and come up with other options.”

Along the way, there have been individuals and performers who have inspired her, who have always spoken their mind, like fellow comedians Lily Tomlin, Maria Bamford and Sandra Bernhard.

“I’ve never modeled myself after her [Bernhard],” Van Delft said. “She’s always done whatever she’s wanted. She does stand-up. She does variety shows.

She does cabaret. I’ve loved, loved, and loved that about her. Even before I was in comedy, she was someone that I would check out whenever she was around.

But for some reason, I never connected that ‘oh, I could do that.’ Now, I admire them so much more. They’ve had relationships and children and they’ve kept their creative outlets and defined their own success.”

Van Delft, who has been featured in several festivals over the years including the Boston Comedy Festival and the New York Underground Comedy Festival, and was a finalist in 2010 for the inaugural Comedy Leagues at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, is back performing at comedy clubs and at corporate/private events. This weekend she opens for comedian Jake Johannsen at Laugh Boston in the Seaport District.

She’s also preparing to kick off her monthly comedy series, Artisanal Comedy, beginning on Wednesday, Jan. 21 at the Savin Bar and Kitchen in Dorchester.

“I missed being part of a comedy community and getting to see new people coming up, producing the show, and seeing diverse people,” said Van Delft, who now lives in Dorchester. The series, she said, is an effort to be part of the community.

“To change my vision of success really broadens opportunities for me,” she said.

Bethany Van Delft opens for headliner Jake Johannsen at Laugh Boston this Thursday, Dec. 18 at 8 p.m. and Friday, Dec. 19 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 20 at 8 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. Tickets: $20 and $30 on Dec. 18; $25 and $35 on Dec. 19 and 20. To purchase tickets and for more information, visit www. laughboston.com.

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Rich offerings at expanded Harvard Art Museums Susan Saccoccia A glass pyramid has risen just east of Harvard Square in Cambridge. The gleaming structure surrounds and expands the venerable brick building on Quincy Street formerly known as the Fogg Art Museum, and now the new home of the Harvard Art Museums.

Bringing Harvard University’s Fogg, Busch-Reisinger and Arthur M. Sackler Museums under one roof, the complex opened Nov. 16 after eight years of construction and renovation. Designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop and described by Piano as “a big glazed lantern open to the city and to the light,” the museum creates a luminous space for close-up encounters with art.

Entering the museum from its traditional Quincy Street doorway, a visitor finds a familiar scene, the Calderwood Courtyard, an open space with tables and chairs that was inspired by a piazza in an Italian town. Yet its stone columns appear cleaner and brighter than before. Overhead is its new source of light, a dazzling five-level arcade of glass capped by a crystalline rooftop. The core element of a renovation that complies with LEED Gold industry standards

for sustainable energy usage, the atrium unites and exposes all five above-ground levels of the museum in its inviting stream of natural light.

Equipped with a shop and a café and open to visitors without charge, the courtyard now links the museum to its neighborhood with two entrances. At the new doorway on Prescott Street, artworks are displayed to engage passersby.

Currently on view at the entrance are a 12-monitor photo ensemble

by Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei and an installation by German artist Rebecca Horn that drips paint on three seminal books — Franz Kafka’s Amerika, Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet and James Joyce’s Ulysses.

The new facility provides 204,000 square feet of exhibition space for the three museums. With 250,000 objects that span antiquity to the present day from around the world, the holdings of Harvard Art Museums form one of the largest art museum collections in the U.S. While adding 43,000 square feet of gallery space for these collections, the Harvard Art Museums is far more than a physical renovation. Its new resources for studying, teaching, conserving, presenting and viewing art are coupled with ambitious curatorial and

scholarly programming designed to encourage the public as well as students, guest artists, scholars and faculty to experience art in novel ways.

Each of the three museums maintains its distinct identity and collections in the new facility. But programming and exhibitions capitalize on the rich diversity of the holdings.

While Piano and his colleagues were reworking the physical spaces, Chief Curator Deborah Martin Kao and her team of curators were exploring new opportunities to transform and integrate the study, viewing and teaching of art and cultivate connections among works of art from varied geographies, eras and cultures.

The goal, says Kao, is to spread a “contagion of curiosity.”

The first three levels are dedicated to exhibiting art. The fourth and fifth floors house specialized activities of conservation and close-up study of individual works.

In the Art Study Center, visitors can join scholars and students in examining selected objects from the collections. Below ground are storage facilities as well as a 300seat auditorium and a 100-seat lecture hall.

Capping the atrium is the museum’s Lightbox Gallery, which

Kerry James Marshall, American (b. 1955), Untitled, 2008. Acrylic on PVC panel.

(Photo: Harvard Art Museums, © President and Fellows of Harvard College.) will feature digital projections of art works. Looking down from the fifth level, the daily workings of the museum are on view in the diffused light, along with elements of its architecture, such as cabling. Behind walls of glass, conservators repair paintings in the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies on the fourth level. Displayed in jars on shelves, Harvard’s Forbes

Collection of rare historic paint binders and pigments resembles the wares of an old-world apothecary shop.

On the three floors dedicated to displaying art, curatorial choices and wall texts encourage serendipitous discoveries. Placement of works occasionally capitalize on sightlines that enable viewers art museums continued to page 15

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Actress Liz Mikel discusses role in Eve Ensler’s O.P.C. Colette Greenstein

that play various characters and propel the story forward. The fact that she gets to be a blue collar worker, she gets to be the fashion model, she gets to be a talk show host, and the journey of Sister Ro is something that is very appealing to me that I get to be.”

Mikel got her start as a performer in her hometown of Dallas, Texas, where she still resides when not on the road.

“I was able to be an artist in that city and I cut my teeth there, everything from theater to film to TV, all that happened for me at home,” she said.

The 6’1” actress has also worked with the Dallas Black Dance Theatre and is also a resident acting company member at the Dallas Theater Center.

“I wanted to be close to my home and to that base and my foundation. It just worked out,” said Mikel of living in the city she grew up in and being able to pursue an acting career on a national stage.

The role of Sister Ro came about when she met Ensler at a benefit in Austin for an event called Military V day. The event highlighted sexual abuse against women in the military. Mikel who was on

“I love playing character roles.

I’m a character actress,” said actress Liz Mikel, who played the character Corrina Williams in the critically-acclaimed television series Friday Night Lights. She starred as the mother of running back Brian “Smash” Williams (Gaius Charles) of the fictional Dillon High School Panthers football team.

Mikel, who is currently performing in the play O.P.C. at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, spoke to the Banner recently about her latest character, Sister Ro. O.P.C. or Obsessive Political Correctness is a thought-provoking and contemporary comedy from Tony Award-winning playwright Eve Ensler, where America’s obsession with consumer consumption and the world of politics collide.

Mikel, who has been a part of O.P.C. since 2009, is excited to be able to finally perform in the full production. Prior to her performances she had read for Ensler on both the East and the West coasts.

“It has just been a thrill for me because Sister Ro plays a series of characters,” she said. “Sister Ro is one of three ensemble members

Liz Mikel plays Sister Ro in Eve Ensler’s O.P.C., which runs through Jan. 4 at the Loeb Drama Center in Cambridge. (Zach Stefaniak photo) Friday Night Lights at that time, was asked if she would come down and be a part of the performance.

Mikel didn’t know that Ensler was present at the performance and recounted how at the end of the night Ensler came over and grabbed her and said, “Listen, I’m doing a 10th Anniversary blowout of this show in New Orleans to raise awareness over the travesty that is happening with Katrina. And people moving back to the Gulf South and in New Orleans. Would you be a part of it?,” Mikel recalls.

She readily agreed. When she arrived in New Orleans for the show there was a Who’s Who of actresses

there to perform, including Rosario Dawson, Kerry Washington, Jane Fonda, Christine Lahti and Doris Roberts. One of the biggest stars of the night scheduled to be there — Oprah Winfrey — canceled the day of the event, and Mikel was given the opportunity to fill in and do the piece that Ensler had written especially for Winfrey, along with a monologue called The Angry Vagina, which Ensler had written for Mikel. A connection was forged between the two and “from then on it’s just been a fabulous journey working with her,” said Mikel of Ensler.

In addition to working in theater,

Mikel has appeared in the 2014 film Get on Up based on the life of James Brown which starred Chadwick Boseman as Brown. Mikel portrayed Brown’s real-life “wardrobe lady,” Gertrude Sanders, in the film and did the role justice, according to James Brown’s grandson and nephews who worked on the film.

They complimented Mikel about her portrayal, saying, “You don’t understand how close you are to Ms. Gertrude,” said the actress.

Mikel has also appeared in the TNT series Dallas and has had supporting roles in the films The Secret Life of Walter Mitty starring Ben Stiller and in Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins, opposite Martin Lawrence.

Mikel’s role as Corrina Williams on Friday Night Lights has been such a blessing, the actress said. The character was based on her own experiences and strength as a mother.

“I’m still shocked at how it’s touched people,” she said. “People just walking down the street or on a train or people come up to me and say ‘you were one of the best mothers I’ve ever seen on TV.’ That has really changed me.”

As far as her career, she said, “It has been wonderful that doors have opened because of that and I ended up of course in Roscoe Jenkins and I don’t know if that was a direct result of being in Friday Night Lights, but I don’t think it hurt [she laughs heartily].”

O.P.C. is playing through Jan. 4, 2015 at the Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge. For tickets and show times, call 617.547.8300 or visit www.americanrepertorytheater.org.

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standing in one gallery to glimpse works in a distant room and follow their own path through eras and cultures.

Two highly stylized renderings of artists at work are visible from opposite ends of the first floor. In a gallery of contemporary works, a giant self-portrait by Kerry James Marshall also functions as a manifesto. His towering Afro crowns his face, a ritualized mask, and he rests his brush, like a regal scepter, in a dollop of black pigment.

In view across the hall, in a gallery of German Expressionist works, is a masked figure in a three-panel painting by Max Beckmann, The Actors (1941-42). Seething with pre-war angst, the triptych portrays a traveling troupe of actors in masquerade.

Also on the first level is a gallery of works by mid-century Modernists. This strong sampling includes mordant monochrome portraits

by Diane Arbus, who trained her camera on people marginalized by their extraordinary features.

Packed for a journey through a dark winter of the spirit is a sculpture by Joseph Beuys, assembled from a worn sled and military gear. A Luftwaffe pilot in World War II, Beuys reinvented himself after being shot down and became an influential artist whose teaching, performances and sculptures probed the soul of post-war Germany. Mounted on a gallery wall are three burly black trains by charismatic Korean-American artist Nam June Paik, who often inserted videos into sculpted metallic works such as vintage cars, making them come alive.

In the adjoining gallery, visitors encounter more recent works, including an elegant spire by Minimalist Ellsworth Kelly and works on paper by Latin American artists.

Display drawers filled with small three-dimensional works await viewers’ inspection.

A gallery devoted to abstract expressionists includes paintings by such iconic artists as Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, Joan Miro and Alexander Calder as well as the less familiar Ernst Wihelm Nay, whose Seraphim (1964) is a beguiling swirl of primary colors.

Striking juxtapositions of works that span eras and cultures continue on the second floor in the Egypt Art Gallery. Alongside sculptures from antiquity are works by conceptual artist

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Community Calendar Saturday December 20 Stories Alive!

Join Citi Performing Arts Center’s Education Team for an interactive reading of a holiday classic, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

Led by Citi Center’s Teaching Artist Jeremy Gooden, Rudolph is sure to fill all participants with holiday cheer! Our engaging storytelling experience will include props, singing, and audience participation! Each 60 minute session consists of a reading of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and an original holiday song workshop.

The more, the merrier! Interactive Readings is a family-friendly program and appropriate for ALL ages, especially those 3-10 years old. Interactive Readings is FREE of charge and sponsored

by Citi Performing Arts Center’s Education Department. Quincy’s Place at Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Boston at 11am. For more information about Interactive Readings and our complete schedule, please email education@citi center.org or visit www.citicenter. org/interactivereadings/.

From Sin City to Atro/city In-Gallery Talk, Saturday at 2pm: Marlon Forrester — From Sin City to Atro/city. Forrester considers the juncture of African American males, guns, and art in a walking contemplation through two galleries of Luminos/City. Part of a series of “In-Gallery Talks,” located in the intimate spaces of the Cooper Gallery. Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, Hutchins Center, 102 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge.

RSVP required: coopergalleryhc@ gmail.com. This event will be livetweeted. Follow event on twitter #extraordinarycity.

Sunday December 21 Mansfield First Annual Community Kwanzaa National Black Doll Museum of History & Culture invites all residents to attend their First Annual Community Kwanzaa celebration featuring food, performances and a ceremony @ 288 N. Main St. in Mansfield. Kwanzaa is a communal, cultural celebration that honors African-American people and their heritage. This celebration will feature a Children’s Village from 11am - 3pm. The Kwanzaa Ceremony with performance of African drumming, song, libation and feast and will begin at 3pm.

Kwanzaa is a celebration for all people, focusing on family, friends

and the fruits of the earth. During Kwanzaa, people are invited to ponder the Nguzo Saba, seven powerful principles derived from African heritage, as a means of taking stock, celebrating achievements and entering the future refreshed and renewed. Admission is Free!! RSVP suggested.

Program is being sponsored in part by local cultural councils. For more information, please contact: Debbie Britt 774-284-4729, debbiebritt@nbdmhc.org. National Black Doll Museum of History & Culture, 288 N. Main St., Mansfield.

Upcoming Through Barbed Wire presents 4th Friday Series Monthly reading of prisoners’ writings, currently focusing on poetry and prose that speak to the youth on the need to make positive choices with their lives.

Audience participation encouraged. Wheelchair accessible.

Light refreshment table. Created and directed by Arnie King.

Friday, December 26, First Parish Church of Dorchester, 10 Parish St. on Meetinghouse Hill.

For more info: throughbarbed wire@yahoo.com or visit www. arnoldking.org; tel. 857-4924858. Free; donations graciously accepted.

First Night Jubilee Concert On New Year’s Day in 1863, Frederick Douglass said that he “finally knew joy!” On December 31, Join the Museum of African American History and the Handel and Haydn Society at the historic African Meeting House, the nexus of the abolitionist movement, to commemorate President Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation 152 years ago on that day as well as the forthcoming 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War in 1865. The co-hosts collaborate for their third First Night Jubilee Day Concert with music by H+H and stories by MAAH, while also celebrating the bicentennial of H+H, America’s oldest continuously performing arts organization. Discover the role of Boston’s black and white abolitionists that led to Lincoln’s historic proclamation, and the part H+H played during Jubilee Celebrations on January 1, 1863. Let this music in celebration of freedom inspire you, including the Battle Hymn of the Republic, written by H+H member Julia Ward Howe.

Feel the anticipation that was palpable awaiting the Emancipation Proclamation at a time when the nation was in the midst of the Civil War. Visit maah.org or handelandhaydn.org for more information , or

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New exhibit at the West End Museum From January 6 - February 28, The West End Museum will host a new exhibit, The New West Enders & Other Green Monsters, in its Main Exhibit Hall. Images by photographer Lolita Parker, Jr. document the rapid-fire changes in Boston’s West End over the past 16 years. Set against a backdrop of Garden events, sports bars and endless construction, Parker’s wide-angle perspective ranges from the personal to the political. The show reception takes place on Thursday, January 15 at 5:30pm, when attendees can tour the exhibit and enjoy light refreshments. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public; pre-registration is required for the reception at thewestendmu seum.org/whats_on/event-regis tration. Parker’s photos powerfully and beautifully capture the projects, events and people that have reshaped and reenergized the West End since 1998 — from the 2004 Democratic National Convention to the lone flower merchant who has been a North Station icon for over 20 years; from the completion of the Central Artery to the demolition of the elevated MBTA tracks. The Museum is located near North Station at 150 Staniford St., Suite 7. Hours: Tuesday - Friday 12-5pm; Saturday 11am - 4pm. Admission is free.

Blue Hills Reservation Moderate walk, hilly terrain, 2.5 miles. Hike the Tucker Hill green dot loop. Meet at the Houghton’s Pond main parking lot at 840 Hillside Street in Milton. Saturday, January 10, 1pm. The Southeastern Massachusetts Adult Walking Club meets each weekend on either a Saturday or Sunday at 1:00 for recreational walks. This club is open to people of 16 years of age and older, and there is no fee to join. Walks average 2 to 5 miles. New walkers are encouraged to participate. The terrain can vary: EASY (mostly level terrain), MODERATE (hilly terrain), DIFFICULT (strenuous & steep). Walks will be led by a park ranger or a Walking Club volunteer leader. Occasionally, the Walking Club meets at other DCR sites.

Some DCR sites charge a parking fee. The rangers recommend wearing hiking boots and bringing drinking water on all hikes.

Myles Standish State Forest Easy walk, 2 miles. Hike through Frost Pockets and Pine Barrens! Meet at Upper College Pond Road Parking Lot (Lot #2) at Myles Standish State Forest.

HQ address is 194 Cranberry Road, South Carver. Directions posted at HQ — give yourself 15 extra minutes to get to Lot #2.

Saturday, January 24, 1 pm.

The Southeastern Massachusetts Adult Walking Club meets each weekend on either a Saturday or Sunday at 1:00 for recreational walks. This club is open to people of 16 years of age and older, and there is no fee to join. Walks average 2 to 5 miles. New walkers are encouraged to participate. The ter-

rain can vary: EASY (mostly level terrain), MODERATE (hilly terrain), DIFFICULT (strenuous & steep).

Walks will be led by a park ranger or a Walking Club volunteer leader.

Occasionally, the Walking Club meets at other DCR sites. Some DCR sites charge a parking fee.

The rangers recommend wearing hiking boots and bringing drinking water on all hikes.

Ongoing Nancy Dewey A Peruvian Quest The Multicultural Arts Center will be hosting Nancy Dewey’s “A Peruvian Quest” from through February 6. The exhibition will include Dewey’s photographs depicting the transformation of life from 1979 to 2013 in the rural Peruvian town of Tinta. Bailarinas en las Ruinas Pisaq — Dancers at Pisaq RuinsFor 10 months, 35 years ago, Dewey lived in the town of Tinta (meaning dye or color) to gain an understanding of a rural lifestyle and learn from the locals of the village. She spent her time weaving, spinning, cooking, dancing, and most importantly, celebrating the highly ritualized Altiplano life. Dewey also spent her time documenting, keeping a record of the way people lived at that time. Years later, Dewey returned to the same town, reconnected with familiar faces, and once again documented life in Tinta. She found many differences from 1979 to 2013 — shepherds using cell phones, men child rearing, cars driving on now paved roads — but the ideals of the people still shined through. These photographs transport the viewer straight to Peru for a view on the way years can change a place.

The images of Tinta show Dewey’s deep understanding and love of the people and they’re traditions.

Join us in experiencing Dewey’s Peruvian Quest. At Multicultural Arts Center, Lower Gallery, 41 2nd St., Cambridge. www.multicultu ralartscenter.org/galleries.

Cynthia Brody The Subject of Women Through February 6, The Multicultural Arts Center will be hosting the colorful, surreal works of artist Cynthia Brody. Through mixed media, Brody creates a multi-faceted world full of various textures, colors, and cultures to entice the viewer into looking past the surface and delve deeper into the intricacies of both the art and subject matter. Brody has been exhibiting work for 35 years and has recently joined the Boston art scene. Her interest in the inner workings of women is also reflected in her work as a family therapist. The magnificence of Brody’s artwork lies in the diversity of each piece’s components.

By using mediums such as photographs, acrylic, copper, and gold leaf Brody is able to layer each element to tell a story of women whether it be a story of struggle or of beauty. The women in her art often resemble icons across different cultures. The women featured appear pensive and strong amidst their surroundings, speaking to the complexity and beauty of the female experience. At Multicultural

Arts Center, Lower Gallery, 41 2nd St., Cambridge. www.multicultur alartscenter.org/galleries.

Star Gazing at the Observatory The Public Open Night at the Observatory is a chance for people to observe the night sky through telescopes and binoculars and see things they otherwise might not get to see, and learn some astronomy as well. Wednesday nights from 8:30-9:30pm, weather permitting, Coit Observatory at Boston University, located at 725 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, right above the Astronomy Department. The stairwell to the Observatory is on the fifth floor right next to room 520. More Info: Call (617) 353-2630 for any questions.

1-3 Year Old Playgroups With free play, circle time, and parent discussion, Playgroups are a wonderful place for you and your toddler to connect with each other and with other families. Your child will develop social and emotional skills, early literacy, gross and fine motor skills, and experience art and sensory materials.

This group is for parents and their children ages 1-3 years. Thursdays 9:30-11:30am, Georgetowne Homes Community Room, 400A Georgetowne Dr., Hyde Park. More Info: Visit http://fami lynurturing.org/dropins/1-3-yearold-playgroup-1; For more times and locations, visit http://fam ilynurturing.org/programs/par ent-child-playgroups.

FREE Adult Computer Classes Times: Monday & Wednesday - 12:30-2:30pm and 6-8pm, Tuesday & Thursday - 12:302:30pm and 6:30-8:30pm. For more information contact: Owen Corbin at 617-635-5213. The John Shelburne Community Center is located at: 2730 Washington St., Roxbury.

Shelburne Community Center Teen Program: “FREE” for teens ages 13 to 17 years old. Homework Assistant, Computer Classes, Rock Wall Climbing, Field Trips, Sports and Recreation and much more.

Hours: Monday - Thursday 2:307pm, Fridays 2:30-9pm. For more information contact: Ricky Lambright or Tomeka Hall at 617-6355213. The John Shelburne Community Center is located at: 2730 Washington St., Roxbury.

The Art of the Hutchins Center Join Dr. Sheldon Cheek, Senior Curatorial Associate for The Image of the Black Archive & Library, as he leads a guided tour of The Art of the Hutchins Center. Our collection includes work by Isaac Julien, Romare Bearden, Lyle AshtonHarris, Suesan Stovall, Charles White, and Hale Woodruff, and an extensive assortment of black film posters. The tour ends with a visit to the Hiphop Archive & Research Institute, a vital and unique space at Harvard. Fridays at 1pm. 104 Mount Auburn St., Floor 3R, Cambridge. Tours begin in the reception area on floor 3R.

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late spring at four Boston schools: Boston Community Leadership Academy, East Boston High School, New Mission High School and TechBoston Academy. Thirty-six students were accepted into the program, and this fall, they began working with program mentors, who are teachers or guidance counselors at the participating schools. In their second semester, students are expected to spend part of their time tutoring other students.

BPS is implementing the program in partnership with Today’s Students, Tomorrow’s Teachers, a New York-based nonprofit that also operates in New York, Connecticut and Virginia. In Massachusetts, the organization has had partnerships with schools in Worcester, Cambridge and Greater Boston suburbs, but is entering Boston for the first time.

Students in the program are required to achieve a B+ average by their senior year of high school, tutor a minimum of two hours each week, intern for 20 hours each summer and attend teacher mentoring, tutor training, college visits, career counseling and free SAT preparation.

In addition to the training and mentoring in high school, participants receive a 50 percent waiver of tuition at participating colleges.

Founded in 1994, Today’s Students, Tomorrow’s Teachers currently serves 780 students in 40 high school districts and 23 colleges and universities. Participating students have a high school retention rate of 90 percent, a

college admissions rate of 96 percent, a college persistence rate of 83 percent and a college graduation rate of 70 percent, according to materials provided by BPS. More than 100 of TSTT’s graduates are currently teaching in nine states, according to the organization’s website.

In Boston, students in the current cohort are in tenth grade and up; in general, the program is designed nationally to start in ninth grade, and in Boston to start in tenth grade.

Melissa Cera-Garcia, TSTT’s regional program manager for Boston, said students were selected through recommendations and an application and interview process.

“We look for students who have an interest in education overall, and either know they want to be educators or are likely to become more interested in that through the process of this program,” she said.

On Saturday, Dec. 13, the Boston participants were formally inducted into the program at a ceremony held at the Kroc Center in Roxbury. Daly and Cera-Garcia welcomed the students and their families and introduced the mentors from each school, who called their students by name to the stage to receive certificates confirming their status as “Scholar Members” of the High School to Teacher program.

Daliyah Middleton, a 15-yearold sophomore at TechBoston Academy, told the Banner afterward she has known she wanted to be a teacher since sixth grade, and hopes to become an English teacher for future sixth graders.

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In Massachusetts, 67,000 homes went into foreclosure between 2005 and 2014. Nearly half of those homes are still bank-owned.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s move to allow homeowners to re-purchase their homes is a game changer, according to anti-foreclosure activist Grace Ross, but much work remains to be done.

“The question of selling back homes at present-day values is not straightforward,” she said. “In

some areas we’re seeing a new, ungrounded ramp-up in property values. We’re seeing speculators buying up properties and renting them.”

As was the case in the early part of the last decade, investors are buying up housing stock, creating what Ross says is a speculative bubble. Homeowners may have a hard time paying the current market value for their homes at a time when triple-deckers in South Boston and Somerville are selling for more than $1 million.

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but said the High School to Teacher program is helping her build new skills and confidence.

“I’m willing to go up in front of people and talk. I’m more outgoing now,” Middleton said as she rejoined her mother, Twyla Waites, after the event.

Her mother added, “It’s a great opportunity.”

Daly emphasized that during college, students in the program will be encouraged to teach summer school in Boston, and the hope is that they will return to Boston and become teachers here.

Cera-Garcia said students also pursue summer internships that include working with students or children in schools and other programs.

Of course, students in the program could arrive at college and discover a different calling. Program leaders do not consider that a failure, as finishing high school

and attending and finishing are college are successful outcomes in themselves.

“I want them to graduate from college,” Daly said.

During the Dec. 13 event, keynote speakers Michael McDonald of the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School and Donkor Minors of the Maurice J. Tobin K-8 School shared insights from their own lives and experience as teachers and as leaders of young men’s groups.

McDonald spoke of the crucial importance of “relational capacity” in effectively connecting with disengaged students. Minors reminded students that their names may not appear in the news or on a plaque, but instead their mark would be made in the hearts and minds of their students.

“You are contributing to a long legacy of teachers who have influenced you. Take with you the great things you saw your teachers do, and carry that with you,” Minors said. “Make it your own, in order to make a better tomorrow.”

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its way into the national discourse – 12-year-old Tamir Rice, shot dead

by Cleveland, Ohio police while holding a BB gun; John Crawford III shot dead by police in a Walmart in Beavercreek, Ohio, while holding a BB gun he intended to buy for his children – often accompanied by video footage.

Yet many whites are all too willing to follow the dominant narrative of police protecting the public from crime-prone blacks.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani echoed the sentiments of many whites with his assertion that black-on-black violence is a larger problem than police shootings.

That argument, which has played out in opinion pieces and in arguments on social media, underscores what some commentators say is an unwillingness among many in the white community to see the lack of respect for black life in the nation’s criminal justice system.

“Changing people’s consciousness is one of the biggest challenges,” said NAACP Boston Branch President Michael Curry.

“Many mainstream white folks don’t realize that the criminal justice system doesn’t work for us.”

While whites and blacks, conservatives and progressives talk past each other in their arguments around police shootings, many activists are seeing promise in the national discourse around race and criminal justice.

“In the democratic process, it’s important for our government to hear what people are saying,” said ACLU Massachusetts attorney Carlton Williams. “It’s obvious that there are a lot of people concerned. And there are more and more people feeling empowered to say ‘we’re not going to take this anymore.’”

In the Boston demonstration Saturday, whites, blacks, Latinos and Asians of all ages held Black Lives Matter signs. Some white demonstrators held signs reading “white silence = complicity.”

“It’s a great show of force,” said Jamaica Plain resident Bruce Marks, who came to the march with his wife and daughter. “You have young people and old and a cross section of all racial backgrounds.

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25 members and still continues to flourish. Krump United’s growing social media presence helps to keep the community center vibrant on Friday nights. The program utilizes Facebook by posting practice videos, session invitations, and workshops around the area.

“It’s amazing to see the youth come together in a neutral setting, no matter what territorial issues they have outside our center, and just unite in camaraderie through dance,” Smith said. “I would like to see this go viral.”

The Dorchester Youth Collaborative, a community-based youth center in Fields Corner, once was a popular place for krumpers in Boston. The center, which is known for its strong program, believes funding is needed for performing arts in urban communities.

“Low-income urban youth have a bad rap in the community because of negative labels like violence and gangs attached to them, and much of it is undeserved,” said Emmett Folgert,

You see the same energy of the protests from the ’60s and ’70s.”

In addition to the Boston protests, demonstrations have been staged in Cambridge, Somerville and Lexington. Middle school and high school students have participated. Harvard Medical School students staged a die-in. NBA players have appeared on the court wearing Black Lives Matter teeshirts during warm ups.

Solidarity demonstrations have been held cities around the world, including in London, Sydney, in Gaza and in Tokyo.

Curry says the energy from the demonstrations may well end up leading to substantive policy changes. Earlier this month, President Obama allocated $263 million to provide 50,000 body-worn cameras for local police departments. And Virginia Congressman Bobby Scott last week passed legislation creating a national database for data on police shootings, after multiple failed attempts.

In Massachusetts, activists are hoping the national discourse on police shootings will help move a bill sponsored by state Rep. Byron Rushing and state Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz that would require police departments to report data on race and traffic stops.

At the national level, many are questioning the grand jury system, where prosecutors who work hand-in-hand with police present cases of police misconduct to jurors without an attorney to represent the victims.

As flawed as the grand jury system is, grand juries alone are not to blame for the culture of impunity surrounding police officers who kill blacks.

“We need a change the rules and regulations,” Williams said. “But that’s the smaller part. “The rules for a police officer killing someone are the same as for anyone. They’re subject to the same law. But for some reason, when police kill, and race is involved, they get a pass. We need to change the culture.”

Boykin said the kind of changes activists want to see will likely require a movement. And there are signs that the movement is already happening.

“It started from the ground up,” he said. “That is a key ingredient of any successful, long-term movement.” executive director of DYC. “We have just as many artists in places like Dorchester, we don’t have as many easels or opportunities for art, and that’s a shame. Its places like Fields Corner where modern cutting edge culture is created.”

After a successful two-year run of the DYC krump program, retention slowly started to dwindle. As much as the center works to keep youth safe and off the streets, outside influences have made it difficult for the dance program to thrive.

“Krump itself is an alternative way to rebel against this so-called ‘gangster culture,’” said Folgert, who witnessed the gang culture’s influence on youth.

“Right now, what I have to say to the youth at Krump United is to stay focused,” Folgert, said.

“Understand why you are krumping. Don’t let outside influences derail you from your purpose. Our DYC community is very collaborative, and if they want to connect, we can make it happen. There is power in numbers.”

In November, Project Hip Hop, a youth-led organization that teaches the use of hip hop as a tool for public education, opened

Demonstrators marched through the North End (above) and on Tremont Street (below) Saturday in an action that coincided with national protests of police shootings of black men. Police arrested 23 demonstrators. (Banner photo)

its doors to young artists in its first Critical Lab and Lounge series, which Krump United supported.

It was designed to create one safe space for artists to unite and celebrate their creativity.

The lab is sectioned off in different rooms featuring krump sessions, spoken-word artists, writers and visual art galleries.

“This is an inter-generational space for young and seasoned artists to learn best-practices in developing their craft,” said D. Farai Williams, acting executive director of Project Hip Hop. An important pillar of the Critical Lab series is for artists to understand “political fluency,” or guiding youth to find their purpose in the community and how to properly respond to social issues affecting them.

“Artists experience life closer to the edge, because we are not valued,” Williams said. “Artists have a voice and need to be able to speak out on social issues in this community.”

Williams supports Krump United and respects its dedication to creating a collaborative movement.

“We need more partnerships with programs like Krump United

because the city does an injustice to young people, particularly young black and brown people that are in these schools, that are on these streets and are not providing them creative safe space to express themselves through their bodies and voices,” she said.

Krump United plans to partner with high schools to educate

students about its program and the dance form. The one thing Major took from his experience starting up the program “is what you put in, is what you get out,” he said.

“The question always is, if you are not supporting others, how do you expect others to support you?” he asked. “That is the only way we can move forward as a community.”

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Estate of Mary Elizabeth Palmer Date of Death: TOWN 10/06/2013 OF BLACKSTONE, MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS To all interested persons: Sealed Bids for the construction of the Elm Street Sewer Improvements for You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or BSC Group, Inc. the Town of Blackstone, Massachusetts, will be received by the Department A petition has been filed by James P Simons of Mattapan, MAMassachusetts and Evelyn M your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 Boston, of Public Works at the office of the Department of Public Works, 15 St. Paul Jordan of Stoughton, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree A.M. on the return date of 01/15/2015. This day is NOT a hearing date, but Street, Blackstone, Massachusetts until 10:30 a.m. prevailing time, on and Order of testacy and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object March 29, 2005 and at which time and place said bids will be publicly BOSTON SEWER And also requesting that WATER James AND P Simons ofCOMMISSION Mattapan, MA and Evelyn M to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, opened and read aloud.

BIDS Representative(s) of said Jordan of Stoughton, MA beINVITATION appointed FOR as Personal action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition estate to serve Without Surety on the bond. to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written The scope of work includes furnishing and installing approximately 3,065 linThe Boston Water and Sewer Commission by its Executive Director invites affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 ear feet of 8-inch gravity sanitary sewer main with all appurtenances; fursealed 04-308-001, WATER RELAY or AND You havebids the for rightCONTRACT to obtain a # copy of the Petition from MAIN the Petitioner at days after the return date. nishing and installing approximately 8,135 linear feet of 10-inch gravity sanSEWER/DRAIN REHABILITATION IN toALLSTON/BRIGHTON, PROPER, the Court. You have a right to object this proceeding. To doCITY so, you or your itary sewer main with all appurtenances; furnishing and installing approxiHYDE PARK AND JAMAICA PLAIN. Bids must be accompanied by a bid attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before IMPORTANT NOTICE mately 4,100 linear feet of 6-inch PVC gravity sanitary sewer service condeposit, certified check, treasurer’s cashier’s check, in the form ofby a 10:00 a.m. on 01/08/2015.

This is or NOT a hearing date,orbut a deadline nections and all appurtenances, furnishing and installing approximately 315 bid bond the amount of 5% appearance OF BID payable and to become the properwhich youinmust file a written and to objection if you object to this The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the linear feet of person’s 4-inch and 3,475 linear decisions feet of 6-inch sewer force ty of the Commission thefile bid, after acceptance, is not carried out. The bid proceeding.

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PROPER, HYDE PARK AND JAMAICA PLAIN. Bids will be publicly opened and read at the office of the Purchasing Manager on THURSDAY, MARCH 24, Bid Security in the form of a BID BOND, CASHIER’S, TREASURER’S, OR CER2005 AT 10:00 A.M. There will be a non-refundable charge of $25.00 for TIFIED CHECK issued by a responsible bank or trust company is required in each set of contract documents taken out. If the bidder neglects to bid on the amount of five percent of the bid price payable to the Town of each and every item, it may lead to the rejection of the bid. The rate of Blackstone. wages paid to mechanics, teamsters, chauffeurs, and laborers in the work to be performed under the contract shall not be less than the rate of wages in Contract Documents may be examined at the following locations: the schedule by the Commission of Labor and Industries of the Developer: Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home Foundation, Inc.determined and Affirmative Investments, Inc. Commonwealth, a copy of which schedule is annexed to the form of contract BSC Group, 33 Waldo Street, Worcester, Massachusetts 01608 referred to herein. Copies of said schedule may be obtained, without cost, Applications can be requested by calling the Management Company, Chelsea Jewish Community, at (617) 409-Before F.W. Dodge Division, McGraw-Hill Information Services Co., Boston, upon application therefore at the office of theInc., Executive Director.

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Commission to do supervision Inventory andso. accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but recipients are entitled to notice regarding the adminisFlynn tration from the Personal Representative and can petition By: theJohn CourtF. in any Manager matter relating to the estate, including distribution of Purchasing assets and expenses of administration.

LEGAL NOTICE WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: December 04, 2014 CITY OF SOMERVILLE Ann Marie Passanisi OFFICE OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Register of Probate PUBLIC NOTICE Commonwealth of Massachusetts The City of Somerville is requesting comments on the City’s One-Year Action The Trial Court Plan for the period of April 1, 2005 to March 31, 2006 for the Community Probate and Family Court Department Development Block Grant Program, the Emergency Shelter Grant Program and the HOME Program, which are funded by the U.S. Department of SUFFOLK Division Docket No. SU14C0466CA Housing and Urban Development (HUD). This document will be available for public review and comment from Friday, February 11, 2005 to Monday, In the matter of Rayeem Ayon Wilkes March 14, 2005 at the Mayor’s Office of Strategic Planning & Community of Roxbury, MA Development (SPCD), 3rd Floor, Somerville City Hall during normal business hours and at the front desk of the Main Branch of the Somerville Public NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME Library.

To all persons interested in a petition described: Anyone wishing to submit public comment should send their written comments to Meredith Director of Finance, SPCD fax 617-625-0722 A petition has beenSmith, presented

by Rayeem Wilkes by by Ayesha Butler mother or next emailfriend msmith@ci.somerville.ma.us 4:30 p.m.be onallowed Monday, as requesting that Rayeem by Ayon Wilkes to March change14, his 2005.

Anyone having general questions regarding the proposed 2005 One name as follows: Year Action Plan should contact SPCD at 617-625-6600 x2500.

Rayeem Ayon Butler Joseph A. Curtatone Mayor 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 01/08/2015.

REOPENING OF WAITING LIST WITNESS, HON. Joan Armstrong, FirstHousing Justice Authority of this Court.

Notice is hereby givenP.by the Braintree that on March 15 Date: December 5, 2014 and March 16, 2005 applications will be available for its one (1), two (2) & Ann Passanisi three (3) bedroom State-aided MRVP project-based housingMarie program and of Probate three (3) bedroom Chapter 705 Family Housing Program.Register Placement on the waiting list will be assigned by random order (lottery).

Commonwealth of Massachusetts MRVP Eligibility Income Limits 705 Family Housing Eligible Income The Trial Court Limits Probate and Family Court Department Number of Household Members Number of Household Members One (1) $18,620 One (1) $46,300 SU14P2833GD SUFFOLK Division $24,980 Two (2) Two (2) Docket No. $52,950

Three (3) $31,340 Three (3) $59,550 Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Four (4) $37,700 Four (4) $66,150 Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 Five (5) $44,060 Five (5) $71,450 Six (6) $50,420 Six (6) $76,750 In the matter of Vanice N. Strother Of Roxbury, MA Application will be available from 9:00am – 4:00 pm on March 15 and March RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person 16. Interested persons may apply in person at 25 Roosevelt Street, Braintree or obtain an application by mail by calling (781) 848-1484. Faxes To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has will not be accepted. Applications must be received or postmarked no later been filed by Paulette Strother of Roxbury, MA and Kent Burns of Roxbury than APRIL 19, 2005. The BHA will not accept applications including Crossing, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Vanice N. Strother (Emergency Applications) that are hand delivered or postmarked after April is in need of a Guardian and requesting that Paulette Strother of Roxbury, 19, 2005. The lottery will be held at 10 am on April 27, 2005 in the comMA and Kent Burns of Roxbury Crossing, MA (or some other suitable person) munity building at 25 Roosevelt Street, Braintree. The Braintree Housing be appointed as Guardian to serve on the bond.

Authority will close the MRVP family project based waiting list for one, two & threepetition bedrooms 705 (3) bedroom Housing Program The asksand the the court to three determine that theFamily Respondant is incapaciwait on the March 16, 2005 at EHO is necessary, that the proposed tated,list that appointment of 4pm. a Guardian Guardian is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court and may contain a request for certain specific authority.

You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 01/02/2015. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date.

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ONE BEDROOM THREE BEDROOM APARTMENT IMPORTANT NOTICE DUPLEX Available in quiet Working fireplace, 2 the The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away above-named right to make decisions affairs or Roxbury person’s neighborhood. baths.about Allpersonal GE applifinancial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a Building is well mainances. Master bath lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person. with only three marble tilebefloor If tained the above-named person cannot affordhas a lawyer, one may appointed atapartments.

State expense. Renter and whirlpool bath. responsible forP.heat, hot First Justice Building opposite WITNESS, Hon. Joan Armstrong, of this Court.

Date: November 25, 2014 water and electricity. beautiful quiet park.

Ann Marie Passanisi

Register of Probate Please contact: Please contact: Sharif Khallaq, Sharif Khallaq, of Massachusetts SAAK Realty Commonwealth SAAK Realty The Trial Court 2821 Washington St. 2821 Washington St. Probate and Family Court Department Roxbury, MA Roxbury, MA Docket No. SU14D2336DR SUFFOLK Division 617.427.1327 617.427.1327 Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Stephanie Robinson

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Maurice Robinson

To the Defendant: The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court grant a divorce for irretrievable breakdown of the marriage pursuant to G.L. c. 208, Section 1 B. The Complaint is on file at the Court.

Call for current income guidelines Joseph T. Cefalo Memorial Complex 245 West Wyoming Avenue, Melrose, MA 02176 Call our Office at (781) 662-0223 or TDD: (800) 545-1833, ext. 131 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday through Friday for an application

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An Automatic Restraining Order has been entered in this matter preventing you from taking any action which would negatively impact the current financial status of either party. SEE Supplemental Probate Court Rule 411.

You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Stephanie Robinson, 10 Pine Ridge Road, Mattapan, MA 02126, your answer, if any, on or before 01/15/2015. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court.

Rudy Crichlow, CRS Witness, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

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