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Search for school superintendent nearing home stretch Finalists to be introduced in Feb. forums

By SANDRA LARSON The lengthy search for a permanent Boston Public Schools superintendent may be in its final months.

At a public forum held this week by the Superintendent Search Committee, attendees learned that some 70 people have applied for the Boston job, filled by interim Superintendent John McDonough since Carol R. Johnson’s retirement in 2013. Forum moderator Bob Gittens explained that this large applicant pool has been reviewed and narrowed with the help of the executive search firm Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates. A winnowed-down group of applicants will be interviewed by the Search Committee in the next few weeks, and by early February, three final candidates will be referred to the School Committee and Mayor Martin Walsh.

The names and other information about applicants have been kept confidential in the early stages of the search, but in February, a series of public forums will introduce the three finalists to Bostonians. After a period of public input, the new superintendent could be hired as early as the end of February, and would likely start in July.

The 12-member Superintendent Search Committee was formed a year ago by Mayor Martin Walsh and the Boston School Committee

to spearhead the process of recruiting and hiring a new superintendent, and is made up of parents, School Committee members, teachers, and leaders from the education, philanthropy and business sectors.

Eight community forums

The Jan. 12 event, held at Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School, was the eighth community forum since the search process began. The first seven forums were held in March, 2014 in neighborhoods throughout the city. These earlier meetings focused on identifying what characteristics a diverse set of stakeholders desired in a school superintendent. One forum was specifically for students.

The search firm collected feedback from the public forums and also from several focus groups and an online survey, and this data informed the School Committee’s job description and the firm’s recruiting efforts. (Details and data from the forums, focus groups and survey been compiled in a 64-page report visible to the public on the BPS website.)

For this eighth meeting Gittens, vice president for public affairs at Northeastern University and a BPS parent, served as moderator, allowing Search Committee members to listen and take notes.

Timed just before the final vetting of candidates, this event had

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Governor Charlie Baker visited the Kroc Center in Dorchester after his swearing-in ceremony. The new Governor put the “spotlight of excellence” on the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative and its programs. (l-r)Tony Hernandez-DSNI staff, Chris JonesDSNI ED, Lt. Governor Karyn Polito, Dudley Street School student Nysia Hernandez, Gov. Charlie Baker, Dudley Street School 3rd grade student Makya Ware, DSNI staff member Travis Watson and Uphams Corner artist-in-residence Cedric Douglas.

Baker targets spending in inaugural speech Diverse team faces daunting challenges

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Assisted by a Chinese interpreter, a Boston Public School parent voices her priorities for a new school superintendent at the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School Jan. 12.

Sounding themes of fiscal restraint and government reform, Gov. Charlie Baker pledged to tackle some of the state’s more intractable problems — homelessness, educational disparities and opiate addiction — during his inaugural address last week.

The speech was delivered at

the State House Jan. 8 amid a series of inaugural events including appearances by the new governor in Roxbury, Springfield, Pittsfield and Worcester.

The aspirations Baker outlined in his speech were tempered by what his administration estimates will be a $500 million budget shortfall for the second half of the fiscal year — a development the

new governor says will necessitate hard choices in state government.

Spending problem

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Sports exec. shares love for lacrosse with city youth Jones’ Journey

By FRANK HOLLAND Bringing lacrosse to the urban areas of Metro Boston may seem like a daunting task, but Aaron Jones, the CEO of Metro Lacrosse, says he’s really selling himself and what he’s been able to achieve with the help of the sport.

“I consider myself as the personification of what Metro Lacrosse is about,” Jones said.

Metro Lacrosse is the biggest urban lacrosse program in the country. More than 700 young people from 4th to 12th grade from the city and surrounding areas take part each year. Since the programs began in 1994, Jones says about 75 percent of the participants have graduated from college.

Many also play collegiate lacrosse.

The majority of the participants are children of color, recruited from Boston Public Schools.

Lacrosse is in the nonprofit’s name, but Jones says Metro is just as focused on academics.

“We are a sports-based youth development program.”

Jones shares his story at school assemblies and Parent Teacher Association meetings, hoping kids and parents understand that Metro Lacrosse is much more than an after school activity. He would like kids to not only use the Jamaica Plain-based program to play

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Metro Lacrosse CEO Aaron Jones. lacrosse, but also to use lacrosse to pay for college through athletic scholarships. Ivy League Schools like Harvard and Princeton along with other top tier universities like Duke and Johns Hopkins are regularly in the NCAA Top 25.

“This is a great opportunity to be exposed to a game that can be transformative in your life” 17-year-old Deyscha Smith is one of many Dorchester kids who stepped out of their comfort zone to get involved with Metro Lacrosse.

“When I first picked up a lacrosse stick I was very confused. I kept thinking it was tennis!”

Smith first started playing the sport in 5th grade after seeing a video at her school. Now, she’s a high school senior at Academy of the Pacific Rim in Hyde Park and will play at Mount Holyoke College next year.

Deyscha says the sport has helped

her make new friends, and opened her up to new experiences.

“Lacrosse is definitely transformative, I went from being a really shy lazy kid. It’s definitely a part of me for sure.”

Jones experienced a similar journey. Like most kids growing up in Hempstead, NY a predominantly Black suburb of New York City, Jones enjoyed football and basketball. When he was 9 years old a coach from a predominantly white neighboring community started a youth lacrosse program in Jones’ backyard. At first he was skeptical.

Long Legacy

The sport is thought to have been developed by Native Americans in the 12th century. White settlers in the Americas first observed the game in the 17th century. But it wasn’t until the 1850s that whites began playing in lacrosse leagues.

The game now is popular in suburban schools, prep schools, colleges and universities. But not in inner city neighborhoods.

“Lacrosse is a very homogeneous sport, usually with a white affluent country club prep school demographic,” he said.

But once Jones got a lacrosse stick in his hand and learned the rules of the 10-versus-10 contact sport it was a natural fit. He wasn’t the only one. An all-black youth team quickly formed.

“It’s fast, it’s physical. In a neighborhood where football and basketball reign supreme, the speed, the

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Metro Lacrosse places an equal emphasis on sports and academics. agility, the contact of the game was attractive to all of us,” Jones said.

Lacrosse and good grades opened doors the son of West Indian Immigrant could never have imagined.

Jones went to Cornell University on a full scholarship. He played defense on the Lacrosse team from 1984 to 1987 and earned All-America honors his senior year.

“Since I was a stand-out, I wanted to make sure I dominated and represented because I was so visible.”

It seems like a fairy tale ending.

But Jones says there were many bumps in the road.

“Racial slurs were common,” Jones said. “Unnecessary roughness. I think I would inflict most of the unnecessary roughness especially after the racial slurs came. I never walked away from it. In fact it just made me more motivated to win.”

During a late night of studying at Cornell, Jones realized what he wanted to do with his life. He was hitting the books and watching Nightline, when the now infamous interview between Ted Koppel and Al Campanis aired on April 6, 1987. Jones was outraged by the sentiment expressed by the then-Los Angeles Dodgers owner that Blacks don’t have the mental ability to be executives in baseball. “I truly believe they may not have some of the necessities to be a field manager or perhaps a general manager” Campanis said.

“I watched that on television and at that point it crystalized.”

Jones said, “What do I want to do for a living? I want to be in the front office of a sports team. That’s where I can combine my passion and acumen and my intelligence to show Al Campanis and people like him they are wrong.”

The lacrosse star would go on to earn his Masters from UMass, then begin his career as a sports executive. Jones served as president of the National Lacrosse

League’s New York Titans and the NBA Development League’s Greenville Groove. He would also work with the NFL and an internet entertainment company. That experience in the high-stakes and fast paced corporate world is something Jones is confident will benefit Metro Lacrosse.

“My goal is to bring those skill sets to this nonprofit environment,” Jones said, “We see tremendous growth.”

Lacrosse is a fast-paced game.

It’s also growing in popularity at rapid pace. According to a study by the National Federation of State High School Associations, participation in boys and girls lacrosse has basically doubled over the past 11 years. In Massachusetts the sport grew by 18 percent from 2009 to 2013 according to the NFSHSA. Corporate America is banking on lacrosse, and Metro Lacrosse continuing the growing trend. Boston-based New Balance provides all the equipment needed with the exception of shoes through its subsidiary companies Brine and Warrior. Cascade, another leading lacrosse manufacturer, also provides gear and support.

This intersection between sport and business is where Jones’ expertise comes into play. His goal is bring even more sponsors and dollars to urban lacrosse and eventually leverage those relationships to the urban community as a whole.

The growth of lacrosse is also increasing the opportunities and odds for young players to turn their passion into a profession. Major League Lacrosse and The National Lacrosse League are far from major sports, but still provide an opportunity to get paid to play.

Lacrosse becoming a big business will likely take some time.

Jones says in the meantime, he’s committed to the day-to-day goals of Metro Lacrosse.

‘We’re trying to build good athletes and better athletes and better people,” he said. “That’s a priority.”

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Officers address homicide, race, community policing at Rox mtg.

By SANDRA LARSON

Boston Police Department Superintendent-in-Chief William Gross and Deputy Superintendent John Brown spoke Jan. 10 to a gathering of people who have lost loved ones to homicide in communities of color. The event, held at Roxbury’s Bethel Baptist Church, was organized by the Women Survivors of Homicide movement.

In an hour-long session, the two officers fielded questions on homicide investigations, officer diversity, community policing, 911 response times and other issues of concern to community members frustrated with unsolved murders and perceived lower levels of police responsiveness in black neighborhoods.

A woman whose brother was murdered nearly five years ago said she’s heard nothing from the detective, and asked what she can do besides wait.

“I just want to know that his file is not just collecting dust,” she said.

Brown, who since early 2014 has led BPD’s Criminal Investigation Division, including the homicide unit, said, “These officers are in court every day. They don’t call you when there’s nothing new. I know it’s difficult when it’s unsolved, but I will make sure you get what you need.” He approached her after the meeting for more details.

Brown outlined changes and improvements he is instituting

ON THE WEB For more information, see bpdnews.com; bpdnews.com/homicide; melvinsmission.weebly.com; facebook.com/WSOHMovement for homicide handling: new monthly case review meetings where the homicide unit and the district attorney’s office go over every case together; meetings with victims’ families in their homes instead of at police headquarters; more dialogues with teens and partnerships with youth-serving organizations; homicide unit web pages that highlight unsolved cases and victim-witness support services; and new detectives of color recently added to the homicide unit.

“I’m doing everything I possibly can to make the homicide unit a better place,” he said. “I want nothing but justice for those who have suffered their loved ones murdered.”

A personal outrage

Women Survivors of Homicide founder Mary Franklin’s husband Melvin was murdered in Dorchester on Oct. 15, 1996. He had taken the bus that night from his job as a Northwest Airlines skycap at Logan Airport. Walking the last few blocks toward their Woodrow Avenue home, he interrupted a robbery in progress and was shot and killed. The case remains unsolved, and the apparent intended victim has never come forward.

Franklin has told this story

many times. She remains haunted by the knowledge that someone escaped harm that night and yet did not help identify the shooter.

“How does that person sleep?” she asked, her outrage loud and clear.

Franklin has channeled her pain into helping others. She started the Melvin’s Mission Day Program, a six-week program for women who have lost someone to homicide. In addition, she has become an increasingly vocal activist. Through the WSOH movement, she is calling for more minority and female homicide detectives, a better witness protection system and increased cooperation by murder witnesses.

At the meeting, Franklin pressed Brown on the diversity numbers. Of 38 people in the homicide unit (including an accident reconstruction team), 10 are people of color, including a Cape Verdean resident of Dorchester, Brown said. The number of females is two, down from three as a black female homicide detective recently was promoted to sergeant.

Gross noted that homicide work is not for everyone; many officers, white and black, are not ready to take on the middle-ofthe-night calls or the grim nature of homicide work.

“You do not pressure people to come to homicide unit — you’ll get poor investigators,” Gross said. “You motivate them so when they’re ready, then they come. It’s one of T:10”

the toughest assignments, and we want the right people in place.”

Off the homicide topic, several attendees spoke of a persistent feeling that police and dispatchers place a lower priority on the city’s black neighborhoods and people. They recounted making 911 calls and having no police come, taking detailed notice of an incident and informing police but never being contacted as a witness, and being stopped and subjected to disrespectful treatment by police for no apparent reason except being a black man.

Open dialogue

Gross countered these tales with assertions that much has improved at BPD since times past, and that BPD is known far and wide for its good community policing.

“Ten years ago, I never thought I’d be a police chief,” he said. “It’s totally different now. I’m black, I know what you’re talking about — but the game is changing.”

His descriptions of BPD’s programs for seniors and visits to local schools, and Brown’s highlighting of the gun buyback program and the restraint BPD officers showed during Black Lives Matter protests did not quell audience assertions that the game hasn’t changed enough.

When Gross noted that many dispatchers are black and live in the neighborhoods and “They’re not going to not send someone just because it’s a black neighborhood,” a ripple of murmurs erupted, leading him to add, “But it’s up to us to change that perception.”

During and after the meeting, the offers stressed that having an open dialogue is crucial and that they and the community need to

work together. They expressed hope that residents would go to the BPD website and see the information and positive stories there.

Franklin vowed to hold police accountable to the community, and also exhorted attendees to take action, be vocal and urge their neighbors to say something when they see something.

“The police cannot do it all,” she said. “We can’t keep being afraid.

How do people live with themselves, if they have quality information about murders and won’t step up? I understand the witness protection program isn’t sufficient right now — but the Women Survivors of Homicide movement is working on that.”

WSOH is working now to engage Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley on improving witness protection so residents will be more willing to speak to police, she said.

Franklin is also circulating a petition asking Mayor Martin Walsh to designate the impact of homicide on women as a public health crisis. She announced she has secured a one-on-one meeting with the mayor later this month to discuss what she believes homicide survivors need from city government.

On the topic of unsolved murder cases, the officers echoed Franklin’s call for people to speak up when they know something.

“We’re not magic,” Gross said.

“We can’t go forward if we have no witnesses. The plan has to be to get everyone involved, so if you see something you say something.”

Brown added, “You will never get these cases done without credible witness testimony. We need someone to come and say, ‘That’s the guy who did it.’”

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An attack on black progress Gov. Charlie Baker has selected Ronald L. Walker II to join his administration as secretary of Labor and Workforce Development.

An objective review of Ron Walker’s resume would determine that he is uniquely qualified for that post. As co-founder and president of Next Street Financial, Walker has developed a company to provide financial and consulting services to small businesses and nonprofit organizations. However, The Boston Globe has challenged that selection.

Walker’s expertise in developing small businesses is undoubtedly significant for the governor. According to the Small Business Administration, 42.9 percent of the private sector payroll is earned in small businesses.

It is anticipated that 64 percent of new private sector jobs will be in small businesses.

This is a major part of the workforce.

The problem with small businesses is that their survival is fragile. Only about half of new businesses survive for five years and only one-third continue for 10 years or more. Consequently, even the most arduous intervention by Next Street Financial or any other consultant is likely to have a disappointing result. The risk is unavoidable.

The Globe has picked the wrong industry to assess Walker’s capabilities — community health centers. Unlike most businesses, fees for medical services, the equivalent of sales revenue, are insufficient to pay for overhead and medical costs. Health centers need grants from the government, foundations, drug companies and hospitals in order to operate in the black. Without these revenues many health centers would face bankruptcy.

Although Walker had left the board of directors of the Roxbury Comprehensive Community Health Center before it closed, the Globe still castigated him for its failure because he had served as chairman for several years. They also point out that Next Street’s consulting services to RoxComp did not save the center, but there was no mention of RoxComp’s strategic marketing problem.

RoxComp is encircled by several nearby health centers with updated facilities and expanded services. The Dimock and Whittier Street Health Centers in Roxbury, Codman Square Health Center in Dorchester and the Mattapan Community Health

Center down Blue Hill Ave. are all able to erode RoxComp’s marketing efforts in its own immediate area. In addition, Boston Medical Center, a full service hospital, is only about a mile away from RoxComp.

Despite Walker’s professional achievements and his stature in Boston and the black community, the Globe did not cite any positive aspect of his appointment.

That attitude is not unexpected. The Globe is often hostile to peer black individuals and institutions. The Globe ran a series of articles attacking the Boston Local Development Corp. because of the Bay State Banner’s delinquency on its loan, even though they knew that there Ronald L. Walker II was sufficient collateral to pay both the principal and overdue interest.

The Banner loan was a shining example of the value of the BLDC, not an indication of its failure.

Strangely enough, the Globe took the opposite position on the failure of Charles Street AME Church to repay its loan to OneUnited Bank. Why should the Banner be criticized for being delinquent on a fully collateralized loan while OneUnited Bank is attacked for insisting that its loan to the church be repaid?

The only way that these inconsistent policies make sense is that they are all designed to diminish the stature of blacks in Boston. Walker has become a member of the governor’s cabinet, the Bay State Banner is the black-owned newspaper of record for African Americans in Greater Boston since 1965, Boston-based OneUnited Bank is the largest black-owned and operated bank in America, and Next Street Financial is a major national resource for the growth and development of urban enterprise.

Gov. Baker is to be applauded for not yielding to the biased Globe report.

Melvin Miller’s eulogy to Senator Edward Brooke was the only one to mention, as you so well put it, that he was a “son of Roxbury,” if only an adopted one. That was a very important part of his history that was omitted in Mark Feeney’s otherwise fine obituary [in the Boston Globe].

Your story put Sen. Brooke in a

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What do you think of Boston hosting the 2024 Olympics?

By FANIA DAVIS The killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner have sparked a national outcry to end the epidemic of police brutality against black men. I believe our greatest hope lies in creating a truth and reconciliation process — starting in Ferguson, Missouri — that can get to the roots of a long history of racial trauma and open the way for healing.

I say this as someone with direct, personal experience of the shock, pain and grief of racial violence.

I grew up on Birmingham, Alabama’s “Dynamite Hill,” so-called because of the bombings of black families like ours who moved into this previously all-white neighborhood. The Ku Klux Klan killed two of my close friends in the 1963 Sunday School bombing at the16th Street Baptist Church. In 1969, police broke into my home in Del Mar, California, and shot and nearly killed my husband — because of our involvement with the Black Panthers. And in 1970, the government framed my sister, Angela Davis, on capital murder charges in an effort to silence her calls for racial and social justice.

I have also felt fury. I have been a combatant in the civil rights, black power, women’s and most of the major social movements of my time. I spent years organizing an international movement to save my sister from prison and possibly execution.

Later, as a civil rights trial lawyer, I worked to protect people from racial discrimination.

After more than three decades of fighting, I felt burned out. I began studying with African and other indigenous healers, and this ultimately led me to the restorative justice work I do today in Oakland, California.

Every day, I see teens of color coming of age in a culture that criminalizes and demonizes them. Black youth in the U.S. are fatally shot by police at 21 times the rate of white youth. Children of color are pushed through pipelines to prison instead of put on pathways to opportunity. Some make it through this soul-crushing gauntlet. But many do not.

In Oakland, we are seeing glimmers of hope. A broad cross-section of the community, including police, is participating in restorative justice trainings. Residents and police are working together to keep children out of prison. Racially inequitable school suspension rates are decreasing. Youth and police are sitting together in healing circles, building new relationships based on increased trust and recognition of one another’s humanity.

A Ferguson truth and reconciliation process could likewise bring our communities together to search for the truth about the causes and consequences of police violence, and for ways to put an end to the killings. Youth, families, police, and communities affected by the violence and allies could partner with the federal government to establish commissions in communities throughout the country.

South Africa’s 1995 Truth and Reconciliation Commission can be a guide. The entire nation watched, riveted, as the traumas of the previous decades were recounted, and apologies and calls for reparations and institutional reform made. Though far from perfect, South Africa’s process is hailed for helping the country to transition from apartheid to democracy without bloodshed.

In communities across the United States, a truth and reconciliation process could create safe public spaces for survivors of police violence to share their stories. Law enforcement would have opportunities to accept responsibility for their actions. Everyone involved could co-create plans to “make things right,” including, for example, official apologies, restitution, public memorials, police training and demilitarization, new police policies that prioritize hiring community residents, new curricula, etc. The stories told, truths learned, and recommendations made would be shared nationwide.

The commission’s task would include facing and beginning to heal the massive historical traumas that damage us all but take the lives of black and brown children. The killings today are only the most recent expressions of a long history of unhealed racial traumas that reaches all the way back to the birth of the nation. Changing form but not essence over four centuries, this history has morphed from slavery to sharecropping and lynching, from Jim Crow to convict leasing, to mass incarceration and deadly police practices.

It’s time for us to take on this history, tell the truth about how it continues to harm our whole society, and respond with a justice that heals. A truth and reconciliation process based on restorative justice principles offers the greatest promise. Let’s roll up our sleeves and start the messy, challenging, but hopeful work of creating a more just society.

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A truth and reconciliation process could create safe public spaces for survivors of police violence to share their stories.

Fania Davis, sister of Angela Davis, is a civil rights attorney and co-founder and executive director of RJOY, Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth. She also has a Ph.D. in Indigenous Studies. This article is adapted from a longer piece published at www.yesmagazine.org.

It could be a good thing, but where are we going to house everybody?

I’m afraid we don’t have the capacity. Are we big enough?

I could be good or bad. It could bring jobs. But after they build all the venues, what will they do with them?

They have to plan it wisely.

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Glenn Henderson

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I don’t know if it’s a good idea with the crowds and construction. I think it would be chaotic. I don’t think we have the room.

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Retired Roxbury

I would be good for businesses in the city.

Juan Medina

I don’t know. It would be alright for certain people, but it probably wouldn’t bring us jobs.

Deborah Coleman Homemaker Dorchester

Probably not. Looking at what happened with the Marathon bombing, we would have to have more police and more security. It would be chaos.

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Assistant Secretary for Science and Technology with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Economic Affairs, serving concurrently as Deputy Director of the Massachusetts Centers of Excellence Corporation. As executive director of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, he made urban agriculture a major focus of the community’s revitalization plan.

At the Schumacher Center, Watson will introduce new programs while linking the existing educational and applied community economics programs of the Schumacher Center. He will be a public voice for sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, new monetary systems, equitable land tenure arrangements, neighborhood planning through democratic processes, government policies that support human-scale development, cooperative structure, citizen financing of new enterprises, import-replacement strategies and more.

One of his first initiatives will be to follow up on the connections he

made on the Schumacher Center’s October trip to Cuba to explore urban farming, sustainable agricultural, renewable energy, disaster preparedness, and social entrepreneurship.

Watson serves on the boards of Ocean Arks International, Bioneers, and Remineralize The Earth, and currently resides in Falmouth, Massachusetts.

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GREG WATSON Greg Watson has joined the Schumacher Center as Director of Policy and Systems Design. Watson served as Commissioner of Agriculture with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts under the Patrick, Dukakis and Weld administrations His accomplishments as Commissioner included the promulgation of innovative groundwater protection regulations designed to prevent contamination of aquifer recharge areas; an outreach program for farmers to adopt integrated pest management techniques; efforts to make Massachusetts the first state to establish a dairy pricing system; and clarification of acceptable agriculture practices under the Wetlands Protection Act. Recently, he worked to launch a statewide urban agriculture grants program. He also chaired the state’s Public Market Commission, which oversees planning and construction of the Boston Public Market, slated to open this summer.

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NEWSBRIEFS Boston activists part of national effort to bring ‘Selma’ to school students A network of African American business leaders across the U.S. have undertaken a national campaign to underwrite free admission to the Golden Globe-nominated film Selma for students around the country.

Blacks in New York, Boston,

Nashville, New Jersey, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Sarasota, FL and Westchester have come together to create funds that will allow students in these locations to see Selma for free at participating theaters.

The efforts are inspired by the success of the program in New York City, in which 27 African-American business leaders created a fund for 27,000 of the city’s 7th, 8th and 9th

grade students to see the film for free. Due to the overwhelming demand, the New York City effort sold out in the very first weekend and was expanded to 75,000 tickets.

The students in these cities will show a student ID or report card at the box office of any participating theater for free admittance. The programs began on, January 12th and run through January 19th (Martin Luther

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King Jr. Day) or while tickets last.

Business leaders in their cities are currently organizing commitments and participation from community organizations.

Those cities and leaders were announced Wednesday, January 14th.

Among local business leaders who are leading the efforts are Bennie Wiley, Principal, The Wiley Group and Flash Wiley, Counsel, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, in Boston, who have raised funds for 10,000 tickets.

“How inspiring to see so many members of the African American community come together to expose our young people to this important chapter in history,” said Bennie Wiley and Flash Wiley in a statement.

“We are delighted to join this extraordinary effort.”

For a list of participating theaters in select cities offering free admission to students during this program and for information on group sales, visit www.SelmaMovie.com/ studenttickets.

Boston-area donors include: Tommy and Stephanie Amaker, Edward and Rosalyn Baker-Greene, Boston Chapter of the Links, Alison Brown and Greg White, Jackie Browne, Michele Courton Brown and Phillip Brown, Wayne and Jacqui Budd, Phil and Sandy Clay, Tony and Robyn Coles, Mo and Stacey Cowan, Kevin and Jennifer DaSilva, Priscilla Douglas, Pam Everhart, Carol and Bernie Fulp, Levi and Gisele Garraway, Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Marion Grayer, Skip Griffin and Lynette Glover-Griffin, Brent Henry and Minnie Baylor-Henry, Linda Hill, Ron and Cheryl Homer, Jeff and Cheryl Howard, Jamie Hoyte, Jack and Jill of America, Boston Chapter, Duane and Deborah Jackson, Ken and Traci Johnson, Chekesha Kidd, Wendell and Boxie Knox, Marcia Lloyd and Daniel C. Shannon, Demond and Kia Martin, Ralph and Deborah Scott Martin, Hassell McClellan, Henry McGhee, Tsedal and Lawrence Neeley, Charles and Pam Ogletree, Peter Pedro, Lee Pelton, Michael and Paula Price, Steve Rogers, Jody and T.J. Rose, George and Faye Russell, Shelle Santana, Daryl Settles and Lisa Owens, Greg and Michelle Shell, Richard and Marcia Soden, Kirk Sykes, Dorothy Terrell, Bill Thompson and Kim Budd, Liz Walker, Gus and Anita White, Linda Whitlock and Marc Cumsky, Bennie and Flash Wiley, Ann Marie and David Wilkins, Damian and Yndia Wilmot, Steve Wright, Andy Zelleke.

Department of Children and Families seeks volunteers There over 9,000 children and young adults in state

custody in Massachusetts. These young people have experienced abuse and/or neglect and are living in temporary situations.

The Foster Care Review Unit makes decisions regarding children who have been in foster care for 6 months or longer, assessing how well their needs are being met and what progress has been made towards establishing them in a permanent living situation. A volunteer from the community is one member of the 3-person panels that make these decisions.

Volunteers are needed in Boston and Metro Boston areas including Arlington, Cambridge, Chelsea, Dorchester, Hyde Park and Roxbury. Case reviews typically last for 30 to 90 minutes.

Volunteers need to be 18 years or older and must participate in a day-and-a-half training. For an application and further information, please contact Kim Sheppard at kimberly.sheppard@ state.ma.us or (617)748-2294.

Chinatown/South End collaborative opens pathway to Whole Foods jobs Chinatown/South End organizations and Whole Foods released hiring results as the new Whole Foods store in the South End opened at the Ink Block development.

The Chinatown/South End Collaborative launched an effort last year to increase local and minority hiring at new retail stores in the neighborhood. Led by the Chinese Progressive Association, the effort included the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center, Castle Square Tenants Organization, Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción, Massachusetts Worker Education Roundtable and BEST Corp.

The group worked with City Councilor Ayanna Pressley and the City’s Office of Economic Development to advocate for local hiring goals, ongoing monitoring and reporting, an early notification/First Source agreement, and a multilingual application and interview process.

The store opens with over 200 employees, of which about half are existing employees transferred from other stores. In total, 108 people new hires were made with 64 percent living in the City of Boston, and 19 percent living in the Chinatown and South End area. The new hires are particularly diverse, with 75 percent of them being people of color. Asian Americans are 18 percent of storewide employees and 26 percent of new hires.

“What made this a bigger success story than in the past was the First Source agreement with clear monitoring and reporting points, combined with support to help people prepare and go through the application and

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racial discrimination at public places of accommodation had been on the books in Massachusetts since 1865. Two decades later, African American state representative Julius Caesar Chappelle introduced a House a bill that amended the state’s public accommodations law, adding skating rinks to the list of places where discrimination was prohibited.

Wolff became active in the struggle for civil rights. On the morning of January 23, 1885 in Roxbury Municipal Court, he prosecuted David H. McKay in two test cases brought under the public accommodations law as amended. As manager of the Highland Rink, McKay had been charged with refusing on the evening of January 9 to allow African Americans George C. Freeman and attorney Edward Everett Brown the privilege of skating there because of their color.

At the trial, the complainants testified that McKay had made a distinction against black citizens in the privileges of the rink.

McKay offered no evidence in his defense; consequently, he was found guilty and fined $50 and costs in both cases. After successfully prosecuting those cases, Wolff, along with Brown, decided to bring suits against McKay on behalf of four more victims of racial discrimination: Andrew E. Lewis, Henry L. Freeman, Fred Church and Clarence V. Smith.

They were young black men who had been refused skate checks at the Highland Rink on the evening of January 20, 1885.

The following year, Wolff, Brown and Edwin Garrison

James Harris Wolff: Civil War veteran, prominent Boston attorney

By ANTHONY W. NEAL Described by one observer as “one of the most learned men of his race in the legal profession,” attorney James Harris Wolff served his country honorably during the Civil War and demanded nothing less than full citizenship rights for all African Americans.

He was born August 4, 1847 in Border Springs, Mississippi, the son of Abraham and Eliza Wolff.

Raised on a farm in Holderness, New Hampshire, he received his early education at a school there and showed an aptitude for mechanics. As a teen, he found work in a small store in his village and also served as a clerk in the local post office. Wolff later attended Kimball Union Academy in Meriden.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, he attempted to join several New Hampshire regiments, but the government refused to enlist black men in the army at that time. Wolff tried the U.S. Navy with more success, as hundreds of men of color were unhesitatingly received into that fighting branch of military service.

On December 4, 1862, he enlisted at the rank of Landsman, serving on the USS Minnesota and the USS Maratanza — a wooden steamer built at the Boston Navy Yard in 1861.

He sailed out of Portsmouth Harbor for the South and served in the West Gulf and North Atlantic Blockading squadrons during the war, taking part in great naval battles on the Mississippi, at Mobile Bay, and at Fort Fisher, North Carolina. On June 17, 1865, he was honorably discharged at Portsmouth.

Wolff matriculated at the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, a school in Hanover founded and incorporated in 1866 as a land grant college officially associated with Dartmouth College. He left after studying there two years, later traveled to Boston, and took up the study of law at the office of Daniel Wheelwright Gooch — a Dartmouth College graduate and ex-congressman from Massachusetts. Then, he attended Harvard Law School for two years and gained admission to the Suffolk Bar on June 26, 1875.

Wolff subsequently travelled to Darien, Georgia, where he

James Harris Wolff

taught school for a year. After, he made his way up north to Baltimore, Maryland, where he became the first African American admitted to practice in the U.S. Circuit Court. In 1878, he returned to Boston, found a room in a boarding house at 15 Grove Street, and resumed the practice of law.

On January 21, 1880, Wolff married 22-year-old Mercy Anna Birmingham, a native of Pelham, New Hampshire. She was a very gifted musician, an accomplished pianist of an exceedingly quiet disposition, and the daughter of Dr. Samuel T. Birmingham — an old botanic physician who practiced in Boston’s West End. Wolff ’s wedding ceremony took place at the bride’s home at 14 Chambers Street. One daughter and three sons were born of their marriage. Two of their sons, James Graham Wolff and Albert Gooch Wolff, became lawyers as well. For many years, the Wolff family resided at 6 Adams Street in Allston. Mr. and Mrs. Wolff were very popular in Allston and Brighton.

From the years 1880 through 1882, Wolff served as a clerk in the adjunct general’s office at

the State House, having been appointed by Governor John D. Long — a Republican. After Benjamin F. Butler, a Democrat, became governor of Massachusetts on January 4, 1883, he abolished Wolff ’s position.

On November 22, 1883, Wolff attended a dinner at Young’s Hotel, given by George Washington Williams, a prominent black historian who had just published his seminal work, History of the Negro Race in America, from 1619 to 1880. Williams hosted the dinner in honor of George Lewis Ruffin. Only three days before the event, Ruffin had been confirmed as a judge of the Charlestown Municipal Court, becoming the first black judge in the United States. At the predominantly Republican gathering, Wolff gave a speech titled, A Thorough Organization of the Negro Vote as a Factor in Political Victory. The same year, 1883, he opened a law office at 17 Pemberton Square.

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Small businesses looking forward to year of growth

By MARTIN DESMARAIS Riding a wave of confidence, small business owners across the U.S. are expecting a banner year in 2015, with all indicators pointing to growth.

As 2014 came to a close, President Barack Obama spoke publicly about some of the impressive economic gains that have America’s business community excited about the prospects of the coming year and made a pledge to continue to do his part.

“The six years since the financial crisis have demanded hard work and sacrifice on everyone’s part. But as a country, we have every right to be proud of what we’ve got to show for it: more jobs, more insured, a growing economy, shrinking deficits, bustling industry, booming energy,” President Obama said.

“Pick any metric you want — America’s resurgence is real.”

The president was joined by U.S.

Small Business Administration Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet in singing the praises of 2014’s gain and setting the stage for a big 2015.

She pointed out that the country starts the New Year on a historic run of adding 200,000 jobs per month for 10 months — the longest stretch of job growth since the mid-90s tech boom.

Contreras-Sweet, like many other business pundits, does not beat around the bush when giving credit for this boom.

“Most of all, this new trajectory is attributable to the success of America’s entrepreneurs and the resurgence of our nation’s small businesses. About 7 million of the 10.9 million jobs we’ve added back were created not by large corporations, but by startups and small enterprises,” she stated. “Small businesses have led our comeback from the downturn. For 15 straight quarters, small firms have contributed to employment growth — accounting for

as much as 80 percent of job gains in any given quarter.”

Most economists see what Contreras-Sweet sees. Many are equally excited about what it all means for U.S. companies, namely that small business loans are on the rise, business bankruptcies have been cut in half since the recession and business-owner income has grown by more than 40 percent from the low point during the downturn.

Importantly, though, it’s not just the talking heads that are excited about business prospects in 2015. Small business owners are equally enthused about the upcoming year and beyond.

According to the most recent CAN Capital Small Business Health Index, 58 percent of small business owners expect growth in 2015.

That is an impressive number considering few businesses plan for

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By MARTIN DESMARAIS Erinn Danielle loves being a hair stylist. There is nothing the founder of Simply Erinn’s Unisex Salon in Cambridge would rather do with her day than help her customers feel great about their hair. But running a business is another thing and it wasn’t until she finally focused on the business end of things — a decade in to owning her salon — that the future really brightened.

“You have to look at business as a business. You have to make a decision based on numbers and not just emotions,” said Danielle, who freely admits that for many years she ran Simply Erinn’s, which she first bought in 2002, mostly on her love of hair styling and not the bottom-line focus needed to be truly successful.

While she was able to keep the salon open, it still meant plenty of stress and numerous week-toweek battles to stay afloat.

“I will tell you that not knowing how to run a business and running it on intuition was very difficult,” Danielle said.

A few years ago, however, she changed Simply Erinn’s course by taking some business classes that taught small business entrepreneurs better business acumen and strategy. She also connected with Interise, an organization that supports small business owners in urban communities with education, networking connections and

coaching through advisors.

She learned how to examine her businesses strengths, weaknesses and competition, as well as how to get better organized with technology, such as software to keep records and balance the books.

“I learned about what I really needed in this business and in this industry to survive. To make projections and make goals and stick to them,” Danielle said.

In short, she fashioned a whole new style for running her business — and the results have been beautiful for an entrepreneur who knows a thing or two about what looks good.

Simply Erinn’s has six employees, including Danielle. This includes three hair stylists, two assistants and one salon coordinator to handle customers and bookings.

The salon is stylish and clean and the staff is all sharply dressed in black, with impressively styled hair that lets all who enter know they practice what they preach.

Danielle now knows that the hair stylists need to serve five to eight clients a day — depending on the service — over the course of a week to hit the numbers her business needs, which Simply Erinn’s now does consistently.

The salon has a long list of things it does, but main services include cut and styling; hair and scalp rebuilding; special effects such coloring; and hair designs including cornrows, twists and braids.

Simply Erinn’s main clientele

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(L-R front) Erinn Danielle, Danesha Stevenson; (L-R back) Ranea Riley-Walker, Jerikah Price, Amanda Infantino. are women of color, which Danielle says gives her a strong feeling that her business serves the community, but also connects her to the kind of customers she emphasizes have the same passion about hair that she does.

She wouldn’t have it any other way.

So how exactly does Simply Erinn’s stay a cut above the competition? Danielle says it is professionalism above all else, but it also

doesn’t hurt to greet customers with a smile the minute they walk in the door.

“First impressions are very important,” Danielle said. “When you first walk in and no one says anything to you, it is the worst thing. This will not happen at Simply Erinn’s.”

From booking to pricing to the hair products used, everything Simply Erinn’s now does is planned and detailed with a strategy Danielle gained through her recent

efforts to strengthen her business knowledge. The hair is the easiest part, as she has been styling since her teens.

She got her start in hair styling when she was just 19 years old and now has been working in the industry for more than 20 years. She has been a licensed master barber since 1990 and a cosmetologist since 1999. She has certification

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continued from page A10 growth without a consistent period of revenue growth to boost confidence and an anticipation of further gains. It wasn’t long ago that half the small businesses in the U.S. reported concerns about going out of business, so this swing to a majority of small businesses planning growth paints a bright picture.

The CAN Capital survey showed a strong small business appetite for expanded marketing efforts, hiring and investments in inventory, equipment and technology.

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“While a majority of small business owners are optimistic about growth, we are seeing concerns about being able to access needed capital, keeping up with new trends in mobile and digital advertising, meeting new regulatory requirements, and winning the war for talent with larger competitors,” Daniel DeMeo, chief executive officer of CAN Capital, said in a statement about the Small Business Health Index.

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Danielle first worked at the salon that would become Simply Erinn’s in 1997 when it was known as the Style Factory. Later, with a different owner and a new name — Troy Anthony’s — she ran the salon for a year.

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continued from page A7 Walker, the only son of the famed abolitionist David Walker, established the firm of Walker, Wolff & Brown at 46 School Street — the first black law firm in Massachusetts. After practicing law capably for a number of years, Walker left the firm, but Wolff and Brown continued as partners, promptly attending to probate and insolvency business matters, first at 1 Beacon Street, then at 294 Washington Street.

E d w a r d Ev e r e tt B r o w n , Wolff ’s law partner, described him as “a practical, well-read, common sense lawyer, thoroughly conversant with the abstruse problems of commercial law.” Wolff had a profound knowledge of constitutional law. With skill and ability, he argued important cases before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

In 1891, Wolff served as chairman of the South End Equal Rights Association, which typically met at Equal Rights Hall on West Springfield Street. He was a follower of Booker T. Washington and a devoted Republican, but one who criticized his party when he believed it was not looking out for the interests of black people.

Wolff also served as president of the Wendell Phillips Club and was a member of the Crispus Attucks Club. On the night of March 6, 1899 at the American House, both clubs jointly sponsored a banquet observing the 129th anniversary of the Boston Massacre, and commemorating Crispus Attucks. That evening, Wolff voiced his opposition to America’s expansion in the Philippine Islands. He said that expansion meant obtaining power against the will of any people, and he was against it.

That same month, Commander John E. Gilman of the Massachusetts Grand Army of the Republic appointed Wolff judge advocate general of the organization. The Grand Army of the Republic was a veteran’s group founded in 1866 in Decatur, Illinois, whose membership comprised honorably discharged Civil War veterans of the Union Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Revenue Cutter Service. Coming as a reward for his service and in recognition of his ability, Wolff ’s appointment probably marked the first time in the history of the GAR that a black man held the position of judge advocate general — in Massachusetts or any other part of the country.

The membership of the GAR was composed mostly of white men, but in 1899, four African American men in Massachusetts could claim the distinction of being past post commanders in the organization: James H. Wolff, commander of the Francis Washburn Post 92 in Brighton; Horace Gray of Cambridge, commander of the William H. Smart Post 30 in that city; and Charles Lewis

Mitchell and William H. Dupree, commanders of the Thomas Stevenson Post 28 in Boston. With more than 490,000 members nationwide, the Grand Army of the Republic was the largest racially integrated veteran’s organization in the United States.

In 1901, Commander-in-Chief Leo Rassieur of St. Louis appointed Wolff judge advocate general of the national organization. Four years later, on February 14, 1905, Wolff was elected commander of the Massachusetts GAR by a vote of 500 to 15, replacing Lucius Field of Clinton. The election took place at Faneuil Hall during the organization’s 39th annual meeting. It was the first occasion in the Massachusetts GAR’s history that a black comrade was chosen to fill its top post. Weeks later, on April 11, several hundred members attended a reception and banquet in Wolff ’s honor, tendered by the Francis Washburn Post 92 at the GAR Hall in Brighton.

By 1903, the Wolff family had moved to 36 Bayard Street in the Allston/Brighton section of Boston. Two years later, a Boston Globe reporter characterized Wolff as “quiet, retiring and gentlemanly by nature, of medium height” and “thick-set even to the point of being stout.”

He noted that the attorney possessed “a warm, genial smile and a quiet, conversational style of speaking” and was “respected by business men and esteemed by veterans of all parts of the old commonwealth.”

A comment made by President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard University on February 14, 1907 provoked indignation among many black Bostonians, including James Wolff. Eliot said, “If we had a very large Negro population in Boston, we should have separate schools for colored people, and if one-half of the student body at Harvard were Negroes, perhaps we should separate them over there.”

As a man who gave four years of his life fighting to save the Union, Wolff remarked, “[Eliot] must admit that we are American citizens and do not stand for segregation of color.”

“All that the colored people ask is for the same treatment as any other American citizen,” he said.

Wolff went on to say, “We also ask for the enjoyment of those rights by the right of birth, the right of loyalty and devotion to our country, and by the right of the blood we shed to make this country what it is. The unswerving loyalty of the colored man to his country in the time of the Rebellion is well known.

“We couldn’t have conquered the South in ten years if it hadn’t been for the black men of the South,” he explained.

James Harris Wolff died at Massachusetts General Hospital of hypertrophy of the prostate on May 3, 1913 at the age of sixty-five. He is laid to rest at the Ridgelawn Cemetery in Watertown, Massachusetts.

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Most of the 90-minute forum was devoted to public comments.

From the audience of students, parents, educators, elected officials and nonprofit workers and leaders, about 20 stepped to the microphone with their thoughts.

The past six months have seen several BPS-related news items that might influence community priorities for the next school leader. In August and September, Madison Park Technical Vocational High School in Roxbury was plagued by problems, from a severe last-minute shortage of staff to an opening week in which students had no schedules.

In November, a new study shed stark light on disparities in opportunities and outcomes in BPS for black and Latino male students.

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“What’s important to me is a superintendent who is present, and realizes that racism is real,” said Cara Mathews, a Roxbury resident looking ahead to school options for her three-year-old son. “We need to acknowledge that black and brown students are further behind.

If we’re going to arrive, we have to arrive together.”

Judith Baker, a retired BPS teacher, decried what she said was the fall of Madison Park from its former position as a great vocational/technical school that could send students on to good careers, and said the new superintendent must make it a priority to bring the school back up.

Cheng Imm Tan, holding her three-year-old daughter, wished for a superintendent who understands the difficulties faced by non-English-speaking families and who sees the value for students of being bilingual.

“Being bilingual is not seen as an asset. For ELL students, Sheltered English Immersion classes are seen as something to be ashamed of,” she said. “But language is a bridge to cultural competence. All students should be exposed to another language.”

Other attendees, speaking passionately and in a few cases communicating through an interpreter, asked for a superintendent who knows how to form and nurture a team; prioritizes inclusion of special education students; has an understanding of the relationship between ELL and special education; understands the trauma, violence and homelessness that some Boston children face; makes sure all high schools provide enough Advanced Placement courses for students ready and eager for them; and has a strong ability to perform the “fiscal acrobatics” necessary to manage ever-short school budgets.

Katrina Shaw attended the forum as both parent of an 11th-grader and as chief executive officer of Freedom House, a longstanding Boston social justice and youth educational opportunity organization. She did not approach the microphone, but afterward, she said the points about inclusion and about embracing exposure to other languages resonated with her.

“When you celebrate differences, students automatically become culturally competent. They develop a cultural humility,” she said.

Public meetings in February to meet the final superintendent candidates will be announced soon, Gittens said.

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dealing with it now will make balancing next year’s budget that much easier.”

Baker’s prescription for the expected deficit will likely involve cuts to government programs.

“We will hold the line on taxes,” he said. “We’re already demanding enough from hard-working people. And we will protect cities and towns and fulfill our promise to end the cuts to local aid. Otherwise, every line item will be looked at. While there are efficiencies to be gained and structural changes to be made, there’s no doubt that we have to make difficult decisions. We will do so with great sensitivity and careful judgment.”

Baker’s speech pledge to hold harmless local aid — the state funding provided to cities and towns for basic municipal services — echoed a pledge he made on the campaign trail to increase state funding for cities and towns. That pledge may mean other priorities in the $36 billion budget will see cuts.

Coupled with the Baker’s pledge to cut business taxes, the revenue shortfall that Baker characterized as a spending problem may translate into substantial belt-tightening when Baker releases his first budget, due out Jan. 28.

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diverse cabinet in the state’s history. Next Street Financial founder Ron Walker is heading Labor and Workforce Development, Chrystal Kornegay is Secretary of the Department of Housing and Community Development, and Francisco Urena is Secretary of Veterans Services.

Other high-ranking people of color in the Baker administration include Linda Spears, Commissioner of the Department of Children and Families;

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District 7 City Councilor Tito Jackson says he’s encouraged by the diversity in the Baker administration.

“I look forward to inclusive policies, as well as a budget that continues to focus on the communities that Baker visited in his inaugural celebration,” he said.

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cautionar y note on Baker’s pledge to expand charter schools, noting that half of the $150 million Boston receives in state Chapter 70 funds for schools goes to the 21 charter schools in the city. The remaining $75 million goes to the 128 district-run schools.

“It’s critical that we figure out a fair funding formula for charter schools that does not take away resources from district schools,” he commented. “The funding formula is broken. It

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Democratic activist Melvin Poindexter said he is encouraged by the diversity in Baker’s newly-forming administration.

“Now he has to tie in the goals he laid out in his urban agenda,” Poindexter said, referencing the agenda Baker announced at his Grove Hall office opening during the gubernatorial campaign. “His department heads should be able to use that agenda as a blue print.”

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Nighttime soap opera has Shakespearean proportions

By KAM WILLIAMS Luscious Lyon (Terrence Howard) is the ailing CEO of Empire Entertainment, a company he built into a music industry titan while his wife Cookie (Taraji P. Henson) was doing 17 years behind bars for a crime that he committed. Like a modern-day King Lear, he’s ready to surrender the throne to one of his heirs. Lear had three daughters, Luscious has three sons, and that similarity is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of unabashed allusions to the works of William Shakespeare made in the opening episode of Empire.

Directed by two-time Oscar-nominee Lee Daniels (for Precious), the premiere of this nighttime soap opera is mostly devoted to introducing characters and setting the stage for the impending struggle to control the thriving family business. There’s ambitious eldest son, Andre (Trai Byers), a Stanford MBA married to a greedy ice princess (Kaitlin Doubleday).

Middle child Jamal (Jussie Smollett) is quite a talented performer, but he’s also gay and out of the closet, a potential career-killer in the homophobic realm of macho hip-hop.

Finally, we have youngest bro Hakeem (Bryshere Y. Gray), a budding rap star already on the rise. Complicating matters is the fact that their mom’s just been paroled, and she’s eager to stake a claim to her rightful share of the firm for having quietly taken the rap for their former-drug-dealer daddy.

Among the supporting cast members are Gabby Sidibe as Luscious’ assistant Becky, Jennifer Joan Taylor as Dr. Shahani, and Tom Gaitsch as an attorney. Though a tad melodramatic for this critic’s taste, the show’s over the top antics are apt to cultivate a loyal following among the desired demographic, provided Lee Daniels and his creative team come up with a weekly cliffhanger to keep the audience curious enough to tune in again and again and again.

A word to the wise: Thou cannot go wrong by pilfering plotlines from the brilliant Bard of Avon.

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Boston Children’s Chorus tackles race and ethnicity through music IF YOU GO

By COLETTE GREENSTEIN Launched in 2003, the nationally renowned Boston Children’s Chorus was founded by the former dean of Boston University’s School of Social Work, Hubert “Hubie” Jones, as a way to bring together and unite Boston’s diverse communities through the power of music, and to inspire social change.

Comprising children and teens between the ages of seven and eighteen-years old, the organization contains 500 singers representing over 50 of Boston’s inner-city and suburban neighborhoods and twelve different choirs in five locations: the South End, Allston-Brighton, South Boston and Dorchester.

For the past nine to ten years, the goal of the BCC has been about focusing on the music programs and building musical collaborations. Now, the group wants to zero in on “how we continue to make an impact, especially on the social piece of our mission,” according to Ben Hires, BCC’s Director of Programs.

One of the unique features about the Boston Children’s Chorus is that it not only “teaches musical harmony but it also teaches social harmony.” Hires discussed at length how they’re steadily working to

WHAT: BCC presents “Cross That River,” its 12th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Tribute Concert featuring the Premier Choir & Young Men’s Ensemble, Concert Choir WHERE: Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory WHEN: 7 p.m. Monday, January 19. A cocktail and hors d’oeuvres reception will take place at 5:30 p.m.

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bring diverse groups of people together and are asking the question, “How can music be used to unpack these societal issues that our country is facing right now?”

An opportunity to address this question presented itself with a call from the national consultancy arts group ArtsFwd. As part of the grant process, organizations from around the country were directed to present a problem that didn’t have a traditional solution. BCC applied for the grant with their solution posing the question, “how do you use music to deal with a social issue like inequity or racism?” said Hires.

Sure enough it would find out.

In December 2013, Boston Children’s Chorus was the recipient of the ArtsFwd Business Unusual National Challenge. They were awarded a package worth $35,000 in grants and facilitation services — the actual dollar amount was $15,000 — to support the nonprofit as they created an innovative new strategy over the next year to solve

the question.

After winning the grant, the BCC team (including the staff, board, parents and community members) came up with three ideas to implement their solution to the question. The first step was to create a “social innovation lab” out of a storage space in their office.

The lab has been fruitful in creating a space for the students to socialize and get to know one another.

The second step involved reaching out to the YWCA about their community dialogues program and jointly creating the YWCA’s Dialogues on Race and Ethnicity. It was a five-week program that ended in November 2014. Eighteen parents, mostly white and African American with a small Latino representation and one Asian family, met once a week for two hours and discussed personal stories of racism and bias, with the YWCA providing two facilitators to moderate the sessions.

The staff wasn’t sure what the outcome would be with the

Chris Purcell, Lionel Lucien, Katherine Fisher, Joelle Auguste, Susan Rozmanith, Deanna Haughton and Grace Davis. dialogues but the hope was that the parents would embrace it. From attending a few of the sessions, Hires observed that the parents were engaged, excited and energetic about the dialogues. So much so, that the eighteen parents formed a group within the Dialogues called the Parent Ethnic Council and also held a talk back for other parents to hear what the eighteen had learned.

A second session will take place with the YWCA so other parents can get involved, beginning sometime after the February school break. When asked if the dialogues would continue Hires said, “I do see it growing.”

The third goal, which was not as directly related as the first two, was testing out the concept of “Social Change through Choral Singing” with current and new stakeholders.

According to Hires, the goal was to learn what resonates and where

measurement and documentation was required.

“We wanted to give them [singers] an experience where they become more integrated in a particular community and engaged,” he said.

From these conversations, dialogues and experiments, BCC is becoming more intentional about how they get individuals and groups to reflect on their biases and how people are treated and how people are not treated. They’re also focusing on their budget and making sure that they’re dedicating resources to things like race training, the YW Dialogues, and materials for the kids.

“There’s no program that does this through choral music. The kids love to sing, and through those interactions BCC is exposing the kids to the diversity of the world,” says Hires.

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Joaquin Phoenix plays pothead private eye in hippie-era whodunit

By KAM WILLIAMS Dateline: Los Angeles, 1970, which is where we find Private Eye Larry “Doc” Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix) living in a beach house with a view in a fictional, seacoast enclave called Gordita Beach. He’s totally wasted, but that doesn’t stop Shasta Fay Hepworth (Katherine Waterston) from approaching her ex-boyfriend for help with a personal problem.

Seems that the fetching femme fatale is currently the mistress of real estate magnate Mickey Wolfmann (Eric Roberts), and she has reason to believe that the philandering billionaire is about to be involuntarily committed to a mental institution by his vindictive wife, Sloane (Serena Scott Thomas) and her lover, Riggs Warbling (Andrew Simpson).

Against his better judgment, Doc takes the case, and soon finds himself swept into a seamy underworld filled with colorful characters ranging from a recently-paroled black radical (Michael Kenneth Williams) to an avowed

white supremacist (Christopher Allen Nelson) to the proverbial prostitute with the heart of gold (Hong Chau). After being conked on the head, Doc comes around in a police station where he learns that he’s the prime suspect not only in the disappearance of both Mickey and Shasta Fay, but in a murder to boot.

So unfolds Inherent Vice, a surreal whodunit far more concerned with recreating the feel of the post-60s’ daze of free-flowing drugs than with crafting a compelling crime thriller. Unfortunately, the absence of a credible plotline means the premise soon dissolves into a rudderless, meandering mess, reducing the viewing experience to enjoying the retro décor, fashions and slang of the period.

The picture was directed by five-time Oscar-nominee Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights and Magnolia), who also adapted the script from the Thomas Pynchon bestseller of the same name.

The film does feature a few standout performances, most

Katherine Waterson and Joaquin Phoenix star in Inherent Vice. notably, Joaquin Phoenix in the starring role, and Josh Brolin as a hard-nosed LAPD officer. Otherwise the production makes precious little use of the services of its cluttered, A-list

cast which includes Academy Award-winners Reese Witherspoon (for Walk the Line) and Benicio del Toro (for Traffic), and Oscar-nominees Eric Roberts (for Runaway Train) and

Owen Wilson (for The Royal Tenenbaums).

An unstructured, atmospheric affair ostensibly designed to appeal to folks nostalgic for the hedonistic hippie era.

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Taraji P. Henson and Idris Elba match wits in No Good Deed Film inspired by The Desperate Hours

By KAM WILLIAMS While this movie is by no means a masterpiece, it is nevertheless a tautly-wound nail-biter which keeps you on the edge of your seat from beginning to end.

And yes, there is a humdinger of a revelation during the denouement, not a totally preposterous development but rather a plausible one which was merely cleverly-concealed.

The movie marks the theatrical directorial debut of Sam Miller, who is best known for Luther, the brilliant BBC-TV series featuring Idris Elba in the title role for which he won a Golden Globe in 2012. The two collaborate again here, with Idris playing Colin Evans, a serial killer who, at the point of departure, slays a couple of prison guards during a daring escape from a Tennessee prison.

He makes his way to his girlfriend Alexis’ (Kate del Castillo) house in Atlanta only to murder her, too, when he learns she’s already involved with another man.

Colin remains so blinded with rage as he drives away that he crashes his stolen car into a tree along a suburban country road.

He subsequently knocks on the door of Terri Granger (Taraji P. Henson), an attorney-turned-stay at home mom whose husband (Henry Simmons) has conveniently just left town with his father away for a weekend golf getaway. Against the former prosecutor’s better judgment, she lets the tall, dark and handsome stranger enter the house, and it isn’t long before there’s trouble in paradise.

After all, as the proverb suggested by the title warns, “No good deed goes unpunished.”

Accordingly, Terri and her two young kids find themselves in the clutches of a desperate maniac until the protective mother’s maternal and survival instincts kick into high gear.

No Good Deed was ostensibly inspired by The Desperate Hours, a suspiciously-similar Broadway play starring Paul Newman, which was first adapted to the big screen in 1955 starring Humphrey Bogart and remade in 1990 with Sir Anthony Hopkins. Thanks to Mr. Elba’s menacing intensity, a potentially mediocre variation on the theme ends up elevated into a tension-filled gutwrencher his loyal fans won’t want to miss.

Idris Elba portrays a serial killer in No Good Deed.

Sun Jan 18 - 3-5pm, Join us for A Sweeter Life dessert fundraiser to benefit Haley House’s Transitional Employment Program Guest Dessert Chefs include: Joanne Chang of FLOUR BAKERY Julius Johnson of SIFTED CAKES Maura Kilpatrick of SOFRA BAKERY Tickets available at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/864837

Upcoming Events at Haley House Bakery Cafe: Thu Jan 15 - Art is Life itself! returns, featuring Deconstructing the Prison Industrial Complex and Fulani Haynes and the Jazz Collaborative + Open Mic 7pm Fri Jan 16 - #BlackPoetsSpeakOut: Boston (doors at 6:30pm, program at 7:15pm) Wed Jan 21 - Roxbury History Series presents: The History of the Dearborn School, 7 pm (Come early for dinner!)

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The Yiddish Book Center will host a special screening of the 1925 Soviet silent film “Jewish Luck,” with live musical accompaniment by renowned pianist Robert Humphreville, on Sunday, January 18, at 2pm. “Jewish Luck” follows the adventures of Menakhem Mendl, a daydreaming entrepreneur who specializes in doomed strike-itrich schemes, and is based on a series of short stories of the great Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem. One of the first Soviet Yiddish films released in the U.S., it stars the famed Soviet Jewish actor Solomon Mikhoels in the title role. The film will be shown with new English intertitles. Robert Humphreville is a pianist and organist who plays both classical and popular music. In addition to accompanying silent film screenings around the region, he composes film scores. The film has been provided to the Yiddish Book Center by the National Center for Jewish Film. Tickets to the event are $8 for general admission, $6 for Yiddish Book Center members, and $4 for students. Tickets can be purchased at yiddishbookcenter.org or by calling 413-256-4900.

MONDAY DANFORTH ART FREE FAMILY DAY Celebrate the legacy of Civil Rights leader Dr. King and explore the artwork of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Faith Ringgold, and John Wilson through art-making, gallery tours, story time, and creative play for all ages. Special studio art projects include multi-media abstractions and patterned pictures.

Monday, January 19 — Free admission 12-5pm, Gallery & Activities 2-4pm. Gallery activities include story time and a collaborative mural. Free and Open to the Public. 123 Union Ave., Framingham. For general information on Danforth Art, please visit www.dan forthart.org or call 508-620-0050.

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. AND AMILCAR CABRAL COMMEMORATIVE PROGRAM On January 19, the 18th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. and Amilcar Cabral Commemorative Program will be held in the Ryan Lounge on the 3rd floor of McCormick Hall, UMass Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd. Boston from 11am - 5pm. The commemorative program will focus on “Education for Liberation.” This is event is free and open to the public. For additional information call: 617-287-6790.

MARTIN LUTHER KING LUMINARIAS Create luminaria to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Monday, January 19, 4-6pm at Hawthorne Youth & Community Center, 9 Fulda St., Roxbury. Join Us to Enjoy Performances

by Hawthorne Youth and Light Supper.

ALL WELCOME! Info: 617-427-0613, hyccroxbury@hotmail.com.

Did you resolve to be more spicy in 2015?

NECAT World Cuisine Showcase: Fourth Cohort, Wednesday, January 21, 12-2pm. Come experience delicious food from around the world, prepared by our fourth cohort! Please join us to taste the creativity and craftsmanship of our culinary students’ favorite international dishes, and help celebrate their last day as students prepare to enter the workforce.

We are very proud of our students and what they have accomplished, and invite you to join NECAT in this delectable showcase! The event is free and open to the public. Limited free parking is available.

Please RSVP at www.eventbrite.com/e/ world-cuisine-showcase-fourth-cohorttickets-15145680137. For more information, contact Joel Nitzberg at jnitzberg@ ne-cat.org or call 617-442-3600 x 712.

NEW DATE! AN AFTERNOON WITH STEVEN BRILL Steven Brill has written for The New Yorker, Time and The New York Times Magazine.

A graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School, he founded and ran Court TV, The American Lawyer magazine, 10 regional legal newspapers and Brill’s Content magazine. Brill was the author of Time’s March 4, 2013, special report “Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us,” for which he won the 2014 National Magazine Award for Public Service. Brill also teaches journalism at Yale, where he founded the Yale Journalism Initiative to encourage and enable talented young people to become journalists.

Following the presentation, Steven Brill will sign his new book, “America’s Bitter Pill.”

January 21, 12-1:30pm, 240 Dockser Hall, Northeastern University School of Law, 65 Forsyth St., Boston. This event is free and open to the public. RSVP: c.zickell@ neu.edu. For more information, visit northeastern.edu/law/brill. Sponsored by Northeastern University School of Law and its Program on Health Policy and Law.

THURSDAY JOLLEY FUN, LAUGHTER YOGA CLUB Dudley Library community room, Thursday, January 22, 6:30-7:30pm.

Please bring water. Every one welcome.

As defined on Wikipedia: Laughter yoga (Hasyayoga) is a practice involving prolonged voluntary laughter. Laughter yoga is based on the belief that voluntary laughter provides the same physiological and psychological benefits as spontaneous laughter. Laughter yoga is done in groups, with eye contact and playfulness between participants. Forced laughter soon turns into real and contagious laughter.

HARNESSING CONSENSUS: SHAPING THE WORLD’S NEW DEVELOPMENT GOALS Wellesley College welcomes former Secretary of State and Class of 1959 alumna Madeleine Korbel Albright back to campus for the 2015 Albright Institute Wintersession. On January 22 at 4pm, Secretary Albright joins Elizabeth Cousens, U.S.

Belmont World Film presents “A Cinematic Adventure,” the 12th edition of its popular Family Film Festival for children ages 3-15 from January 16-19, at Arlington’s Regent Theatre (7 Medford Street) on Friday, Sunday and Monday, and at the West Newton Cinema on Saturday. In honor of event’s twelfth year, the festival features twelve animated and live action film programs — many of them premieres — from such diverse countries as Australia, Canada, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Latvia, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, the US, and more, and includes a tribute to the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Martin Luther King Day. Individual tickets are $5 for programs that are 60 minutes or less and $8 for programs that are more than 60 minutes. Tickets are available in advance online at www.belmontworldfilm.org or in person at the Studio Cinema or Arlington Regent box office on day of show. For full film descriptions and additional information visit www.belmontworldfilm. org or call 617-484-3980.

Representative on the UN Economic and Social Council and Alternate Representative to the UN General Assembly, and Dr. Homi Kharas, a Brookings Institution senior fellow and deputy director for the Global Economy and Development program, for a public dialogue on ending poverty and transforming economies through sustainable development. Where: The Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall Auditorium (201), 106 Central St., Wellesley. The talk is free and open to the public. Parking on campus is also free.

UPCOMING THROUGH BARBED WIRE PRESENTS 4TH FRIDAY READING OF PRISONERS’ WRITINGS 7-8:30pm, monthly prose & poetry participatory event focused on prisoners’ writings & their value as tools to sway youth in the community towards good decision-making. Audience participation encouraged, light refreshments, 1 block south of Back Bay MBTA bus, subway, commuter rail, Amtrak. Created and directed by Arnie King. Friday, January 23, South End Technology Center, 359 Columbus Ave., near Copley Sq. in Boston. Contact: www.arnoldking. org or throughbarbedwire@yahoo.com; tel: 857-492-4858. Cost: Free/Donation.

HANDEL AND HAYDN CHINATOWN CONCERT Free Handel and Haydn Chinatown concert. Lena Wong, violin, and Sarah Freiberg, cello, showcase period performance practice with duos by Bach, Handel, and Haydn and celebrate an early Chinese New Year with folk songs including Village People Dancing, Lullaby, and Song of Friends. Saturday, January 24, 1-2pm, Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center, 38 Ash St. Boston.

RSVP: This event is free, but seats are limited. RSVP by January 21. To RSVP, visit www.bcnc.net, e-mail info@bcnc. net or call 617-635-5129 x0.

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, 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.

STRINGS THEORY TRIO Strings Theory Trio: CD Release Concert of directed improvisation composed and performed by Mimi Rabson, Helen Sherrah-Davies, and Junko Fujiwara. Combining idiomatic flexibility, a deep wellspring of creativity, and world-class virtuosity, violinist Mimi Rabson is one of the Boston area’s most valuable musical resources — and her new recording with her Strings Theory Trio is a uniquely compelling synthesis of classical chamber music and directed improvisation, bringing together some of Rabson’s most important influences and inspirations.With Rabson and Helen Sherrah-Davies on five string violins and Junko Fujiwara on cello, the Strings Theory Trio supercharges the intimate atmosphere of chamber music with a triple dose of edgy, daring improvisation. The listener is treated to experiencing Western classical tradition anew; the surging counterpoint and crystalline instrumental sonorities gain new resilience and allure from their origin in the inspiration of the moment. Simultaneously delicate and dangerous, the Strings Theory Trio’s music is richly nuanced and deeply satisfying. Wednesday, January 28, 7:30pm. Free and open to all, free CD to first 20 guests. David Friend Recital Hall, 921 Boylston St., Boston. For information: 617-710-5932, www.berklee. edu/events/strings-theory.

THE NEGRO SCIENTIST W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Fall Colloquium: Evelynn Hammonds — Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science, and Professor of African and African American Studies; Director, Program for the Study of Race & Gender in Science & Medicine, Hutchins Center, Harvard University W. E. B. Du Bois’, “The Negro Scientist.” January 28, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge at 12pm. Free and open to the public. Please feel free to bring a lunch.

ONGOING NANCY DEWEY A PERUVIAN QUEST The Multicultural Arts Center will be hosting Nancy Dewey’s “A Peruvian Quest” 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 Ruins. For 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.mul ticulturalartscenter.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.

FREE ADULT COMPUTER CLASSES Times: Monday & Wednesday - 12:302:30pm and 6-8pm, Tuesday & Thursday - 12:30-2:30pm 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.

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DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Why King turned attention to the North

By RALPH JAMES, JR. “I want to join ... what I consider a very significant struggle,” Martin Luther King Jr., declared on July 7, 1965, after announcing that he and SCLC staffers would spend three days in Chicago later in the month. The news thrilled Chicago civil rights advocates, who looked to King and SCLC to electrify their cause.

“Chicago needs all the help you can possibly give to us to rid ourselves of a system of segregation which throttles the life and growth of the city,” one Chicagoan wrote to King. “[The] people in Chicago,” another insisted, “are elated over the fact that you are coming to help us in our struggle.”

King’s decision to bring his civil rights workers to Chicago for a short visit was not surprising. The civil rights movement was in a state of flux. Even amid its greatest triumphs - the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — the venerable crusader for black freedom, A. Philip Randolph, warned of the dangers of a “crisis of victory.” As the Jim Crow South crumbled, questions followed. Where should the movement go next? What

EDITOR’S NOTE Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. turned the attention of the Civil Rights Movement to the North.

The same year King and other civil rights leaders fought for voting rights in Selma, Alabama, King made high-profile appearances in Boston, New York, Chicago and other northern cities to highlight segregation and inequality. His Boston trip included a march to the Boston Common and an address before the Massachusetts Legislature. should be its targets? What tactics should be employed?

A new focus

Bayard Rustin, coordinator for the March on Washington and longtime advisor to King, contended that the age of protest was ending, and that civil rights forces should focus on building an expanded coalition of blacks, liberals, trade unionists, and religious groups to enact a sweeping agenda of social democratic legislation.

“What began as a protest movement is being challenged to translate itself into a political movement,” Rustin wrote in an influential essay in early 1965. Yet even as Rustin issued his appeal, SNCC (the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) and CORE (the Congress of Racial Equality) were turning inward, away from interracialism and nonviolent direct action and toward developing power within black communities. Community organizing had

become the watchword among young black activists. Nonetheless, out of this confusion and debate in movement circles a consensus was emerging that more attention had to be paid to the North.

By 1965, SNCC staffers were moving north to begin urban programs, and early the next year CORE targeted Baltimore as the site of a major project to assist inner-city blacks. Only a few years earlier, the notion of southern blacks traveling across the Mason-Dixon line to help northern blacks would have been dismissed as preposterous. Southern blacks had long considered the North something of a sanctuary, a region where black men and women could at least carve out a decent life. Before the Civil War, runaway slaves escaped to the North for freedom. In the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of blacks migrated North in search

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By ROBERT HAYDEN Martin Luther King Jr. touched Boston and Boston touched him.

Being in Boston was an important part of his life, and his presence here during the ’50s and ’60s is part of our history.

King first came to Boston in 1951 to study at Boston University’s School of Theology, where he received his Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1955.

He lived at 397 Mass. Ave. with a former classmate from Atlanta’s Morehouse College. Their apartment became the meeting place for the Philosophical Club, a group of black students they organized to discuss the issues of the day.

The same year King arrived in Boston, his future wife Coretta Scott came here to study at the New England Conservatory of Music. In early 1952, the two met; a romance blossomed, and in June 1953 they were married in Heiberger, Alabama.

After their wedding, the Kings returned to their studies in Boston and made their new home in a four-room apartment near the Conservatory.

At Boston University, King studied philosophy and theology under Edgar S. Brightman and L. Harold DeWolf, two leading advocates of personal idealism.

Through this philosophy, King strengthened his idea of a personal God and formed his belief in the dignity and worth of all human personality.

At the Twelfth Baptist

During his student years at Boston University, the historic Twelfth Baptist Church (now on Warren St., Roxbury) was an important part of King’s life. He worshiped, taught religious classes and preached Sunday morning sermons at Twelfth.

“Just about the time I came to Twelfth as a youth minister in 1951, Martin Luther King attached himself to Rev. William

Hester and Twelfth,” recalled Rev. Michael Haynes, now the pastor emeritus of Twelfth Baptist.

“In a sense, Martin called this his home church without taking out membership,” recalled Haynes in a 1983 interview. “His father, Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. had encouraged his son to get with Rev. Hester when he was here. He often ate at the Hesters’ home and he met Coretta Scott here at the church. He preached here when Rev. Hester was away ... perhaps once a month. And he preached many of the evening services at Twelfth,” said Haynes.

By the winter of 1954, King began thinking about beginning his own ministry. He was offered and took a job at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.

In June 1954 Mrs. King finished her studies at the Conservatory.

The couple closed up their Boston apartment and went south. The rest is history.

The Boston years had

sharpened King’s gifts as a religious thinker and leader. And when he was needed, King returned to this city.

The Dr. Rev. Virgil Wood, who served as chief of Boston’s branch of King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference, first met King in 1951 at a Virginia Union Seminary gathering.

“He was something of a student celebrity,” Wood once recalled. “I remember about 50 of us gathered to hear him. We sat in a dialogue for about three hours and talked about his assessment of relations ...about how we could get along with segregation. Nobody thought we could end it.”

Dr. Wood went south, leaving a church in Providence, Rhode Island to help launch a civil rights movement in Lynchburg, Virginia.

In 1963 he returned to Boston to establish a branch of the SCLC, where he raised money from black churches and the Jewish community to support civil rights causes.

King’s 1965 demonstration

Among the most important things King did for Boston, said Wood, was to lead a massive demonstration in April 1965 and solidify the fight against racism in Boston’s schools. “After that, the story of Boston’s schools became a national story,” said Wood.

The years 1964-65 saw debate over de facto segregation in the Boston public schools. Black parents called for the closing of the inadequate Boardman School in 1964. That same year, parents

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Backlash over ‘Selma’ misses the point

By PENIEL JOSEPH Ava DuVernay’s Selma is a cinematic masterpiece that depicts one of the most important episodes in civil rights history. The film presents history as a kaleidoscope, documenting the roiling Selma-to-Montgomery demonstrations that turned Alabama into a national symbol of racial violence and injustice in 1965. Many movie critics have enthusiastically praised Selma for its complex and intelligent screenplay and direction.

David Oyelowo’s extraordinary performance as King anchors a movie of unusual depth and breadth.

But Selma’s treatment of President Lyndon B. Johnson has sparked a controversy that could threaten the film’s legacy and, in the short term, its chances for prestigious awards. As portrayed by British actor Tom Wilkinson, LBJ is a beleaguered president and — at times — exasperated with King on the issue of voting rights. Historically, LBJ and King formed an effective political relationship on the issue, although real tensions emerged between the two men when

Johnson suggested that voting legislation be pursued later, rather than earlier, in the congressional session.

Johnson feared an immediate push for the black vote would undermine his ambitions for a “Great Society.”

Selma’s script hews close to the historical record on this point. Still, the unsympathetic portrayal of Johnson suggests a president who was an antagonist on voting rights rather than a supporter.

The hyperbolic response from some critics includes the outrageous (and false) assertion that the Selma protests were actually Johnson’s idea, to suggestions that the film’s portrait of Johnson should disqualify it from awards (read Oscar) consideration.

A new line of criticism outlined in the Jewish Daily Forward argues that Selma disfigured the historical civil rights movement by “airbrushing” Jewish allies from the film. That’s an argument that would carry more weight if DuVernay had focused on other moments in civil rights history, like Freedom Summer where white and Jewish allies played a more prominent role. Historically, the events depicted in Selma were driven largely

by the African-American activists portrayed in the film.

Many prestigious movies take dramatic license with historical events. Films are not scholarly books. For example, Steven Spielberg’s acclaimed film “Lincoln” erases the iconic abolitionist Frederick Douglass from the story, even though Douglass met with President Abraham Lincoln three times, including once during the period the film chronicles. Screenwriter Tony Kushner and director Spielberg made the hard creative choice, something that did not prevent that film from being considered an artistic achievement and worthy of awards.

So what exactly is at work here?

Taken together, these critiques are part of a larger debate about who owns American history, especially the portions of that history that were led, organized, and shaped in large part by African-Americans. White supporters and fellow travelers of the movement have had the license to dramatize both historical events (Mississippi Burning, which inaccurately cast the FBI as the heroes of Freedom Summer) and fictional accounts (The Help) of the era. But DuVernay’s film — alongside Lee Daniel’s The Butler and Spike Lee’s Malcolm X — is one of the few black-directed efforts to ever grace the big screen.

Part of the controversy over Selma stems not only from the film’s portrait of Johnson, but for the lack of white protagonists in major roles. This is not to say that the movie only shows whites as villains. If Alabama Governor George Wallace and the brutal Selma Sheriff Jim Clark are depicted as unapologetic racists — which they were — sympathetic white characters abound, including James Reeb and Viola Liuzzo, two relatively unknown figures from the Selma protests who were killed by local whites for their activism. And two Johnson men, advisor Lee C. White and Assistant Attorney General

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Selma to Montgomery march participants.

John Doar, are portrayed as quietly determined allies of the movement.

Selma is unapologetic in depicting the movement as one that was primarily led by black women and men. Black women stand out on this score with subtle and nuanced depictions of Coretta Scott King, Annie Lee Cooper, Diane Nash, and Amelia Boynton definitively illustrating black women’s fierce activist commitment and leadership in civil rights struggles. Intimate scenes between activists in King’s Southern Christian Leadership and the young militants of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee showcase the generational tensions, bruised egos and intellectual firepower that made the movement successful. King’s trusted lieutenants Ralph Abernathy, Andrew Young, Hosea Williams and James Orange are all given their due, as are John Lewis — now Congressman Lewis — and Jim Forman of SNCC. Cameo appearances by C.T. Vivian, one of the movement’s most courageous and unsung heroes, and Malcolm X give a fuller picture of the history than we’ve ever seen on film.

The real problem many critics have with this film is that it’s too black and too strong. Our popular reimagining of the civil rights movement is that it’s something we all did together and the battle is over; that’s just not true.

Selma’s two biggest set pieces showcase the depth and breadth of institutional racism in America then and now. The first depicts the brutal violence that police meted out against peaceful protesters on “Bloody Sunday,” the March 7, 1965 demonstration on the Edmund

Pettus Bridge. The second highlights the triumphant March 25 speech by King in Montgomery before 25,000 people. The first instance reminds us, in the aftermath of Ferguson and Eric Garner grand jury decisions, of the way in which anti-black state violence can impact society even with a sympathetic president in the White House.

The second instance, in this “Age of Obama” and #BlackLivesMatter, is remarkable for what DuVernay does not do and what so many critics have ignored. Rather than linger on King’s victory in Montgomery, Selma drinks in the moment as a collective achievement, not only for black Americans, but for democracy and human rights. She offers a courageous and much needed corrective for our time.

Selma reminds us to honor not just the heroic figure making speeches, but the collective will of so many who made progress possible. Ultimately, the beating heart of this film rests not with its portrait of LBJ, or even King, not with what group has been left out or ignored, but with the larger truth that the civil rights movement’s heroic period reflected our collective strengths and weaknesses as a nation, something Americans are loathe to recognize let alone acknowledge. Selma’s greatest gift is that, even when it reimagines some moments of history, it remains unflinching in its examination of America’s racial soul.

Peniel E. Joseph is Professor of History at Tufts University and the author of Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama. You can follow him on Twitter @ PenielJoseph.

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continued from page B6 of a brighter future. The South — the home of slavery, lynchings, and legalized segregation - had always been the great oppressor of blacks.

Not the promised land

Though a son of the South, King, even early in his career, recognized that the North was not a racial paradise. As a student in Pennsylvania and Boston, he had encountered the sting of northern prejudice firsthand. In one of his earliest speeches during the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 and 1956, King warned against rosy views on the status of blacks throughout the country: “Let’s not fool ourselves, we are far from the promised land, both North and South,” he told his listeners.

Yet, however injurious northern racial discrimination practices were, in the 1950s and early 1960s they seemed less oppressive than the southern caste system that denied blacks even basic rights of citizenship. In its first years SCLC, founded in 1957 by King and fellow southern ministers, diagnosed the race problem in regional terms: the South was the target, and the North, though no interracial utopia, offered abundant resources that could be tapped to fuel the southern crusade against racial injustice. SCLC could cultivate financial assistance from northern

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liberals, encourage the federal judiciary to step up its assault on Jim Crow practices, and entice the federal government to intervene on behalf of southern blacks.

King’s diagnosis also highlighted the daily indignities that southern blacks endured under the Jim Crow regime. He sought to end the reign of violence designed to intimidate blacks and to abolish offensive practices such as public segregation on buses, at lunch counters, and in school systems.

This was a natural, almost instinctive response. The career of nonviolent direct action after World War II correlates closely with blatant discrimination in public arenas.

The first wave of protests struck against segregated northern lunch counters, restaurants, and other public accommodations. As glaring discrimination in public places receded in the North, segregated public facilities in the border states and then in the South became the target of nonviolent direct action.

To King and his followers in the 1950s and early 1960s, the enemy was clear — legalized segregation and discrimination. With the Jim Crow system so palpable and so seemingly intractable and with the assault upon it so consuming, there was little pressure for a more extensive examination of racism in America in civil rights circles.

Yet as southern barriers fell and northern unrest mounted, civil rights advocates felt compelled to develop a more sophisticated

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Charles Silberman, a respected commentator on American race relations, wrote in 1964: “What we are discovering, in short, is that the United States — all of it, North as well as South, West as well as East — is a racist society in a sense and to a degree that we have refused so far to admit, much less face.”

Redefining racism

King was particularly vulnerable to mounting pressure for a more searching analysis of American racism. The Montgomery bus boycott had catapulted him into the national limelight and despite his focus on the South, he had become a spokesperson for all black Americans. Moreover, the underlying principles behind his civil rights ministry ensured that his social vision was not fixed but eminently expandable. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference might have been a regional organization, but from the beginning its aims reflected its Christian, universalistic spirit. It hoped not just to redeem the soul of the South but, in the words of its founding slogan, “to redeem the soul of America.” King and SCLC were moral voices whose domain could reach far beyond the Mason-Dixon line.

By 1963, King’s public remarks reflected his growing concern over the state of race relations in the North. Like many civil rights activists, he had anticipated that northern blacks “would benefit derivatively” from southern victories. But now, with the tide turning decisively against the Jim Crow South and with the outpouring of northern support for the southern black freedom struggle, he stressed that sympathetic northerners should neither be content with helping southern blacks nor be quietly reaping benefits from the southern struggle. In a series of speeches delivered across the country in the aftermath of SCLC’s Birmingham campaign, King called upon northerners to boost the freedom struggle directly by “getting rid of segregation and discrimination — such as de facto segregation” — in their own communities.

A surge of northern school boycotts in 1964 prompted King to assess further the damage produced by northern racial inequities. With hundreds of thousands of black students in Boston, New York and Chicago refusing to go to school because of alleged unequal education, the depth of northern black alienation could not be denied. King extended his “moral support and deepest sympathy” to the boycotters, commending black parents for “fighting for the deepest needs of grossly deprived children” and “trying to loosen the manacles of the ghetto from the hands of their children.”

Inspired by the northern insurgency, he told an interviewer in May that “while I have been working mainly in the South and my organization is a southern-based organization, more and more I feel that the

problem is so national in its scope that will have to do more work in the North than I have in the past.”

Urban riots of ’64

The explosion of urban riots in the summer of 1964 served as the catalyst that drove King and SCLC to work in the North. The violent uprisings struck at the heart of King’s and SCLC’s vision of social change. Nonviolence was more than just a tactic for King - it was a way of life - and SCLC was more committed to nonviolence than any other civil rights organization.

King and his SCLC lieutenants felt compelled to offer northern blacks an alternative to violence, and after receiving an emergency call from local ministers, Andrew Young and James Bevel led a team of seven organizers to riot-torn Rochester, New York. Drawing on their celebrity status and wearing overalls, the civil rights veterans reached out to disgruntled and disaffected blacks, stressing that violence would not solve their problems. Young thought the “group had amazing and almost immediate success.”

In the summer of 1964, King even found himself trying to heal northern racial wounds. When a New York City riot — the first major black uprising since 1943 — threatened to spiral out of control, Mayor Robert Wagner pleaded for King to use his influence to help calm the city. Even though the rioting had already subsided, King acceded to Wagner’s request and traveled to the city, where he quickly found himself embroiled in controversy. As King headed to Gracie Mansion to see Wagner, Harlem leaders lambasted him for neglecting them and for allowing himself to be used by the “white power structure.” It would not be the last chilly welcome King would receive as he became more active in the North.

King consulted with Wagner, but he also cooled the tempers of local black leaders by meeting with them and touring New York’s black communities. Although gauging King’s effect on easing tensions is difficult, the episode broadened the Baptist minister’s awareness of ghetto conditions and the depth of inner-city inhabitants’ rage. King warned of future “social disruption [until] the Harlem and racial ghettoes of our nation are destroyed and the Negro is brought into the mainstream of American life.”

The upsurge of northern civil rights protest and the summer rioting prompted King to stress SCLC’s obligation to northern blacks at the organization’s annual convention in the fall of 1964. He did not propose a northern project, but it was clear that northern racial problems would become more prominent in SCLC’s agenda. The bestowal in October 1964 of the Nobel Peace Prize pressed King to widen his social mission even more. “[The prize] was a great tribute, but an even more awesome burden,” Coretta Scott King remarked. King could no longer focus so exclusively on the problems of southern blacks; his arena of reform had to expand.

In his Nobel address King dwelled on the three issues that were to shape the rest of his public career. Before an enthusiastic

crowd jammed into a University of Oslo auditorium, King spoke of the necessity of eliminating war and poverty as well as racial injustice from the world.

For the moment, however, King remained focused on southern racism. In February and March 1965, King and SCLC executed their brilliant Selma campaign.

Aided by the country’s shock at southern white brutality, they ignited a national demand for voting rights legislation. The Selma campaign would, however, be the last great, heroic episode of the southern civil rights drama. Across the rest of the South, the tide of nonviolent direct action had already passed. A time of debate, confusion, and decision was at hand.

A duty to go north

At a Baltimore strategy session in early April 1965, shortly after the conclusion of the Selma project, King and SCLC hinted that they would soon embark on a new effort. Though the proceedings of King’s proposed boycott of Alabama dominated press coverage, the SCLC executive board took an important institutional step toward broadening the scope of SCLC’s activities by announcing that SCLC would extend its operations into the North. “You can expect us in Baltimore, you can expect us in New York and in Philadelphia and Chicago and Detroit and Los Angeles,” King pledged.

Eight weeks later, after trips to Boston, New York and other cities, King solidified his northern plans.

At a meeting in Warrenton, Virginia, in late May, King and his top advisors debated whether SCLC should go north. There was not yet a formal proposal for a specific northern campaign, but some of King’s colleagues, questioning the wisdom of any extended northern thrust, argued that there was still much to be done in the South, that SCLC would find the North unreceptive to its efforts, and that heading north would harm SCLC’s fund raising, which relied heavily

on northern contributors.

But King thought otherwise, and he rejected this counsel just as he would subsequent warnings.

He felt a duty to go north. He had to reach out to northern blacks.

Norman Hill of the Industrial Union Department of the AFLCIO recalled that after one session in which he and Rustin tried to dissuade King from heading north, King responded less with well-honed arguments for his next move than with the almost unassailable assertion that “this is where our mission is, we have received a calling to come north.”

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On this 16th day of July, 1964, I name the Boston University Library the repository of my correspondence, along with a few of my awards and other materials which may be of interest in historical or other research ... In the event of my death, all such materials deposited with the University shall become from that date the absolute property of Boston University.”

— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in a letter to Boston University

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continued from page B7 and their supporters boycotted the schools in a protest over segregation and set up the Freedom Schools. King came to Boston to give support.

He returned in 1965 for a second boycott as the struggle with the School Committee over inadequate and segregated schools continued. King tried to visit the Boardman School but was turned away by school officials.

When the King left Boston in 1954 after finishing his theological studies at Boston University, he was a young minister, little known beyond a small circle of friends and admirers. But when he returned in 1965 to support Boston’s blacks in their struggle to desegregate the schools he was an internationally known personality, having won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent struggle for civil rights.

Address to Legislature

The hallmark of the visit was King’s April 22 speech delivered to a joint convention of the two houses of the General Court of Massachusetts at the State House.

This was his first speech before any state legislature in the country. A Boston Globe reporter, Wilfred Rogers, described the scene in the House Chamber: “Spectators stood in a packed gallery.

Some legislators used camp stools

on the crowded House floor.

Many edged forward in their seats when Rev. Dr. King warned that segregation isn’t limited to any one section of the nation. He never mentioned Boston or Massachusetts specifically, but he did stress school imbalance, and ‘de facto segregation.’” In strong tones, King spoke of the “tragedy” and evils of schools segregation. Again, while not mentioning Boston by name, it was clear that his experience there the day before left no doubt that his remarks were targeted at the state and Boston.

“Now is the time to end segregation in the public schools,” King told the State House gathering.

“Young boys and girls must grow up with world perspectives. Segregation debilitates the segregator as well as the segregated,” he said.

The day before the speech King had visited the Patrick T. Campbell Junior High School in Dorchester. The school, later renamed for King, had a virtually all-black student body and faculty.

Rogers’ Globe report said that motorcycle police cars protected the King entourage along Blue Hill and Lawrence Avenues as a precaution against death-threat calls received by the police department and the NAACP. With bullhorn in hand and speaking from the elevated entrance to the school, Dr. King told the cheering crowd: “Today I am happy to become a member of PUSH” (Parents United to end School Hoax), a local desegregation group.

Above, President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as Martin Luther King and other civil rights luminaries look on. Below, Johnson and King.

King attempted to arrange a visit with then-Boston School Committee president Louise Day Hicks. The meeting collapsed when Hicks refused to include local civil rights and school activists in the talks with the Nobel laureate.

The struggle over school desegregation and education was the primary focus of attention for King while he was in Boston.

Before addressing the Massachusetts Legislature on April 22, he led a major protest march in support of school desegregation from the Carter Playground in the South End to the Boston Common.

The Massachusetts Racial Imbalance Law was passed in August, 1965, and King’s voice helped pave the way.

King’s papers at BU

King did not forget Boston and Boston University after his first visit in 1964 to support Roxbury’s parents and students in their first school boycott and quest for school improvements.

A letter from King to Boston University began: “On this 16th day of July, 1964, I name the Boston University Library the repository of my correspondence, along with a few of my awards

and other materials which may be of interest in historical or other research...” The letter ended, “In the event of my death, all such materials deposited with the University shall become from that date the absolute property of Boston University.” In 1987, King’s widow, Coretta Scott King, filed a court suit to claim ownership of the collection and to have the 83,000 items returned to the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Non-violent Social Change in Atlanta. In a trial in Boston’s Suffolk Superior Court, Mrs. King claimed that before her husband died, he changed his mind about having the papers at BU and expressed to her his wish to see them placed in a southern black institution. A twelve-member jury ruled that Boston University was the rightful owner, and so they have remained at the university.

A lasting legacy

King’s presence remains in Boston in another way. The Martin Luther King Middle School on Lawrence Avenue in Dorchester is one of some 100 schools in the nation and the world named for the civil rights warrior. The Patrick T. Campbell Junior High, where King spoke in 1965, was renamed for King

almost immediately after his assassination in 1968.

In the opening of his April 1965 address to the Massachusetts legislature, King said, “Let me hasten to say that I come to Massachusetts not to condemn but to encourage! It was from these shores that the vision of a new nation conceived in liberty was born, and it must be from these shores that liberty must be preserved; and the hearts and lives of very citizen preserved through the maintenance of opportunity and through the constant creation of those conditions that will make justice and brotherhood a reality for all of God’s children.”

King’s historic presentation before the Massachusetts Legislature perhaps marked his last public visit. In his stirring speech, King said, “Although we have come a long, long way in the struggle for brotherhood and the struggle to make civil rights a reality for all people ... we still have a long way to go ... we do not have to look very far to see that. ... We only need to open our newspapers, or turn on our televisions, or look around in our own communities, and we realize that there are still problems alive that reveal to us that we have not yet reached the Promised Land ...”

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The consultant shall demonstrate experience in several disciplines including but not limited to Civil, Structural, Electrical, Environmental, Geotechnical, Code Compliance, Cost Estimating, Construction Phasing, and Sustainable Design. Services may involve the planning and/or design of new facilities or the upgrade/rehabilitation of existing facilities including, but not limited to, the following airport systems: runways, taxiways and apron pavements; drainage; airfield lighting, signing and marking; electrical power and communications; computer control/monitoring of airfield lighting and navigation aids. The Consultant may also be responsible for updating an airport’s AGIS/eALP in accordance with FAA standards, performing special studies, investigating pavements and related materials, lighting, airspace penetrations, safety area improvements, taxiway/runway aircraft clearance areas, and de-icing as well as providing technical reports quantifying environmental impacts to support environmental permitting, if necessary. The Consultant shall have an extensive working knowledge of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rules and regulations.

The scope of work shall include, but not be limited to the following: feasibility studies, operational evaluations, recommendation reports (including subsurface/geotechnical reports), cost estimates and analyses, investigations, value engineering, and energy audits.

The Authority expects to select two consultants. However, the Authority reserves the right to select a different number if it is deemed in its best interest to do so. Each consultant shall be issued a contract in an amount not to exceed $1,500,000. The services shall be authorized on a work order basis.

Each submission shall include a Statement of Qualifications that provides detailed information in response to the evaluation criteria set forth below and include Architect/Engineer & Related Services questionnaires SF 330 (www. gsa.gov/portal/forms/download/116486) with the appropriate number of Part IIs. DBE Certification of the prime and subconsultants shall be current at the time of submittal and the Consultant shall provide a copy of the DBE certification letter from the Supplier Diversity Office, formerly known as State Office of Minority and Women Business Assistance (SOMWBA) within its submittal. The Consultant shall also provide an (1) original and nine (9) copies of litigation and legal proceedings information, signed under the pains and penalties of perjury, in a separate sealed envelope entitled “Litigation and Legal Proceedings”. See http://www.massport.com/business-with-massport/capital-improvements/resource-center for more details on litigation and legal proceedings history submittal requirements.

The Authority may reject any application if any of the required information is not provided: Cover Letter, Insurance Requirements, Litigation and Legal proceedings, and SF330 Part IIs for the Prime and every sub-consultant. The above-mentioned information shall be highlighted in the Cover Letter.

The submission shall be evaluated on basis of:

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each limited to one (1) page under SF 330, Section F,

4) no more than 3 sheets (6 pages) of information contained under SF 330 Section H addressing the evaluation items (except for the litigation and legal proceedings history), and

5) no more than 2 sheets (4 pages) of other relevant material not including a 2 page (max.) cover letter, SDO certification letters, covers, dividers, and other required information.

This submission, including the litigation and legal proceedings history in a separate sealed envelope as required shall be addressed to Houssam H. Sleiman, PE, CCM, Director of Capital Programs and Environmental Affairs and received no later than 12:00 Noon on Thursday, FEBRUARY 12, 2015, at the Massachusetts Port Authority, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, Suite 209S, Logan International Airport, East Boston, MA 021282909. Any submission which is not received in a timely manner shall be rejected by the Authority as non-responsive. Any information provided to the Authority in any Proposal or other written or oral communication between the Proposer and the Authority will not be, or deemed to have been, proprietary or confidential, although the Authority will use reasonable efforts not to disclose such information to persons who are not employees or consultants retained by the Authority except as may be required by M.G.L. c.66.

The procurement process for these services will proceed according to the following anticipated schedule: EVENT

DATE/TIME

Solicitation: Release Date

January 14, 2015

Deadline for submission of written questions

January 28, 2015

Official answers published (Estimated)

February 4, 2015

Solicitation: Close Date / Submission Deadline

February 12, 2015

Times are Eastern Standard Time (US).

Questions may be sent via email to CPBidQuestions@massport.com subject to the deadline for receipt stated in the timetable above. In the subject lines of your email, please reference the MPA Project Name and Number.

Questions and their responses will be posted on Capital Bid Opportunities webpage of Massport http://www.massport.com/doing-business/_layouts/ CapitalPrograms/default.aspx as an attachment to the original Legal Notice and on COMMBUYS (www.commbuys.com) in the listings for this project.

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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

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DATE

WRA-3970

Purchase of One (1) Vertical Saw 01/27/15 Bandmarvel Model 2125M (or

Equal)

12:00 p.m.

WRA-3971

Purchase Three (3) Vactor Jet Machines 500 gallon, 1,000 gallon and 1,500 gallon (per Specifications)

12:00 p.m.

01/27/15

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(2) geographic location and availability of the Project Manager, resident inspectors and other key personnel to be assigned to the project, (3) experience and expertise of subconsultants,

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(5) familiarity with Massachusetts public bid laws,

(6) cost management and scheduling capabilities,

(7) ability to develop and manage BIM Model/s,

(8) DBE and affirmative action efforts, please indicate the proposed % of DBE participation

(9) current level of work with the Authority,

(10) past performance for the Authority, if any, and (11) experience with sustainable design concepts and resiliency.

The selection shall involve a two-step process including the shortlisting of a minimum of three firms based on an evaluation of the Statements of Qualifications received in response to this solicitation, followed immediately by a final selection of the consultant(s) by the Authority.

By responding to this solicitation, consultants agree to accept the terms and conditions of Massport’s standard work order agreement, a copy of the Authority’s standard agreement can be found on the Authority’s web page at www.massport.com. The exception to this standard agreement is the insurance requirement of $10,000,000 of commercial general liability. The Consultant shall specify in its cover letter that it has the ability to obtain requisite insurance coverage.

Submissions shall be printed on both sides of the sheet (8 1/2” x 11”), no acetate covers. An (1) original and nine (9) copies of a bound document and one PDF version on a disc each limited to:

1) an SF 330 including the appropriate number of Part IIs,

2) resumes of key individuals only each limited to one (1) page under SF 330, Section E,

3) no more than ten (10) projects showing recent relevant experience,

Ms. Christine Landry, Principal of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Charter School, was recently informed by the Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education of an upcoming Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Coordinated Program Review. Department staff will visit the district during the week of February 3, 2015. Such visits are routinely conducted by the Department to satisfy federal and state requirements for the periodic review of specific education programs and services in schools throughout the Commonwealth. The Department is reviewing several programs during a single visit in order to use Department and school staff’s time most efficiently and to encourage strong connections among programs.

The Department’s Coordinated Program Review will address the following programs: Special Education, English Language Learner Education and Civil Rights. After reviewing the school district procedures for these programs, a Department team will make its on-site visit, during which it will review individual student records, interview administrators, teachers and parents, and observe instructional sites. After the on-site visit it will prepare a report for the superintendent and school committee, with detailed findings for each program.

Using a scale of ratings ranging from “Commendable” to “Not Implemented,” the report will rate the implementation of each requirement reviewed by the Department. Where requirements are found not implemented or only partially implemented the district must propose to the Department corrective action to bring those areas into compliance with statutes and regulations. Districts and schools are encouraged to incorporate the corrective action into their district and school improvement plans and professional development plan. The school district will be provided with technical assistance from the Department in developing a corrective action plan. Both the Department’s report and the corrective action plan are public information and will be available to the public upon request. Program Review Final Reports are also available on the Department’s Internet website at http://www.doe.mass.edu/pqa/review/cpr/reports/.

Any member of the public may request to be interviewed by telephone by a member of the Department’s visiting team. Those wishing to be interviewed should call the on-site chairperson at the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Tim Gallagher, at (781) 338-3717. A member of the visiting team will contact each person desiring an interview within two weeks after the completion of the on-site visit. If an individual is not comfortable communicating in English or requires some other accommodation, the Department will make arrangements to communicate appropriately with the individual.

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To obtain bid documents please contact the MWRA’s Document Distribution Office at 617.788.2575 or MWRADocumentDistribution@mwra.com.

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(1) current level of experience and knowledge of the team for similar projects, particularly the Project Manager,

(4) demonstrated ability to respond quickly and perform work with minimal disruption to facility operations,

Patricia A. Malone, Esq., Director Mayor’s Office of Consumer Affairs and Licensing Room 817, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA 02201 Telephone (617) 635-4165 Fax (617) 635-4174

IFB #2015-2 “Community Room Handicap Access: Parking, Ramp, Sidewalk at 580 Chelmsford St. Lowell, MA” The Lowell Housing Authority Board of Commissioners invites sealed bids for the repairs, replacement and reconstruction of handicap access ramps, parking lot and sidewalks for compliance with the American with Disabilities Act as amendedat the George Flanagan Development, U.S. HUD-aided public housing. Estimated contract value is $56,000. Project Designer: Hilary Ward, LHA Staff Architect. 5% Bid security is required. Prebid walk-through scheduled at the site on 2/10/2015 10 a.m. General Bids will be received until 19 February 2015 at 2 p.m. and publicly opened forthwith at the LHA Executive Offices, 350 Moody St. Lowell, MA 01854. Contract documents/ plans available via www.ProjectDog.com Proj. #805061 on 1/14/15. DavisBacon & Related Acts/Mass. Prevailing Wage Rates apply. The LHA reserves the right to cancel or reject any or all bids and waive informalities.

MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY SOLICITATION FOR CONSULTANT SERVICES FEDERALLY-FUNDED PROJECTS MBTA CONTRACT NOS. S99PS03-05 The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is soliciting design and engineering services for construction and quality engineering, consultation and assistance on a task order basis. The amount of $9,000,000, with $3,000,000 available for each of the three consultants selected, has been budgeted for this project.

Services will include advice to and consultation with the Authority’s Security Department, through three (3) task order contracts, on matters of implementation, planning, general design, and construction phase services of security related enhancements.

This contract will be Federally Funded. The DBE Participation Goal for this contract will be 12%.

The complete request for qualifications can be found on the MBTA website.

Please use the following link: http://www.mbta.com/business_center/bidding_solicitations/current_solic itations/ This is not a request for proposal. The MBTA reserves the right to cancel this procurement or to reject any or all Statements of Qualifications.

Frank DePaola Acting Mass DOT Secretary & CEO

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

Jonathan Goldfield, CPO, (978) 364-5341 LEGAL NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Mayor’s Office of Consumer Affairs and Licensing has received the following application: To increase the hour of entertainment from 12:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m.

Establishment is licensed for radio, jukebox, television, widescreen television, and 3 games.

At: 2805 Washington Street, Roxbury, MA 02119 Known as: Norvia’s Place The applicant is: Pena & Nova Corp.

Manager of record is: Norvia Pena A public hearing on this application will be held at Boston City Hall, Room 801, on Monday, February 2, 2015, at 10:00 a.m.

Anyone wishing to speak on this matter is invited to attend the hearing.

Interpretation Services in Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Haitian Creole, Cape Verdean Creole and American Sign Language may be available upon request if the request is made two weeks prior to the public hearing. Call 617-635-4165 to request an interpreter. Written comments may be made prior to the hearing by writing to:

Beverly A. Scott, Ph.D. General Manager and Rail & Transit Administrator

SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU14C0490CA In the matter of Umu Kultum Sawanneh of Dorchester, MA

NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME To all persons interested in a petition described: A petition has been presented by Umu K Sawanneh requesting that Umu Kultum Sawanneh be allowed to change her name as follows: Umu Kultum Saccoh 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 02/05/2015.

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

Date: January 5, 2015 Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate

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Docket No. SU14P2466GD

Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 In the matter of Donald Finklea Of Dorchester, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by David L Finklea of Dorchester, MA and Shirley Finklea of Dorchester, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Donald Finklea is in need of a Guardian and requesting that David L Finklea of Dorchester, MA and Shirley Finklea of Dorchester, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve on the bond.

The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondant is incapacitated, that the appointment of a Guardian is necessary, that the proposed Guardian is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court and may contain a request for certain specific authority.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division Docket No. SU14D2381DR Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Carol Dorcely

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Nesly Anna

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.

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.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

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

Date: December 8, 2014 Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate

The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person.

If the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed

You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Carol Dorcely, 6 Wellington Court #1, Dorchester, MA 02121 your answer, if any, on or before 02/19/2015. 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.

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48 of the units will be rented to households with annual incomes not exceeding 80% of Area Median Income (AMI) adjusted for family size as determined by HUD. The 80% AMI Income Limits are as follows: $44,750* (1 person), $51,150* (2 people), $57,550* (3 people), $63,900* (4 people), $69,050* (5 people), $74,150* (6 people) *Income Limits are subject to change upon HUD publication of 2015 AMI A Public Information Session will be held at 6 pm on February 9th 2015 in the Little Meeting Room at Bridgewater Public Library (15 South St) Completed Applications may be mailed, faxed, emailed, or delivered in person. Completed Applications and Required Income Documentation must be received by 2:00 PM on March 12th, 2015.

The Lottery will be held on April 1st at 6 PM in same location as the info session above.

For Applications and Details on the Lottery or for reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities, call 617.782.6900 or go to www.s-e-b.com/lottery. For TTY Services dial 711. Free translation available.

Applications and Info Packets also available in the Bridgewater Public Library (15 South St.) Hours: M-W 9-8, Th 10-5, F-Sa 10-2

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To Apply: Visit our website at www.QCC.edu/human-resources for a complete job description, requirements and application procedures. Applicants must apply online by February 1, 2015 for consideration.

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On February 27, 2015. All timely applications will be entered into a lottery to determine waiting list placement. Application date will not affect placement on the waiting list. n If you need assistance or an accommodation

(for example a screen reader or sign language n Applications will be available at the Chelsea interpreter) to complete the forms contact Housing Authority, on the CHA website www.chel 617-409-5337. The information is available in seaha.com or by mail by calling (617) 409-5337 alternate format upon request.

Please note: applications will be accepted without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender indentity, or marital status.

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WITNESS, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: December 18, 2014 Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate

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 01/22/2015. 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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City of Medford Office of Community Development The City of Medford Office of Community Development is seeking a highly motivated, efficient person to assume the position of Secretary. This is a Senior Clerk, non-civil service position. Responsibilities include staff support and clerical duties for the office relating to the administration of the Community Development Block Grant Program as well as general municipal activities.

Duties include preparing payroll, maintaining files, preparing purchase orders, coordinating public meetings, assisting with preparation of reports, and assisting the general public. Typing skills, use of computer, knowledge of English grammar and the ability to communicate effectively, both written and orally is necessary. A full copy of the job description is available by contacting a.dipaola@medford. org. or on the City’s website at http://www.medfordma.org/depart ments/personnel/jobs

The position is non-civil service and is compensated at CAF-2 (steps 1-5) $40,748-$44,567. The position shall remain open until filled. Please submit a resume and cover letter by January 28, 2015 to: Ms. Stephanie M. Burke, Director of Personnel Room 204, Medford City Hall 85 George P. Hassett Drive Medford, MA 02155 AA/EEO/504

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Must be 18+ High School Diploma Must have reliable transportation Must pass Background Criminal Check and Drug test

For Pre-Screening and interview scheduling please call (617) 213-5038 or you can submit your resume with relevant work experience to jjohnson@protocall.net.

Senior Analyst: Applied Research & Land Use Modeling The Metropolitan Area Planning Council’s Data Services Department seeks a Senior Analyst to manage applied research initiatives and land use modeling efforts in support of sustainable regional planning. The Senior Analyst will take a leading role in applying MAPC’s considerable data and technical resources to a wide variety of planning and policy projects. This staff member will be responsible for the design and implementation of project-specific spatial and statistical analysis; the deployment of GIS-based sketch planning tools; the development of written and visual materials that convey the planning and policy implications of the department’s work; and the management of junior- and mid-level staff to accomplish these tasks.

Primary Responsibilities Primary Responsibilities include Design and manage project-specific quantitative analysis for MAPC planning projects and external clients; Coordinate with clients and MAPC colleagues to define research questions and desired products. Identify relevant datasets and research; oversee the work of junior- or mid-level analysts. Lead the deployment of local scenario planning tools. Manage the application of MAPC’s existing Community Viz scenario model template to local and subregional planning activities. Provide on-demand data analysis for MAPC’s Executive Director and other MAPC divisions, municipal staff, the press, and other requestors. Data collection and management: Research and obtain updates to MAPC’s existing data sets as they are released from public agencies, and the private sector.

Qualifications Qualifications include: A Master’s degree in planning, economics, public policy, or a related field and at least 6 years of experience in a related field, with progressively increasing responsibilities; Demonstrated experience with spatial and statistical data analysis, interpretation, report preparation, and presentations; Demonstrated knowledge of planning topics such as land use, transportation, housing, economic development, sustainable development, equity, and zoning.

Compensation, additional information and requirements Compensation range is $63,000-$76,000 per year, commensurate with experience. Excellent state employee benefits package. The position is open until filled. Review of applications begins immediately. Interested candidates should submit a cover letter, resume and three references.

Candidates must have legal authorization to work in the USA and a valid driver’s license and/or the ability to arrange transportation to meetings in different parts of the region. MAPC is an EOE/AA employer. We are committed to creating a diverse workforce and encourage applications from minority group members, women, persons with disabilities, veterans, and others who may contribute to the agency’s diversity. This position is exempt from the provisions of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). PLEASE SEE COMPLETE AD AT www.mapc.org (Jobs at MAPC) and APPLY AT LINK SHOWN THERE. Posted 1-8-15.

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