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GORDON PARKS: BACK TO FORT SCOTT PHOTOS AT MFA. pg 13
Entrepreneur focuses on nonprofit sector. pg 9
NU program builds capacity, opportunity for MBE/WBEs. pg 3
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Thursday, January 22, 2015 • FREE • GREATER BOSTON’S URBAN NEWS SOURCE SINCE 1965 • CELEBRATING 50 YEARS
Walsh reflects on his first year
Community mulls pros, cons of bid for Olympics Residents wary of Franklin Park use
Made gains in diversifying city leadership
By SANDRA LARSON
By YAWU MILLER Mayor Martin Walsh came into office last January with promises to make government more transparent and more diverse, and has largely fulfilled those promises, with actions that include appointing a cabinet and police leadership that are 50 percent people of color, auditing the Boston Redevelopment Authority and conducting a public process to establish criteria for the next school superintendent. Walsh has earned praise from many in the black community for his more inclusive cabinet appointments and for what some see as a focus on issues that affect blacks, Latinos and Asians in Boston. His first year has not been without controversy and challenges. His decision to close the structurally deficient bridge to the Long Island homeless shelter left many without services and set in motion a contentious battle over siting of a new shelter and services. Now entering his second year in office, Walsh is mapping a course to combat some of the city’s most intractable problems: unequal schools and a high cost of living that has many Bostonians struggling to maintain a toehold. “For too many of our neighbors, quality schools, affordable housing and a living wage remain out of reach,” Walsh said in his State of the City address, delivered at Symphony Hall last Wednesday.
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Walsh earned high marks earlier this month with his announcement that Boston elementary and middle schools will lengthen the school day by 40 minutes — a change that will add the equivalent
See WALSH, page 8
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A crowd estimated by organizers at more than a thousand protesters stage a die-in at the Boston Common on Monday to protest police abuse in Boston and across the U.S. Activists aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement say they plan to continue demonstrating through what some are calling “Freedom Winter.”
MLK legacy honored as protests continue
Protesters block 1-93, demonstrate in Downtown Boston
The United States Olympic Committee’s announcement Jan. 8 that Boston will be its sole U.S. contender for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games — and that Franklin Park in Roxbury could be tapped as an event venue — has created a local flurry of fears, hopes, and most of all, questions. In the 10 days after the announcement, few details were certain about Boston’s Olympic bid, which was formulated by a private group of area business and civic leaders called Boston 2024. The group was scheduled to make the bid public in an unveiling after Banner press time this week. But both the Boston Globe and Boston Herald ran graphics showing events and possible venues, including equestrian and pentathlon events in Franklin Park.
Franklin Park concerns
Franklin Park Coalition Executive Director Christine Poff said her coalition has not taken an official position on the Olympic bid, but she can name several concerns she and the group have. “Franklin Park is an important community park,” Poff told the Banner. “We are concerned that being the biggest park, in terms of acreage, we would be the obvious
See OLYMPICS, page 19 By YAWU MILLER Last Thursday, demonstrators in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement stopped traffic on Interstate 93, chaining themselves to 1,200 pound concrete-filled barrels in an action that garnered international attention. Friday, members of the Massachusetts Legislative Black and Latino Caucus filed several bills aimed at making police accountable for stopping black motorists and pedestrians, and appointing
outside investigators to probe police shootings and misconduct. Monday, at Boston’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast, elected officials invoked the civil rights martyr’s nonviolent struggle as a precursor to today’s Black Lives Matter movement. “They are following in the footsteps of Martin Luther King, fighting violence with non-violence, brutality with humility,” said U.S. Sen. Edward Markey of the protesters. His remarks drew a standing ovation. “We have a new generation of
activists coming to the fore,” said state Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz. “We have seen you. We have heard you. We are proud to be on your team.” Noah McKenna, one of the 29 demonstrators arrested for last Thursday’s action, said the protesters were responding to a call from activists in Ferguson, Missouri who urged activists to block highways. “Highways play a central role in business-as-usual,” he said.
See PROTESTS, page 11
ON THE WEB Boston 2024:
www.2024boston.org www.facebook.com/boston2024 Opposition groups:
www.nobostonolympics.org www.bostonagainstolympics.bid Official Olympics website:
www.olympic.org Franklin Park Coalition:
www.franklinparkcoalition.org
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March and early April, with 12 to 18 participants selected from a pool of online applications. Eligibility and priority will be based on a set of minimum requirements for the firms as well as a desired mix of business types and Northeastern’s upcoming contract needs. The application is available online now and will be accepted until Feb. 16.
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Local business owners listen Jan. 15 during an information session for a capacity-building program offered by Northeastern University and Next Street. NU’s new master plan includes economic development in neighboring communities.
NU program gives a leg up to minority, women biz owners By SANDRA LARSON Northeastern University is launching a new initiative to help local and minority-owned and women-owned businesses build their capacity to win contracts from Northeastern and other large institutions. The university is partnering with Next Street, a Roxbury-based merchant bank specializing in small and mid-sized urban companies, to deliver an intensive threepart workshop on strategic and financial planning, marketing and business development. In addition, the workshop will cover NU’s procurement system and help business owners position themselves to compete for contracts.
BUSINESS ‘BOOT CAMP’ The program, described as a “business boot camp,” is aimed at minority- and women-owned enterprises in operation for three years or more in industries such as food and dining services, moving, construction, cleaning, trades and repairs, printing and copying, vehicle servicing and furniture. Companies with Boston zip codes are preferred, with three or more employees and revenues of at least $500,000 and ideally $1.5 million. Besides training, the capacity building workshop will allow business owners to meet procurement
representatives, ask questions and pitch their products and services. A diverse group of area business owners attended a recent information session on the NU campus. They listened to a presentation and panel discussion about the program, the application process and how NU procurement works. The panel discussion featured NU senior buyers and also Donna Williams, whose firm Roxbury Technology has been selling its remanufactured toner cartridges to the university for several years. Williams advised would-be vendors to have all their certifications (minority, female-owned, state-level, city-level) in place, as well as a marketing plan and organizational chart. But the most important thing is to have the right product or service, she said — a product that Northeastern University wants to buy. “We have a very successful relationship [with NU],” she said. “We meet, we troubleshoot if there are problems to work out. Nothing is perfect — if you have a roadblock, don’t get discouraged.” Afterward, the 50 or so attendees had a chance to mingle and introduce themselves to NU and Next Street representatives. Mabel Alvarez, an employee of Hicks Auto Body, said the Dorchester minority-owned firm has contracts with other universities now and will be applying to the capacity building program
with the aim of securing work with NU. Leonardi Aray hopes his Cambridge architectural firm will have an opportunity to work with NU on renovation, construction and office relocations. Audrey O’Hagan, too, hopes her minority and woman-owned architecture firm can gain NU as a client. The capacity building program workshop series will run in late
PART OF A MASTER PLAN Former City Councilor John Tobin, NU’s vice president of city and community relations, introduced the information session. He said the capacity building initiative stemmed from the university’s Institutional Master Plan, hammered out over a three-year period with input from community representatives. The outcome was a plan —approved by the city in December 2013 — that Tobin said benefits the surrounding neighborhoods as well as NU. The plan calls for community benefits such as millions of dollars in improvements to Carter Playground on Columbus Ave., and economic development efforts for residents and businesses around the university’s urban campus. “We know that some small businesses have for a long time been shut out of the process,” Tobin said. “Our goal with this initiative is to bring you into the process.” He praised the efforts of a 16member community task force and elected officials, particularly the late Mayor Tom Menino and City Councilor Tito Jackson, in shepherding the master plan process to completion.
Jackson, present at the meeting, spoke positively of the new initiative and what it represents. “This is part of a much-needed conversation on how we increase the number of and scale of business owned by people of color and women in the city of Boston,” he told the Banner, “and how anchor institutions can help local businesses.” Former state Rep. Dianne Wilkerson, who was involved with an often-contentious earlier NU master plan process years back, also was in attendance. She said she is glad to see long-sought steps finally being taken. “I’m optimistic,” she said after the session. “I’m smiling, because they’re saying what we’ve been pushing them to do for a long time.” Ernest E. Washington, Jr.’s company, Vanguard Parking and General Services Corporation, has been contracting with NU for 27 years. He has 70 employees from local neighborhoods doing work at NU now, he said, but is still interested in the capacity-building opportunity in order to increase revenue. “Northeastern has been very good in developing minority businesses and supporting hiring from the neighborhoods,” Washington said. This event gives me a good feeling that they’re going to continue those efforts.”
FOR MORE INFORMATION
To access the NU Capacity Building Program application, see http://bit.ly/17iXX2b. Questions can be directed to Aliza Sir, asir@nextstreet.com, 617-318-6535, or Mike McNamara, mi.mcnamara@neu.edu, 617-373-5883.
MLK Breakfast
PHOTO BY DON WEST
Community leaders join hands for the civil rights anthem “We Shall Overcome” at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast Jan. 19 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. The event was sponsored by St. Cyprian’s Episcopal and Union United Churches. Over 800 attendees heard a program that included Governor Charlie Baker, Mayor Martin Walsh and keynote speaker Dr. Topper Carew, a 1960s SNCC member and civil rights activist who is now a researcher at MIT Media Lab.
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Police violence is about more than broken windows Many Americans have finally become aware that they live in a very violent culture, at least in the treatment of black men by the police. No longer can they dismiss the reality by asserting that the violence is an unfortunate legacy of southern slavery and racial discrimination. An unarmed 18-year-old black male was gunned down in Ferguson, Mo., an unarmed black man died in a police chokehold in Staten Island, N.Y. when he resisted arrest, and a 12-year-old black boy in Cleveland, Ohio, armed with a fake gun, was summarily shot to death by the police. What is the cause of this rampant police brutality against black men? All such incidents are so uncivilized that many Americans would like to believe there is an acceptable justification for this violent police conduct. The easiest route is to find mitigating flaws in police rules and procedures. A common target of criticism is the so-called “broken windows” policing policies. The late scholar James Q. Wilson published a concept of crime control in 1982 which he referred to as the broken windows principle. Stated simply, the concept is to prosecute petty quality of life violations in order to maintain a sense of orderliness in the neighborhood. This he believed would discourage more severe crime later. Some critics now protest that broken windows policing often leads to police violence against black males. This criticism seems justified when one considers that trivial violations led to the violence. Michael Brown was shot to death in Ferguson, Mo. merely for ignoring a police officer’s command to stop walking in the middle of the street. And Eric Gardner died in Staten Island, N.Y. during a forceful attempt by the police to arrest him for the misdemeanor of selling cigarettes without a permit. However, the problem of police violence against black
men will not be resolved simply by ignoring the enforcement of petty offenses. The police in New York have demonstrated the futility of that approach. After two of their fellow officers were killed by a crazed gunman in Brooklyn, the police decided to protest because of the sympathy shown by Mayor Bill de Blasio for those protesting police violence. According to the New York Times, there has been a precipitous decline in the issuance of summonses by the police for public drinking, public urination and parking violations, as well as drug arrests. Nonetheless, there has been no demonstration of a reduction in the conflict between the police and black men. Residents of urban neighborhoods will not likely feel closer to the police when their quality of life deteriorates because of police recalcitrance. In fact, the broken windows strategy works better when there already is a good relationship between the police and the community. A review of police-community relations in high income areas provides a better insight into the ideal relationship. The police are public servants. Citizens with wealth and status in society will not tolerate abusive police behavior. The police understand that, so their conduct is respectful and professional. A major deviation from that standard will result in the dismissal of the police officer from his or her job. The real objective of police reform is to establish that same standard of police conduct in low-income neighborhoods. Community policing is designed to establish an almost collegial relationship between the citizens and the police. The addition of body cameras has been shown to reduce excessive police force. Americans must now be willing to adopt imaginative programs to end the police victimization of black men.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Hollywood slow to change There was so much debate over whether Selma got its due recognition or whether the film accurately portrayed President Johnson’s attitude toward Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights legislation he was pushing. Those are important questions, and I don’t doubt the film would have gotten more recognition were it starring a white man, or if it cast whites in a more historic light. This is 2015 and that was 1965, and while 50 years seems like a long time, most white folk in Hollywood don’t see things the same way we do. That’s why it’s so important to have directors like Ava DuVernay telling
stories from a black perspective. And that’s why the Hollywood establishment won’t accept the work of these promising directors. More than 20 years ago, the television show In Living Color envisioned classic Hollywood black and white films with their “re-colorized classics” casting blacks in the roles formerly occupied by the likes of James Stewart and Betty Davis. As absurd as those re-constituted movies were in the skits, white directors have for decades done the same thing in their re-imaginings of the civil rights era, (Mississippi Burning), in apartheid South Africa (Biko), in the Native American side of U.S. West-
ern history (Dances With Wolves) and in post-feudal Japan (The Last Samurai) — without humor or a trace of self-reflection. And if the leaked Sony emails are any indication, white Hollywood executives still think black and Asian actors are not marketable, even in overseas markets (and they’re wrong!). Thus the achromatic vision of Hollywood persists, marginalizing both black history, black actors and black storytellers. It may have been 50 years since Dr. King marched in Selma, but it’s been but a blink of an eye in Hollywood.
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‘All labor has dignity’: King’s other legacy
What do you think is the importance of demonstrations?
By THOMAS E. PEREZ
A few weeks ago, I saw Selma, a remarkable movie about the unbreakable persistence and moral leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the struggle to secure voting rights for African-Americans in the Jim Crow south. But what the movie didn’t reveal was the role played by the labor movement in the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery and its part in propelling the civil rights movement forward at so many pivotal moments. As we mark Dr. King’s 86th birthday, it is my hope that Americans will remember another less-celebrated element of his dream – a belief in the importance of unions, labor rights and robust worker voice. As the U.S. Secretary of Labor, and also the former Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, my work is animated by Dr. King’s view that civil rights and labor rights are inextricably intertwined. “The duality of interests of labor and Negroes,” he told the AFL-CIO Constitutional Convention in 1961, “makes any crisis which lacerates you, a crisis from which we bleed.” Both movements are rooted in the idea that empowerment comes when many people speak with one voice, rallying as a community, taking collective action. Going back to the Montgomery Bus Boycott nearly a decade earlier, the key strategist was a local leader of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters named E.D. Nixon. Labor leaders like Walter Reuther, A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin were also the driving organizational force behind the 1963 March on Washington, a demonstration that was about economic justice as well as racial emancipation. Union members, from the rank-and-file up to representatives of the AFL-CIO Executive Council, came to march in Selma. Among those locking arms on the Edmund Pettus Bridge was Reuther of the United Auto Workers. It was also Reuther who posted bail after Dr. King’s 1963 arrest in Birmingham. And the UAW provided the Detroit office space where King wrote his most iconic speech: “I Have a Dream”. Civil rights activists and union activists shared not just common values and objectives, but also common enemies. The same mounted posse that bashed and brutalized marchers on Bloody Sunday, a harrowing scene vividly reenacted in Selma, was first assembled by Sheriff Jim Clark to harass union organizers at a local packing plant several years earlier. Central to King’s philosophy was the idea that men and women of all races deserve the dignity of work, the right to earn more than poverty wages. And he knew that goal was not attainable without full-throated worker voice. Dr. King’s last campaign was a labor struggle. Many people are aware that King was assassinated in Memphis in the spring of 1968. Less wellknown is what drew him there: solidarity with city sanitation workers, who, without the benefit of union representation, were rising up to protest humiliating pay and deplorable working conditions. Arriving in Memphis on March 18 and declaring that “all labor has dignity”, King spontaneously urged a general work stoppage -- not just in sanitation, but workers of all kinds throughout the city. On April 4, 1968 he was gunned down while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel. Within two weeks, the strike was settled. The city recognized the union and granted the sanitation workers a raise. Nearly half a century later, workers’ struggle for fair pay, decent benefits and economic security remains one of the pressing challenges of our time. With a declining percentage of workers belonging to unions, wages have stagnated and the middle class has suffered. Around the country, reactionary forces continue to exert their considerable power to try to muzzle worker voice. But time and again, we see Dr. King’s influence in mass mobilizations of people peacefully petitioning for their rights at work. We see it in the ongoing campaign by fast food workers to get the raise they deserve. We saw it in Madison, Wisconsin in 2011 -- thousands descending on the state capitol to protest a state law stripping public employees of collective bargaining rights. To ensure an economy based on shared prosperity, we must grow these movements, identifying new and innovative ways to lift up worker voice. And as we do, we must continue to turn for inspiration to Dr. King. The King holiday is a celebration of many things — his pursuit of racial justice, his commitment to non-violent resistance, his belief in service and doing for others. But you might also call it the other Labor Day.
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Central to King’s philosophy was the idea that men and women of all races deserve the dignity of work.”
Thomas E. Perez is the United States Secretary of Labor.
I think they keep the public visibility on the issue. They offer an easy entry point for people who aren’t involved to get involved.
They’re certainly raising consciousness, and hopefully opening hearts. Hopefully they’re making people care about the issues.
Chris Williams
Betty Case
Lawyer Roxbury
I think they’re effective. Protests dramatize social movements. They put pressure on policy makers.
Phillipe Copeland Professor Roslindale
Social Worker Beacon Hill
I think demonstrations are a way of building solidarity. The people who come together for demonstrations can strategize together.
They’re a piece, but they’re an important piece of social change. They makes it harder to continue business as usual.
Peter Lin-Marcus Community Activist Chinatown
This is my very first protest. There needs to be some action taken. I’m out here to show my support.
Nancy Murray
Sharif Sharif
Retired Cambridge
Paralegal Chelsea
excels in matching job seekers with employers and takes special care to help those with barriers to employment. It is no surprise that PIC has honored her with the Achiever Award.” For more than a century, Goodwill has provided job training programs and partnered with the
business community to generate work opportunities for individuals with barriers to self-sufficiency. The Goodwill Stores in eastern and central Massachusetts offer jobs and on-the-job training as well as quality, low-cost goods to individuals and families looking for value.
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Monica Jones Monica Jones, a career advisor at Boston Career Link, was given a PIC Achiever Award at the Boston Private Industry Council’s annual meeting recently. Boston Career Link is the onestop career center operated by Goodwill and a member of the Private Industry Council, which connects Boston youth and adults to education and employment opportunities. In recognizing Jones, the Private Industry Council said: “Monica worked with 51 distinct businesses (many with numerous locations and managers) to hold 89 recruiting related activities assisting 220 job seekers find employment. This does not include the significantly higher number of people she gave hope to by providing an opportunity to interview for open positions.” “Monica is an outstanding employee who focuses every day on helping people find work,” said Maddrey Goode, director of Boston Career Link. “Monica
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What You Should Know About Financial Aid By J. Keith Motley, PhD, UMass Boston Chancellor
As a parent and educator, I know that applying for financial aid to help pay for college can seem challenging. At UMass Boston, we award more than $154 million in financial aid annually to our students. Our staffers are experts on financial aid and on how to apply for assistance, so I thought I’d pass along some of their tips: The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is now available for students applying for financial aid for fall 2015. The FAFSA is the first step in applying for financial aid from all sources: federal, state, and institutional funds. Complete it online at www.fafsa.ed.gov. Completing the FAFSA is free, but you will need to electronically sign the application using a federal PIN number. Apply for your PIN early at www.pin.ed.gov. The FAFSA provides colleges and universities with the information they need to determine your eligibility for grants and waivers ( free money), student loans (money that must be repaid), and federal work-study (money a student earns working part-time on campus). You can complete just one FAFSA and have it sent to as many schools as you like; UMass Boston’s school code is 002222. Filing the FAFSA has become a little easier: An IRS Data Retrieval Tool (DRT) allows you to pull financial information into the FAFSA directly from the Internal Revenue Service. To use this tool, you must wait two weeks after filing your federal tax return electronically, or six to eight weeks if you are filing by mail. To use DRT, you must be eligible for a tax refund, with a tax filing status of single, married filing jointly, or head of household. UMass Boston requires only the FAFSA. Other colleges and universities, however, may also ask for a CSS Profile Application, which requires a fee. Check the financial aid websites at each school. To receive the maximum aid available to you, it is important that you submit the FAFSA by the school’s deadline. UMass Boston’s priority deadline is March 1 for new students. You should not wait for an admission decision before applying for financial aid. Submit your FAFSA before March 1! Upon receiving your FAFSA, the Financial Aid Services Office will provide you with a financial aid award letter that details the types and amount of aid you are eligible to receive. Your awards may include student loans, which you are not required to accept. If you don’t need some or all of a loan, you should decline it. Declining even a small portion of your loan offer will make a big difference in your monthly loan repayment upon graduation. For help with the FAFSA, be sure to take advantage of FAFSA Day, January 25 and February 22, at 1 p.m. Financial aid experts will be available at locations across the state to provide free assistance in completing the FAFSA. Visit http://www.fafsaday. org/locations.php to find a site near you.
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The Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School has released a Know Your Rights video series consisting of 97 videos informing Massachusetts residents of their legal rights when faced with foreclosure or eviction. The videos are a product of the Mattapan Initiative — a free legal services anti-foreclosure and eviction defense program created in 2013 in response to the foreclosure crisis that ravaged the Mattapan section of Boston, as well as other low-income neighborhoods throughout Massachusetts. The Mattapan Initiative and the Know Your Rights video series were funded by a grant from the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office. The aim of the video series is to educate Massachusetts residents regarding their legal rights when faced with foreclosure of their homes, or the threat of displacement due to foreclosure or eviction. The series includes videos on legal issues pertaining to: Basic Tenant Rights, Loan Modifications, Bankruptcy as it Relates to Foreclosure, Eviction Summary Process for Former Homeowners, Eviction Summary Process for Tenants as well as FAQ videos for homeowners and tenants facing foreclosure or eviction. Attorney Roger Bertling, Director of the Mattapan Initiative and Director of the Consumer Protection/Predatory Lending Clinic at the Legal Services Center, says “we created these videos in hope that they’ll be used as a resource for distressed homeowners.
The mission of the Legal Services Center is to protect the legal rights of the communities we serve, and as an extension of that mission, these videos are available to help people make informed decisions regarding their foreclosure or eviction.” The Know Your Rights videos can be viewed on the Legal Services Center’s website and will be distributed using social media. To view each series in its entirety, visit the YouTube links below: Post-Foreclosure Eviction Summary Process for Former Homeowners http://bit.ly/Former_Home owner_Post_Foreclosure_Evic tion_Summary_Process Post-Foreclosure Eviction Summary Process for Tenants http://bit.ly/Tenant_Post_ Foreclosure_Eviction_Summary_ Process Basic Tenant Rights for Residents of Boston http://bit.ly/Basic_Tenant_ Rights_For_Residents_of_ Boston Loan Modifications and Ways to Avoid Foreclosure http://bit.ly/Loan_Modifica tions_and_Ways_to_Avoid_Fore closure How Bankruptcy Can Help Avoid Foreclosure http://bit.ly/How_Bank ruptcy_Can_Help_Avoid_Fore closure Related Terms & Definitions http://bit.ly/ Terms_and_Definitions Legal Services Center – Know Your Rights
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Mayor Walsh’s ONEin3 Council now accepting applications Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced a call for applications for the 2015 ONEin3 Council. The ONEin3 Council is an action-oriented group charged with brainstorming, creating, and carrying out projects that directly impact the lives of Boston’s 20–34 year olds. “We’re proud to have the highest percent of young adults out of any major city in the country,” said Mayor Walsh. “The ONEin3 Council gives us an opportunity to challenge young adults to think big and become neighborhood leaders. This population is diverse, well-educated, and full of ideas that will help us grow the city in a sustainable and positive way.” The Council will spend the year using its talent and innovation to identify ways in which Boston can grow as an inviting, connected, culturally rich and sustainable place for young adults. Projects may include work on housing policy, economic development, public art and neighborhood engagement. Throughout the ONEin3 Council Term, members also hear from key members of the Mayor’s staff as well as leaders from within City Hall. Last year’s ONEin3 Council was made up of 31 Boston residents, including 16 women and
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IBA looks to expand housing in South End, Lower Roxbury By YAWU MILLER In q u i l i n o s B o r i c u a s e n Accion, the Community Development Corporation that built and manages the Villa Victoria housing development, is looking to expand affordable housing opportunities in the South End and Lower Roxbury along with programming for area youth. The organization unveiled new branding and a new website last week, as Executive Director Vanessa Calderon-Rosado announced plans to expand IBA’s work. In his state of the city address last week, Mayor Martin Walsh pledged to make available 250 parcels of city-owned land for affordable housing. Calderon-Rosado said IBA will bid to develop new affordable housing on city-owned land in the South End and Lower Roxbury. “There are some parcels in our area that are undeveloped,” Calderon-Rosado said. Calderon-Rosado also said
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15 men, who live in 17 different neighborhoods across Boston and worked in 22 unique industries. Last year, the ONEin3 program received more than 300 applications for the Council, showing a robust interest for involvement and engagement. Applications for the Council can be found here. For more information on the ONEin3 Program, please visit www.ONEin 3Boston.com.
Walsh announces new parking app During his State of the City speech, Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced the City of Boston is implementing a new technology that will allow drivers to pay for parking without the hassle of feeding meters. Using the new ParkBoston app, drivers in Boston can easily pay for parking, receive reminders before their time expires, and extend their time without having to hurry back to the meter. “The ParkBoston app is one more way that we are using technology to make transportation easier and more convenient for people in Boston,” said Walsh. “Nobody likes digging around for quarters or getting a ticket for an expired meter. This innovation eases the frustration involved with parking and allows for future enhancements to the city’s parking system.” Parking meters in an area of the Back Bay, bordered by Beacon Street to the north, Charles Street to the east, Boylston Street to the south and Dartmouth street to the west, will be the first to be programmed to accept payments by phone. The remainder of the City of Boston’s 8,000-metered parking spaces will be phased in over the coming months following this week’s launch. New ParkBoston signs and parking meter decals are being
the CDC will bid on South End and Lower Roxbury properties Boston Housing Authority is seeking to divest from its portfolio, owing to ongoing reductions in federal funding. “We feel we’re very well positioned to take these properties on and preserve them as affordable housing,” she said. While market-rate rents and housing costs in the South End are among the highest in the city, 41 percent of the housing units in the neighborhood are subsidized. The BHA owns several major developments in the South End. The agency has not yet made public details on which housing developments it will put out to bid. In addition to its plans for expanding its affordable housing stock, Calderon-Rosado said IBA will also expand programming to meet a growing need for services, a need evidenced by long waitlists for educational and arts programming the CDC provides. “As we go into our strategic
planning process, we’re looking at where we can expand,” she said. Calderon-Rosado expects the planning process will take six to nine months. Thousands of families in the South End are on waitlists for IBA’s pre-school and after-school programming. The rebranding effort the CDC has undertaken was designed to help people inside and outside the organization better understand its work. “For the past five years, we’ve been working to align IBA’s
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continued from page 1 of a month of learning time to each school year. He also created an advisory council to strategize the implementation of universal pre-kindergarten in Boston. He has received mixed reviews for his process of selecting a new school superintendent to replace interim Superintendent John McDonough. While public meetings have been held to solicit community voices in the selection process, that process has dragged on for more than a year. “The community wanted to have input into who would be the next superintendent,” Walsh commented. “We went around and met with community groups and student activists and parent groups to find out what they want to see in the next superintendent.” His overarching goal with the schools, he says, is to raise the performance level in all city schools so that all children have access to good quality schools. “I think we have more work to do around underperforming schools,” he said. “I think we have more work to do around school buildings and facilities. I think we’ve done some things really well. I think there’s a lot of room for improvement in other areas.” Another area in which Walsh says he wants to see improvement is in the number of African American teachers in the Boston school system. Despite a desegregation court order mandating that blacks make up 25 percent of the city’s teachers, just 22 percent of the city teachers are black. Blacks and Latinos make up 89 percent of the school system’s students. Walsh told the Banner his administration will do better.
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Left: Mayor Martin Walsh delivers his State of the City address at Symphony Hall. Walsh emphasized his plans to develop more housing and improve the quality of the city’s schools during the address. (Vekonda Lunagphay photo) RIght: Walsh tours the city’s new homeless shelter on Southampton Street. Currently the shelter can house 100 guests each night and upon completion will house upwards of 400 individuals. (Mayor’s Office photo by Isabel Leon) “I think the city’s done a terrible job in diversifying the school department,” Walsh said in a recent interview with the Banner. “I think it goes back years. First of all, we shouldn’t have a court order telling us we need to have teachers of color. There’s just something fundamentally wrong there. I’m looking to go beyond the 25 percent.”
Affordable housing
Walsh’s housing plan, released in October, revolves around producing 53,000 new units of housing in Boston over the next 15 years to keep pace with an expected population increase of 91,000. While Walsh says there’s no certainty that the increased housing supply
will make homes in Boston more affordable, the mayor is planning to make 250 parcels of publicly-owned land available for the development of affordable housing. “The housing plan was really focused on creating more opportunities for affordable housing and workforce housing, but also, there’s a component of it for low-income housing,” he said. “As the federal government cuts funding for affordable housing, we’re not going to have that housing stock. We have to come up with ways of creating new affordable housing stock.”
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conversation,” Walsh said. “There are other pieces of the conversation we need to have around race. When you look at board rooms, you don’t see enough people of color. When you look at government offices, you don’t see enough people of color. In positions of development, there aren’t enough people of color. We certainly don’t have enough people of color as teachers in the city. So there’s a lot of room to grow. And I think we’ve laid a good foundation down this year.”
Cabinet diversity
Early in his administration, Walsh drew fire from some in the black and Latino communities for a perceived slow start in building a diverse cabinet. But by the end of the year, half of his leadership team members were people of color: Chief of Economic Development John Barros, Chief of Health and Human Services Felix G. Arroyo, Chief of Staff Daniel Koh, Chief of Education Rahn Dorsey, Chief of Civic Engagement Jerome Smith, Chief of Innovation and Technology Jascha Franklin-Hodge and Chief of Arts and Culture Julie Burros. In many ways, Walsh’s approach to filling cabinet posts is indicative of his leadership style. It took a while, but he kept his word. “People were frustrated by the timeliness of how we ramped up the cabinet, but by taking our time and doing it correctly we got to the goal we wanted to get to,” Walsh commented. “We took our time and made sure we went through the process and brought people in. You can see the benefit of that now in the city.”
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with in recent months is the increased focus on strained relations between the city’s police force and black teenagers, many of whom complain of frequent stops and harassment by Boston officers. A study of police data on pedestrian stops found that blacks were more likely than whites to be stopped, questioned or observed by police, who record data on their interactions with the public in a Field Intelligence Observation database. As the Black Lives Matter movement has been increasing awareness among the general public of inequalities in policing, Boston police practices have come under increased scrutiny. Walsh says that police relations with black youth are better here than in cities like New York and Ferguson, Missouri, where police killings of unarmed blacks have made national news, but acknowledged that there are challenges to building better relations. “There are clearly tensions between young people and the police,” he said. “How do we get that trust back on both sides? I think that’s going to be the biggest challenge for us in the coming year — building that trust.” Walsh said his administration’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative, coordinated with the national initiative launched by President Obama, will create an opening for tough conversations about race. The city also has been approved for a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to facilitate conversations around race. (The dollar amount of the grant has not yet been finalized.) “The police will be part of that
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Social Impact Prize winner Michelle Miller Groves (center) poses with (l-r) Nene Igietseme, Boston Impact Initiative Team Member; Deborah Frieze, Boston Impact Initiative co-founder; John Maudlin, Field’s Corner Business Lab co-founder; and Travis M. Lee, Field’s Corner Business Lab co-founder.
Dorchester entrepreneur focuses on nonprofit sector Marketing firm wins Social Impact Prize By MARTIN DESMARAIS When Dorchester resident Michelle Miller Groves named her startup Social Good Marketing, she knew she would have to do something to impact the community. By targeting her integrated marketing services to nonprofits and setting up an internship program helping college students get experience with small businesses, she has done just that. And she isn’t the only one to think so. Recently, Miller Groves won a Social Impact Prize from the Boston Impact Initiative and Field’s Corner Business Lab. The prize provides Social Good Marketing with one year of free office space at the Business Lab’s startup hub, as well as executive coaching. The Boston Impact Initiative, an organization that provides financing services to Boston businesses and organizations serving urban communities, sponsored the office space. Field’s Corner Business Lab co-founders Travis Lee and John Maudlin will work with Miller Groves as she works to expand Social Good Marketing. According to Boston Impact Initiative co-founder Deborah
Frieze, Social Good Marketing was chosen from a pool of small businesses that applied for the Social Impact Prize. Frieze said her organization was impressed by the company’s “commitment to empowering local entrepreneurs and engaging a diverse network of young consultants.”
Dual impact
The concept for Social Good Marketing was dreamed up by Miller Groves in 2010, while she was working in the media relations industry and also teaching advertising and public relations at Suffolk University. Miller Groves’ background is in public relations and advertising; she has a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in the field from Suffolk. She has also worked in online advertising for Wayfair.com. She got her start in teaching in 2008 and has taught at a number of Boston schools. She currently teaches at Fisher College. What prompted her to start her own business was a perceived need for integrated marketing services for nonprofit organizations and small businesses. She also saw college students with a desire to get real-world experience in marketing and
PROFILE WHO: Michelle Miller Groves BACKGROUND: Public relations and adver-
tising, with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the field from Suffolk Univeristy. She has worked in online advertising for Wayfair.com. She got her start in teaching in 2008 and has taught at a number of Boston schools. CURRENTLY: Fisher College instructor, Social Good Marketing owner COURTESY SOCIAL GOOD MARKETING
the inability to get satisfying internships with the large companies that traditionally work with colleges. “Intern with a big company and you spend most of your time answering phones and doing menial office tasks,” Miller Groves said. “Work with a small business or nonprofit and you get your hands dirty with critical industry work.” Scheming on how to connect interns with companies, Miller Groves started talking to nonprofits and realized she could offer services from her own company for those that had some budget for marketing, and offer interns for others that might not have the funds. College interns typically do the work for college credit so they are not paid. As a startup, Miller
Michelle Miller Groves, founder of Social Good Marketing Groves knew she could offer services through Social Good Marketing that nonprofits could afford. In this way, both grounds were covered.
The Massachusetts Minority Contractors Association broke new ground last week when it announced the appointment of Beverley Johnson as the organization’s first female president and chairwoman of the board. Johnson, a real estate and development veteran, will lead the MMCA for a two-year term. The association, which was started in 2007, works to develop business opportunities for minority, women and small businesses in the construction industry, as well as professional trades that support the industry including architects, attorneys and accountants. MMCA represents over 100 minority and women-owned businesses in the state and provides its members with advocacy, education, training and development support. In Johnson, the MMCA has a new leader with strong roots in Boston’s real estate and development world. She has successfully run her Mattapan-based real estate and urban planning consulting firm, Bevco Associates, for two decades. She is also no stranger to shattering glass ceilings, having also served as the first African-American female department head at the Boston Redevelopment Authority. Through her BRA days and her own private business, Johnson has developed a reputation as a savvy strategic planner, whose leadership and political acumen have led to the building of many large development and transportation projects throughout Boston. MMCA leaders view the appointment of Johnson as a tremendous coup for the association. “This is an historic moment for the MMCA in our decision to appoint Ms. Johnson as the first female president and board chairwoman of the organization,” Gregory Janey, a past MMCA vice president, said in a statement. “Her strong work ethic and commitment
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Social media expertise
Integrated marketing weaves together a number of marketing and advertising strategies, including paid advertising, public relations, promotions and social media, into one focused campaign to support a company’s brand. Social Good Marketing’s particular area of expertise is the creation of content for social media marketing, namely Twitter, Facebook and blogs, as well as search COURTESY MMCA
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continued from page 9 to building wealth within the minority business community will serve the organization well.” Johnson will replace Jesse Jeter as president. Jeter also sang her praises, specifically citing her ability to serve as a strong leader to the association and further its goals to diversify construction and development projects throughout the state. “I am pleased to pass the baton to Ms. Johnson, because over the years she has emerged as a strong advocate for generating the level of business opportunities that will increase and sustain the capacity of minority-owned firms,” Jeter said. “Ms. Johnson’s experience in the public and private sector brings a balanced perspective to the table, along with a unique ability to build bridges with public agencies and private developers that will serve our members well.” Johnson said she is thrilled to take the reins of an organization that has such a track record of success in increasing diversity and opportunity on projects throughout Boston. She wants to help the organization’s members hone in on the lucrative downtown development market. “My most immediate goal is to first of all lead the organization in a way to ensure that we can gain
ground in getting work for the members,” Johnson said. “I would like to identify a pipeline of projects to provide opportunity to get work and grow and expand, and move from neighborhood projects to downtown projects.” Johnson will inherit some impressive MMCA programs, including the Boston Pilot Program, a joint venture with the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations that has generated $39 million in Community Development Corporation projects for minority- and women-owned business enterprises. The MMCA also sits on various State Oversight Boards, working with quasi-state agencies such as the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, the Massachusetts Port Authority, the Massachusetts Diversity Coalition and the Massachusetts Gaming Commission to help increase minority- and women-owned business participation on public contracts.
Stronger relationships
Having worked with the MMCA for a number of years through her Bevco and BRA roles, Johnson is well aware of the support the association provides, and she said she only hopes she can build on its success. “We must be a very dynamic organization that continues to be
highly regarded in the political and business sectors of Boston and beyond,” she said. One thing that really excites Johnson about working with the MMCA is the opportunity to interact with the board and other members daily. She calls herself very “relationship-oriented” and believes she can thrive in a network of industry professionals that stretches throughout the state. She shrugs off too much emphasis on being a woman leader in a male-dominated sector. The fact is Johnson has been working in rooms full of mostly male construction, real estate development and city planning professionals for years. She knows how to play ball with the boys. For her, strong management skills and confident leadership ability trump gender differences any day. “I feel like I am ready to take on this challenge. I feel confident in my leadership skills and ability to use those skills for the good of the organization,” she said. “I am excited about taking on this responsibility and I look forward to it. “I will not go in with a closed mind — I will go in with the understanding that leadership requires flexibility,” she added. “I have great board. They are all strong leaders in their own right, and we will work together. Our common goal is focusing on the good of the organization.”
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engine optimization, which helps consumers find a business through the web. Officially launched in 2013, the company’s clients include Roxbury Community College and Brookview House in Dorchester. The company first started placing interns in July 2013. So far it has placed about 30 students into internships from schools such as Boston University, Boston College, Suffolk University, Northeastern University, UMass Boston and Tufts. Social Good Marketing generates revenue through its work for nonprofit clients. One of the things Miller Groves hopes to work on while at Field’s Corner Business Lab is finding the best business model to use to support the internship program.
Cultivating capacity
The Business Lab’s Maudlin is looking forward to working with Miller Groves to help her grow her business. “I think Social Good Marketing is an equally good fit for the businesses we want to support and for businesses we want to be members of Field’s Corner Business Lab,” said Maudlin. “Here is a company trying to provide nonprofits with
resources that they need, just like we are trying to do.” The marketing world Social Good Marketing is entering has been shaken up by the explosion of social media and its impact on reaching consumers, which has allowed small businesses and startups to compete with large, decades-old corporations that once dominated the public relations world. In this new age of social media, those grizzled PR vets may actually be less desirable than younger professionals who are more tech savvy. “Companies are even more willing to work with college students because they know they are a technical generation,” said Miller Groves. “They grew up with it, and colleges are now teaching social media in the classroom and how to market it for businesses.” At the end of the day, Miller Grove stresses, all companies now know they must have a social media presence. And Social Good Marketing has just the thing for them. “There are so many opportunities to grow Social Good Marketing and really solidify our niche and our space in the market. I just see tremendous potential,” said Miller Grove. “I know Social Good Marketing is in the right place at the right time to grow.”
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continued from page 1 “Shutting a highway down is an effective way to get people’s attention. Based on the amount of attention we got, I think it’s confirmation that the tactic was well-chosen.” Monday afternoon, a crowd estimated at more than 1,000 demonstrators marched from the old State House to the Boston Common in an action organizers said drew connections between King’s civil rights legacy and the activists’ current fight against police brutality, mass incarceration and growing economic inequality. Northeastern University student Brandi Artez, an organizer of Monday’s march, said the demonstrations — on Interstate 93 and in Downtown Boston Monday — are essential for keeping attention on the issues the nascent movement is embracing. “The demonstrations make people notice,” she said. “I support any and all non-violent actions.” Artez, who grew up in the Villa Victoria housing development in the South End, said she often sees police violating the rights of blacks and Latinos in the South End.
“On a summer afternoon, they do a sweep and just pick anyone they see and put them against the wall and search them,” she said. “I’ve had undercover cops come up to my car with their guns drawn. It’s terrifying.” The legislative package filed by the Black and Latino Caucus members would require all Massachusetts police departments to record data on all pedestrian and motor vehicle stops, including the race of those stopped, the name of the officer and the reason they were stopped, and make data on their stops public. One bill would also require police to issue receipts to anyone they stop and question, informing them of the reason they were stopped and the name of the officer. Another bill would require that all police shootings be investigated by an inspector general, rather than by police themselves or district attorneys. Artez said the proposed legislation would be a “step in the right direction.” “It would bring some accountability to the police,” she said. “It doesn’t work to have the district attorney, who works with the police, investigating the police.”
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Protest leaders Brandi Artez and Brock Satter march down Tremont Street during Monday’s March to End Police Brutality. At the King Breakfast, an annual event hosted by Union United Methodist Church and St. Cyprians Episcopal Church, much of the talk was of Civil Rights Movement milestones from 50 years ago — the march on Selma, Alabama, King’s march in Boston and his appearance before the Massachusetts Legislature. Organizers of the breakfast showed a clip from the film Selma,”depicting King in 1965 Alabama. Massachusetts Commission
Against Discrimination Commissioner Charlotte Golar Richie said the current wave of protesters have the same potential to change America as the activists of yore. “Dr. King was young,” she said. “He was still in his 30s when he led this movement. We need young people to feel empowered, to know that their voices matter.”
Another historical parallel
While last Thursday’s shutdown on Interstate 93 garnered international attention — and 29 arrests
— a similar action more than 30 years ago yielded a different outcome, a blogger noted on the Blue Mass Group website. On April 29, 1981, Boston firefighters protesting city budget cutbacks marched from a Dorchester union hall to the Southeast Expressway and marched along the highway, stopping traffic for 20 minutes, according to contemporary news reports. There were no arrests in that action, nor in a half-hour-long demonstration on the Southeast Expressway and several other major arteries on May 1 of that year.
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MFA book highlights African American artists Common Wealth features 100 works By SUSAN SACCOCCIA
PHOTOS COURTESY AND © THE GORDON PARKS FOUNDATION, COURTESY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON
Gordon Parks photograph (above) Untitled, St. Louis, Missouri, 1950, (Below) Husband and Wife, Sunday Morning, Detroit, Michigan.
BACK TO FORT SCOTT MFA displays Gordon Parks photos for first time IF YOU GO
By SUSAN SACCOCCIA Eloquent with both words and images, Gordon Parks often used his abundant and largely selftaught gifts as a photographer, writer and filmmaker to chronicle the African American experience during the 1920s through the ’60s, when segregation was entrenched in cities large and small throughout the nation. Parks (1912-2006) was the first African American photographer to be hired full time by Life Magazine. For more than 20 years, from 1948 to 1972, his photo essays reached the magazine’s 20 million mainly white, middle class readers, countering their stereotypes by rendering the stories of black families and public figures with humanity and an eye for compelling, close-up detail. In the spring of 1950, Life assigned Parks to do a story on segregated schools. He decided to turn to his own past. The youngest of 15 children, Parks grew up poor and black in the rural town of Fort Scott, Kansas, raised by a strong mother who died when he was a teenager. In a photo essay he planned to call Back to Fort Scott, Parks would look up his 11 classmates who, as ninth graders, graduated with him in 1927 from the allblack Plaza School.
WHAT: Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott WHERE: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston WHEN: Through Sept. 13, 2015
“My classmates from Plaza had drifted as if with the winds,” Parks writes in his notes on the trip. “I decided to chart their course and find where they had dropped anchor.” During a road trip that started in Fort Scott and went on to five cities in the Midwest, Parks tracked down all but two of his classmates. He followed a route that many African Americans took during the Great Migration, as they left small towns to find better lives in larger cities. Starting in Fort Scott, Parks then stops in nearby Kansas City and St. Louis, and then moves on to Detroit, Columbus and Chicago, which drew
the largest population of African Americans in the country. Parks visited and photographed his friends in their parlors and porches. Subtly underscoring their ties to family and home, he often adopted the motif of Midwestern painter Grant Wood’s iconic 1930 painting, American Gothic, in which couples stand side by side, gazing at the viewer. Yet the photo essay was never published, passed over twice by breaking news: first, the start of the Korean War; and then in the following year, President Truman’s dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur. Making this masterpiece
visible for the first time, Karen Haas, Lane Curator of Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has collaborated with the Gordon Parks Foundation to create an exhibition and catalog that juxtaposes the photographs Parks took during his trip with excerpts from the 1927 Plaza School Yearbook and passages from the seven pages of typed notes that Parks compiled during his road trip. Haas is author of the catalog, which includes an introduction by Isabel Wilkerson, Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. Borrowing the title Parks planned for his chronicle, Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott is on view through September 13 at the MFA. The exhibition’s 42 photographs, all but one black-and-white, include loans from the Foundation as well as five images from the MFA’s own collection. With extraordinary pictorial beauty and power, Parks bears witness to the political, social and
See PARKS, page 16
African American artists loom large in Greater Boston this winter. Last month, Kara Walker, whose 35-ton figure of a mammy recently reigned in the former Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn, lectured to a standing-room crowd at the Radcliffe Institute. A major Lorna Simpson retrospective just closed at the Addison Gallery of American Art. A new show at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston from the Studio Museum in Harlem features 35 artists who explore the South as both a real and fabled region. And just in time for its annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Open House, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston introduced its spectacular new book, Common Wealth: Art by African Americans in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Celebrating the growth of its holdings in art by African Americans, now one of the most significant collections of its kind in the nation, the MFA presents 100 of these works by 85 artists in the book. The MFA collection represents almost every major African-American artist from the nineteenth century to the present, as well as many others deserving greater recognition, including artists of the African Diaspora in South America and the Caribbean. Until the last quarter of the 20th century, most art museums, including the MFA, had only a few works by African American artists. Artists of color were off the grid of mainstream museums, galleries and educational
See MFA BOOK, page 16
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON
Cover image from Common Wealth: Art by African Americans in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Photos chronicle evolution of New West End
Lolita Parker captures events, construction By COLETTE GREENSTEIN
With images by photographer Lolita Parker Jr., the exhibit The New West Enders & Other Green Monsters documents the rapid-fire changes in Boston’s West End over the past 16 years. Set against a backdrop of Boston Garden events, sports bars and endless construction, Parker’s wide-angle perspective ranges from the personal to the political. Parker’s photos powerfully and beautifully capture the projects, events and people that have reshaped and reenergized the West End since 1998 — from the 2004 Democratic National Convention to the lone flower merchant who has been a North Station icon for over 20 years; from the completion of the Central Artery to the demolition of the elevated MBTA tracks. “While the screeching trains were noisy and the elevated tracks an eyesore to many, the El was a major character with a life of its own. I miss the play of light and shadow under and around the tracks,” Parker said. “When we lost that green ribbon of metal and concrete in the course of one weekend, it was like someone took the roof off the neighborhood.”
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Lolita Parker Jr. A native of California, Parker considers herself a Bay Stater by birthright, having recently traced her European ancestry to the Massachusetts’ early settlers. When she first visited Boston in February 1975, it somehow felt like home. But it wasn’t until 1993 that she permanently settled in the city with her three children. A resident of the West End since 1998, Parker is proud to call herself a New West Ender and looks forward to the spring when she will join a growing group of neighborhood grandparents pushing strollers along Staniford Street.
Above, Dismantling of the Lechmere El: Sixteen Years in the Making. Right, N’Dia PM Riegler, now a teacher at the Eliot school.
IF YOU GO WHAT: The New West Enders & Other Green Monsters. WHERE: West End Museum, 150 Staniford St., Boston. WHEN: Tuesday-Friday 12 p.m.-5 p.m. and Saturday 11 a.m.-4 p.m. TICKETS: Free admission
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Kevin Hart is the best man in The Wedding Ringer By COLETTE GREENSTEIN Make no mistake about it. Kevin Hart is a star and The Wedding Ringer is another film that further cements his abilities and talents to make audiences laugh. Hart, who co-starred with Ice Cube in Ride Along and was part of the ensemble cast of Think Like A Man Too in 2014, follows in his recent roles portraying characters who are over-thetop, brash, confident, loveable, and downright funny. His latest character Jimmy Callahan is no exception. Jimmy is the owner and CEO of The Best Man, Inc. “TBM,” as it’s called in the film, is a company that provides “best men for socially challenged guys in need.” Enter Josh Gad (Wish I Was Here) who plays Doug Harris, a really sweet and nice guy who is about to marry Gretchen, the girl of his dreams (played by The Big Bang Theory’s Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting). But Doug has a
problem: he doesn’t have any friends and needs a best man and seven groomsmen in less than two weeks’ time. Wedding planner Edmundo (Ignacio Serricchio) comes to the rescue and refers Doug to Jimmy and The Best Man, Inc. Jimmy’s job is not only to become Doug’s best man but to also find him seven believable groomsmen with the clock ticking. What ensues is hilarious mayhem as Jimmy and Doug try to pull off the impossible (or as Jimmy calls it, “the golden tux”) with an unexpected “bromance” brewing between the two. The film’s supporting cast of characters include: Ken Howard and Mimi Rogers as straightlaced parents Ed and Lois Palmer; Cloris Leachman in the grandmother role; Jennifer Lewis as Jimmy’s right-hand person; Olivia Thirlby in the role of Alison Palmer; Affion Crockett as a TSA agent who can dance absurdly; Aaron Takahashi as Endo who shows off his unique genitals;
Kevin Hart (l) stars in The Wedding Ringer. Jorge Garcia (from ABC’s Lost) and comedian Corey Holcomb, whose groomsman skill is being able to speak backwards. Stand-up comedians Jeffrey Ross and Whitney Cummings play bit parts as a wedding singer and bridesmaid, respectively. The film is directed by Jeremy
Garelick and produced by Will Packer (Think Like A Man Too, Ride Along and No Good Deed). Packer has worked with Hart on three previous films and is producing the sequel Ride Along 2. The Wedding Ringer is really about the relationship and eventual friendship between Kevin
Hart and Josh Gad’s characters Jimmy and Doug. The film is a fun and light-hearted romp that keeps you laughing throughout and leaves you with a bounce in your step.
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continued from page 13 human toll of segregation, as well as the strength and humanity of his subjects. The photographs and texts span 23 years, from pictures and captions in a 1927 yearbook portraying ninth graders to the words and images with which Parks documents his encounters with childhood friends as adults. Near a yearbook photo of the 12 graduates is an excerpt from the notes Parks kept that draws a poignant contrast between the ninth graders’ exuberance and the distortion of their segregated
schooling. Parks writes, “None of us understood why the first years of our education were separated from those of the whites, nor did we bother to ask. The situation existed when we were born. We waded in normal at the tender age of six and swam out maladjusted…nine years later.” Starting his journey in Fort Scott, Parks finds the one classmate who has remained in their home town, Luella Lee. Parks notes that her teenaged daughter Shirley Jean Hill is prepared for “better things, college…a career,” but he photographs the girl with her boyfriend outside the movie theater, where blacks must sit in a high balcony
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and an athlete too. Handiest man known as the “buzzard’s roost.” when there’s something to do.” Visiting his family, Parks In Detroit, Parks finds that Pauphotographs his Uncle James, line Terry, whose yearbook motto is a blind peddler of handmade “Conquer or die,” remains a figure brooms whom he describes as of strength, a matriarch with four “my real mentor.” At his sister’s sons at home and a married daughhome, writes Parks, “I melted ter nearby. Parks photographs into a welcome that only home Pauline and her husband en route can give,” dining on “hot buttered to Sunday services. “We stay pretty homemade rolls, baked beans, close to church and God,” she tells sweet-meated chicken and butParks, and feeds him a meal of ter-soaked corn on the cob.” roasted hams and chicken. Parks photographs Paralee Three classmates in Chicago Rivers, who had cared for his ailing demonstrate a spectrum of exmother, on her deathbed. He writes, “She had been at the edge of the river periences. Parks shows Margaret Augusta Tyson in her warm, several times before but this time well-appointed apartment. While she would have to swim it.” her young daughter plays the upAlso on display are photographs of white neighbors, includ- right piano, Margaret does needlepoint. In his portrait of Fred ing Lyle Myrick. As teenagers, he Wells and his wife Mary, Parks and Parks became close friends conveys the couple’s dignity as after an evenly matched fistfight. they say grace at the table in their In St. Louis, Parks photographs small kitchenette apartment. Earl Collins on his porch with his Parks finds Mazel Morgan, young daughter, Doris Jean. A 10 describes as whom the yearbook World War II veteran, Earl has a JANUARY “full of fun,” in a transient hotel. good job at Union Electric, earnHe shows her as a desolate figure, ing $1.2 an hour. The yearbook staring out the window next to her describes him as “big and strong
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institutions. But in the late 60s, in Boston and elsewhere, pioneering curators, collectors and gallery owners began bringing artists of color into the forefront. A turning point was the MFA’s 2011 acquisition of 67 works by African American artists from the John Axelrod Collection, which placed its holdings of African American art in the first rank among museums in the United States. Axelrod, a Boston native and long time supporter of art by African Americans as well as the MFA, also provided funds to support production of the book. “Now that the MFA has one of best collections of African American works in the world,” says Axelrod, on the phone from his Back Bay home, “it was time to do a book. The power of a book is that it can reach beyond Boston to the world.” Seeking an expert in artists of color to develop the book, the MFA chose Lowery Stokes Sims, William and Mildred Lasdon Chief Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design and former president of the Studio Museum in Harlem. Sims orchestrated a process of research and writing that engaged curators within and beyond the MFA’s Art of the Americas Department,
as well as a broad swath of staff and interns. This collaborative process deepened and broadened the MFA’s embrace of these works and artists. The book combines stunning color reproductions with highly readable text about the works and the artists, who include enslaved and freed African Americans as well as both academically trained and selftaught artists and artisans.
Multiple contributors
Sims and her contributors have created a richly layered exploration of the collection as well as the individual works and artists. Sims wrote the introductory essay on the “twoness” of being both African and American, as well as essays on each of the 11 themes that she uses to organize the works: Vessels of Memory; Interiors; Landscape and Place; Men; Women; Family and Community; Street Life; Dance, Music and Song; Spirituality; Masks and Symbols; and Abstraction. MFA curators authored texts on each work, and a team of interns crafted biographies for every artist. The book also provides an extensive bibliography for further study. Further enriching the volume are essays by individuals who led the growth of the MFA’s collection of African American works. With the arrival of Malcolm Rogers as museum director in 1994, acquisitions by artists of color gained
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husband Willie, who is sprawled on a bed. As Parks was leaving, Willie pulled a loaded .45-caliber handgun on him and took all his money. Parks enlisted Margaret Tyson to help Mazel get back to Fort Scott. This unpublished chronicle seems to have been a turning point for Parks, who began mining his own experience in books and films. Drawing on his early years, he wrote a best-selling novel, The Learning Tree, and in 1969 turned it into a movie — the first Hollywood feature directed by black man. Three years later, detouring from fact to fantasy, he directed his blockbuster crime thriller, Shaft, but then returned to memoirs. In a late poem, he writes of Fort Scott, “This small town into which I was born, / has, for me, grown into the largest, / and most important city in the universe.” The exhibition includes one color image: an idyllic close-up Park took in 1968 of a boy gazing at the sky from the grass, entitled Boy with a June Bug, Fort Scott, KS. momentum. In his foreword, Rogers credits “a coalition of curators, collectors, and donors as well as art historians, critics, and gallery owners” for the growing presence of works by African Americans in institutions nationwide over the past four decades. Essayists include eminent curator Edmund Barry Gaither, director of the museum at Boston’s National Center of Afro-American Artists. In 1969, the MFA began its longterm and fruitful collaboration with Gaither, who has organized a series of landmark exhibitions of works by artists of color at the MFA. Other contributors include Elliot Bostwick Davis, chair of the Art of the Americas Department. Hired by Rogers in 2001, Davis led the planning of the Art of the Americas Wing, which opened in 2010, guided by a broader definition of American art that encompasses many under-represented groups — including Native American, Latin American, women, folk, outsider and African American artists.
Expanding curatorial vistas
In 2005, inspired by Rogers, the MFA Trustee and Overseer Diversity Advisory Committee established the Heritage Fund for a Diverse Collection with contributions from more than 200 donors and a three-to-one challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Fund has supported the purchase of more than 80 works by American artists of color, including sculptures and paintings collected by jazz impresario George Wein as well as the 67 works from the John Axelrod Collection. Also enhancing the MFA’s collection of African American art was a major gift of works by renowned artist Lois Maillou Jones, an alumna of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Common Wealth includes an interview by Sims with Michael Rosenfeld, whose Manhattan gallery pioneered a decade-long series of exhibitions entitled, African American Art, 20th Century Masterworks. In 1993, Axelrod dropped in on the first show and was hooked. “It was love at first sight,” says Axelrod. “I knew if I wanted to have a great collection of American artists, I had to have these artists. How can a museum claim to be great without these artists?”
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THURSDAY JOLLY 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. 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.
NEW YEAR, NEW YOU: YOUR WORKOUT Is your New Year’s resolution to get fit in 2015? Beginning January 22, join us every other Thursday 6:30-7:30pm for a free, basic yoga class. Local instructors teach proper breathing, simple poses, and explore this fitness tradition. Comfortable clothes, sneakers, and a towel or yoga mat are recommended. Mattapan Branch of the Boston Public Library 1350 Blue Hill Ave. 617-298-9218, www.bpl.org.
FRIDAY 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.
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.
WEDNESDAY 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.
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Black Lives Matter: Now What?! New England Blacks in Philanthropy (NEBIP), created to inform, reform and transform the practice of philanthropy in Black communities, will hold the forum, Black Lives Matter: Now What?!, on Wednesday, January 28, from 6-8pm at the Freedom House, 5 Crawford St. in Dorchester. The panel, led by Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree, will provide a deeper understanding of the current civil rights and Black Lives Matter movements and what needs to change to reflect that Black Lives do Indeed Matter. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 617-261-8555 or email rgibson@nebip.org.
is to raise awareness of health disparities and cross-cultural care through the screening of popular documentary films, followed by an expert panel discussion and audience Q&A. This event will focus on the topic of disparities in pediatric health care, with an emphasis on cross-cultural family-centered care. This event will feature a segment from the highly acclaimed documentary series, Worlds Apart, which follows the story of Justine Chitsena, a four year old from Laos with an atrial septal defect, a congenital heart abnormality. This film depicts the dilemma of Justine’s mother, Bouphet Chitsena, who is caught between the recommendation of Justine’s providers to surgically repair the defect and the opposition of Justine’s grandmother, who fears the scar from the operation will damage the girl’s soul. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Oscar J. Benavidez, MD, MPP, Chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology and Alexy Arauz-Boudreau, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and MGHfC Associate Director of Population Health. Sponsored by the Disparities Solutions Center and the Multicultural Affairs Office at Massachusetts General Hospital. Thursday, January 29, 1-2pm, Haber Auditorium, Blake Building, 1st Floor, Massachusetts General Hospital. All film series events are free and open to the public, and members of local health care communities are encouraged to attend. RSVP to dispari tiessolutions@ partners.org with the subject line “1.29.15 Film Series Event.” *A light lunch will be available from 12:30-1pm outside the auditorium.
UPCOMING RHYTHMS OF A FAITHFUL JOURNEY: VERSES FROM SLAVERY TO PRESIDENCY African-American artist, educator, poet and author Robin Joyce Miller will present a slideshow and an exhibit of 14 mixed-media collage quilts at 7pm, Tuesday, February 3, in the Borgia Gallery at Elms College, 291 Springfield St., Chicopee, Mass. The framed pieces in this exhibit are approximately 35 inches x 46 inches. Twelve of them illustrate African-American history events or periods accompanying poetry from the book. Recitations of poems that accompany these works of art will be included in the presentation. The slideshow, Restoring My African Soul, is a personal narrative of the journey to restoration and healing through faith, art, poetry and photography. Miller co-authored “Rhythms of a Faithful Journey” with her husband, James Walter Miller, who also will read some poems at the event. This event is free and open to the public. Information: 413-594-2761. The exhibit will be open 8:30am - 4:30pm daily, February 4-23.
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OUSMANE SEMBENE’S BLACK GIRL (LA NOIRE DE...) ArtsEmerson: The World on Stage announcing a special free screening of Ousmane Sembene’s BLACK GIRL (La Noire De...). 8pm Introduction by Dr. Samba Gadjigo and Dr. Claire Andrade-Watkins , 8:10pm Black Girl Film Screening (65 mintues), 9:15pm Q & A with Dr. Samba Gadjigo and Dr. Claire Andrade-Watkins. Emerson/Paramount Center’s Bright Family Screening Room, 559 Washington St, Boston, Friday, February 6 at 8pm. Admission is free with reservation by calling 617-824-8400. Snow date: Friday, February 13. For more information visit www.artsemerson.org.
THE SAM CORNISH PROJECT: AN APRON FULL OF BEANS Join our celebration of Black History Month at First Parish of Lexington Unitarian Universealist! “The Sam Cornish Project: An Apron Full of Beans” is an hour-long performance on Saturday February 7 at 2pm in the Parish Hall. Boston’s former Poet Laureate Sam Cornish joins forces with Roxbury Repertory Theater to create a moving performance piece from selected poems and prose. Gathered from his collection “An Apron Full of Beans,” Cornish’s eloquent and witty words are set to movement and music. The poetry touches on voices past and addresses the poet’s thoughts on family, race, music, and civil rights among other topics. Woven together as echoes of ancestors and experiences, “Apron” is a thought-provoking quilt that gives a glimpse of African-American experiences as told through a multi-racial, multi-generational cast of professional actors and musicians. Tickets are $10 at the door. For more information or reservations, please call 617-541-7465.
NEW YEAR, NEW YOU: YOUR CAREER Employment expert Hakim Cunningham of Cunningham Consulting Services shows you how to take your career to the next level by exploring area employers, training opportunities, what to do if you have a CORI, and more. Saturday, March 21, 2pm and 3pm. Session 1 takes place at 2pm and Session 2 begins at 3pm Each session covers the same information. Registration is required. RSVP for your preferred session by phone (617-2989218), email (jidakaar@bpl.org), or online registration form (http://bit.ly/newyeary ourcareer). Refreshments will be served.
Mattapan Branch of the Boston Public Library 1350 Blue Hill Ave. www.bpl.org.
ONGOING NANCY DEWEY A PERUVIAN QUEST The Multicultural Arts Center will be hosting Nancy Dewey’s “A Peruvian Quest” from through February 6. The exhibition will include Dewey’s photographs depicting the transformation of life from 1979 to 2013 in the rural Peruvian town of Tinta. Bailarinas en las Ruinas Pisaq — Dancers at Pisaq 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.multiculturalartscenter. 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 8:309:30pm, 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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choice. We’ve researched what an equestrian site would involve. They would need the whole park and maybe part of the [William Devine] golf course. Horses can really tear up the turf. And 220 acres is woodland — they could really damage that.” The group worries that the park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in the late 19th century and the largest piece of Boston’s “Emerald Necklace,” could be left in poor condition, and that public access to the park would be limited not only during the Summer Games, but well in advance of them, Poff said. On the other hand, she acknowledged that some positive effects could come out of the plan, such as improved public transportation access to Franklin Park and renovations to White Stadium. “We’re trying to look at it all, and not form strong opinions yet,” Poff said. “But people are worried. It would change the park and possibly decrease access. Given that the Olympics is so expensive, we worry the park would be left a mess, with no money to restore it.” Dan Richardson, a lifelong Bostonian who lives near Franklin Park and said he has been enjoying the park for “three-quarters of a century,” expressed reservations about its use as an Olympics venue. “The park needs a lot of work just to keep it up as a resource and a refuge for people, without turning it into a resource for outside the community,” Richardson said. Richardson remembers a time when horseback riding was a popular activity on the park’s trails. “It would be nice to have young people from the surrounding communities learn how to ride again,” he said. “It would be a little ironic to have equestrian events in Franklin Park when the community doesn’t have access to those uses.”
Public meetings to come
Mayor Martin Walsh has voiced support for the Boston 2024 bid, but the City of Boston had few details to share at this early stage beyond a notice of nine upcoming community meetings to be held across the city, with the first scheduled for Jan. 27. “We’re looking forward to the start of a comprehensive process to meet with residents all across Boston, to solicit feedback and discuss how a potential Olympics would impact each neighborhood,” said Laura Oggeri, the city’s chief communications officer. Oggeri referred questions about specific venues to Boston 2024. Doug Rubin, advisor and spokesperson for Boston 2024, said an Olympic bid for Boston has the potential to benefit the city and all of its residents for the short- and long term. He cited employment and small business opportunities as well as athlete housing that could later add to the area’s affordable housing stock.
“This is an opportunity to talk about not just 2024, but 2030 and 2040,” he said. “We can start to plan for Boston’s future with significant investments in infrastructure. I think the mayor has been very clear that this bid only works if it’s consistent with our long-range planning.” As for Franklin Park, if it were to be used as a venue, Rubin said there would be improvements to White Stadium and the plans would certainly include sufficient post-Olympics clean-up. But, for Roxbury and any neighborhood, he said, “If any community has concerns, those will be listened to, and we’ll look at other options.” Representatives of Boston 2024 will be present at the city’s upcoming public meetings on the Olympics, he said. It will be more than two years before Boston finds out if it indeed has the opportunity to host the games. Rubin stressed that there is still plenty of time for a community process before the bid is even made, and that no venue decisions are set in stone. Boston organizers have until September 15 to inform the IOC they will bid, and then until early 2016 to submit the official bid. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will weigh Boston — the sole U.S. contender — against other bidding cities around the globe and announce their selection in summer 2017.
Equity potential seen
State Rep. Liz Malia, whose 11th Suffolk district includes Franklin Park, declined to weigh in on pros and cons before seeing Boston 2024’s bid documents, but emphasized in a statement that the process must be transparent. Boston City Councilor-at-Large Ayanna Pressley said she plans to pay close attention to the city’s upcoming community meetings and other developments in the Olympics bid. “The Olympics as a topic has certainly picked up in recent days with the announcement of the community meetings,” she said. “I’m very encouraged that we’re moving toward a direction of greater transparency and partnership with neighborhood residents. It’s really important that neighborhoods and residents are being engaged in a meaningful way.” Pressley said she is still in the “discovery phase” with insufficient information to support or object to the bid, but sees the potential for something positive to come out of it — for instance, a large amount of work that could be directed to minority- and women-owned business enterprises. “I appreciate the vision, and why the mayor sees this as an opportunity, but I have to do my due diligence to see that it meets the needs of the community,” she said. “If we are to move forward, I want it to reinforce other goals. It’s an opportunity for equity in MBE and WBE contracts. Boston could be the model with a project of this scale for inclusion and for addressing income equality.”
IF YOU GO: SCHEDULE OF COMMUNITY MEETINGS The City of Boston will hold nine public meetings on the Boston 2024 effort in locations across the city. The meetings will be an opportunity discuss the benefits of hosting the games and impact on the city. ALL MEETINGS ARE AT 6:30 P.M. The dates are as follows: n January 27 - Suffolk Law School, 120 Tremont St. n February 24 - Condon School Cafeteria, 200 D St., South Boston n March 31 - Harvard Business School, (building to be determined) n April 28 - Roxbury Community College, 1234 Columbus Ave., Roxbury n May 19 - Cleveland Community Center, 11 Charles St., Dorchester n June 30 - English High School, 144 McBride St., Jamaica Plain n July 28 - Mildred School, 5 Mildred Ave., Mattapan n August 25 - Ohrenberger School, 175 West Boundary Road, W. Roxbury n September 29 – East Boston High School, 86 White St., East Boston
Source: 2024boston.org
PHOTOS COURTESY FRANKLIN PARK COALITION
Franklin Park, the largest park in Boston’s Emerald Necklace, is a popular area for a multitude of community activities for all ages, from line dancing to organized foot races to picnics and performances. Some worry that use as an Olympics venue in 2024 could mean restricted park access for residents or excessive damage from horses.
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State tightens rules on restraining students By HEATHER VOGELL Schools in Massachusetts will be subject to new limits on physically restraining or isolating public school students under reforms ushered in late last year. School staff members will no longer be permitted to pin students face-down on the floor in most instances and will need a principal’s approval to keep children in a “time out” away from class for more than a half-hour. The changes — which will be phased in this fall and officially take effect in January 2016 — also require state officials to collect comprehensive data on how often schools restrain or seclude students and how often someone is hurt as a result. Massachusetts’ reforms were shaped, in part, by a June story by ProPublica and NPR that showed physical holds and isolation remain common in public schools across the country. Our analysis of federal data revealed these techniques were used more than 267,000 times in the 2012 school year, with some schools employing them dozens — or even hundreds — of times. There’s a growing awareness that, in some cases, children can suffer serious injuries and lasting trauma from such treatment. At least 20 children have died while being held down or left alone in seclusion rooms. Spurred by tougher state and federal regulations, as well as professional standards, psychiatric and health care institutions have worked diligently over the past decade to limit their use of restraints and seclusion. But rules governing public schools have remained more scattershot. The U.S. Department of Education issued restrictions, but made them voluntary. State and
local authorities passed a patchwork of regulations that left dangerous techniques illegal in some places but perfectly acceptable in others. For instance, some states don’t let schools use restraints that can restrict breathing — such as face-down “prone” restraints — on any children. But others do. Massachusetts followed few of the half-dozen best practices for safe use of restraints and seclusion outlined in the federal guidelines and a proposed national reform bill, ProPublica’s reporting showed. The Disability Law Center, an advocacy group, pointed out in a white paper submitted to officials reexamining Massachusetts’ rules that the state compared poorly to its New England neighbors. James DiTullio, the state’s undersecretary of education, said former Gov. Deval Patrick’s administration and education officials felt the rules were “long overdue for a very serious and thorough review.” The state sought advice from parents, students, public schools and private schools that serve public school students to determine what needed to change. ProPublica’s report “very much played a helpful and informational role as that process got off the ground,” DiTullio said. The state’s proposal was not without controversy, drawing 130 comments. Representatives of several private and public schools said they opposed banning prone restraints outright, which the state initially proposed. Some of the actions prohibited by the new rules are needed to ensure students’ safety, warned the Providers’ Council, an industry group for private providers of health and human services. In the end, the state agreed to continue to permit prone restraints – with a doctor’s approval — in rare
circumstances. The Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents was glad to see the exemption, said Christine McGrath, the group’s director of operations. The group was less pleased, she said, with new requirements for reporting and reviewing restraints, which superintendents will likely find burdensome, and also with limits on “time outs.” “The reality,” McGrath said, “is sometimes it takes more than 30 minutes for a child to de-escalate and to regroup.” Still, others, including advocates for the disabled and some parents, applauded the changes.
increase training requirements for school staff members and mandate that schools convene a team to come up with a plan for any student restrained multiple times in a single week. One of the most significant new requirements is that schools report all restraints and restraint-related injuries to the state. In the past, only some were: Numbers reported in Connecticut, which requires schools to tally all restraints, suggest that as many as 90 percent of Massachusetts’ holds were going unreported, Glassman said. DiTullio said the new data collection provision will provide educators with a critical tool. “We will learn so much more about how these restraints are being used, who they are being used on, how often they are being used,” he said. “Good data leads to better outcomes.”
One parent told education officials how her son had suffered during prone restraints, saying the reforms should go further. “I told them I couldn’t breathe and they just said you can breathe if you can talk,” the son recounted, according to a summary of comments submitted. “They don’t understand. I have a very short neck and I am very large and I get panicked when I am afraid I cannot breathe.” Rick Glassman, director of advocacy for the Disability Law Center, said the center has heard many such stories from Massachusetts parents and children. One child was so traumatized by being held face-down on a soiled carpet that he went home and barricaded himself in his room with furniture, refusing to return to the school, Glassman said. Another child was treated for post-traumatic stress disorder as a result. Massachusetts’ new rules also
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Goodwill Clothing Drive
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Boston Celtics forward Jared Sullinger hosted his third annual clothing drive with Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries on Thursday at Goodwill in Roxbury. More than 450 donors donated nearly 11,000 pounds of clothes to Goodwill. With Sullinger are Goodwill CEO Joanne Hilferty and Lindsey Gray, who donated nearly 3,200 pounds of clothes, winning a private clinic for 20 youth at the Lighthouse School, a school for students with special needs, where she teaches.
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BANNER CLASSIFIEDS LEGAL LEGAL NOTICE REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS The MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY (Authority) is soliciting consulting services for MPA CONTRACT NO. A361, FY15-17 TERM FIELD SURVEY SERVICES. The Authority is seeking qualified land survey consulting firm or team, with proven experience to provide professional survey services on an on-call, as needed basis. These services are expected to be provided at ALL Massport facilities. Consultant must be able to work closely with the Authority and other interested parties in order to provide such services in a timely and effective manner. A Supplemental Information Package will be available starting January 23, 2015 on the Capital Bid Opportunities webpage of Massport http://www. massport.com/doing-business/_layouts/CapitalPrograms/default.aspx as an attachment to the original Legal Notice, on COMMBUYS (www.commbuys. com) in the listings for this project or by contacting Susan Brace at Capital Programs SBrace@massport.com . The Supplemental Information Package will provide detailed information about Scope Of Work, Selection Criteria and Submission Requirements. The Authority expects to select three (3) consultants. However, the Authority reserves the right to select a different number if it is deemed in its best
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interest to do so. Each consultant shall be issued a contract in an amount not to exceed FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($ 400,000). The services shall be authorized on a work order basis.
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 selection shall involve a two-step process including the shortlisting of 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.
MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
By responding to this solicitation, consultants agree to accept the terms and conditions of Massport’s standard work order agreement, a copy of the Authority’s standard agreement can be found on the Authority’s web page at www.massport.com. The Consultant shall specify in its cover letter that it has the ability to obtain requisite insurance coverage.
INVITATION TO BID
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 19, 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
The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is seeking bids for the following: BID NO.
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Purchase of Replacement Parts 02/04/15 for Marley Cooling Tower (or Equal)
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RFB Purchase and Supply of Electric Power
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02/10/15
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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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PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY SOLICITATION FOR CONSULTANT SERVICES FEDERALLY-FUNDED PROJECTS MBTA CONTRACT NOS. RROPS17-20 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 $8,000,000, with $2,000,000 available for each of the four consultants selected, has been budgeted for this project. Services will include advice to and consultation with the Authority’s Railroad Operations Directorate, through four (4) task order contracts, on matters of general design, construction and maintenance as well as engineering services in the following disciplines: railroad facilities, track, signals, communications, commuter rail rolling stock, transportation planning, and environmental and safety issues, in support of Railroad Operations’ Mechanical, Transportation/ Customer Service and Engineering Divisions, on an as-needed basis. This contract will be Federally Funded. The DBE Participation Goal for this contract will be 14%.
This contract is subject to a Minority/Women Owned Business Enterprise participation provision requiring that not less than THREE PERCENT (3%) of the Contract be performed by minority and women owned business enterprise contractors. With respect to this provision, bidders are urged to familiarize themselves thoroughly with the Bidding Documents. Strict compliance with the pertinent procedures will be required for a bidder to be deemed responsive and eligible. This Contract is also subject to Affirmative Action requirements of the Massachusetts Port Authority contained in the Non Discrimination and Affirmative Action article of Division I, General Requirements and Covenants, and to the Secretary of Labor’s Requirement for Affirmative Action to Ensure Equal Opportunity and the Standard Federal Equal Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications (Executive Order 11246). The General Contractor is required to submit a Certification of Non Segregated Facilities prior to award of the Contract, and to notify prospective subcontractors of the requirement for such certification where the subcontract exceeds $10,000. Complete information and authorization to view the site may be obtained from the Capital Programs Department Office at the Massachusetts Port Authority. The right is reserved to waive any informality in or reject any or all proposals.
The complete request for qualifications can be found on the MBTA website. Please use the following link:
Beverly A. Scott, Ph.D. General Manager and Rail & Transit Administrator
MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. L1185-C2, CARGO BUILDING NO. 57 FIRE PROTECTION REPLACEMENT, LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, will be received by the Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Programs Department Office, Suite 209S Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2015, immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly.
Sealed General Bids for MPA CONTRACT NO. L1207-C3, CENTRAL & WEST GARAGE EXPANSION JOINT & PEDESTRIAN CROSSWALK REPAIRS, LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, EAST BOSTON, MA, will be received by the Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Programs Department Office, Suite 209S - Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2015 immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly.
Sealed filed sub bids for the same contract will be received at the same office until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2015, immediately after which, in a designated room, the filed sub bids will be opened and read publicly.
Sealed filed sub bids for the same contract will be received at the same office until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2015, immediately after which, in a designated room, the filed sub bids will be opened and read publicly.
The work includes INSTALLATION OF NEW HYDRAULICALLY CALCULATED AUTOMATIC FIRE PROTECTION SPRINKLER SYSTEM AND FIRE ALARM SYSTEM IN CARGO BUILDING NO. 57. REMOVAL OF EXISTING SPRINKLER SYSTEM AND FIRE ALARM DEVICES AND ASSOCIATED CEILING WORK. PROVISION OF TWO NEW ROOMS FOR NITROGEN GENERATORS. PROTECTION OF ALL OFFICE EQUIPMENT, AND FURNISHINGS WHICH WILL REMAIN WITHIN THE OFFICES DURING DEMOLITION AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE PROJECT.
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PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT SUITE 209S, LOGAN OFFICE CENTER, ONE HARBORSIDE DRIVE, EAST BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02128-2909 AT 11:00 AM LOCAL TIME ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2015.
THE WORK TO BE PERFORMED UNDER CONTRACT INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO, SITE PREPARATION, SELECTIVE DEMOLITION OF PARKING DECK EXPANSION JOINTS, CEMENT CONCRETE SPALL REPAIRS, JOINT SEALANT REPAIRS AND REPLACEMENTS, PARKING GARAGE DECK EXPANSION JOINT REPAIRS AND REPLACEMENTS, & MISCELLANEOUS AND ORNAMENTAL IRON WORK Bid documents will be made available beginning WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2015 Bid Documents in electronic format may be obtained free of charge at the Authority’s Capital Programs Department Office, together with any addenda or amendments, which the Authority may issue and a printed copy of the Proposal form. In order to be eligible and responsible to bid on this contract General Bidders must submit with their bid a current Certificate of Eligibility issued by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance and an Update Statement. The General Bidder must be certified in the category of GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION The estimated contract cost is $ ONE MILLION, THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS, 1,300,000.00 In order to be eligible and responsible to bid on this contract, filed Subbidders must submit with their bid a current Sub-bidder Certificate of Eligibility issued by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance and a Sub-bidder Update Statement. The filed Sub-bidder must be certified in the sub-bid category of work for which the Sub-bidder is submitting a bid proposal. Bidding procedures and award of the contract and sub contracts shall be in accordance with the provisions of Sections 44A through 44H inclusive, Chapter 149 of the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A proposal guaranty shall be submitted with each General Bid consisting of a bid deposit for five (5) percent of the value of the bid; when sub bids are required, each must be accompanied by a deposit equal to five (5) percent of the sub bid amount, in the form of a bid bond, or cash, or a certified check, or a treasurer’s or a cashier’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company, payable to the Massachusetts Port Authority in the name of which the Contract for the work is to be executed. The bid deposit shall be (a) in a form satisfactory to the Authority, (b) with a surety company qualified to do business in the Commonwealth and satisfactory to the Authority, and (c) conditioned upon the faithful performance by the principal of the agreements contained in the bid. The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a performance bond and a labor and materials payment bond, each in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract price. The surety shall be a surety company or securities satisfactory to the Authority. Attention is called to the minimum rate of wages to be paid on the work as determined under the provisions of Chapter 149, Massachusetts General Laws, Section 26 to 27G, inclusive, as amended. The Contractor will be required to pay minimum wages in accordance with the schedules listed in Division II, Special Provisions of the Specifications, which wage rates have been predetermined by the U. S. Secretary of Labor and / or the Commissioner of Labor and Industries of Massachusetts, whichever is greater. The successful Bidder will be required to purchase and maintain Bodily Injury Liability Insurance and Property Damage Liability Insurance for a combined single limit of $1,000,000.00. Said policy shall be on an occurrence basis and the Authority shall be included as an Additional Insured. See the insurance sections of Division I, General Requirements and Division II, Special Provisions for complete details. Filed sub bids will be required and taken on the following classes of work: MISCELLANEOUS AND ORNAMENTAL IRON
$25,350.00
The Authority reserves the right to reject any sub bid of any sub trade where permitted by Section 44E of the above referenced General Laws. The right is also reserved to waive any informality in or to reject any or all proposals and General Bids.
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PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 10:00 AM LOCAL TIME ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2015.
Bid documents will be made available beginning THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 2015. Bid Documents in electronic format may be obtained free of charge at the Authority’s Capital Programs Department Office, together with any addenda or amendments, which the Authority may issue and a printed copy of the Proposal form. In order to be eligible and responsible to bid on this contract General Bidders must submit with their bid a current Certificate of Eligibility issued by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance and an Update Statement. The General Bidder must be certified in the category of FIRE PROTECTION SPRINKLER SYSTEMS. The estimated contract cost is THREE MILLION, ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($3,100,000.00). In order to be eligible and responsible to bid on this contract, filed Subbidders must submit with their bid a current Sub-bidder Certificate of Eligibility issued by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance and a Sub-bidder Update Statement. The filed Sub-bidder must be certified in the sub-bid category of work for which the Sub-bidder is submitting a bid proposal. Bidding procedures and award of the contract and sub contracts shall be in accordance with the provisions of Sections 44A through 44H inclusive, Chapter 149 of the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A proposal guaranty shall be submitted with each General Bid consisting of a bid deposit for five (5) percent of the value of the bid; when sub bids are required, each must be accompanied by a deposit equal to five (5) percent of the sub bid amount, in the form of a bid bond, or cash, or a certified check, or a treasurer’s or a cashier’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company, payable to the Massachusetts Port Authority in the name of which the Contract for the work is to be executed. The bid deposit shall be (a) in a form satisfactory to the Authority, (b) with a surety company qualified to do business in the Commonwealth and satisfactory to the Authority, and (c) conditioned upon the faithful performance by the principal of the agreements contained in the bid. The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a performance bond and a labor and materials payment bond, each in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract price. The surety shall be a surety company or securities satisfactory to the Authority. Attention is called to the minimum rate of wages to be paid on the work as determined under the provisions of Chapter 149, Massachusetts General Laws, Section 26 to 27G, inclusive, as amended. The Contractor will be required to pay minimum wages in accordance with the schedules listed in Division II, Special Provisions of the Specifications, which wage rates have been predetermined by the U. S. Secretary of Labor and / or the Commissioner of Labor and Industries of Massachusetts, whichever is greater. The successful Bidder will be required to purchase and maintain Bodily Injury Liability Insurance and Property Damage Liability Insurance for a combined single limit of TEN MILLION DOLLARS ($10,000,000.00). Said policy shall be on an occurrence basis and the Authority shall be included as an Additional Insured. See the insurance sections of Division I, General Requirements and Division II, Special Provisions for complete details. Filed sub bids will be required and taken on the following classes of work: ACOUSTICAL TILE ELECTRICAL
The General Contractor is required to submit a Certification of Non Segregated Facilities prior to award of the Contract, and to notify prospective subcontractors of the requirement for such certification where the subcontract exceeds $10,000. Complete information and authorization to view the site may be obtained from the Capital Programs Department Office at the Massachusetts Port Authority. The right is reserved to waive any informality in or reject any or all proposals. MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY SOLICITATION FOR CONSULTANT SERVICES
The MBTA is soliciting professional engineering services via a Request for Qualifications/Proposals (RFQ/P) for Program Support Services related to the Red and Orange Line vehicle procurement – Advisory Council.
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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.
This Contract is also subject to Affirmative Action requirements of the Massachusetts Port Authority contained in the Non Discrimination and Affirmative Action article of Division I, General Requirements and Covenants, and to the Secretary of Labor’s Requirement for Affirmative Action to Ensure Equal Opportunity and the Standard Federal Equal Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications (Executive Order 11246).
MBTA CONTRACT NO. V30PS03
MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
http://www.mbta.com/business_center/bidding_solicitations/current_solic itations/
Frank DePaola Acting Mass DOT Secretary & CEO
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The Authority reserves the right to reject any sub bid of any sub trade where permitted by Section 44E of the above referenced General Laws. The right is also reserved to waive any informality in or to reject any or all proposals and General Bids. This contract is subject to a Minority/Women Owned Business Enterprise participation provision requiring that not less than THREE PERCENT (3%) of the Contract be performed by minority and women owned business enterprise contractors. With respect to this provision, bidders are urged to familiarize themselves thoroughly with the Bidding Documents. Strict compliance with the pertinent procedures will be required for a bidder to be deemed responsive and eligible.
Services for this project will include, but not be limited to providing to the MBTA a third-party multi-discipline team to assess and evaluate all aspects of the project. The multi discipline team shall be lead by a senior vehicle expert that shall monitor the procurement and provide detailed reports and problem resolution strategies. This contract will be state funded. While there is no DBE goal associated with this contract, the Authority strongly encourages the use of Minority, Women and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises as prime consultants, subconsultants, and suppliers in all of its contracting opportunities. The complete request for qualifications/proposals can be found on the MBTA website. Please use the following link: http://www.mbta.com/business_center/bidding_solicitations/current_solic itations/ Also, to be considered for selection, each firm must submit a separately sealed Statement of Qualifications and Technical Proposal, along with an Affirmative Action Plan and Employee Profile. Interested firms are invited to submit a Letter of Interest requesting a copy of the Request for Proposal before January 23, 2015 by 2pm to Margaret H. Hinkle, Senior Director of Contract Administration, at email mhinkle@mbta. com and cguiod@mbta.com. Joint venture participation will be considered. The MBTA reserves the right to cancel this procurement or to reject any or all Statements of Qualifications and Proposals Frank DePaola Mass DOT Acting Secretary & CEO
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division
DOCKET NO. SU14P2328PM
In the matter of: Patsy Chapman Respondent (Person to be Protected/Minor) Of: Roxbury, MA CITATION GIVING NOTICE OF PETITION FOR APPOINTMENT OF CONSERVATOR OR OTHER PROTECTIVE ORDER PURSUANT TO G.L c. 190B, §5-304 & §5-405 To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Forestview Transitional Care and Ret. of Quincy, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Patsy Chapman is in need of a Conservator or other protective order and requesting that Paula Zwicker of Bridgewater, MA and David Zwicker of Bridgewater, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Conservator to serve With Personal Surety on the bond. The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondent is disabled, that a protective order or appointment of a Conservator is necessary, and that the proposed conservator is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court. You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 02/12/2015. 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. IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person. If the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense. Witness, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: January 08, 2015
Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS PROBATE COURT CASE NO. SU09P1923 SUFFOLK ss. To all persons interested in the estate of Novella P. Liley late of Boston, in said County, deceased in testate. A petition has been presented to said Court for license to sell - private sale - private - certain real estate of deceased - and that the petitioner may become the purchaser of said real estate. If you desire to object thereto you or your attorney should file a written appearance in said Court at Boston before ten o’clock in the forenoon on the 12th day of February, 2015, the return day of this citation. Witness, Joan P. Armstrong, Esquire, First Judge of said Court, this 8th day of January, 2015. Felix D. Arroyo, Register.
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Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor NOTICE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES
If the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense.
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Hearing Date/Time: A hearing on a Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor filed on 12/15/2014 by Marlene M Ellison of Mattapan, MA will be held 02/24/2015 09:00 AM Guardianship of Minor Hearing Located at 24 New Chardon Street, 3rd floor, Boston, MA 02114 - Probation Department.
WITNESS, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: December 17, 2014 Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate
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Response to Petition: You may respond by filing a written response to the Petition or by appearing in person at the hearing. If you choose to file a written response, you need to:
Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department
NOTICE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES Hearing Date/Time: A hearing on a Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor filed on 11/24/2014 by Ileana Melendez of Dorchester, MA and Jasmary Adorno of Dorchester, MA will be held 02/10/2015 09:00 AM Motion Located at 24 New Chardon Street, 3rd floor, Boston, MA 02114 - Probation Department.
File the original with the Court; and Mail a copy to all interested parties at least five (5) business days before the hearing.
3.
Counsel for the Minor: The minor (or an adult on behalf of the minor) has the right to request that counsel be appointed for the minor.
Response to Petition: You may respond by filing a written response to the Petition or by appearing in person at the hearing. If you choose to file a written response, you need to:
4.
Presence of the Minor at Hearing: A minor over age 14 has the right to be present at any hearing, unless the Court finds that it is not in the minor’s best interests.
File the original with the Court; and Mail a copy to all interested parties at least five (5) business days before the hearing.
THIS IS A LEGAL NOTICE: An important court proceeding that may affect your rights has been scheduled. If you do not understand this notice or other court papers, please contact an attorney for legal advice.
3.
Counsel for the Minor: The minor (or an adult on behalf of the minor) has the right to request that counsel be appointed for the minor.
Date: December 16, 2014
4.
Presence of the Minor at Hearing: A minor over age 14 has the right to be present at any hearing, unless the Court finds that it is not in the minor’s best interests.
SUFFOLK Division
Docket No. SU14P2813GD
In the interests of Anaisha IIiam Cintron-Adorno of Dorchester, MA Minor NOTICE AND ORDER: Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor 1.
2.
THIS IS A LEGAL NOTICE: An important court proceeding that may affect your rights has been scheduled. If you do not understand this notice or other court papers, please contact an attorney for legal advice. Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate
Date: November 25, 2014
Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division
Docket No. SU14P2812GD
In the interests of Aneisha IIiam Cintron-Adorno of Dorchester, MA Minor NOTICE AND ORDER: Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor 1.
NOTICE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES Hearing Date/Time: A hearing on a Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor filed on 11/24/2014 by Ileana Melendez of Dorchester, MA and Jasmary Adorno of Dorchester, MA will be held 02/10/2015 09:00 AM Motion Located at 24 New Chardon Street, 3rd floor, Boston, MA 02114 - Probation Department.
2.
Response to Petition: You may respond by filing a written response to the Petition or by appearing in person at the hearing. If you choose to file a written response, you need to:
File the original with the Court; and Mail a copy to all interested parties at least five (5) business days before the hearing.
3.
Counsel for the Minor: The minor (or an adult on behalf of the minor) has the right to request that counsel be appointed for the minor.
4.
Presence of the Minor at Hearing: A minor over age 14 has the right to be present at any hearing, unless the Court finds that it is not in the minor’s best interests.
THIS IS A LEGAL NOTICE: An important court proceeding that may affect your rights has been scheduled. If you do not understand this notice or other court papers, please contact an attorney for legal advice. Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate
Date: November 25, 2014
Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division
Docket No. SU14P3019EA
Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of: Esther Marie Lomax Date of Death: 01/04/2013 To all interested persons: A petition has been filed by John Lomax of Dorchester, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order of testacy and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. And also requesting that John Lomax of Dorchester, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve With Personal Surety on the bond. You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on 02/19/2015. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you. The estate is being administered under formal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but recipients are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: December 19, 2014 Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division
Docket No. SU14P2975GD
In the interests of Ashekie Marlene Ellison of Mattapan, MA Minor NOTICE AND ORDER:
Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate
Docket No. SU15C0011CA In the matter of Tru Martha Thornton of Dorchester, MA
NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME To all persons interested in a petition described: A petition has been presented by Tara D Tavares requesting that Tru Martha Thornton be allowed to change her name as follows: Tru Marie Tavares 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 02/12/2015. WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: January 8, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate
Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division
SUFFOLK Division
Docket No. SU14P2999GD
Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department
Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 SUFFOLK Division
In the matter of Marion Griffin, Jr. Of Dorchester, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person
Docket No. SU15C0007CA In the matter of Omosedo Egharevba of Dorchester, MA
To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Carla Davis of Arlington, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Marion Griffin, Jr. is in need of a Guardian and requesting that Carla Davis of Arlington, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve on the bond. The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondent is incapacitated, that the appointment of a Guardian is necessary, that the proposed Guardian is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court and may contain a request for certain specific authority. You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 02/19/2015. 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.
NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME To all persons interested in a petition described: A petition has been presented by Omosedo Egharevba requesting that Omosedo Egharevba be allowed to change his name as follows: Osamudiamen Tony Osawonuyi 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 02/12/2015. WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: January 7, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate
IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person.
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