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Edward Brooke blazed trail for black progress M.B. Miller Sen. Edward W. Brooke will always remain a hero to veterans of the battle for civil rights. With the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, blacks gained the right to sue in court for racial discrimination in employment, education and places of public accommodation. But people really wanted more than that. They wanted to believe that American society was more receptive to black participation at the highest level. Ed Brooke’s achievements indicated that a favorable shift in possible opportunities was occurring. His successes were encouraging.

Only 18 months before the 1964 Civil Rights Act became law, Brooke was sworn in as the attorney general of Massachusetts. He was the first black attorney general in U.S. history. Then just two years after passage of the Civil Rights Act, Brooke began campaigning for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts. In 1967 he was sworn in as the first black U.S. senator in a general election. He served in the Senate until 1979.

Brooke dared to defy the odds for winning a Senate campaign, even though black voters, with only 2 percent of the population, could not be of great political assistance. Success at the polls was a challenge with a remote possibility of success, but Brooke was well qualified. He was keenly intelligent, extraordinarily gracious and endowed with natural and persuasive oratorical skills. Brooke set a standard for competence that very few can attain.

Although Brooke was born and raised in Washington, D.C. and graduated from Howard University, he came to Boston after service as an army officer in World War II to attend Boston University

Sen. Edward W. Brooke III Law School. Brooke’s professional career unfolded in Boston. His first law firm was located in Roxbury on Humboldt Ave. near Waumbeck St., and he lived on Harrishof St. and later on Crawford St. Brooke began his political career by running for state representative from Roxbury in 1950.

Early contact with outstanding statesmen like former Gov. Christian Herter and U.S. Sen. Leverett Saltonstall induced him to become a Republican. In those days, the Republicans were not the party of the Dixiecrats. The Republicans were happy to have an outstanding candidate to challenge the Democratic stronghold in Boston.

Brooke lost, but that campaign made him aware that he enjoyed politics and had the disposition to star in that profession. His understanding of human nature persuaded him that whites would vote for a competent black candidate for public office, just as blacks had voted for whites over the years.

In 1960, the year that John F. Kennedy ran for president, Brooke ran against Kevin White for Massachusetts secretary of state. With Brooke continued to page 7

Gov. Deval Patrick greets Mmamoon and Mariama O’Neill of Byfield after his portrait unveiling in front of the the State House Grand Staircase on Jan. 4. (Don West photo)

Deval Patrick: The double veil of an improbable life Brian Wright O’Connor Deval Laurdine Patrick touched down in the Bay State during the Nixon administration, bearing an Afro and an acute case of homesickness for the Chicago family he’d left behind to attend Milton Academy as a full scholarship student.

He wasn’t carrying a loaf of bread like the penniless Ben Franklin arriving in Philadelphia from Boston, but, like the colonial printer, was a stranger in a strange land, an outlier harboring ambition who traded on his talents to put an astonishing stamp on his adopted state.

The odds that a black child

from the Midwest, raised on welfare and taught in schools scarred by violence, would successfully negotiate the racial landmines of busing-era Boston to become the Commonwealth’s chief executive were impossibly long, which Patrick acknowledges in his moving memoir, A Reason to Believe: Lessons from an Improbable Life.

As the two-term chief executive prepared to leave office, he sat down with the Banner for a wide-ranging discussion about a career that took him from the South Side to the Corner Office, with stops in between at Harvard, white-shoe law firms, Fortune 500 corporate suites, and the U.S. Justice Department.

Raised by a single mother in his grandparents’ home, Patrick was plucked out of the Chicago public schools in 1970 by “A Better Chance,” an initiative formed in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement to send promising black students to leading U.S. prep schools.

The shaded greens and burnished privilege of New England private school life were worlds away from the shadows of the Robert Taylor Homes project where the 14-yearold future governor began life’s journey.

Sitting beneath an oil portrait of Civil War-era Gov. John Albion Andrew, who raised the famed all-black 54th Massachusetts double veil continued to page 20

Good jobs topic dominates Oversight Committee mtg.

Sandra Larson

Roxbury resident Benjamin Jackson speaks to Roxbury Strategic Master Plan Oversight Committee members about the need for good jobs in the community. (Banner photo)

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With a number of major Roxbury development projects poised to advance this year, calls are growing ever louder for the projects to bring good jobs and community benefits.

At the Jan. 5 meeting of the Roxbury Strategic Master Plan Oversight Committee, a standingroom-only crowd listened closely as developer teams gave updates on projects that promise to fill long-vacant parcels near Dudley Square with hundreds of thousands of square feet of residential, retail, office and cultural space. Though

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all were approved as projects that would enliven the area and provide jobs and wealth-building opportunities for the Roxbury community, some residents and activists are concerned that in reality, the types of businesses slated to occupy the sites may offer only low-wage, part-time, low-benefit jobs.

Kamran Zahedi, whose firm Urbanica is developing a 108-room hotel on Parcel 9 at Melnea Cass Boulevard and Washington Street, told the Oversight Committee he is negotiating with a Marriott franchisee to operate a Residence Inn Extended Stay hotel on the good jobs continued to page 8

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This former public bath house at 611 Columbia Rd., long-shuttered and soon to be redeveloped, was designed by architect William Besarick and is an example of mission-style architecture. (Banner photo)

Bike entrepreneur, partners propose Dot bike shop/cafe

Sandra Larson A long-abandoned former public bath house near Uphams Corner available for redevelopment has sparked the interest of four proposers, among them Dorchester native and self-styled bicycle repair entrepreneur Noah Hicks.

For the past six years, Hicks, 28, has been buying, restoring and selling bicycles in his home neighborhood of Bowdoin-Geneva.

What started as a hobby became a job at Ashmont Cycles and then his own Bowdoin Bike School, a bicycle repair and teaching center he set up in an open-air space at the Bowdoin-Geneva Community Hub. At Bowdoin Bike School, he engaged local youth in mastering bicycle mechanics and bicycling safety.

Hicks has dreamt for some time of a more permanent (and warmer) shop combined with a cafe. Last May, he launched a fundraising effort on Indiegogo.com to help fund his bicycle repair operations and some improvements to his makeshift shed — with a longer-term goal to open a “brickand-mortar” bike shop and cafe

by Spring 2015. The crowd-funding project ended in July, having brought in more than $7,000.

Now, in partnership with Historic Boston Incorporated and The

American City Coalition, Hicks is proposing to redevelop the decrepit, city-owned bath house — known as a comfort station — as “Bike Kitchen,” a bicycle retail and repair shop and cafe under one roof.

“This was a good opportunity to look for a larger place to continue to reach people in the community and get more bikes, fix more bikes and pay more young people,” Hicks told the Banner.

“The point is not to just open up a business, but a business that benefits the community. I want to continue doing this kind of work in a way that’s sustainable and provides jobs.”

Historic Boston Incorporated would take on most of the funding, design and renovation work for the estimated $1.1 million project, while Hicks, operating the Bike Kitchen shop and cafe, would be the refurbished building’s tenant.

“HBI’s mission is to redevelop significant historical buildings, especially in ways that can catalyze neighborhood vitality,” said Jeffrey Morgan, the organization’s director of real estate development.

One of HBI’s recent projects was redevelopment of the Eustis Street Fire House in Roxbury, where interpretive panels now portray the site’s history.

The comfort station, closed

since 1977, sits adjacent to the historic Dorchester North Burying Ground, which is listed in the State and National Register of Historic Places. Renovations will be reviewed by the Boston Landmarks Commission and the Massachusetts Historical Commission, according to the Bike

Kitchen proposal.

The one-story stucco and tile building, designed by architect William Besarick, is a good example of mission-style architecture, Morgan said. The proposed Bike Kitchen project would highlight the building’s transportation-related history as a rest stop along what was once a bustling trolley line.

“Comfort stations were often placed along important transportation corridors,” Morgan said. “This was a streetcar corridor, with a lot of people commuting. It’s similar to a rest area along the highway.”

The building consists mainly of toilet and shower stalls on the street level, and a basement.

If this former public restroom is reincarnated as a bicycle shop and cafe, the site would be a respite once again, this time for drivers, Fairmount Line riders and bicycle commuters. Hicks noted that Columbia Road is a busy thoroughfare for bicyclists heading downtown from Milton and other points south. He envisions having a go-to shop open early in the morning “where you can pick up a bicycle inner tube and also a coffee.”

Hicks predicts the shop would serve not only early-morning bicycle commuters, but entrepreneurs and people working in other Uphams Corner small businesses who right now have few options for sitting down in a nice space for a coffee or lunch break.

The third partner on the Bike Kitchen team, The American City Corporation, is a Dorchester-based nonprofit foundation that facilitates partnerships to revitalize neighborhoods. If the Bike Kitchen proposal is the one

selected by the Department of Neighborhood Development after initial review and a public comment period, TACC will provide coordination and technical assistance to the project, according to Zachary Nieder, a research fellow at TACC. “We work to ensure that all residents of Boston can benefit from economic opportunities,” Nieder said. “We think of [Bike Kitchen] as a creative, sustainable space with a community focus. We think it fits nicely within the greater Uphams Corner neighborhood.”

Sheila Dillon, director of the city’s Department of Neighborhood Development, said she was pleased to receive four responses to the Request for Proposals put out last fall.

“We’ve put it out in the past and didn’t receive any interest,” she said, referring to an earlier attempt to find a developer in 2010.

“It demonstrates that people have confidence in the neighborhood.”

Bike Kitchen and the other three proposals — for a neighborhood bistro, a day care center and a grocery store/office space — are still under review, Dillon said. Those proposers whose submissions meet minimum requirements will have a chance to explain their ideas to the public at a developers’ presentation session Jan. 26 at the Strand Theater. Interested residents will be able to ask questions at that session or submit written comments to the DND for a period of time afterward.

For more information and updates on the development opportunity, see http://courbanize.com/dnd-uphams-corner-comfort-station/.

Bowdoin Bike School owner Noah Hicks. In partnership with Historic Boston Incorporated and The American City Corporation, Hicks hopes to create a bike shop and cafe in the former comfort station. (Photo courtesy of Bowdoin Bike School)

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Activists say receipts would hold police accountable Yawu Miller Roxbury resident Armani White estimates he’s been stopped dozens of times by police, as often as twice a week during his teenage years.

“A squad car rolls up on you,” said White, a senior at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. “They ask you where you’re going and why. They ask your name. They ask for ID.” Like many black teens in Boston, if not most, White has been searched, cursed out, posted against walls and otherwise detained by police. While he’s never been taken into custody, he views the stops as a violation of his rights.

As common as White’s experience is, neither he nor any other black teenager in Boston can substantiate their claims of multiple police stops. Although police are required to record stops in their Field Intelligence Observation database, they are not required to share information on pedestrian or motor vehicle stops with the public.

That could soon change, as members of the Massachusetts Legislative Black and Latino Caucus are considering filing legislation that would require police to make data on stops public and issue receipts to pedestrians stopped.

ACLU Massachusetts attorney Carlton Williams says requiring police to issue receipts would

add a measure of accountability to police work.

“If an individual wants to complain about it, they can document it,” he commented. “They can say, ‘I got stopped 27 times – every time I leave my house,’ and they can document it.”

“It would give people whose rights are being abused a chance at some kind of justice,” White said.

“People whose rights are being abused on a regular basis would have a chance to find out why it’s happening.”

In addition to documentation, police officers would be forced to disclose their identity to people they stop. While police are required to give their name and badge number when asked, in practice it rarely happens, Williams said.

“If you say, ‘what’s your badge number?’ that’s like saying ‘I have a problem with you,’” he said. “That can start a fight.”

The idea of police issuing receipts is not new. Police in London are required to issue receipts upon request if they question or search pedestrians.

The push for receipts in Massachusetts comes as police practices are coming under increased scrutiny in Boston and across the nation. The high profile police killings of unarmed black men, including Staten Island resident Eric Garner and Ferguson, Missouri teen Michael Brown, have sparked

a national protest movement.

In Boston, a study released by the ACLU of Massachusetts found that blacks are subjected to a disproportionate share of police stops for questioning, pat-downs and searches. While police officials

have argued that the stops are occurring in high-crime areas, many teens say they are stopped repeatedly, despite having no criminal involvement.

“People are getting stopped for absolutely no reason,” White said. “If they searched people in the Back Bay the way they do in Dorchester, they would probably find more drugs.”

Caucus members say they will file legislation on police stops by the Jan. 16 filing deadline. Among the measures being considered are a provision to require all police

departments — including State Police and Transit Police — to collect and make public race data for all pedestrian and motor vehicular stops, and a provision to appoint an outside investigator to probe police shootings.

State Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry says requiring police to report data will ultimately help police do their job better.

“This legislation will help police and help our community to determine how we can do better,” she said. “The community has to be a part of it. We have work to do.”

Anti-police violence protesters gathered at the Boston Public Library during the city’s First Night festivities. The high profile police killings of unarmed black men, including Staten Island resident Eric Garner and Ferguson, Missouri teen Michael Brown, have sparked a national protest movement. (Banner photo)

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New York police defiantly turn away from civility

Few events are more solemn than the funeral of a loved one or of a respected member of society. The situation requires appropriately decorous behavior. Police officers violated that code when they protested during New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s formal condolences to the family at the funeral of their fellow officer, Rafael Ramos, who was murdered by a deranged killer. With this protest, the police terminated an opportunity for a détente in the conflict between blacks and the police. In fact, the callous insensitivity of the protest assured blacks that their conflict with the police is justified.

For many years there has been an ongoing conflict between African Americans and police officers across the country. Black men believe, and with good reason, that the police and the criminal justice systems violate their constitutional rights.

Protests erupted in many cities when grand juries in Missouri and New York failed to find policemen

criminally liable for essentially executing two unarmed black men, Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. and Eric Garner in Staten Island, N.Y. Many blacks now believe they can be victimized by the police with impunity. Even Mayor de Blasio, who has a black son, has to be concerned about Dante’s welfare. De Blasio’s sensitivity to the issue of racial discrimination by the police has enraged some members of the New York City Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, the patrolman’s union. Their disapproval of the mayor’s sensitivity to the “black lives matter” protests, was so great that they insulted the family of slain patrolman Ramos when they turned their backs at the funeral during de Blasio’s condolences.

The New York police force could have taken the national lead in healing the racial conflict and establishing the concept of the police as outstanding public servants. Now it is up to the Boston police force to lead the way.

More than ever, education is the key to success

Academic achievement was always respected

by African Americans. Even in the days of slavery, education was desired, although it was often unattainable. It was even unlawful in some states to educate the slaves. Those in power knew that the education of slaves would create a problem of then confining them to an inferior status. Now many are questioning whether college is worthwhile.

The thirst for knowledge is so great that blacks eventually found their way to the university. In the early 20th century, blacks pursued academic fields even though it was unlikely that they would be hired upon graduation. In the 1940s and 1950s it was not unusual to find black graduates of top colleges working as Pullman porters, postal clerks and hospital orderlies.

Despite the professional disappointments the cultural value for higher education remained strong.

Now that appropriate positions are available for some well-educated blacks, the question often arises

about whether a college education is still worthwhile. The rising cost of college and the staggering debt load of many students provoke the inquiry.

It should be noted that children from more affluent families continue to enroll in the more highly regarded colleges. That indicates the quality of the competition blacks will encounter in the business and professional world. There was a high rate of unemployment of young black college graduates last year — 12.4 percent compared to 4.9 percent for whites. However, in 2007, before the Great Recession, the racial gap was not so great — only 1.4 percent rather than the current 7.5 percent. There is reason to believe employment opportunities will improve when the economy rebounds.

Black commitment to the importance of educational achievement should now be stronger than ever. The only difference is the importance of developing a sound financial strategy to meet the rising costs.

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Blacks, whites and Native American blood

Interesting that on one page (page 3) the Banner profiled blacks of Native American ancestry in an article that discussed their efforts to be recognized and on the facing page (page 2) you ran an article in which Henry Louis Gates Jr. refutes the notion that Native American ancestry is common among blacks and whites. Granted, Gates has not scientifically sampled the black or white population in the United States.

Nevertheless, his anecdotal findings raise interesting questions.

Historically many blacks have cited Native American ancestry. Could this have been a way to explain white phenotypes like straight hair or light skin that came as a result of hidden white ancestry? This could have been because white men who had children with black women were reluctant to disclose their paternity. Or, perhaps, because the black women were

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But then, what of the whites who claim Native American ancestry?

Could it have been to hide a black grandparent or great-grandparent?

With America’s one-drop rule, the disclosure of a black ancestor could easily have resulted in an instant loss of status in one’s community. We know that over the first half of the 20th century, thousands of people who were born black disappeared from the Census rolls, presumably because some of them passed for white. Could claims of

Native American ancestry have been deployed as a means of explaining away atavistic black phenotypes?

Interestingly, many Puerto Ricans claim Taino heritage, despite the fact that the Taino race was exterminated

by Columbus and the Spaniards in the 15th and 16th centuries. Even more interestingly, genetic testing has demonstrated that Puerto Ricans do, in fact, commonly bear Taino blood from that distant past.

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OPINION ‘Selma’ got it right about Johnson, the FBI and King Earl Ofari Hutchinson The debate is sharp over whether the movie Selma got it right about Lyndon Johnson and his relationship with and to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. A counterargument challenges the film’s depiction of Johnson as, at best, wary of King and his mass street action campaigns in Selma in 1965 and the South for the passage of a voting rights bill, and at worst, outright hostile to King’s actions. This debate will likely rage for years to come. But even more worrisome, Selma strongly hints that Johnson aided and abetted, if not actively plotted, in then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s dirty, illegal and covert war against King.

Whether Johnson knew every gruesome detail of Hoover’s assault on King is not known. However, there are tell-tell clues that Johnson’s involvement with Hoover’s covert campaign went deep. The first tip was his executive order on New Year’s Day, 1964 which in effect assured Hoover his tenure as FBI Director for life.

He reaffirmed that in November 1964 in a meeting with his then Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach. Katzenbach had pressed Johnson to rein in Hoover’s wiretapping excesses. Johnson made it clear that he would not take action against Hoover. He considered him a much valued source for information. That information was the steady stream of illegal wiretaps on the sexual antics and personal activities of anyone and everyone, from entertainers to Johnson’s political foes. The biggest haul of tapes, though, was those Hoover had stockpiled on King. At the same meeting, Katzenbach explicitly told Johnson that Hoover was trying to peddle the tapes on King’s private doings to cooperative journalists.

At a follow-up news conference, Johnson feigned indignation at both Hoover and King and pledged to damp down the friction between the two.

Hoover took that as a tacit endorsement and green light to step up his by-then virtually open assault on King. That campaign went beyond simply collecting salacious tapes. As Selma graphically showed, Hoover sent one of the tapes, purporting to show King in an adulterous sexual liaison, to his wife, Coretta Scott King. The tape Hoover’s gutter was recorded and sent to Southern campaign against King Christian Leadership Conference happened on Johnson’s headquarters in late 1964, just about the time that Johnson again declared watch, and he did his support of Hoover. nothing to stop it.

Hoover’s brutal and systematic covert campaign had a two-fold aim: to discredit King as the nation’s paramount civil rights leader, and to discredit the entire civil rights movement in the process.

Hoover, and other top FBI officials routinely spit out these choice expletives about King: “dangerous,” “evil” and a “colossal fraud.” They didn’t stop at name calling. They talked ominously of “neutralizing” him as an effective leader. And even more ominously they sent him a poison pen letter flatly saying, “King you are done,” and suggesting he kill himself.

Hoover assigned Assistant FBI director William Sullivan the dirty job of getting the goods on King. Sullivan branded King as the “most dangerous Negro of the future in this nation.” In his book My Thirty Years in Hoover’s FBI, Sullivan described the inner circle of men assigned to get King. The group was made up of special agents mainly drawn from the Washington and Atlanta FBI offices. Their job was to monitor all of King’s activities. Many of their dirty tactics are well-known. They deluged him with wiretaps, physical surveillance, poison-pen letters, threats, harassment, intimidation and smear sexual leaks to the media. Even at the time of his murder, Hoover had more plans to intensify the spy campaign against King. Decades later, Sullivan still publicly defended the FBI’s war against King and made no apology for it. The FBI patterned its spy and harassment campaign on the methods used by its counterintelligence division and internal security sections during the 1940s and ’50s. The arsenal of dirty tactics they used included unauthorized wiretaps, agent provocateurs, poison-pen letters, “black-bag jobs” (breaking and entering to obtain intelligence) and the compiling of secret dossiers.

In the 1960s, the FBI recruited thousands of “ghetto informants” for their relentless campaign of harassment and intimidation against African American groups. The bureau even organized its targets into Orwellian categories with such labels as “Rabble Rouser Index,” “Agitator Index” and “Security Index.”

By the time Johnson assumed the presidency after John F. Kennedy’s assassination in November 1963, Hoover’s obsession with and campaign against King was in high gear. And the few times Hoover’s campaign of slander and vilification of King was hinted at publicly, Johnson would shrug it off and reaffirm either publicly and privately Hoover’s absolute invaluable importance to him. What Johnson knew, or worse authorized Hoover to do to thwart King, will never be fully known. But as Selma points out, Hoover’s gutter campaign against King happened on Johnson’s watch, and he did nothing to stop it.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst.

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What do you think is Deval Patrick’s legacy as governor?

He is someone any child in America could look up to. He carried himself with class and dignity.

Jesus Rosa Executive Director Weymouth

In one word: Inclusion.

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The promise of a better future for the people left out in previous administrations. He accomplished a lot in transportation, education and bringing people into state government.

He brought a lot of progressive values to the State House and brought a lot of dignity into state government. He moved the state forward.

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Policy Analyst Roslindale

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He brought unprecedented changes to the state and he engaged the citizenry, letting them know they have a stake in their own future and the future of the state.

I think his lasting legacy is confirmation that government can be open and available to everyone.

And everyone can and should participate.

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Francisco Urena

The Baker-Polito administration recently announced the appointment of Francisco Urena as Secretary for Veterans’ Services.

“We are continuing to assemble an accomplished team of individuals in order to better serve Massachusetts’ veterans, families and children in need,” said Marylou Sudders, HHS Secretary-designate. “I look forward to Francisco drawing on his own experience on the front lines and in public service, to ensure our veterans and their families are receiving the support they need.”

“I am grateful for the opportunity to bring our successful experiences in Boston and Lawrence to serving our brave military men, women and families across the commonwealth,” Urena said. “Whether retired, returning home or still serving, Governor-elect Baker understands we can never do enough to support those who have put their lives on the line for our country.”

Urena has been commissioner of Veterans’ Services for the City

of Boston since 2011. Prior to that, he was Director of Veterans’ Services for the City of Lawrence for four years prior, where he was recognized as the Commonwealth’s Veterans Agent of the Year in 2008.

Awarded the Purple Heart Medal for combat injuries received in Iraq, Urena served in the United States

Marines for eight years as a tank commander on the front lines of Operation Iraqi Freedom and as a Marine Embassy Guard in Kyrgyzstan and Syria. After returning home as a staff sergeant in 2006, he completed undergraduate and graduate coursework at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Boston.

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City of Boston files legal action against Massachusetts Gaming Commission

Mayor Martin Walsh announced Monday that the City of Boston has filed a civil complaint against the Massachusetts Gaming Commission in connection with the Commission’s award of a Category 1 gaming license to Wynn for the development of a resort-casino in Everett.

City officials have been working with Wynn to negotiate an agreement on community benefits, but have been unable to reach an agreement.

“We have spent an enormous amount of time and sustained effort on the casino issue over the past year since this is something that impacts every single one of our residents,” Mayor Walsh said. “We have understood from day one the complexity of this issue as it relates to the city and it has always been our belief that Boston is a host community. Our priority is to protect the people of Boston and ensure the safety of our neighborhoods. It is clear to us that this is the best way to

move forward for Charlestown, the City of Boston and the entire Commonwealth.”

The only legal access point to the planned casino is through Horizon Way, directly through the City or, more specifically, the neighborhood of Charlestown.

With Boston providing the sole access to the casino site, the vast majority of patrons will be required to travel through Rutherford Avenue and Sullivan Square in Charlestown, an area that already faces severe traffic congestion, posing significant environmental and public safety risks, city officials say.

Roxbury elementary students raise funds for orphans After a month-long pursuit of raising money for breast cancer back in October, David A. Ellis elementary school students dedicated the month of December to Ricebowls, an organization that helps feed orphan children.

Students from kindergarten to grade five collected coins and dollar bills in rice bowl-shaped piggy banks. Leading the project were the students in Ms. Matt’s

fifth-grade class who researched the need and introduced the fundraiser to each classroom.

Fifth graders created brochures that aided in explaining the fundraiser and encouraged the school community to give. The outcome exceeded expectation as classrooms rapidly filled their piggy banks. Many classes needed more bowls within two days, while others advanced to larger containers.

Moved by the need of these hungry orphans, one first-grade boy came ready to give everything he had. Dollars and coins that had been saved for months in his personal piggy bank were given without reservation. His story represents the hundreds of students who freely gave, going above and beyond their call to action.

In total the school earned $420, which will feed children in 52 orphanages across eight countries around the world. To learn more or to begin a project of your own please view www.rice bowls.org.

Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center to offer

more affordable membership pricing for new year The Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center have announced a bold new initiative to make membership more affordable to improve wellness in the Uphams-Dudley community as 2015 begins.

Working together with strong community partners, The Salvation Army has developed a new pricing structure that will allow access to top-quality aquatic, fitness, recreation and arts facilities.

The Salvation Army hopes to increase access to strong and robust programming designed to build character, confidence, capacity and hope for individuals and families.

“Today, with the announcement of our new, lower price structure, we are able to further fulfill Mrs. Kroc’s vision of having a first-class facility right in our neighborhood that is affordable and accessible to the members of our community,” said Major Steven Lopes, Administrator of the Kroc Corps Community Center.

Opened in 2011, the $65-million Kroc Center was built after a generous gift from the estate of Joan Kroc and other local donors.

With the change in fee structure,

the center will be able to open its doors to more low-income families in Roxbury and Dorchester, which combine to have more than 50 percent of children under 17 years old living in poverty, according to the Boston Redevelopment Authority. More than thirty percent of Black and Latino Massachusetts residents are obese, and increased access to the Kroc Center will be a lifeline for people struggling to improve wellness.

The Kroc Corps Community Center is the largest state-of-theart community center in Boston on a 6.5-acre campus in the Upham’s Corner neighborhood of Dorchester. The center has a NCAA regulation-size basketball court, the tallest rock wall in the city, a two-floor fitness center, and an aquatics center with lap lanes, a lazy river, splash pad playground and a 150-foot water slide. The center also offers a wide range of group exercise classes, dance and theater programming, and educational resources. As in all of its centers, The Salvation Army invites the public to its family worship services every Sunday and participate in Bible studies and other character-building programs throughout the week. The Welcome Desk is open daily and is happy to give tours.

Attend a January 16 Open House event The public is invited to a free open house at the Kroc Center to learn more about the facility, programs and new lower rates on Friday, Jan. 16 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

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Massachusetts mourns loss of Sen. Brooke Governor-elect Charlie Baker: “I am deeply saddened by the loss of Senator Edward W. Brooke as we lost a truly remarkable public servant. A war hero, a champion of equal rights for

all, and an example that barriers can be broken, Senator Brooke accomplished more than most aspire to. Our party, commonwealth and nation are better for his service. My thoughts and prayers are with the friends and family of the Senator as we pause to remember an exceptional man.”

Mayor Martin J. Walsh: “He dedicated his life to this nation, and we all share a deep pride in his distinguished, historic career in public service as a soldier, Attorney General, and one of the most highly respected, path-breaking members of the Senate. Many of his beginnings were in Boston. Graduating from Boston University Law School, serving on the Boston Finance Commission, and starting his legal practice in the neighborhood of Roxbury — he was one of our own. His progressive ideals aligned with what Boston and Massachusetts hope for in a leader: empowering those who did not have a voice. A fighter for equal opportunity and a bridge

builder between opposing parties, Senator Brooke embraced optimism and change, constantly seeking ways to lift people up and bring people together. We will forever be grateful for his venerable leadership. Our prayers are with the his family and friends, and all who loved him.”

House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo: “Senator Brooke was a pioneer in American political life as well as an important symbol for our state during a troubled time.

A combat veteran of World War II, he was a patriot and fought at home for a better nation in the years that followed. A committed statesman, his moderation could

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ABCD President/CEO John J. Drew: “We mourn a champion of human and civil rights and economic fairness. Senator Brooke was beloved by the people of Massachusetts and the nation for his political courage and strong advocacy for those in need. He was always there when we needed him. He was a Republican of the old school, who worked with both parties to get things done.”

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Kennedy at the top of the ticket, Brooke lost as expected, but he tallied 1,095,054 votes and emerged as a formidable political figure.

Brooke’s next move was to become chairman of the Boston Finance Commission to establish his reputation for fighting corruption in preparation for a run for attorney general.

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site and pay an estimated 30 to 40 workers a minimum of $13.80 per hour. While this figure closely matches the city of Boston’s Living Wage of $13.89 and the wage the Boston Jobs Coalition has pushed the Oversight Committee to adopt as a minimum, it still is below union standards.

Zahedi said he would certainly prefer to have a higher-wage hotel.

He explained that he contacted Local 26 and spoke with 20 hotels but could not find any hotel willing to offer union wages at the Parcel 9 site. He also said some hotels perceived Melnea Cass Boulevard as rife with uncertainty as it undergoes a street redesign and potential public transit changes.

Committee members also asked about construction wages and local and minority hiring. Zahedi affirmed that the construction of his Parcel 9 project would adhere to the Committee’s standard goals of 51 percent of job hours to local residents, 51 percent to people of color and 15 percent to female workers.

Still, Committee Co-chair Jorge Martinez said he would push for non-approval of a project if the committee had not seen written agreements on hiring goals and other community benefits.

“Building a hotel is not a community benefit,” Martinez said.

“We need things that are going to improve the neighborhood, give back to the community.”

Committee Chair Darnell Williams reminded the developers that many of the parcels under development had been dormant for 40 years after being razed in the name of urban renewal, and

the community wants to see some benefit as the parcels finally come back to life.

“We want to see some reciprocity, where there are not only jobs but some economic benefit and leverage for the community, because we’ve had to live through this,” Williams said. “What does the community get as a result of all this? We don’t just want to see the developers do well. They can do well and still do good.”

In an update on the proposed Tremont Crossing development on Parcel 3 across from the Boston Police Headquarters, developers Barry Gaither and Barry Feldman explained that they had been negotiating since last February with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. A confidentiality agreement kept them from making this public until the news of MassDOT’s planned 800,000-square-foot office tower at the site was published in the Boston Globe last month.

The Tremont Crossing team also confirmed that their expected anchor retail tenant is BJ’s Wholesale Club, which has rankled some labor activists who say the big-box store will bring only low-wage jobs.

In the 15-minute Q-and-A period at the RSMPOC meeting, residents pressed developers and the Committee on ensuring jobs with better wages. Some mentioned the Hyatt’s sudden replacement in 2009 of its housekeepers with external staff earning only half as much, and cautioned that written agreements should be secured.

“Even Jesus said, ‘It is written...,’” said Henrique Fernandes, a union hotel worker. “If the Hyatt can do it, anyone can do it.”

Kalila Barnett of Alternatives for Community and Environment noted that the Local 26 hospitality

David A. Ellis Elementary students dedicated the month of December to Ricebowls, an organization that helps feed orphan children. Students in grades K–5 collected coins and dollar bills in rice bowl shaped piggy banks. Leading the project were the students in Ms. Matt’s fifth grade class, who researched the need and introduced the fundraiser to each classroom.

union starts workers at $18 per hour with benefits; another speaker said nearly every new hotel in Boston signs an agreement with Local 26 before they are built, citing the nearby Hampton Inn Crosstown as a union hotel.

“The hotel chosen by Urbanica is non-union, and will pay $5 less than union standard,” Barnett said.

“I’m wondering, why is Roxbury being treated differently?”

Former City Councilor Chuck Turner reminded the Committee that one of the key objectives of the Roxbury Master Plan was wealth creation for residents.

“If a developer that is using public land says they won’t support to right of workers to organize, to

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increase workers’ share of the profits being made, it’s a direct contradiction of the principle of wealth creation,” Turner said. “The developers and architects and lawyers will make money — but what about the workers?”

Reached by phone after the meeting, Zahedi said he believes his Parcel 9 project is still fulfilling the original mission of creating jobs, enhancing the area and connecting neighborhoods.

“The city knows I’ve been very cooperative,” he added. “I want to collaborate with the neighborhood, the unions and the city to make this project happen. I wish the city would have specified these wage demands in the RFP four years ago.”

He clarified that while $13.80 is the wage floor for his hotel franchisee, supervisors could start as high as $25.40 per hour. He said the hotel will hire 70 percent of its workforce from the local neighborhood and will use local vendors.

Zahedi also noted that the Hampton Inn has known financial

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troubles and is not a good model to follow. Financiers he approached were skeptical of the hotel proposal because of Hampton Inn’s problems, he said.

The last attendee to speak was Benjamin Jackson, a Roxbury resident who works as a union electrician but is concerned about the effects of low-paying jobs on families.

“As a member of the community, as a father, as a lifelong resident of Roxbury, I know that there are many people who are heads of households who want to work hard, and are committed to upholding higher standards for our children,” he said. “If we have money and wealth coming in for some, we need to provide opportunities for residents to go and earn a livable wage so they can support their children.”

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“It’s almost like a puzzle — you have all these pieces and you are not sure how they fit,” Garcia says. “Sometimes you have to take a step back, and see it from a different perspective.”

Garcia has not only applied this approach to repairing things, but also to his own educational and career journey. One piece at a time, he built a pathway to earn an Associate Degree in Automotive Technology and a Bachelor’s Degree in Automotive Management from Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology. Today, he works full-time for the City of Boston, maintaining its fleet of vehicles — from hybrid cars to large trucks.

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BusinessNews Entrepreneur finds her niche recruiting tech sector talent Martin Desmarais Melissa James, founder and CEO of the Dorchester-based Tech Connection, was once in a room full of Boston’s technology hotshots and couldn’t find another face like hers. The lack of diversity shocked her.

The company already has a network of 100 companies looking for employees and a quickly growing database of IT job seekers.

“Here I was the only black girl in the room,” James recalled about that eye-opening moment during a Boston event supposedly targeted to promote diversity recruitment in the city’s

tech industry. “There were of course people from other backgrounds, but there just wasn’t a strong representation of minority professionals.”

So James started her own recruitment company to help diversify the field by connecting underrepresented technical talent with software and IT companies.

“It was definitely something that I noticed and I thought this is a great field, this is a booming industry,” she said. “They are working on cutting edge problems every day. I would really love to see more people that look like me be a part of this conversation.”

And she isn’t the only one.

In the summer of 2014, tech giants Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Yahoo all came clean on the failed diversity efforts of their companies. The disappointing numbers showed that approximately 70 percent of the employees at these companies were male, and that in the U.S. tech field an estimated 61 percent were Caucasian, 30 percent were Asian, 3 percent were Latino and less than 2 percent were African-American.

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leaders said the point was to highlight the problem and call for help on fixing it.

James, already working in diversity recruitment professionally, answered the call with her startup. Though just a handful of years out of college at the

University of Massachusetts Amherst and with no entrepreneurial experience to speak of she said she just couldn’t ignore the need and the clear lack of businesses working to address it.

What Tech Connection does is give tech companies a place to turn to find tech workers — specifically entry-level software engineers and IT professionals — through its network of tech job-seeking professionals.

Having worked on diversity recruitment at Boston technology company Sample6 Technologies

after graduating from college in 2010 and also at the Kendall Square office of Google from 2013 to 2014, James was able to bring a strong network of technology companies looking for a more diverse workforce to Tech Connection.

She also learned how to build a network of job seekers through connections with local colleges, nonprofit organizations promoting technology industry growth and technology job networking events. tech continued to page 15

Melissa James, founder and CEO of Tech Connection. (Photo by Martin Desmarais)

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James said that even though Tech Connection was only launched late last summer and only started its public push in the dying days of 2014, the company now has a network of 100 companies looking for employees and a quickly growing database of IT job seekers.

In 2015, her goal for Tech Connection is to place 50 workers in jobs.

Tech Connections makes

money through a placement fee when it helps a company hire an employee, which is standard practice in the recruiting industry.

If the demand for more diversity in the tech industry is not enough to showcase Tech Connection as a company that can provide employees of color, James also is encouraged by the growth predictions for hiring in the technology industry — optimistic projections peg the tech sector growth rate at more than 20 percent.

“A lot of jobs go unfilled in the tech industry and we need those

jobs to be filled,” James said.

“Many managers are saying they can’t find qualified candidates who have the right skill set. …

We realize and recognize there is a problem and we have to get to work on creating the solution.”

Currently, Tech Connection is housed out of the Dudley Square office of startup incubator Smarter in the City and James is the company’s only employee, but she says if the business can hit its goal of placing 50 employees in 2015 it will be on track to expand.

James lives in Dorchester and says her goal is to keep the

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However, her larger vision for Tech Connection entails branching out to other regions, including New York, California and Tennessee — all areas she considers hotbeds of tech growth.

So far, she has funded Tech Connections on her own, but would consider outside investment down the road once the company has a successful track record in connecting tech businesses with a diversified workforce.

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elma, one of the most highly anticipated films of 2015, depicts a key moment in the Civil Rights Movement — the fight to secure equal voting rights for black Americans through three historic Selma-to-Montgomery, Ala., marches led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1965.

The marches ultimately paved the way for the Voting Rights Act, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in August of that year.

Directed by Ava DuVernay and starring David Oyelowo as Dr. King and Carmen Ejogo as Coretta Scott King, the film (which was also produced in part by Oprah Winfrey and Harpo Films) also brings to light the very real black women — Diane Nash, Annie Lee Cooper, Richie Jean Jackson, Amelia Boynton — who

were involved both behind-the-scenes and boldly front-and-center in the marches and the movement.

In town recently to promote Selma, DuVernay spoke to the Banner about these unsung heroines, who fall across the spectrum DuVernay continued to page 17

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of activism. Diane Nash (played

by Dear White People’s Tessa Thompson) was a student leader, strategist and co-founder of SNCC. Richie Jean Jackson, who was a supporter of the movement, opened up her home as a safe haven for Dr. King, Reverends Ralph Abernathy and Hosea Williams, Andrew Jackson and James Bevel, to rest, regroup and refocus during the turbulent time.

“You have Diane Nash, who was front and center in the movement and strategy sessions,” DuVernay says. “You have Richie Jean Jackson, played by Niecy Nash, who I would argue was just as important because she created a safe space, and she fed them and she made sure they were put together and they were taken care of.”

Richie Jean Jackson’s role as caretaker was an important piece of the movement that was often overshadowed by what was taking place on the front lines.

“I think so many times when we think of women’s roles in these movements we diminish that part of it,” says DuVernay.

“That part, that’s the caregiver.

If he’s walking out in a wrinkled suit, hasn’t eaten and he’s sleepy, and he didn’t have a good night’s sleep, then he’s not going to be able to rally everyone in church the next day which means they don’t come. So, that does take on a great importance.”

“It was important that we reflected everyone. Annie Lee Cooper, played by Oprah Winfrey, represents that working woman.

Amelia Boynton is still living — played by Lorraine Toussaint — was a local organizer. And, of course, Coretta Scott King. It was important to not just show women, but the array of roles that we had at the time.”

DuVernay, who began her career as a film publicist in Los Angeles, made her feature film directing debut with the 2008 documentary This Is the Life, about LA’s hip hop movement in the ’90s. In 2010, she directed, produced and wrote her first feature film, I Will Follow, starring Omari Hardwick and Salli Richardson. I Will Follow earned a Best Screenplay award from the African-American Film Critics Association. BET also came calling that same year for her to direct the documentary My Mic Sounds Nice: The Truth About Women in Hip Hop. She also created the black film distribution company AFFRM (African American Film Festival Releasing Movement). In 2012, DuVernay directed her second film, Middle of Nowhere, which won the Best Director Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. She was the first African American woman to win the award.

DuVernay says she was hesitant about tackling Selma.

“I’m really into contemporary images of black people and I feel very activist around that stance,” she says. “I feel like the studio system is very comfortable with seeing us in hindsight and ‘what about the right now?’ and so I always say that. I’ve said that. I just directed a historical drama. That really fed into my approach because I don’t like historical dramas.

I don’t like them as a viewer.”

Even though she’s not a fan of historical dramas, DuVernay couldn’t pass up this opportunity, especially with David Oyelowo,

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“By the time it got to me they were asking me, would I be interested in doing it? which is really astounding for a $20 million picture and a filmmaker who had done a $200,000 picture before that,” says DuVernay.

It’s all a testament to the films, the projects and the relationships DuVernay has built up over the years — not least, her relationship with Oyelowo.

“We have a great working relationship,” she says. “We believe in the same things around the importance of black cinematic images and I hope that our partnership continues.”

When asked if she had planned such a trajectory in her life, in her career, DuVernay replies, “There’s no way I planned this. All I did was stay present in the moment and work as hard as I could in the moment. It was never ‘I’m trying to get here.’ It was always, ‘This is my project now.’ I’m focused on this and that project, and that energy led to another project and another project.”

Selma opens in theaters nationwide this Friday, Jan. 9.

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Jeff Chang explores evolving US attitudes on race, culture Kam Williams Jeff Chang is a new sage thinker with his finger on the pulse of American culture. His first book, the critically-acclaimed Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, collected a cornucopia of honors, including the American Book Award and the Asian-American Literary Award.

Next, he edited Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of HipHop, an anthology of essays and interviews. Here, he talks about his latest opus, Who We Be: The Colorization of America, nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction category.

Don’t let yourself be dissuaded by the grammatically-incorrect title, or its Ebonics chapter headings like “I Am I Be” and “What You Got to Say?,” for the actual text isn’t written in inscrutable slang as implied, but rather makes a most articulate analysis of the evolution of American society from the March on Washington to the present.

Kam Williams: You used to just write about hip-hop. What inspired you to expand your focus for this book?

Jeff Chang: When I finished Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, I realized

that the big hole was in talking about all those who had influenced me during my intellectual awakening, during the mid-1980s and into 1990s. These were people from the generation that fell between the gap of the Civil Rights Generation and the Hip-Hop Generation — teachers and thinkers like Gary Delgado and Ron Takaki and Gloria Anzaldua, writers like Ishmael Reed, Ntozake Shange and Jessica Hagedorn. They helped to theorize multiculturalism, and their ideas carried us through the culture wars.

it comes to racial justice, it’s been quite the opposite. It’s not a story with a happy ending.

KW: Where do you envision America to be a half-century from now?

JC: I’m less successful at predicting than I am at reading history.

I do write from a sense of urgency,

though. I worry that if we don’t move toward a consensus for racial justice, that we’ll instead continue the current trends of re-segregation and end up with a more rigid, insurmountable racial caste system in 2042. That would be a horrible outcome for everyone, including whites.

KW: Do you think you have a unique perspective as a Chinese/HawaiianAmerican?

JC: I’ve been blessed to come from a background in which my family has intermarried with every race and culture imaginable. My family looks a lot like President

Obama’s, but much bigger. I suppose I look at the society I’m living in the way I look at my family. Because we are family does not mean there aren’t problems, but we owe it to each other to keep on talking, to try to work them out. This may make me a bit Pollyanna-ish, but you gotta believe in something, and every belief comes from somewhere, and that’s mine.

KW: Who We Be reminds me of Marshall McLuhan’s The Medium Is the Massage [not his famous essay The Medium Is the Message] which

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KW: Why did you decide to examine the evolution of American culture over the last half-century?

JC: I guess every project has been a little autobiographical — this is the era that I have lived through. And now that I teach and mentor, I am always surprised and a little sad at how little my students know about what people their age did during the 1980s and 1990s. We weren’t silent. They hear endlessly about the proud brave youth of the 1960s and even the 1970s, but not much history has been done on those who came afterward. In part, this is a function of demographics — we are the shadow generation between the so-called Boomers and Millennials. In part, ours is not a history of glory and victory. When

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was a dizzying mix of essays, asides, aphorisms, photos and drawings. Are you familiar with that book?

KW: What message do you hope people will take away from the book?

JC: I am! Dizzying was exactly the right word. From the beginning I wanted the book to be visual — in the writing and in its content and presentation. McLuhan pointed out in the mid-’60s, that we were now living in a mixed-up culture where visuality was much more important. The word “colorization” comes from TV, and this is also happening right at the time McLuhan and Fiore are making their book. So, in a lot of ways, I was trying to recognize that history, while merging it with the history of the representation of people of color in the postcivil rights era.

JC: That we need to have a real conversation about race that does not try to ignore the legacies of discrimination, debasement and inequity. And we need to transform the culture of violence that continues to lead us in each generation to have to explosively protest the way that bodies of color, often specifically black bodies, are targeted and contained. I think the best way for us to approach this is to recognize and name re-segregation as we see it, and, through cultural interventions, push toward a new consensus for racial justice.

KW: How would you describe your approach to cobbling together the content you included in your book?

KW: What do you make of the nationwide demonstrations in response to the failure of the grand juries to indict the police officers in the Eric Garner and Michael Brown cases?

JC: The organizing metaphor was seeing — how we see race.

I knew I had to move in this direction after Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, and I had some elements — Morrie Turner’s cartoons and his amazing life story, on the one hand, and the street art of the Obama presidential campaign, on the other. Greg Tate, Lydia Yee, Roberta Uno, Vijay Prashad and others hit me with other key pieces that helped to shape the narrative. And as I was finishing the book, Vijay Iyer hit me sideways with his insight about listening versus seeing race. He made me understand that jazz

JC: They are among the most sustained and widespread protests against state violence against African Americans in history. And they are being organized and moved in a decentralized way by thousands of ordinary Americans — mostly youths, mostly women. There are no central leaders, despite the media’s focus on some older charismatic men, and that makes them impossible to stop. They give me clarity about my work and they give me hope that we might be in a transformative moment.

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When he did walk off campus, “I was invariably stopped by the Milton police. Invariably,” he repeated, his voice trailing off. “All those issues are back in the news, but they haven’t gone away in people’s lives.” Years later, Patrick would address racial profiling during a stint as head of the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and the issue would recur time and again throughout his term in office as the Bay State’s first African American governor.

In some ways a Golden Child of affirmative action — in the best sense of the phrase before it became a wedge issue and the subject of bitter attacks — Patrick rose higher and faster and achieved more than his peers, both black and white, because hard work, discipline and intelligence met more opportunity than was available among the gangs on Wabash Avenue.

Offering advice to the young, Patrick often quotes his grandmother: “Hope for the best and work for it.” But he had something else — a deeply held belief in human dignity, which translated into empathy; and an unusual ability to live the “double veil,” without rancor, described by W.E.B. DuBois in Souls of Black Folk as the legacy of living in two worlds, one black, one white.

Patrick’s model for “double

consciousness” was his grandfather Reynolds Wintersmith, whose life was spent shuttling back and forth between his South Side home and the bank where he swept floors for over 50 years.

“The chairman of the bank came to his memorial service and said that if he had lived in another time, he would have retired as chairman of that bank. He was the person who taught me the dignity in every human being — to look for it, to see it, and to presume it’s there,” said Patrick.

Wintersmith’s own calm dignity, said Patrick, taught him patience and perseverance, qualities that he drew upon as the racial politics of Boston boiled over with the start of busing as he began his freshman year at Harvard in 1974.

Though somewhat sheltered from the tensions across the river, Harvard was not a seamlessly integrated institution. Patrick managed to move easily between the many sub-cultures of Harvard life, joining the exclusive Fly Club, living at Dunster House and becoming the first in his family to graduate from college.

Patrick entered Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, representing poor clients in the courts. He worked for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund after graduation and joined the Boston law firm Hill & Barlow, where he made partner by age 34.

Just a few years later, a defendant he’d sued in a civil rights case was sitting in the White House.

That defendant, former Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, harboring no hard feelings, nominated Patrick to head up the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Justice Department, where he took on police

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As a first-time candidate without deep roots in the culture of Boston politics, Patrick’s entrée was tentative and cautious, marked by a series of meetings with more experienced hands. Patrick began appearing on the margins of political events, introducing himself with the thought of entering the 2006 Democratic primary for governor after Republican Gov. Mitt Romney made it clear he was focused on the White House.

The presumptive nominee, Attorney General Tom Reilly, enjoyed a huge advantage in name recognition, fundraising base and political support, but proved deficient in other skills, namely oratory and instincts for reading the public pulse — areas where the less-seasoned corporate lawyer would excel in the campaign.

Patrick’s personal story of success over overwhelming odds was compelling, but so was his delivery, with touches of church rhetoric, like “child of God,” peppered among his policy prescriptions. He also created the “hope and change” template. His image, like that of Barack Obama two years later, personified that narrative, holding out the promise that the first black governor in the history of the Commonwealth would govern, like he campaigned, in a different way, uplifting the polity.

“There were certainly lots of people who, when I ran eight years ago, said all the stuff they said out loud to me about being a long shot, doesn’t know anybody, has no name recognition,” said Patrick. “And then there was the stuff they said when I wasn’t present — about whether the Commonwealth was ready for a black governor or whether a black candidate could win in a state where the black population was so proportionately small.”

But over the course of two successful campaigns for governor, his message of “Together We Can” resonated, especially among the outsiders who had ceased believing in the mantra of change.

“People told me stories about getting up out of nursing homes to vote, walking down flights of stairs when elevators didn’t work, bringing their little boys and girls into the voting booth — black kids and

kids of color. That stuff is meaningful. And I hope it lasts,” he said.

As Patrick takes his final walk down the State House steps, he can look back on a record of successfully shepherding the Massachusetts economy through the 2008 financial meltdown, increasing diversity in the courts and executive suites and improving education and infrastructure. Detractors will point to legislative misfires and management lapses, and there is little doubt that incoming Gov. Charlie Baker will make the most of laying budgetary challenges at his predecessor’s doorstep.

Nor is there little doubt that history will view Patrick’s administration as a watershed moment in Massachusetts politics, when a bright kid from the South Side stormed Beacon Hill and, against all odds, seized the reins of power.

Patrick’s departure this week from the political stage — at least for now — has been tempered by the passing of former U.S. Sen. Edward Brooke III, a Republican who, like Patrick and President Obama, learned how to bridge divides and thrive in different worlds.

The first African American elected by popular vote to the U.S. Senate, Brooke was acutely aware of the symbolism of his rise as well as the challenge — to acknowledge the advance his election represented while maintaining no illusions that his personal achievement lessened the need for broader social change to benefit all Americans, black and white. To maintain, in other words, “the double veil.”

“The challenge for us, in this country, when it comes to race, is acknowledging the incredible progress that has been made over the last 40 years and at the same time the progress that has yet to be made,” Patrick said.

“And I think both of those observations are worthy and important. We are not the same country we were. We are not the same Commonwealth we were. I think it is really important for the Commonwealth and for the country to believe again that we are capable of big things. The great things we’ve done, the great things that we celebrate nationally are because of a willingness to think big, to reach beyond our grasp and to turn to each other and reach together.”

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‘Together we can’ led to substantial legislative record Yawu Miller Gov. Deval Patrick secured his place in Massachusetts history with a resounding victory over Republican candidate Kerry Healey in the 2006 gubernatorial campaign, running on the theme, “together we can.”

Over the next eight years, the state’s first black governor put his rhetoric of collaboration to the test, enlisting legislators, local officials and citizen activists in a series of ambitious initiatives that included everything from consolidating the polyglot of state agencies to comprehensive reform of the state’s criminal justice system.

When supporters filed into the State House Sunday for the unveiling of Patrick’s official portrait, present were many of those who helped Patrick push for legislative changes – public higher education advocates, immigrant activists, clean energy entrepreneurs, Democratic Party insiders, legislators, local officials and the ordinary citizens many of whom had their first taste of Massachusetts politics working on Patrick’s 2006 campaign.

When activists with the Black Lives Matter movement interrupted his speech Sunday evening, Patrick welcomed their contribution to the public discourse, even as the hundreds of supporters surrounding the Grand Staircase drowned the protesters out with applause.

“The point the folks were making – about the relationship between law enforcement and black boys in particular – that’s our problem,” he said. “It’s all of our problem.”

Patrick’s embrace of the hecklers underscores the depth of what many see is his inclusive approach to governing. It’s an approach Patrick says has upended business as usual on Beacon Hill.

“The dynamic here is not Democrat versus Republican. It’s insider, outsider,” Patrick told the Banner in an interview last week.

“And for the last eight years, the insiders had to share access to the Governor with outsiders, and that’s been intentional. And I actually think it’s been better.”

The outsiders Patrick welcomed

into his administration came from all backgrounds — corporate lawyer Mo Cowan who served as Patrick’s chief of staff before being tapped to serve in the U.S. Senate seat left vacant after former Sen. Edward Kennedy’s death; Judy Ann Bigby, who left a job as a medical director at Brigham and Women’s hospital to serve as secretary of Health and Human Services; Angelo McClain, who managed a New Jersey behavioral health program before being appointed commissioner of the Department of Children and Families.

Patrick challenged the status quo with the appointments he made from inside government — placing people of color in positions of power, like Carole Cornelison, whom he appointed head of the Division of Capital Asset Management, Celia Blue, Commissioner at the Registry of Motor Vehicles or Charlotte Golar Richie, director of Government Relations.

While the face of state government changed significantly during his tenure, Patrick pushed an ambitious agenda of government reform with legislative initiatives that touched on disparate areas of government.

Working with the Legislature, his administration consolidated transportation agencies, bringing the Registry of Motor Vehicles, the MBTA, the Massachusetts Highway Department and the Aeronautics Division under one agency.

The Patrick administration also worked to cut business tax rates, while closing business tax loopholes, and helped push through an increase in the state sales tax from 5 percent to 6.25 percent, bringing in additional revenues as the state struggled through economic recovery.

Other initiatives included tax breaks and incentives for the biotechnology and clean technology sectors, both of which expanded in Massachusetts during the eight years of the Patrick administration.

Patrick also pushed for the legalization of casino gambling in Massachusetts, a controversial move that angered many in his progressive base, greenlighting licenses for three casinos in the state.

He credits his legislative successes on his collaboration with

lawmakers.

“I think the record of accomplishment with the Legislature is very deep, the Legislature having had two of the most productive sessions in decades,” Patrick said.

“A lot of what they did were hard things that that had been talked about for a long time, like taking six transportation agencies and consolidating them and shutting down the turnpike authority, or

regulation is enacted or changed.

The administration also reviewed 1,791 executive branch business regulations for their efficiency and effectiveness, and amended or eliminated 255 of them.

“There was a tremendous regulatory burden on small businesses in Massachusetts,” Dorcena Forry said.

In the end, many in the Commonwealth will likely remember Patrick’s tenure as governor for the more visible victories — CORI reform, the redevelopment of the Fairmount commuter rail into a rapid transit line, his leadership in upholding same-sex marriage. Sunday, many of the legislators, local elected officials and citizen activists who envisioned

and worked for change with Patrick were there to celebrate those accomplishments.

The presence of hundreds of the state’s change agents suggests that many took to heart his 2006 campaign theme — “together we can.” That triumph of collective action, Patrick hopes, will be the lasting legacy of his tenure in the corner office at the State House.

“It’s all been about collaboration,” said Patrick. “Collaboration is, as they say, a force multiplier.

The coalitions that were necessary and the collaboration that was necessary was not just between the person who sits in this office and the people who work down the hall, but about how we bring ordinary citizens into the conversation.”

Governor Deval Patrick greets teens at the Tobin Community Center in Roxbury after announcing the creation of a Governor’s Youth Council. (Governor’s office photo)

pension reform, which we did two rounds of, ethics reform, CORI reform, health care reform at the municipal level, some of those things had been talked about for a long, long time. I’m proud of the fact that we got them done.”

State Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry, who was chairwoman of the Joint Committee on Community Development and Small Business while serving in the House, credits Patrick with helping pass legislation requiring the state to weigh the effects of proposed business regulations on small businesses before the

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PUBLIC MEETING

FOUR CORNERS/ GENEVA AVE STATION AREA TUESDAY, JANUARY 13 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

85 OLNEY STREET

Holland Community Center Dorchester, MA 02121 (Access from Geneva Ave)

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: A make-up session with the same meeting content will be held on Tuesday, January 20th (6:00-8:00 PM at the Holland Community Center) for those unable to attend on January 13th.

Please join us at a community Workshop to share your recommendations for economic development, jobs, transit, and housing centered around the MBTA Four Corners/Geneva Ave Fairmount Line Station. We need your voice to help develop a vision for its future. *Interpretation services available upon request

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Theresa Donovan, Assistant Secretary

Governor Deval Patrick participates in the Boston Menorah Lighting with Governor-elect Charlie Baker and philanthropist Ted Cutler. This event marks the second day of Hanukkah. The lighting was hosted by Rabbi Mayer Zarchi of the Chabad of Boston.

(Governor’s Office photo by Eric Haynes)

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU94P1514

Citation Giving Notice of Petition to Expand the Powers of a Guardian In the Interests of Marie D. Frank Of Boston, MA RESPONDENT Incapacitated Person/Protected Person To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Benjamin Healthcare Center of Roxbury Crossing, MA in the above captioned matter requesting that the court: Expand the powers of a Guardian of the Respondent.

The petition asks the court to make a determination that the powers of a Guardian and/or Conservator should be expanded, modified, or limited since the time of the appointment. The original petition is on file with the court.

You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 01/15/2015. 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.

SMOC HOUSING APPLICATION SOUTH MIDDLESEX NON-PROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION

NOTICE OF AFFORDABLE RENTAL OPPORTUNITY 266 Main St. Oxford, MA, Single Room Occupancy Units Is NOW Accepting Applications to Establish Wait List by Lottery for 16 Affordable Units for Single Adults 30% MRVP Rental Program (4 Units) Tenant Portion of Rent is 30% of Adjusted Monthly Income Maximum Income Limit: $18,450 50% MRVP Rental Program (12 Units) Tenant Portion of Rent is 30% of Adjusted Monthly Income Maximum Income Limit: $30,700 For additional information or to obtain an application via mail contact: 508-757-8331,TTY: (508) 872-4853, between 10:00am 4:00pm Monday - Friday Applications will be made available by mail, or in person at 1) South Middlesex Non Profit Housing Corporation (SMOC Housing) Greater Worcester Housing Connection 237 Chandler Street Worcester, MA 01609 508-757-8331, TTY: (800)-286-6776, Fax 508-757-2271 2) And at the locations of the following community partners: Name

Address

Phone

Great Worcester 237 Chandler Street 508-757-8331 Housing Connection Worcester, MA 01609 South Middlesex Opportunity Council, Inc.

7 Bishop Street Fram- 508-879-6691 ingham, MA 01702

Resources for Communities & People

2 E Worcester St, Worcester, MA01604

800-488-1969

CHAPA - Mass Access

18 Tremont St., Boston, MA 02108

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Veterans, Inc.

69 Grove St, Worcester, MA01605

800-482-2565

Central Mass Housing Alliance

6 Institute Road, 508-752-5519 Worcester, MA 01609

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484 Main Street, 2nd Floor Worcester, MA01608

508-754-1176

Oxford Housing Authority

23 Wheelock Street Oxford, MA 01504

508-987-5055

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P.O. Box 7251 Fitchburg, MA 01420

978-345-2256

If you require a reasonable accommodation in the application process call: Phone (508) 757-8331 TTY: (800)-286-6776, Fax 508-757-2271 To be included in the lottery, COMPLETED Applications MUST BE POST MARKED BY OR DELIVERED IN PERSON BY March 3, 2015, TO: Andrea Young, 508-757-8331 x 6137 South Middlesex Non Profit Housing Corporation Greater Worcester Housing Connection 237 Chandler Street Worcester, MA 01609

IMPORTANT NOTICE

The Complaint is on file at the Court.

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 cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense.

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

Date: December 16, 2014 Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

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

You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Edward G. Seabury, Esq, Law Office of Edward G. Seasbury, 67 Folwer Street, Mansfield, MA 02048 your answer, if any, on or before 03/05/2015. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court.

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

Date: December 17, 2014 Ann Marie Passanisi Register of Probate

Docket No. SU14D2357DR

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Jimmy Louis

vs.

Sukia Olivia Louis

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

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Day/Dates: January 20, 2015 Hours: 9am-5pm January 21, 2015 9am-7pm January 22-23, 2015 9am-5pm January 24-25, 2015 10am-4pm January 26, 2015 9am-5pm January 27, 2015 9am-5pm

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Subject to change annually. Residents are responsible for electric cooking and other electricity Maximum Gross Annual Income Limits Based on Household Size: 1p: $36,120 | 2p: $41,280 | 3p: $46,440 | 4p: $51,540 | 5p: $55,680 | 6p: $59,820 HUD published effective 12/18/2013, Revised FY 2014. Subject to change annually.

Minimum Gross Annual Income Limits Based on Bedroom Size: 1 Bedroom $24,360-$27,060 | 2 Bedroom $32,400 | 3 Bedroom $37,200 Rents are calculated using the Cape Cod HAC Utility Allowances Section 8 Voucher Holders Encouraged to Apply. (exempt from minimum income criteria) There are 6 units set aside for incomes that are at or below 30% of area median incomes.

These units will be covered under a Project-Based Section 8 contract.

30% INCOME LIMITS BY HOUSEHOLD SIZE 1p: $18,050 | 2p: $20,600 | 3p: $23,200 | 4p: $25,750 | 5p: $27,910 | 6p: $31,970 Applicants (for all 60 units) will be chosen through a lottery which will be held January 30, 2015 All applicants must meet the property’s Resident Selection Plan criteria.

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