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Black & Latino Caucus grows with new reps

Lawmakers working on ambitious legislative initiatives

By YAWU MILLER Last week members of the Massachusetts Legislative Black and Latino Caucus met with Gov. Charlie Baker, discussing their legislative priorities and weighing in on the mid-year budget cuts the governor is mulling to bridge a deficit estimated at $768 million.

After a closed-door huddle in the governor’s office, the caucus members, along with Baker, fielded questions on their priorities.

“The biggest issue we talked about was the Springfield office,” Rep. Russell Holmes, chairman of the caucus, told reporters. “We have four members from the area.

The concern by many of the delegation was to make sure that office is a vibrant office, one where folks from the western part of the state don’t have to come into Boston to solve their issues. The governor and his staff were very attentive to make sure that is addressed.”

The meeting was remarkable not only because of the issues

discussed — budget cuts, the caucus’ legislative priorities — but also for the fact it took place at all.

In the not-so-distant past, caucus members were fewer in number and not always well-disposed to work together.

A unified beginning

When the Massachusetts Black Legislative Caucus was established in January 1973, its founding members — Representatives Royal Bolling Jr., Doris Bunte, Bill Owens and Mel King — found common ground on pressing issues facing the black community in the Greater Boston area: employment, affirmative action, housing, human services and economic development.

By the 1990s, however, the unity of the early days had fractured in the wake of divisive electoral cycles that pitted past members against each other.

“At the beginning everybody had pretty much the same politics,” said Rep. Byron Rushing,

See CAUCUS, page 9

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Journalist Soledad O’Brien leads a UMass Boston panel discussion with economist Julianne Malveaux, Associate Professor of Africana Studies Aminah Pilgrim and Benjamin Jealous, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.

O’Brien probes police abuse at UMass panel discussion

By YAWU MILLER Since 2007, journalist Soledad O’Brien’s Black In America series has delved into thorny issues of race in the United States. This year’s installment, Black and Blue, is no exception, examining the contours of the strained relations between blacks and law enforcement.

Last week, the award-winning journalist brought her documentary to UMass Boston, where she

led panel discussions with economist and columnist Julianne Malveaux, former NAACP President Benjamin Jealous and UMass Boston Associate Professor of Africana Studies Aminah Pilgrim.

O’Brien’s previous Black In America broadcasts have covered such topics as the struggles of black women and families, educational disparities and the toll of HIV on the black community.

Her focus on police abuse comes on the heels of the high-profile police killings of

Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and the resulting wave of protests across the country.

Speaking in front of an audience of several hundred UMass students and faculty, O’Brien drew parallels between the current anti-police abuse movement and past civil rights struggles, highlighting the “black lives matter” slogan, which she likened to the “I am a man” line that was popular

See O'BRIEN, page 8

Walsh touts potential of Olympics bid Promises to protect city against cost overruns

By SANDRA LARSON

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Some audience members held protest signs at a forum on Boston’s bid for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Feb. 4 event at Suffolk University Law School was the first of nine city-hosted public meetings over the next several months.

The organizers of Boston’s bid for the 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, along with Mayor Martin Walsh, fielded questions last week from the public on funding, cleanup, potential venues, transportation, and most of all, a persistent sense that the process has not been open and inclusive of Boston residents.

Despite bitter cold, the meeting drew some 350 people who filled a lecture hall at Suffolk University Law School and spilled over into a second room to watch the meeting on a video feed.

A short program included a video created to inspire excitement and pride for a Boston Olympics. Paralympic medalist and two-time winner of the Boston Marathon wheelchair division Cheri Blauwet spoke of

the transformative opportunities sports can bring and the heady experience of the Olympics for both athletes and visitors.

Architect David Manfredi of Boston 2024, the private group organizing the Olympic bid, discussed Boston’s potential to host the most walkable and transit-oriented Olympics ever, with most venues within a 10-minute walk from the T or commuter rail.

Seventy percent of game venues could be on college campuses,

See OLYMPICS, page 6

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Angela Davis inspires Simmons audience

By VEKONDA LUANGAPHAY Political activist Angela Davis urged a Simmons College audience last week to gain a deeper understanding of the socio-historical conditions blacks face and to explore parallels between the black struggles in the United States and social movements around the world.

“We don’t know how to talk about slavery. Except, perhaps,

within a frame work of victim and victimizing,” Davis told an audience of about 550 academics and activists, who convened in a Simmons gymnasium Feb. 6 to listen to the scholar deliver a keynote address.

In recent years, Davis has been best known for advocating for gender equality, prison reform and ending racial discrimination.

In the 1970s, Davis was an iconic figure in the black power movement and a member of the Black

Panther Party, who advocated against police repression and in favor of reforming the prison system.

In her keynote, Davis said that to get rid of racist state violence, people need to change the socio-power structure. Doing so involves reflecting on world history, and building transnational solidarity by giving support toward other countries’ social issues, to gain sympathy and world empathy.

Although Davis said she does believe that those who commit a crime should be held accountable, she doesn’t feel the prison system works.

“The majority of people in prison are there because society has failed them; because they have no access to education, jobs, housing or healthcare. But it also doesn’t work for those who do the repressive work of a state,” she said.

Davis reminded the audience that even police officers who act unjustly also come from failing societal structures, an outcome of poor human patterns in history.

“How is it possible to solve this massive problem of racist state violence by calling upon individual police officers to bear the burden of that history?” she asked the audience rhetorically. She said progress in eradicating racism involves evaluating human behaviors beyond the scope of a primary focus on perpetrators.

“The conviction of one or two or five or ten, or a hundred, or a thousand individual perpetrators of racist state violence is not necessarily going to transform the structural character of that violence,” she said, eliciting audience applause. “We have to embrace projects that address these social and historical conditions that enable these individual patterns.”

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Davis said that the contemporary social structure in the U.S. is rooted in the nation’s genocidal colonization of Native Americans.

“Often we assume that we can tell the story of slavery by only attending to particular conditions suffered by people of African descent. I don’t think we can tell the story of slavery and its impact without also simultaneously telling the story of the genocidal colonization of Native Americans,” Davis said, then gave a moment for the applause echoing in the gymnasium to fade out. “We cannot truly tell what we consider to be our own story without knowing what we often consider to be other stories. And often what we consider to be other stories are our own stories.”

Davis urged those in attendance to view oppression in the United States in the context of centuries of human colonization and oppression. The understanding is to help give potential to finding efficient solutions to break these patterns that encourage racist state violence.

“Personally, I am aware that I would not be standing here this afternoon if it had not had been for a vast solidarity movement

from literally all over the world,” Davis said. In 1970, there was an international solidarity campaign to release her from trial after a plan to free three inmates resulted in a kidnapping and a shooting, for which Davis was later found not guilty. “My life was saved by that movement,” she said.

Davis pointed out that Frederick Douglass travelled outside U.S. to gather support and that Malcolm X travelled to the Middle East. She then talked about her recent travels to Italy, Turkey and England, where she found people talking about the police shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, who was shot and killed by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer in August 2014.

“I don’t know whether we are always conscious of the degree to which solidarity has come to us from other places in the world.” she said. “Too often we don’t ask ourselves, ‘How do we reciprocate?’ We tend to think of ourselves as the center of the world.”

However, Davis sees potential in achieving transnational solidarity with today’s World Wide Web connections, which help young activists have easy access to stories across distance and time.

There was a point in her speech when Davis started to say, “No justice, no peace, no racist police,” and the audience couldn’t keep from chanting along with her.

“Soci a l me d i a ha s be e n flooded with messages of solidarity from people all over the world. And I think it is important for us to acknowledge that, particularly when it has been a question of supporting what we often call the black liberation struggle, that support has come from all over the planet, historically,” Davis said.

Many in the audience said they were inspired, and passionately shared their thoughts.

Lyra de Castro, 20, a junior at Simmons College majoring in sociology with a focus on social work and political science, said she was inspired by Davis’ message of reciprocating the global support that the U.S. receives.

“There is a global support for ‘Black Lives Matter’ and the movements that are growing in the U.S., but we should be conscious of the movements that are growing in other areas of the world,” she said.

Professor Gary Bailey, who has been teaching for 17 years at Simmons College School of Social Work and the School of Nursing and Health Studies, and also is a

See DAVIS, page 22

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JP mulls the changing face of Egleston Square

By SANDRA LARSON Jamaica Plain neighborhood and economic development groups are reviewing a proposed Egleston Square development that will bring 76 residential units and more than 5,000 feet of ground-floor retail space to the site of a former plumbing and heating supply company and a still-operating auto repair shop.

The project at 3200 Washington Street would be one of the largest private development projects to come to the neighborhood, which straddles the border of Jamaica Plain and Roxbury. Other parts of JP, including the Centre Street and Jackson Square areas, already have seen increased development and sharp rises in rent and purchase prices. Egleston Square, however, has so far received less development pressure and maintained a relatively large middle- and low-income population.

“Centre Street/South Street is fully developed, so developers are now looking this way,” said Luis Cotto, executive director of Egleston Square Main Street.

Is this a sign of inevitable gentrification rolling into the neighborhood? Short of rent control, there are no sure ways to combat rising prices once a neighborhood catches the eye of affluent newcomers, though neighborhood advocates believe intentional planning and increasing the housing supply may help stave off displacement of existing residents.

“The increasing demand among higher-income individuals is not changing — people with means want to live in JP,” said Tim Reardon, cochair of Egleston Square Neighborhood Association’s housing committee. “I think this project helps provide the supply that’s needed to meet the demand. Otherwise, they’re bidding on existing rental units. We can’t deal with affordability by stopping the flow of supply.”

It’s still a work in progress, but so far the project at 3200 Washington, proposed by developers Dan Mangiacotti and a father-son team of Paul and Justin Iantosca, is to include 11 to 17 designated-affordable units. This amount represents at least the 15 percent required in large projects by the city’s Inclusionary Development Policy, and at most approximately 22 percent, slightly short of the 25 percent proportion strongly encouraged by

the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation. The higher number includes six affordable units that would be on an adjacent property on Montebello Street that the developers are hoping to acquire from the city.

(The plans were to be presented at a public meeting Feb. 10, but at press time that meeting had been postponed because of snow.)

The developers have been meeting since last spring with groups including Main Street and ESNA and have tweaked the plans along the way as a result of these discussions.

For instance, the proposal has evolved to include fewer studio apartments and more two-bedrooms, along with commercial space to enliven the streetscape, a goal very important to Main Street groups.

“Their first proposal had a club room for residents on the first floor,” said Cotto. “[Main Street’s] feedback to them was that it will be hard to get buy-in from us if it doesn’t have commercial space on the commercial strip.” In the current plan the entire first level will be retail.

Cotto said the proposal also includes some townhouse units for purchase by people with incomes below 65 percent of the area median income.

“It won’t be an $800,000 condo, he said. "People born and raised and still living in Eqleston Square could have the opportunity to live there.”

parking spaces, only 36 for 76 units.

No matter how this project turns out, it’s increasingly clear that the Egleston Square area lacks and needs a comprehensive plan, Reardon said. Many sites are still zoned for light industrial, so for each new proposal developers have to seek zoning variance approvals.

“People are tired of having to react to these projects one at a time,” he said. “It’s all industrial zoning and there’s no guidance for what developers should do. We’re

all a little frustrated by the fact that we have to have conversations about height and parking every single time.”

Area groups have long advocated for an overall plan spelling out a vision and new zoning rules for development along Columbus and Washington Streets from Jackson Square to Forest Hills. The corridor vision will be one of the topics discussed at an upcoming JP-wide forum, “State of Our Neighborhood: Racial Equity through Housing Justice.”

Industrial to residential

Carolyn Royce, a board member for both the Egleston Square Neighborhood Association and the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council, said that residential

projects have been approved on several sites along Washington Street toward Forest Hills that formerly held industrial or commercial facilities.

The shift from low-density industrial buildings to multi-story, higher-density residential uses clearly changes the look of a neighborhood. Some find this an improvement, but some longtime residents argue for retaining industrial uses, which provide local jobs, Royce said.

“I think it really is about mulling the future of the area,” she said. “If you look at Egleston Square now, it’s mostly one-story, or commercial with residential over it. What do we see in the Square? What would we like to see? How do you keep what’s there and make room for change?”

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This preliminary rendering shows how a proposed six-to-seven-story residential building will fit into Washington Street in Egleston Square. The development would replace E&J Auto Tech and the former Economy Plumbing and Heating Supply Co. building.

Bittersweet tradeoffs

On the other hand, the plans strike a bittersweet note, as the project forces an existing business, E & J Auto Tech, to leave. But Cotto and Reardon said the developers have been actively helping E & J locate a new site. Attorney Joseph Hanley, a spokesperson for the developers, confirmed that they are in the process of acquiring a site near Columbus and Centre Streets and will assist E & J in moving there.

Reardon believes that with its proximity to public transit, reduced onsite parking and proposed amenities such as T passes and bicycle storage, the project is a strong example of good transit-oriented development that encourages reduced car ownership and use. But he said he expects that as the project receives wider attention, some residents will have concerns about the building’s height — six to seven stories — and the small number of

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Established 1965

A new challenge to fair housing Editor’s note: The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) agency regulations rule that projects that create segregated housing, even unintentionally, violate the Fair Housing Act. Federal laws passed in the 1960s were supposed to eliminate racial discrimination in America. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 made it unlawful to discriminate because of race in education, employment and places of public accommodation. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 eliminated impediments to black suffrage, especially in the South. And the Fair Housing Act of 1968 was supposed to end racial segregation in housing. Conservative judges have been trying to rescind these civil rights protections ever since they were instituted. The Fair Housing Act has now become a special target, and has been accepted for review by the U.S. Supreme Court.

In the early days, intent to discriminate was relatively easy to establish. Landlords would violate the law by publishing “for rent” advertisements with discriminatory code words. In many cities, interracial test teams would determine whether an apartment that was already rented, according to the landlord when the applicant was black, suddenly came on the market again for a later white applicant. As housing proposals became more complex, the issue of intent became more difficult to prove.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, responsible for administering the Fair Housing Act, resolved the problem quite simply. They ruled that the law was not intended to bar only intentional discrimination. Any policy that unjustifiably perpetuates housing segregation, regardless of the intent, is a violation of the Housing Act. HUD has held this to be true whether the perpetrator is a bank, a real estate developer or a government agency. This is referred to as the “disparate impact” standard.

Discriminatory intent issues usually

arose in the rental or acquisition of existing properties. Disparate impact disputes usually resulted from proposed real estate projects that depended on financing under special HUD investment programs that benefit the developers. For decades the federal courts have sustained HUD’s disparate impact standard.

According to ProPublica, a non-profit organization in Texas with the objective of achieving integrated housing has sued the state’s housing authority over providing tax credits for affordable housing primarily to projects in black neighborhoods. As a result, blacks seeking affordable housing would have to live in segregated neighborhoods. The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs lost in the lower court and has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court which has taken up the case.

It is rare for the U.S. Supreme Court to accept a case on appeal. The court accepts only about 80 of 7,000 cases appealed every year. One of the ways to beat those odds is for the federal appeals courts to have conflicting legal opinions. However, according to ProPublica, all 11 of the federal circuit courts of appeal have accepted the principle of disparate impact. There is no judicial conflict. It is reasonable to conclude, then, that conservatives on the bench feel strongly about the issue of disparate impact and want to reverse the law.

HUD provides financial benefits to developers who agree to build racially integrated communities. Those who challenge that objective should then willingly surrender the benefits. It would be truly oppressive for the Supreme Court to rule that the government cannot establish incentives to achieve the goal of racial integration in housing. The nation recognized in 1968 that segregated housing is contrary to the principal of equal rights. The Fair Housing Act would be an unacceptable remedy if it failed to curtail the further implementation of segregated housing, even if it was inadvertent.

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Put snow in perspective So, let me see if I’m getting this right. We are upset that schools are closed because we have to be with our children for extended amounts of unplanned time. We are upset because snow is falling from the sky and nobody is making the 6 feet of snow disappear fast enough.

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tests that prove nothing to me. How about getting this upset because curriculum doesn’t include true American history, all of America. Why don’t we get upset that we usually aren’t allowed this time with our families because we live to work rather than work to live.

Let’s get upset that people out there don’t have homes to be trapped in or families to get on their nerves.

How about instead of getting upset we become grateful that we’ve been allowed to slow down and experience

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It’s okay to be a bit annoyed, I get it.

It’s a lot of snow and people still have had to go to work in this. Carpool. Live.

Talk to people. I don’t know, maybe enjoy your kids, even.

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Net neutrality is the principle that all Internet content must be delivered equally. This article shouldn’t be transmitted more slowly than another one. Your cat video shouldn’t be given priority over a TED Talk.

More importantly, your small business’ website shouldn’t be loaded slower than Amazon’s. Put it this way: Net neutrality prevents preferential treatment; it is freedom from interference.

That freedom is crucial to businesses large and small. According to Fast Company, Amazon calculated that just one more second of page loading time could cost $1.6 billion in sales each year. Amazon could probably handle that loss, but most small businesses probably couldn’t, and some might not get off the ground. Imagine if Hulu or Netflix had, in their infancy, been forced to pay high fees or face tortoise-like loading speeds.

So when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a proposal that would have allowed Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to slow down traffic and charge a fee for higher speeds, small businesses took notice.

My company serves nonprofits—churches, domestic violence groups, educational institutions—groups that cannot afford to pay for faster speeds. Yet without net neutrality, commercially-sponsored content would be streamed in no time, while groups like these, which are dedicated to helping people, could see their speeds slow to a crawl. Our mission is to empower people who do good in the world. This proposal would be devastating to that goal, and the groups we work with.

As many as four million people commented on the proposal, with the vast majority supporting net neutrality and less than 1 percent opposed. Business groups like the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC) joined in, helping to make the business case for net neutrality: too many businesses simply can’t afford to have their communications slowed.

The FCC should understand that there’s a sure-fire way to protect net neutrality: reclassify broadband to fit under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, giving the FCC the power to protect Internet consumers.

The reclassification argument has support from none other than President Obama. “For almost a century,” he explained, “our law has recognized that companies who connect you to the world have special obligations not to exploit the monopoly they enjoy. It is common sense that the same philosophy should guide any service that is based on the transmission of information—whether a phone call, or a packet of data.”

Small businesses need net neutrality—as does the economy as a whole. We can’t have a system where established companies with deeper pockets play by a different set of rules. That runs contrary to the American entrepreneurial spirit. That’s why net neutrality has strong support on both sides of the political aisle.

ISPs have argued that reclassifying broadband under Title II will harm consumers—that too much regulation would snuff out investment and innovation, and lead to larger bills. It is understandable that the industry would not want additional regulation. But in reality, reclassification would simply legally enforce the status quo. The Internet now is a place where content gets distributed equally, without forcing people to pay for the privilege. That’s the way it should stay.

Yes, ISPs would lose a potential revenue stream. But, considering ISPs have already created an artificial scarcity in broadband by locking up a large percentage of metropolitan fiber in agreements with municipalities, that’s a poor argument.

ISPs in many parts of the country already benefit from a near-total lack of competition, and our Internet speeds are slower—and cost more—than in many other countries. Letting ISPs interfere with traffic will only make matters worse—the Internet that works best is the one that works with the least interference.

We need an Internet that’s open and free to all, and we must ensure that all American businesses can remain competitive, both domestically and globally. Covering broadband under Title II may not be ideal, but it’s currently our best hope to ensure the Internet remains a place for innovation.

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I think they’re doing the best they can. It’s a lot of snow. I wish they would focus more on the little side streets.

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A lot of vehicles were parked in snow emergency areas. It’s something they could enforce better.

Program Coordinator Roxbury

To be honest, it’s Mother Nature. You can’t control Mother Nature. People are upset, but this is unprecedented.

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I think they’re doing a better job, but when it snows like this, they need to add more people to the Public Works crews.

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It’s a tough one. If they purchase more equipment, next year it won’t snow.

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requiring less new construction and less displacement. Creating athlete housing at UMass-Boston fits with plans the university already has to build student housing, and even the detailed “smart model” they are using to map the city will be a legacy tool for local planners to use, he said.

Franklin Park, if used for equestrian events and the modern pentathlon, would end up with an improved golf course and a renovated White Stadium that would provide an athletic facility for Boston Public Schools, Manfredi said.

“We’re not planning an Olympic Park,” he said. “We’re planning a city.”

While the audience listened quietly for the most part, there was audible hissing at an image of a large beach volleyball stadium imagined for the Boston Common.

Over and over, concerns were voiced in various ways about how the Games would be paid for and whether the city would be liable for cost overruns.

“The investment from the city of Boston on this, in terms of building venues, is zero dollars,” Walsh said, adding that the only public money would be for security, paid for by the federal government, and for infrastructure — which the city needs and would be building anyway.

The mayor said in addition to a $25 million insurance policy Boston 2024 has taken out against cost overruns, he would make sure any agreement he signs has language protecting the city of Boston from liability for overruns.

Another common theme was

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A mayor's reassurances

Walsh spoke of the bid as an opportunity to gain unprecedented world attention on Boston and as a catalyst for economic growth and city improvements. He sought to assure the audience he would not lead the city astray.

“My top priority is to protect the taxpayers and residents of Boston,” he said. “If I feel something is wrong here, I am not going to support the bid. If I feel there’s a venue that doesn’t work, I’m going to make sure that doesn’t happen.”

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one who approached the microphone did so without a concern to express.

A Beacon Hill resident decried the removal of ancient trees to make way for the volleyball stadium. A Harbor Point resident worried about clogged traffic arteries. Advocates for homeless people and people living with AIDS challenged organizers and the audience to ponder their moral priorities. Transit advocates asked for more Green Line tracks and a North-South commuter rail connection.

“If we need to plan, why don’t we just plan?” one man asked.

“Why does it take the Olympics to plan?”

A South End resident asked simply, “What will it take to stop this? If we vote on it, and Boston says no, would that end it?”

Walsh stressed that the Olympics bid is “not a done deal by any stretch of the imagination,” with many discussions still to be held — but his short answer to the question was that it would depend on whether the referendum were binding or nonbinding.

City Councilor Josh Zakim last week filed an order for four nonbinding ballot questions to appear on the Nov. 3 Boston municipal election ballot. The questions would allow voters a yes or no vote on whether the city should host the Olympic Games, commit public money, cover cost overruns and use eminent domain to take private land for the event. And the Banner has previously reported on former gubernatorial candidate Evan Falchuk’s push for a statewide referendum on the games.

A Chinese-speaking man, through an interpreter, said the Olympics would bring huge employment opportunities — “but who actually gets the jobs?”

Nia K. Evans, chair of Economic Development and Labor and Industry for the Boston NAACP, asked about the diversity in structure and decision-making within Boston 2024’s staff.

“What steps are you taking to make sure to represent Boston’s cultural and economic diversity within your organization?” she asked, to applause.

Reached by phone after the meeting, Evans said Boston NAACP is reviewing documents and reaching out to community members before taking a formal position on the Olympics bid. In the meantime, the organization is working to bring Olympic organizers’ attention to Boston’s diverse populations.

“We do believe that representation in the decision-making process is important,” she said.

Evans expressed hope about the process, saying her group was scheduled to meet soon with Boston 2024’s community engagement liaison.

“It appears they are responsive,” she said. “We hope to work with them to make sure the process is as inclusive as possible, and that diverse impacts on diverse populations will be heavily considered.”

The Feb. 5 meeting was the first of a series of public meetings, with eight more scheduled in neighborhoods around Boston between now and the end of September.

For a complete meeting schedule and other information, see http:// www.2024boston.org/process.

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continued from page 1 during the Civil Rights Movement.

“What is happening that we have to state such an obvious truth?” she said.

Speaking earlier in the day with a smaller group of students in the offices of the UMass Boston newspaper, MassMedia, Pilgrim said the Black Lives Matter movement comes in response to systemic racism.

“The movement is about re-humanizing the black community, which has been de-humanized by systemic racism,” she said.

Benjamin Jealous cited work by UCLA Assistant Professor of Psychology Phillip Atiba Goff documenting unconscious biases police officers harbor toward blacks, arguing that police need training that helps them see beyond race.

“We used to think we could solve this by getting more black officers,” he told the student journalists.

“While that can help, what’s clear is that you need to have officers who can deal respectfully with the community and who are secure in themselves, and who don’t harbor

dangerous fears.”

O’Brien opened the panel discussion with a presentation outlining the deep disparities between blacks and whites in income, wealth and in the criminal justice system.

While white families in the United States have an average of $265,000 in assets, blacks have just $28,000.

She also highlighted ways in which black actors and entertainers are under-valued by white critics, like New York Times critic Alessandra Stanley, who sought to diminish television producer Shonda Rhimes, referring to her as an “angry black woman,” and called actress Viola Davis “less classically beautiful.”

O’Brien showed clips from her Black In America broadcast, including an interview with a black New York City college student who says he has been stopped by police 100 times. The segment included an interview with former New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani, architect of the city’s aggressive stop-and-frisk policing strategy, who denies racism played a role in the strategy.

“He’s the former mayor of New York City saying there’s no systemic T:6.125” problem with racism, not in New

York City, not in America,” O’Brien said. “I’m going to go out on a limb and disagree with him.”

Under Guiliani’s administration (1994–2001), police stops increased from 70,000 a year to 680,000 a year. While blacks and Latinos represented 83 percent of those stopped, they were less likely than whites to be found in possession of guns or drugs.

Searching for solutions

During the discussion with MassMedia students, Jealous said the targeting of blacks by law enforcement is ineffective.

“The challenge for the country is to understand that it makes all of us less safe,” he said.

The panelists suggested a number of reforms, during their conversation with the student journalists.

Jealous suggested more frequent training for officers.

“In the UK, most cops don’t even carry guns,” he noted. “And they’re trained every six months on use of force.”

Malveaux said police departments should be required to perform more extensive background checks

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on officers, noting that the Cleveland officer who shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice dead was found to be unfit for service in the Independence, Ohio police force by a supervisor there.

Mavleaux also suggested police officers should be required to have a two- or four-year college degree.

Malveaux and the other panelists defended the actions of demonstrators in Boston and other U.S. cities who blocked traffic on interstate highways with protests against police brutality.

“People argued it’s inconvenient,” Malveaux said. “I said being 12 and being shot dead is inconvenient.”

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After the panel discussion, students and faculty lined up to chat with O’Brien and the other panelists, continuing the conversations during a reception in the UMass Campus Center building.

UMass Boston Chancellor J. Keith Motley said the discussion helped give UMass students a broader perspective on the anti-police abuse movement and protests in which many of them have participated.

“It’s an opportunity to put it into a historical context,” he said.

“It gives a foundation for people to think in a deeper way about this.”

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UMass Boston has been accredited by the Commission since 1972 and was last reviewed in 2005. Its accreditation by the New England Association encompasses the entire institution.

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continued from page 1 who began serving in 1983. “What created the most tension is when we began beating each other.”

The electoral divisions were alive and well in the 1992 race for the 2nd Suffolk Senate District in which Dianne Wilkerson unseated former Sen. Roy Owens. The divisions proved fatal for the Black Political Task Force, a community organization that effectively folded after that election.

Caucus unity hit a low point when Wilkerson, then the highest-ranking member, quietly exited the body amid the infighting of the 2000s.

Expanding unity

In 2009, the Caucus expanded its name to acknowledge the Latino representatives who were then members — Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz and Reps. Cheryl Coakley Rivera, Jeffrey Sanchez and William Lantigua.

“I think it made sense to expand our power base,” said Rep. Ben Swan, who represents Springfield’s 11th Hampden District. “A lot of our constituencies overlap. It strengthens the caucus.”

The move was by no means revolutionary. Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island have long had black-Latino caucuses. And Black Caucus members advocated for legislators to re-draw the 5th Suffolk District in Dorchester so a Latino activist, Nelson Merced, could win, becoming the first Latino to serve in the House in 1989. But until the name change, Latinos always had to claim African heritage to join the Caucus.

Rushing said legislators of Asian descent were invited to join as well, but none save Chang-Diaz, whose father is of Chinese and Costa Rican heritage, have opted in.

The caucus now has more Latino members than non-Latinos.

Another important shift came in 2010 when newly-elected representatives Holmes and Carlos Henriquez began organizing biweekly meetings with Caucus members and black and Latino local elected officials.

“We all knew each other,” Holmes said. “We began to work through issues together, to understand each other’s perspectives, even if we didn’t agree. We all come to an issue from a different perspective. But we stay together.

We are stronger together than we are apart.”

The meetings with local elected officials of color and Boston legislators have continued for the last

AT A GLANCE Key events in the history of the Massachusetts Legislative Black and Latino Caucus: 1867 – First African Americans elected to Mass. Legislature begin terms: Edwin Garrison Walker of Charlestown and Charles Lewis Mitchell of Boston.

1973 – Massachusetts Legislative Black Caucus forms 1973 – Doris Bunte becomes first African American woman to serve in Massachusetts Legislature 1975 – Bill Owens becomes first African American to serve in Massachusetts Senate 1989 – Nelson Merced becomes first Latino to serve in Massachusetts Legislature 1999 – Marie St. Fleur becomes first Haitian American to serve in Massachusetts Legislature 2003 – Jarrett Barrios becomes first Latino elected to Massachusetts Senate 2009 – Caucus changes name to Massachusetts Legislative Black and Latino Caucus

four years, even after Henriquez’s departure last year.

“We’ve done it in the most consistent way,” Holmes said.

13 members strong

The Caucus now has 13 members representing Boston, Springfield, Lawrence and Holyoke. The group is more heterogeneous than ever before, notes Rep. Gloria Fox, first elected in 1985.

“We represent African Americans, Haitians, Dominicans, Cape Verdeans — we have a diverse group representing all communities of color in Massachusetts,” she said. “The Black Caucus is as strong as it’s ever been. It’s strengthened by the new people who have joined in and held together by the folks who have been here all along.”

The approach Holmes and Henriquez brought to the Caucus — working to find common ground on often divisive issues — has helped foster cohesion among the new members.

“We’re tight,” said Rep. Evandro Carvalho. “We are united. We are organized. We have infrastructure. We’re working together to do what’s best for our communities.”

While the Caucus membership represents a small sliver of the 160 House members and 40 senators in the 200-person Legislature, the group’s unity, institutional memory and laser-like focus on urban issues give the members an edge.

“Having both House and Senate members helps us strategize and move legislation into the Senate,” said Rep. Aaron Vega, a former Holyoke city councilor. “There are some issues we work on that are minority-specific, but the reality is that most of our concerns affect the entire Commonwealth. Black and

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Members of the Massachusetts Black and Latino Legislative Caucus meet with Gov. Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito. (l-r) Reps.

Evandro Carvalho, Aaron Vega, Byron Rushing; Polito; Reps. Benjamin Swan and Carlos Gonzalez; Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz; Baker; Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry; Reps. Marcos Devers, Frank Moran, Russell Holmes.

Latino issues are community issues.”

Rep. Carlos Gonzalez, a former President of the Massachusetts Latino Chamber of Commerce in Springfield, says current Caucus members welcomed him with open arms when he entered the house in January.

“It’s a great opportunity to have the wealth of knowledge that comes from people who represent the same kinds of community I come from,” he said. “Their insight and experience is very helpful as I start my legislative career.”

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Debra Johnson, a member of the Roxbury Presbyterian Church and leader in Our Voices, Our Stories, lost her son four and a half years ago. Not far from his home in Roxbury, Cory Johnson was murdered—he was just twenty seven years old. Debra says that her family, faith and church community have been essential in her healing process—and that Our Voices, Our Stories has made a big difference. “The pain of losing Cory never really goes away,” says Debra. “But Our Voices, Our Stories helps with some of the pain. It helps to hear other people’s stories and realize that you are not the only one going through this kind of thing.”

”Pay it forward“

The impact of Our Voices, Our Stories on Debra’s healing process has prompted her to “pay it forward” by participating in a training program offered to participants. For six weeks, Debra and others were trained to help other victims of trauma with their grief. “There will always be a rip or a tear that never heals from losing Cory, but I feel that I’m now in a place where I can help others understand that even with that pain, things do get better,” says Debra. Debra and others are paired with participants to deeply listen to their stories. They provide peer to peer support, and are also supported by a mental health counselor who can refer people to counseling and other supports.

“So many people in the Roxbury community have had some exposure to or experience of trauma that this program seemed both natural and necessary,” says Rev. Liz Walker. “People like Debra are a living testament to the power of hope and healing—it is people like Debra that have the power to transform the community and

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“More than fifty percent of people have had some experience of or exposure to trauma—it is a truly a public health issue with a pervasive impact,” says Marta Chadwick, Director of the Violence Prevention and Recovery Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “We recently had our own experience of trauma with the senseless and tragic death of Michael Davidson, MD. The support of our entire Brigham and Women’s community has been essential for those

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Our Voices, Our Stories holds monthly sessions at the Roxbury Presbyterian Church and is open to the public—one does not need to be a member of Roxbury Presbyterian to attend. The evening begins at 6pm with dinner and is followed by community testimonies, performances, talking, and a closing ceremony. Childcare is also available for those who may need it. The next Our Voices, Our Stories events are on February 26th and March 26th at 6 pm at Roxbury Presbyterian Church.

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Initiative invests in ‘social impact’ firms

By MARTIN DESMARAIS

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(l-r) Matt McArthur, executive director of The Record Company, and Abe Faldor at the control panel at the nonprofit community recording studios in Dorchester.

Program helps businesses harness Internet technology Initiative backed by $1 million federal grant

By MARTIN DESMARAIS A state program to help small businesses use technology to expand — with Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation at its heart — has shown officials one successful way to support economic growth.

The Massachusetts Broadband Institute’s Small Business Technical Assistance Program has shelled out close to three-quarters of a million dollars to small businesses and also funded a number of technical training programs, workshops and outreach to educate small businesses about the benefits of using technology.

“It is important to help companies migrate to the digital age,” said Eric Nakajima, director of the Massachusetts Broadband Institute. He calls it a matter of survival for today’s small businesses.

“It is really demand driven.

Increasingly, what you are seeing is that customers expect to be able to interact with a company both online and in person,” added Nakajima. “That is where technology is going. That is where business service is going.”

As part of the program, small businesses were able to pay for a number of different technology enhancements, including computer equipment and software, high-speed Internet access, website development, web strategy planning and social media management.

The program was backed by a $1 million grant from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s State Broadband Initiative Program.

It was launched in Massachusetts in April 2012 with the Broadband Institute awarding $150,000 to each of four community development corporations chosen after an application process. Dorchester Bay was at the top of the list, along with Pittsfield Economic Revitalization Corporation, Quaboag Valley Community Development Corporation and Community Economic Development Center of Southeastern MA. The EDCs then turned this money around and gave it out to small business applicants in their regions. All told, 56 companies received money through the program across the state, with Dorchester Bay leading the way with 20 companies.

Dorchester Bay, which called its technology assistance efforts the Launch Pad program, received a total of $187,000, with initial funding coming from the state in September 2012 and then $37,000 more in May 2014.

Adam Gibbons, program coordinator for Launch Pad, said the program really helped Dorchester Bay understand the technology needs of small businesses and what it takes to help them adapt, something which he says can be used to help other business in the future.

“Web marketing and being online and being tech savvy is a real benefit to businesses to do and they can really develop their market base, but it is work — a lot of work,” Gibbons said. “Businesses succeed when they figure out what they need and what they do well, and figure out the time it takes to do it.”

Most of the small businesses turned to outside consultants to help them implement the

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Eric Nakajima, director of the Massachusetts Broadband Institute technology needed and Gibbons said having this vetted group of consultants will make it easier for Dorchester Bay to point other small businesses in the direction of the right technology help.

Dorchester Bay shelled out grant money to businesses in a range from $900 to $11,000.

Applicants were able to propose the amount they were looking for. The way the program was set up, small businesses had to commit to pay 25 percent of the costs for the technology upgrades proposed, while the grant paid 75 percent.

Jamaica Plain-based cleaning company Tremendous Maids used grant money from Dorchester Bay to buy three new computers, build a website to launch the commercial cleaning side of its businesses and also buy scheduling software made specifically for the cleaning industry. “ W i t h o u t t h e g ra n t w e wouldn’t have been able to

See INTERNET, page 14

The Boston Impact Initiative, an organization that supports community organizations through loans and grants, has made its first equity investment in a local business, backing Roxbury-based City Fresh Foods.

The move is seen as an expansion of the Initiative’s efforts to provide sources of investment cash to businesses and organizations in Boston’s urban neighborhoods. In particular, the investment focus will be on existing local businesses that provide services to the diverse communities of color throughout the city.

Boston Impact Initiative founders, the father-daughter team of Michael Frieze and Deborah Frieze, view City Fresh Foods as the perfect first investment. The company has served Boston for 20 years with its food services that provide healthy meals to child care organizations, schools, eldercare facilities and major customer Meals-on-Wheels.

City Fresh Foods is lauded not only for its efforts to educate urban communities about the importance of healthy food, but also for supporting local food producers.

Deborah Frieze calls the company an anchor in Boston’s “urban food movement.”

“This is exactly the kind of business that we would like to help grow,” said Frieze, who serves as Boston Impact Initiative managing partner.

With the equity funding, the Initiative and its investment partner Cienega Capital both become minority shareholders of City Fresh Foods, which was started by brothers Glynn and Sheldon Lloyd. Sheldon is the company’s CEO and Glynn is the chairman of the board.

Financial terms of the deal were not released.

“We are both very excited about these investors,” said Glynn Lloyd.

According to Lloyd, the investment will allow City Fresh to continue to work on improving its business model and find better ways to serve its customers.

The company currently has a 14,000-square-foot facility in Roxbury, generates about $9 million a year and has close to

100 employees.

But for the Lloyd brothers the company’s current success is not enough. They also have plans to start to convert the business into a worker-owned company in which the employees have a stake in the business. They both see this as another way City Fresh can give back to the community by helping to create wealth.

For this, the new investment was crucial, as Boston Impact Initiative and Cienega Capital combined to buy out the shares of Unidine Corp., a previous investor in City Fresh that was not in support of some of the brothers’ future plans for the business, particularly the worker-owned concept.

Now, though, all the shareholders and investors are on the same page — a welcome relief for the brothers that they believe really opens up the potential for their business.

Three years running

“Even though we are a 20-yearold company, we are still in this mode of standardizing what we do at City Fresh,” Lloyd said. “The question is how do we model the business and continue to be a pioneer as a company.”

The Initiative was founded in 2012 and began its work through loans and grants to community organizations. Since its start is has provided $1.2 million in loans and grants to businesses and organizations. Most of its lending is in the $50,000 to $250,000 range, but it has gone as low as $10,000.

It has provided funding to about a dozen companies or organizations, including 88 Acres, Cero, City Feed and Supply, Crop Circle Kitchen and Tony Williams Dance Studio.

It is part of a movement of community lending organizations that look to fill the gaps that traditional lenders and big banks leave — the challenge being that small businesses or nonprofit organizations often do not fit the criteria these lenders and banks establish in order to get loans. Also the small size of the loans — even up to $250,000 at the high end of what the Initiative does — is not appealing. Traditional lenders and banks just don’t see enough profit in it to

See CITY FRESH, page 14

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City Fresh Foods Chairman Glynn Lloyd, pictured here with children receiving school lunches, is seeking to turn the company into a worker-owned cooperative.

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continued from page 13 accomplish so much in such a short timeframe. When we applied for the grant we had about 15 or so employees and after investing the grant monies we have grown to over 30 employees,” said Tremendous Maids co-founder and CEO Victoria Amador. “I believe the grant had a huge part in our growth and will continue to impact our business going forward because we were able to set a foundation with the funds received.”

A Sweet Place founder Beverly Hilaire used grant money to buy a computer and develop the retail presence of her Roxbury-based candy, baked goods and sweets company.

“Reaching out for technical assistance and grants was a large part of my bottom line,” said Hilaire. “Small businesses have a

hard time getting funding so any of these grants or programs that help us reach out and promote the brand and generate income are very useful … It is welcome and it is needed.”

“The Launch Pad Program provided funding for our organization to purchase technology that we needed to be more operationally efficient,” said Matt McArthur, executive director of The Record Company, a nonprofit community recording studio in Dorchester. “It allowed us to seek expertise to improve the customer experience of our website. We’ve been able to do a higher volume of business as a result.”

The company also purchased a new computer and a web-based scheduling and payment system.

Other businesses that took part in the program include Blue Dynasty Entertainment and Travel, Blue Nile Ethiopian Restaurant, K-ZEE African Hair Braiding, Codman Sq. Chiropractic and

Onyx Spectrum Technology.

The federal grant that funded the technical assistance program throughout the state is only the first step in the process and officials, such as the Broadband Institute’s Nakajima are well aware of this.

His hope is that the community development corporations that took part in the program will continue to build on what they learned and help other small businesses adapt to new technology.

Of course, this takes money, and with the federal grant that funded the technical assistance program all used up — it was a one-time sum — the state will have to find other ways to fund such endeavors.

But Nakajima, for one, insists this must happen. According to him, creating partnerships with different state agencies, as well as private-sector companies, is one way forward.

“This needs to be a priority for the Commonwealth,” he said.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE RECORD COMPANY

Local children take part in a music education program at The Record Company in Dorchester.

City Fresh continued from page 13

be bothered.

But the bottom-line numbers game is not what interests organizations like the Boston Impact Initiative. Return on investment is an important factor, but equally important is how a company like City Fresh Foods impacts the community and how important it is to keep it around.

Banks and traditional lenders don’t measure community impact because it’s not a number they can crunch, and it is certainly not considered to be profit.

For the Boston Impact Initiative, community impact is the bottom-line profit that matters the most.

Crowdfunding

In recent times, the concept of “crowdfunding,” or getting money for a project or small business venture by raising many small contributions from individuals, typically through the Internet, has gained a lot of attention in the media. But crowdfunding is only one of the many ways small businesses or organizations can get creative with backing.

The Initiative looks to bundle some of these options together to have pretty much any answer to find the cash for the small businesses and organizations it works with.

Moving into equity investment — through which the Initiative provides cash, gets a percentage of the company and only makes money if the business makes money — is a riskier proposition

PHOTO COURTESY OF BOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVE

Deborah Frieze, managing partner of Boston Impact Initiative than just lending.

Traditional equity investment investors expect in the range of 8 percent return on the money.

The Initiative is asking below market return — from zero percent to 5 percent equity return.

While excited about the new direction, the Initiative cannot afford to throw money around and will choose its investments wisely.

“Equity is a high risk thing so we have to be careful,” Frieze said.

With the widespread ability to fund businesses in the best way that works — be it equity investment, loans or grants — Frieze is very excited about the future of the Boston Impact Initiative and its ability to be a useful tool for local businesses and organizations. And she is thrilled at the chance to be involved in the economic growth of the city’s communities of color.

“We are definitely on the hunt for opportunities,” Frieze said. “If we can find another equity opportunity we would be up for that.”

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(l-r): Amanda Ruggiero as Mrs. VanBuren, Lindsey McWhorter as Esther and Kris Sidberry as Mayme in at the Lyric Stage Company of Boston’s production of Intimate Apparel

Intimate Apparel embraces themes of love, independence

By COLETTE GREENSTEIN “Intimate Apparel is a highly feminist play. It’s about women who are able to stand in their place in life regardless of what that place is, and they stand in it and they stand strongly,” says director Summer L. Williams of the drama by Pulitzer Award-winning playwright Lynn Nottage.

The production opens at the Lyric Stage Company this Friday, Feb. 13.

Intimate Apparel tells the story of Esther, a single and lonely African American seamstress living in Manhattan in the early 1900s who “sews exquisite lingerie for wealthy socialites uptown, and women of ill repute downtown.” One day Esther receives a letter from a stranger working on the Panama Canal and begins a

long-distance courtship with him, only to discover that he is not all what he seems.

Williams, who co-founded Boston’s Company One theatre company with several friends from Clark University in 1998, consciously chooses projects to direct that are written by African American playwrights.

“I’ve been really lucky to get to choose, which is great,” she says. “Because I choose, it’s the thing that speaks loudest to me and clearest to me, and they happen to be the best plays and the best writers. Telling stories that are complex and different, not because of ethnicity and not because of race, but because of the people. I’d like to see myself reflected in all sorts of ways in whatever I’m doing, because, hopefully, if I’m seeing myself reflected, somebody else is seeing themselves reflected.

Named one of 2007’s ‘Breakout Stars’ by Entertainment Weekly, Sharon Leal has recently been seen on the big screen starring in Women Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day, as well as in Why Did I Get Married Too?, reprising her role of Diane that she originated in the highly successful original, Why Did I Get Married?

Prior to that, she starred opposite Samuel L. Jackson and Bernie Mac in the comedy Soul Men as well as in This Christmas, opposite Regina King and Mekhi Phifer. Her performance in the latter project won her an Asian Excellence Award for outstanding Film Actress.

Sharon received international attention in the blockbuster Dreamgirls, starring opposite Beyoncé Knowles and Jamie Foxx.

She portrayed Michelle Morris, the singer who replaced Effie White (played by Academy Award-winner Jennifer Hudson) in the female trio, 'The Dreams.' In Dreamgirls, Sharon showcased her remarkable vocal skills and was heard on the popular movie soundtrack.

Earlier in her career, Sharon starred as a series regular on the TV series Boston Public as well as on the series Hellcats. Her other notable television credits include recurring roles on Grimm, Person of Interest, Private Practice and LAX. Her guest star roles include the shows Suits, Las Vegas and CSI: Miami.

Born in Tucson, Arizona and raised in Fresno, California, Leal began singing at an early age and eventually discovered her passion for acting while attending a

See LEAL, page 19

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Lindsey McWhorter, who makes her Lyric Stage debut as Esther, found the role attractive because she, too, could relate to Esther’s desire to be in a relationship.

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Summer Williams directing Intimate Apparel with lighting designer Chris Hudacs and actress Amanda Ruggiero.

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continued from page 16 “The older I got, I started to get a little worried if I would find the right person or if I would find the true love that I was looking for,” McWhorter says. “I also have friends and women in my life who I know are experiencing the same things. I think everyone could relate to Esther.”

The Medway-based actress, who received her M.F.A. from Brandeis and a B.A. from Alabama State University, always knew she had a passion for performing.

“There was something that happened to me when I was dancing on a stage,” she says. “I don’t know if it’s just from growing up dancing in church, and just like the whole spirituality of it, but I think that might have been what the director of the theater arts department saw.

She saw that I had the ability to act while I was dancing.”

As a result, McWhorter received a full scholarship for theater and shifted her focus.

“Once I got into the program, I was a little hesitant and a little shy but I quickly translated that to acting and fell in love with the storytelling of it all.”

Director Williams began thinking about theater at the age of 15 when she attended the Freedom Theatre in Philadelphia. A mentor handed her Spell #7 from

playwright and poet Ntozake Shange.

“It was the first time I read anything like it,” she recalls, “the first time I read a play that was doing so much. It’s such a cool, beautiful play that’s about exploring who you are as an artist. I was just mesmerized by it.”

As she takes on the challenge of directing Intimate Apparel, Williams realizes that it’s a risk for her in terms of form.

“I don’t often do period pieces,” she says. “I’m fascinated by Lynn Nottage and her writing. The Lyric audience, I think, meshes really well with the stories she likes to tell and the way she weaves history into those stories. I think it works.”

Williams says audience members will have different takeaways from the play.

“I think it totally depends on who you are and where you are in your life," she says. “For me, the takeaway is you can dream and you can fantasize and those things can be real for you, they can be made real for you and you don’t ever have to settle.”

McWhorter’s take is that “no matter what our religious background is, our beliefs, our class, we still have the same struggles and we still deal with the same things and that unites us and that’s what I love about theater in general. You have people, rich, poor that come to see theater and you can all relate to the story.”

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Parks chronicles odyssey of ex-slave in ‘Father’ play ‘Father Comes Home’ is first in three-play series

By SUSAN SACCOCCIA With her latest play, Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3), playwright Suzan-Lori Parks presents the first segment of a three-part epic based on the Civil War and the fortunes of a slave who comes to claim his freedom.

Jointly presented by the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge and the Public Theater in New York City, which premiered the play in October, a riveting production of the play is on stage at the Loeb Drama Center in Harvard Square through March 1.

Extending from the Civil War era to the 21st century, the play loosely adopts elements of a classic Greek poem, Homer’s Odyssey, which follows the hero Ulysses as he makes his perilous 10-year journey home to Greece after the Trojan War. Parks is not the first playwright to craft an epic rendering of African American life. Fellow Pulitzer Prize recipient August Wilson (19452005) spanned every decade of the 20th century with his 10-play cycle.

Like Wilson, Parks employs humor and everyday language to express

the burdens, triumphs and aspirations of her characters.

But with captivating humor and relentless honesty, Parks moves into new territory as a playwright.

Like female visual artists of her generation—Carrie Mae Weems, Kara Walker and Lorna Simpson—she is an African American exploring racism as it warps whites as well as people of color.

Staged by the same team that developed its New York premier, the production is directed by Jo Bonney with sets by Neil Patel, lighting by Lap Chi Chu, and costumes by Esosa.

Bonney and her fine ensemble of actors share profound respect for the playwright’s unique and powerful voice and bring to life her inventive characters and the hard truths they bring forth. Although running almost three hours with one intermission, the production is both deeply engaging and entertaining, The play’s ambitions are grand, but its staging is intimate, opening with a spotlight on a lone guitarist in a pork pie hat, Steven Bargonetti, one of six actors from the original production. As the play begins, he combines his blues-inflected fretwork with songs by Parks that echo phrases

spoken by the characters on stage.

The uncluttered set consists of a small cabin surrounded by a few stools. Behind it is an artfully lit ramp that lets characters come and go as if crossing a great distance.

In this production, props are as eloquent as words: a Confederate soldier’s jacket, a Union officer’s coat, a whip, a white ostrich plume from an officer’s hat become laden with a character’s identity and power or lack thereof.

From humorous to surreal

The first of the play’s three parts, entitled A Measure of a Man, unfolds in the spring of 1862, on a modest plantation in Texas. The Civil War has already been underway for a year, but it is only beginning to touch the lives of slaves on this rural farm.

Here, Parks introduces one of her marvelous inventions, a nameless quartet of Less Than Desirable Slaves, performed with glee by Charlie Hudson, III, and from the New York production, Julian Rozzell Jr., Tonye Patano and Jacob Ming-Trent. As they place bets on whether or not their fellow slave Hero will follow

his master, the Colonel, into the Rebel Army, their back-and-forth injects the poetic, semi-sung form of an epic with the cadence of street talk. Rich in rhythmic repetition, their exchanges echo ordinary words with extraordinary meaning as they debate Hero’s “little crumb of a choice:” to remain a slave on the Colonel’s farm or become his valet-in-arms.

Here and in the third part, this group is also like a Greek chorus, observing, approving or disapproving of the actions of the main characters.

Like Homer’s Ulysses, Hero has a faithful canine friend; but Hero’s Odyssey Dog has gone away and nobody can find him. Just as Homer’s protagonist has a faithful wife, Penelope, who awaits his return, Hero has a loyal mate, Penny, who begs him to stay behind.

The playwright’s sense of humor seldom extends to the sober and wordy Hero, performed by the handsome Benton Greene.

However, she endows a note of hysteria to Penny, deftly performed by Jenny Jules, who originated the role in New York.

Their trusted friend is solid and sensible Homer (Sekou Laidlow), a slave whose foot was cut by captors as punishment for trying to escape, and who would otherwise try again.

Wielding a surreal touch, Parks lets her characters be themselves and also archetypes of something more. Parks invents an articulate dog and a depraved white master who demonstrates the toxicity of racism, and she creates a revelatory dialogue between Hero and a mixedrace soldier who passes as white on measuring the worth of a man.

Hero's journey

The second part, A Battle in the Wilderness, unfolds a few months later in a forest clearing somewhere in the South.

Hero waits on the Colonel, played with fierce energy by Ken Marks, from the New York production.

Nearby in a wooden cage more suited to a dog is a captive Union Army soldier, Smith, performed with effective restraint by Michael Crane.

Marks superbly conjures the Colonel, a creation right out of a mid-century absurdist comedy. He is officious, smiling and seductive and only gradually reveals his madness. Like Pozzo, the whip-cracking fop and slave owner in Samuel Beckett’s 1953 masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, the Colonel struts in style when not menacing Hero and his prisoner with his pistol. He is fond of

the white ostrich plume on his officer’s hat, a symbol of racial superiority in all its folly.

Although the Colonel’s time on stage goes on too long—once we grasp his character, it becomes tedious to watch him—this is no fault of Marks, who makes the most of the Colonel’s extremes and such memorable lines as, “I’m grateful every day that God made me white.”

“Sure thing, Peacock,” is what Hero thinks, but does not say, when the Colonel gives him an order. He confesses this to the captive Smith as the two launch a riveting, revelatory dialogue. The two trade views on how a person gets to own himself. Hero shows Smith his brand as his form of identification and ponders how one can “steal” himself. You have to “steel yourself,” responds Smith.

The third part, The Union of My Confederate Parts, returns to the Texas plantation a year later.

The war will continue for two more bloody years; but the Emancipation Proclamation has freed slaves, if only on paper.

Illiterate, isolated and unaware that in the eyes of the law they are free is a trio of Runaway Slaves— again the irresistible Hudson, Rozzell, Patano. They find refuge at the cabin, where Penny doles out copious food but resists their entreaty that she depart with them to freedom in Ohio.

Homer has become Penny’s ardent suitor. Yet she is divided, pulled by fidelity to Hero and her hope of his return. She is overjoyed by the surprise arrival of another champion of fidelity, Odyssey Dog. Brought to life by the amazing Ming-Trent, who originated the role, Odyssey Dog speaks core truths but is utterly doglike in his sweating, panting body.

In contrast, Hero, who has now renamed himself Ulysses, speaks in an arch, formal voice. Parks lets him become a bit tedious and become, for now, a rigid character like the Colonel.

In the final moment of the play, a downcast Ulysses, left behind by the others, sits with news of the Emancipation Proclamation in his hand and Odyssey Dog by his side. He won’t go too far wrong with such a companion.

We want to follow their journey and await the second installment in this epic by Parks, and what more it stirs us to think about ourselves as Americans and our shared legacy of slavery, racism and democracy. Whoever we are and whatever the color of our skin, this is our journey too.

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continued from page 16 performing arts high school. Her professional career began on stage in regional productions of Ain't Misbehavin', Into the Woods and Little Shop of Horrors.

Soon thereafter, she moved to New York and landed major roles on Broadway in Miss Saigon, Rent and Bright Lights Big City. While in New York, she staged cabarets and continued to hone her skills when she workshopped the original production of Stormy Weather at the Manhattan Theatre Club, in which she played the legendary Lena Horne.

Sharon continues to pursue her passion, music, and is currently working on a full-length album. Here, she talks about her starring role as Zoe Reynard in the screen adaptation of Zane’s erotic thriller, Addicted.

Kam Williams: What interested you in Addicted? Had you read the book?

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EASY RECIPE No-Bake Clusters n 1 cup sugar n 2 tablespoons cocoa n ¼ cup butter n ¼ cup milk n 1 ½ cup Honey Bunches of Oats cereal n ½ cup reduced-fat peanut butter n 1 teaspoon vanilla n ½ cup peanuts n 1 cup pretzels In heavy saucepan, bring sugar, cocoa, butter and milk to a boil. Let boil for 1 minute, then add cereal, peanut butter, vanilla, peanuts and pretzels.

Scoop 2 tablespoons of mixture and drop on baking sheet coated with waxed paper. Place sheet in refrigerator until cooled. When ready, gently pull clusters off waxed paper. Store in refrigerator.

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hocolate brownies, named after a popular cartoon character, were created by Fannie Farmer in her Boston kitchen more than a century ago. The original recipe, similar to chocolate cookies and baked as individual cakes, lends itself to endless variations. Here, some of the chocolate batter is dropped in mounds over the cream cheese and raspberry preserves before the layers are swirled together. As the brownies bake, the fudgy chocolate spreads and sandwiches the cheese. A foil liner facilitates taking them out of the pan, and a few hours in the fridge makes it easy to cut them into perfect squares.

These brownies are a Valentine treat for your sweetie.

Raspberry Cream Cheese Brownies Makes 16 brownies Cream Cheese Swirl: n 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened n ¼ cup sugar n 1 egg Brownies: n 2⁄3 cup all-purpose flour n ½ teaspoon baking powder n ½ cup unsalted butter n 4 ounces unsweetened chocolate n 1 cup sugar n 1 teaspoon vanilla extract n 2 eggs n 3 tablespoon raspberry preserves 1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit. Coat an 8-inch square baking pan with cooking spray. Line bottom and sides with foil, allowing a 2-inch overhang on all sides. Coat foil with spray.

2. To prepare cream cheese swirl, beat cheese, sugar and egg with an

electric mixer on medium speed until smooth.

3. To prepare brownies, sift flour and baking powder onto a piece of wax paper.

4. In a medium bowl placed over a pot of simmering water, melt butter and chocolate. Remove bowl from pot.

Whisk in sugar and vanilla. Add eggs, one at a time, whisking after each addition. Stir in flour mixture. Pour ½ cup chocolate mixture into a cup.

5. Spread remaining chocolate mixture in pan. Spread cream cheese mixture on top. Drop small spoonfuls of preserves over top. Drop remaining ½ cup chocolate mixture in 8 spoonfuls over top. With small spatula, swirl mixtures together.

6. Bake 30 to 35 minutes, until a tester inserted in center comes out with few crumbs attached. Let cool in the pan on a wire rack. Refrigerate 2 hours or until cold. Lift out brownies with foil. Place on firm surface and cut into squares.

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WORD TO THE WISE Crimping: To crimp something is to decoratively fold the edges of it, slightly overlapping the folds to create a rounded border. Crimping makes the edges of sweet and savory pies, empanadas, dumplings and calzones look more finished, and it also seals two pieces of dough tightly to keep the filling ingredients from leaking out during baking.

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FRIDAY CHANNEL/DANCE: AN EVENING OF MOVEMENT, ART AND THEATER The CHANNEL/DANCE collaboration falls on both Friday the 13th and Valentine’s Day, which bodes well for good luck and very congenial vibes between Fort Point Theatre Channel and Contrapose Dance.

Ten of Boston’s adventurous choreographers team up with painters, photographers, playwrights, and other artists to create short movement works with imaginative and far-reaching visual and audio impact. Add the ingredients of a half-dozen of the briefest of movement-themed plays, and the result is an invigorating performance experience that delights with its unpredictable twists and turns. Co-presented by Fort Point Theatre Channel and Contrapose Dance.

Performances run Friday, February 13, & Saturday, February 14, at 8pm.

Free and open to all; due to limited seating, reserving advance tickets recommended.

Waterfront Square@Atlantic Wharf, 290 Congress St., Boston. For general information, www.fortpointtheatre channel.org, 617750-8900; for advance tickets, call 800838-3006 or visit www.brownpapertickets. com/event/1068967.

SATURDAY BLUE HILLS RESERVATION Moderate walk, hilly terrain, 2.5 miles.

Bugbee Path to Beech Hollow Path and Oblique Path. Return via Old 128. Meet at the Houghton’s Pond main parking lot at 840 Hillside Street in Milton. Saturday, February 14, 1 pm. The Southeastern Massachusetts Adult Walking Club meets each weekend on either a Saturday or Sunday at 1:00 for recreational walks.

This club is open to people of 16 years of age and older, and there is no fee to join.

Walks average 2 to 5 miles. New walkers are encouraged to participate. The 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.

TUESDAY WALLS OF STONE: THE LEVERETT STREET JAIL All but forgotten in the narratives of Boston and the West End, the Leverett Street Jail has an important story that merits examination and remembrance. From February 17 - April 18, a new exhibit in the Members Gallery of The West End Museum — Walls of Stone: The Leverett Street Jail — reveals a notable and controversial history. The show reception takes place on Saturday, February 21 from 4-6pm, when attendees can tour the exhibit and enjoy light refreshments. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public. The West End Museum is dedicated to the collection, preservation and interpretation of the history and culture of the West End neighborhood.

The Museum’s permanent exhibit, “The Last Tenement,” highlights the immigrant history of the neighborhood through its dec-

imation under Urban Renewal in 1959; two additional galleries feature rotating exhibits.

The Museum is located near North Station at 150 Staniford St., Suite 7. Hours: Tuesday - Friday 12-5pm; Saturday 11am - 4pm.

Admission is free.

THURSDAY CHILDREN’S WINTER FESTIVAL Mayor Martin J. Walsh and the Boston Parks and Recreation Department invite families to the Franklin Park Golf Course Clubhouse for the Children’s Winter Festival on Thursday, February 19, from 10am - 12:30pm. The lineup includes a New England Aquarium tadpole exhibit, Science on the Street tabletop experiments including the Edgerton Strobe Machine and the Augmented Reality Sandbox, an artifact display hosted by the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and City of Boston Archaeologist Joe Bagley, Boston Nature Center scavenger hunt and nature hike, taxidermy wildlife and live horse demonstration with the Boston Park Rangers, children’s fitness with Troops for Fitness, and other activities hosted by iRobot, Science from Scientists, and Zoo New England. The festival will also feature Rosalita’s Puppets, winter arts and crafts, balloon animals, and refreshments provided by New England Coffee. In addition, the L.L.Bean Outdoor Discovery School will present their Snowshoeing Discovery Course, a fun and easy way to try out the sport with expert instructors who will lead an easy guided trek through Franklin Park.

Snowshoes will be provided along with sleds for sledding. Participants should wear weather-appropriate clothing and winter or hiking boots. Free parking is available at the clubhouse parking lot located at One Circuit Drive in Franklin Park. For more information, please call the Boston Parks and Recreation Department at 617-635-4505, visit www. cityofboston.gov/parks or go to www.face book.com/boston parksdepartment.

UPCOMING DROP-IN COLONIAL KIDS ACTIVITIES Friday, February 20 our Drop-In Colonial Kids Activities event is more relaxed. From 10am – 12pm we will open up the first floor of the Pierce/Hichborn House and encourage you to drop in to try on clothes like Paul Revere’s kids wore, and play the same kinds of games they played in an informal setting. This program is FREE with admission to the house and reservations are NOT required. Paul Revere House, 19 North Square, Boston. For further information about the Revere House, please visit www.paureverehouse.org.

VERA MEYER ON THE GLASS HARMONICA Special Co-Sponsored Event at the Old South Meeting House: Vera Meyer on the Glass Harmonica. Saturday, February 21, 11:30am – 1:30pm. Treat your family to the ethereal tones of this fascinating instrument invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1761. Once believed to cause nervous disorders, marital disputes, convulsions in cats and dogs, and even to wake people from the dead, today all ages may enjoy the glass harmonica’s music as it resonates in our spacious hall. Music will range from

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16

YOUNG ARTISTS: ARTWORK BY CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS

The Multicultural Arts Center presents YOUNG ARTISTS on view February 16 - March 27, in the Upper and Lower Galleries, exhibiting works by Cambridge Public School Students. The students participating in the exhibition range from grades K-12 and reflect a multitude of backgrounds. The show is a true example of the creativity and imagination from the Cambridge Public School Students and the immense young talent that we have in our backyard.

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BANNER CLASSIFIEDS LEGAL MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. M498-C1, MARITIME EMERGENCY CONTROL CENTER, SOUTH 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, MARCH 18, 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, MARCH 4, 2015, immediately after which, in a designated room, the filed sub bids will be opened and read publicly.

NOTE:

PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE MASSPORT MARITIME SECURITY CONFERENCE ROOM AT 212 NORTHERN AVENUE, FISH PIER EAST (ENTER BUILDING AT 2ND ARCHWAY ON THE RIGHT, TAKE ELEVATOR TO THIRD FLOOR), SOUTH BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS AT 10:00 AM. LOCAL TIME ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2015.

The work includes CONSTRUCTION OF TWO ROOMS WITHIN MASSPORT’S FISH PIER OFFICES INCLUDING FILED-SUB BID WORK FOR PLUMBING, HVAC, AND ELECTRICAL TRADES (INCLUDING A ROOF-TOP BACK-UP GENERATOR) AS WELL AS LIMITED WORK INVOLVING SELECTIVE DEMOLITION, MISCELLANEOUS METALS, SEALANTS, DOORS AND HARDWARE, GLASS AND GLAZING, WINDOW TREATMENTS, LIGHT GAGE FRAMING AND DRYWALL, RESILIENT FLOORING, ACOUSTICAL CEILINGS, AND PAINTING. WORK ALSO INCLUDES MODIFICATIONS TO EXISTING SPRINKLERS, STRUCTURAL STEEL, CARPENTRY, MILLWORK, AND ROOFING. Bid documents will be made available beginning WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 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 FOUR HUNDRED, NINETY-ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($491,000.00).

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. Said policy shall be on an occurrence basis and the Authority shall be included as an Additional Insured. See the insurance sections of Division I, General Requirements and Division II, Special Provisions for complete details.

Filed sub bids will be required and taken on the following classes of work: • • •

HEATING, VENTILATING, AND AIR CONDITIONING ($28,000.00) PLUMBING ($41,000.00) ELECTRICAL ($207,000.00)

LEGAL 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.

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LEGAL NOTICE REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS The MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY (Authority) is soliciting consulting services for MPA CONTRACT NO. M364-D3, FY 16-18 WATERFRONT FACILITIES TERM CONSULTANT, EAST BOSTON, SOUTH BOSTON & CHARLESTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS. The Authority is seeking a qualified multidiscipline consulting firm or team, with proven experience to provide professional services including: inspection, design, and construction related services, as well as resident inspection, on an on-call, as needed basis. The 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 February 18, 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

LEGAL from any public assistance program, or protected genetic information in employment or in any program or activity conducted or funded by the Department. (Not all prohibited bases will apply to all programs and/or employment activities.)

If you wish to file a Civil Rights program complaint of discrimination, complete the USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form, found online at http://www.ascr.usda.gov/complaint_filing_cust.html, or at any USDA office, or call (866) 632-9992 to request the form. You may also write a letter containing all of the information requested in the form. Send your completed complaint form or letter to us by mail at U.S. Department of Agriculture, Director, Office of Adjudication, 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20250-9410, by fax (202) 690-7442 or email at program.intake@usda.gov.

Individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have speech disabilities and wish to file either an EEO or program complaint please contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339 or (800) 845-6136 (in Spanish).

Persons with disabilities, who wish to file a program complaint, please see information above on how to contact us by mail directly or by email. If you require alternative means of communication for program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, etc.) please contact USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TDD).

USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

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

DESCRIPTION

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TIME

WRA-3981

Computer Center Environment Systems Support Services Contract

02/20/15

11:30 a.m.

WRA-3979

Replacement of Activated 02/20/15 Carbon at Nut Island Headworks and Braintree Weymouth RPS Facility

2:00 p.m.

WRA-3978

Supply and Delivery of Carbon Dioxide to the John J. Carroll Water Treatment Plant

02/20/15

3:00 p.m.

7335

Section 4 Webster Avenue Pipe and Utility Bridge Replacement

02/26/15

2:00 p.m.

FRR29

Adams Street Grade Crossing/ 02/26/15 Cattlepass Bridge Replacement

2:30 p.m.

600TA

RFQ/P Hazardous Materials Technical

11:00 a.m.

The Supplemental Information Package will provide detailed information about Scope Of Work, Selection Criteria and Submission Requirements.

The Authority expects to select one consultant for this project. However, the Authority reserves the right to select a different number if it is deemed in its best interest to do so. Each consultant shall be issued a contract in an amount not to exceed FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($ 500,000). The services shall be authorized on a work order basis.

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.

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.

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, April 2, 2015 at the Massachusetts Port Authority, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, Suite 209S, Logan International Airport, East Boston, MA 02128-2909. Any submission which is not received in a timely manner shall be rejected by the Authority as non-responsive. Any information provided to the Authority in any Proposal or other written or oral communication between the Proposer and the Authority will not be, or deemed to have been, proprietary or confidential, although the Authority will use reasonable efforts not to disclose such information to persons who are not employees or consultants retained by the Authority except as may be required by M.G.L. c.66.

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CHILD AND ADULT CARE FOOD PROGRAM PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT OF INVITATION TO BID Little People’s Playhouse announces its intention of sponsoring the USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program. Planned dates of operation are October 1, 2014 through September 30, 2015 with the option to review for up to three years, 5 days per week. Bids are solicited from vendors. Anticipated service is 181 meals per day at 3 of sites. Bids must be received by 1pm, Feb 24, 2015, 32 South Fairview St. Roslindale, Ma 02131. All bids are subject to review by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Office for Nutrition, Health and Safety Programs, 75 Pleasant Street, Malden, MA 02148.

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.

The public bid opening will be at February 26, 2015 at 1pm.

This contract is subject to a Minority/Women Owned Business Enterprise participation provision requiring that not less than FOUR AND ONE HALF PERCENT (4.5%) 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

Bid announcement must also include the following language: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination against its customers, employees, and applicants for employment on the bases of race, color, national origin, age, disability, sex, gender identity, religion, reprisal and, where applicable, political beliefs, marital status, familial or parental status, sexual orientation, or if all or part of an individual’s income is derived

Copies of the Invitation to Bid may be received from Little People’s Playhouse 32 South Fairview St. Roslindale, Ma 02131.

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

Ethos, a non-profit Aging Service Access Point, is requesting proposals for the provision of auditing services for Fiscal Years 2015, 2016 & 2017.

Interested parties may obtain RFP forms at www.ethocare.org. Complete proposals are due March 15, 2015 at 5 p.m. and should be addressed to: Galina Lonshteyn, Fiscal Director, Ethos, 555 Amory Street, Jamaica plain, MA 02130, email: glonshteyn@ethocare.org.

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

Docket No. SU15P0107EA

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Roberta Davis Date of Death: 07/09/2013 To all interested persons: A petition has been filed by Rozenia Lyvette Marshall of Taunton, 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 Rozenia Lyvette Marshall of Taunton, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without 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: January 16, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

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Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Peter Meltzer, Jr. Date of Death: 02/11/2013 To all interested persons: A petition has been filed by Joan L Hager of Springfield, 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 Joan L Hager of Springfield, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without 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 02/26/2015. 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: January 23, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

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A petition has been filed by Arthur Banks of Somerville, 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 Arthur Banks of Somerville, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond.

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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 04/02/2015. 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.

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