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Berklee City Music honored Sarah-Ann Shaw with its Unsung Heroes Award at Berklee College of Music on Saturday. The award is given annually around Martin Luther King Jr. Day and recognizes an individual for their accomplishments and contributions to the community. Shaw was the first African-American female TV reporter in Boston, working at WBZ-TV 4 for 31 years, retiring in 2000. Shaw (center) is flanked by Berklee City Music Executive Director J. Curtis Warner (l) and Berklee City Music Dean Krystal Banfield (r). (Photo courtesy Berklee of Music)

Minorities underrepresented in Hub corporate leadership Martin Desmarais While people of color make up more than 50 percent of Boston’s population, the city’s corporate leadership remains overwhelmingly white, according to a University of Massachusetts, Boston study.

Only 3.4 percent people of color held jobs at the senior executive level and 9.4 percent held jobs at the mid-level manager level, while 55 percent held jobs at the professional level and 32 percent held jobs at the lowest paying occupations, such as administrative support workers, laborers and service workers, the study found.

The study was conducted by Commonwealth Compact, a proj-

ect organized out of the UMass Boston, has been studying the diversity of Boston’s workplace since 2008 and has released three separate studies of its findings. The most recent study, released in 2013 and titled “Managing Up: Managing Diversity in Challenging Times,” covered a five year period to look at the most recent trends in corporate diversity. The study examined about 280 companies with almost 200,000 employees.

The study also examined which industries are best at having people of color in high-level positions and found that the educational sector had the most people of color in senior management at 6 percent, while the health care industry and the government sector only had 1

percent people of color in executive positions. These findings are similar to findings from previous Commonwealth Compact studies as well.

Georgianna Meléndez, executive director of the Commonwealth Compact, said that what the organization’s studies show is that the real battle line for increasing diversity in Boston is not at the entry level, but at the executive level, which she calls the C-suite jobs — executives, vice presidents, directors and board members.

According to Meléndez, companies are often shocked when they report strong numbers of diversity in hiring but then find out from these employees that they do not feel included in the company diversity, continued to page 8

The Boston Globe has impugned the integrity of the Bay State Banner. In a flawed article entitled “Should Boston have bailed out the Bay State Banner,” published Sunday, Jan. 12, the Globe asserts that “the city made $200,000 in loans to save the troubled newspaper.”

That is false. The clear impression of such a statement is that taxpayers’ funds were used to finance the black press. The fact is that the loan is from the Boston Local Development Corp., a nonprofit corporation with an independent board of trustees. The BLDC provides loans to small businesses considered to be significant to the city. The loan fund is independent of Boston’s operating budget, and available loan proceeds are not generated from taxes.

When the Banner encountered financial difficulties with the onslaught of the recession and changing technological aspects of our industry, Next Street Financial LLC was engaged to analyze the problem and prepare a plan for recovery. After spending a month analyzing the Banner’s business, Next Street presented a proposal

to BLDC for a loan to the Banner. Next Street’s analysis was so thorough and professional that the Boston Redevelopment Authority, which manages the BLDC fund, was able to recommend a favorable decision in a faster than normal time because the business analysis was already completed.

One factor that made it relatively easy for the BLDC to approve the loan is that Melvin B. Miller, founder and publisher of the Banner, put up his personal real estate in New Hampshire as collateral at the time the loan was made. That property is presently on the market

by Sotheby’s International Realty and there is more than enough equity in its value to pay off the loan.

With this relative certainty that the loan will be repaid, one has to wonder what the story is really about. The Globe knows that the Banner is the only journalistic voice for African Americans in Greater Boston. The Globe also knows that the Banner finances have not always been robust. The Globe states, “Over the years, Melvin B. Miller plowed thousands of dollars of his own money into

The loan fund is independent of Boston’s operating budget, and available loan proceeds are not generated from taxes.

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Police department diversifies top slots Yawu Miller It took newly-appointed Police Superintendent-in-Chief William D. Gross just one sentence to bring the crowd of police officers, anti-crime activists and elected officials to their feet.

“I’m Superintendent-in-Chief William D. Gross,” was all he could get out before he was drowned out in applause.

The significance of the highest-ranking African American in the history of the department pre-

siding over the swearing-in ceremony for Police Commissioner William Evans was lost on few in the auditorium at the Salvation Army Kroc Center in Dorchester.

Gross is second in command of the most diverse command staff the department has ever fielded.

“Boston’s come a long way,” said Gross, a former night commander and head of the gang unit.

“And now we have a command staff that reflects the diversity of the city.” appointments, continued to page 6

Police Superintendent-in-Chief William Gross, Rev. Gary Adams, Police Commissioner William Evans and Mayor Marty Walsh, during Evans’ swearing-in ceremony at the Salvation Army Kroc Center on Dudley St. in Dorchester. (Banner photo)

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Artists’ collective gives selftaught painter first break

Tarra Louis-Charles says she draws inspiration from her lifestyle and Haitian background when painting.

Kassmin Williams At 4 years old when many children are consumed with watching cartoon shows, self-taught artist Tarra Louis-Charles was wrapped up in sketching them.

“It’s just something I never

stopped doing. Growing up, I was always sketching and drawing,” Louis-Charles said.

In 2006, Louis-Charles began painting while taking an art class at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she majored in legal studies.

More recently, Louis Charles, 28, has started making prints of her paintings and turning them into necklaces, earrings and rings.

On Jan. 26, Louis-Charles will present her paintings and jewelry in Boston for the first time during this month’s RAW Boston showcase titled “Pixels.”

RAW is an independent art organization made up by artists and is located in more than 60 cities around the world.

The name of the showcase changes each month and is chosen by the RAW headquarters. On the last Sunday of each month, RAW Boston transforms Rumor Boston from its usual club scene to an underground art show.

For the last three years, the event has been used to highlight work from local artists, designers, jewelry makers, hair stylists, photographers and make-up artists.

As a new artist on the local scene, Louis-Charles said she is excited about being a part of the RAW Boston showcase and is grateful for the platform to network with other local artists and gain exposure.

Before RAW Boston, Louis-Charles said she found it difficult to locate opportunities to display her work.

“Honestly, it’s been really hard for me to find venues in Boston willing to showcase my artwork, so being a part of RAW is considered a blessing for me,” Louis-Charles said.

Local artist Tarra Louis-Charles is showcasing her artwork in Boston for the first time during the RAW Boston Showcase on Jan 26.

When asked to describe her artwork, the Somerville resident has a difficult time, but recognizes that the pieces are reflective of her Haitian background and her lifestyle.

“I would say I do more cultural or ethnic art and I portray a lot of women because I grew up with women,” Louis-Charles said.

Louis-Charles describes her mother and aunts as “very flamboyant, loud and very emotional,” on one hand and vulnerable on the other.

“When I look at [my art] myself, I see a sense of vulnerability in my work and I think it stems from my mother and my aunts and how there’s something in them they don’t really expose to the outside,” Louis-Charles said.

Having grown up exposed to Caribbean artwork, Louis-Charles gravitates towards bold colors when painting.

“It doesn’t seem right to me for a painting not to have a splash of color on it,” Louis-Charles said.

As a child, Louis-Charles moved around often. She was

born in New York and moved to Massachusetts at age 5.

At 8, she moved to Florida for a year and then to Haiti for four years.

At 13, she moved back to the Boston area, but spent many of her summers in Canada.

Louis-Charles credits her hesitance to box her work into a single category to how much she moved as a child.

“I was exposed to how people are living, [their] emotions and how people interact and I picked up on a lot,” Louis-Charles said. “I think that’s why I think it’s difficult for me to describe or categorize my work because it comes from a lot of different things I’ve seen growing up.”

Louis-Charles will be joining more than 30 other artists, designers and performers for this month’s showcase.

For more information on the event and to purchase tickets, visit rawartists. org. The upcoming Boston Jan. 26 event goes from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. with tickets for $15 when purchased online and $20 when purchased at the door.

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the Bay State Banner to shore up the weekly newspaper.”

Now it seems the Globe intends to be the first to write the Banner’s obituary with the strategy of defaming the publisher to ensure that the Banner’s demise ensues. Relying on the advice of a media business analyst, the Globe predicts that the Banner’s survival is “not sustainable.”

The Globe then proceeds to assassinate the reputation of the publisher by asserting that while obligations to BLDC languished, debts of the publisher were repaid.

That was not possible. The accounts reveal there was inadequate revenue to do so.

The $210,000 Banner liability in question was improperly classified initially as being personal because of the publisher’s guarantee of repayment. Therefore, it was entirely appropriate to transfer it to the corporate account.

The journalistic independence of the Banner is well known. However, the Globe implies that Mayor Menino “threw a lifeline to the Banner” by using his influence with the BLDC “in the midst of a contentious reelection” to gain favor with the Banner.

The Globe had the good sense not to suggest the alleged political strategy was effective because there was no evidence to support such

false assertions.

Given the troubled financial history of the Globe, one would expect greater sensitivity for the present travails of the press. The former Boston Globe owners, the Taylors, sold the Globe to the New York Times in 1993 for $1.1 billion. Only 20 years later, John Henry bought the Boston Globe and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette for $70 million in cash. Without the bailout of multimillionaire white knights, the mainstream American press would be in financial jeopardy.

But what will be the fate of the black press? For almost 50 years the Bay State Banner has diligently, faithfully and professionally represented the interests of those who would otherwise be overlooked. Why would the Globe publish such a negative and defamatory article despite the valiant efforts of the Banner staff, over a period of several years, to recover from the nation’s worst recession?

What is driving the negative attitude since it is highly likely that all Banner creditors will be repaid?

The Globe’s lack of discernment is demonstrated by a telling mistake. No, Boston Globe, Mel King is 85 years old. Melvin Miller is a younger man. I guess in the Globes eyes we are all the same after all.

The Boston Globe has damaged its own journalistic reputation with this article.

Senate legislation a victory for electoral reform coalition goal of modernizing the Massachusetts voting system, much of which has been shaped by the limitations of 19th and 20th century technology.

Cheryl Clyburn Crawford, executive director of MassVOTE, an organization that has been leading voter reform efforts in Massachusetts for more than 10 years, says that modernizing the

State Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz Yawu Miller The Massachusetts Senate approved electoral reform measures aimed at making it easier to vote, register to vote and monitor the accuracy of towns’ voting systems.

The reforms include measures allowing early voting in state and federal primary elections, Election Day registration and automatic re-registration of voters when they move within Massachusetts.

“The bill passed by the Senate takes important strides toward a more inclusive Commonwealth, removing unnecessary barriers to the ballot box,” said state Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz in a statement.

The legislation brings voter rights activists closer to their

“We are one step closer to achieving our goal of full access for citizen participation in the electoral process in Massachusetts.”

— Cheryl Clyburn Crawford state’s electoral system will help increase voter participation.

“We are one step closer to achieving our goal of full access for citizen participation in the electoral process in Massachusetts,” she said.

“The goal is higher turnout,” said state Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry. “Higher turnout is critical.”

Under the new legislation, voters will be able to cast ballots

in state and federal primaries up to 10 days prior to an election day and will be able to register online through an online database.

Chang-Diaz added amendments to the legislation giving Massachusetts residents the right to register and cast a ballot on an election day and to remain registered to vote after moving from one address to another within Massachusetts. She also inserted an amendment mandating post-election audits, where the state would be required to randomly check voting machines for accuracy after each election and an amendment ending the practice of counting prisoners as residents of the electoral district where they are incarcerated.

Another provision in the legislation is a measure allowing 16and 17-year-old state residents to pre-register to vote so that they will be able to do so as soon as they turn 18.

The House voted on a similar version of the bill in December.

The bill will go to a House and Senate conference committee before it goes to the governor.

Dorcena Forry cautioned that the measures alone will not produce higher turnout. Voters have to be motivated to vote, she said.

“We know that when communities of color come out in elections, it gets results,” she said.

“We have to do a better job getting people out to vote.”

The 14th Annual Boston Charter Public School Enrollment Showcase Come and meet representatives from a number of Boston-area charter schools to learn about the high-quality educational choices offered for your children!

Charter schools are tuition-free public schools open to all children in Grades K-12.

Fill out enrollment forms on the spot! Enrollment is free and determined by lottery (held in March).

Give your child a good educational foundation to succeed in life: charter schools are known for longer school days and school years, high academic standards, uniforms and college preparatory programs. Many charter schools have the best MCAS scores in the city!

When: Saturday, January 25, 2014 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Where: Watson Auditorium at the Wentworth Institute of Technology 550 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115.

Translators will be available.

Cambridge City Councilor Dennis Benzan and legendary civil rights activist Angela Davis were special guests at the annual benefit for The Young People’s Project in celebration of the life and legacy of civil rights pioneer and Algebra Project founder Bob Moses. (Eric Esteves photo)

BOSTON COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL IS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS!

APPLICATION DEADLINE:

Friday, February 28, 2014 at 5:00PM Visit us at www.bostoncollegiate.org to learn more about our school.

We are:

• Recruiting students entering grades 5 through 8 for the 2014-15 school year!

• A tuition-free, city-wide public charter school in Dorchester serving over 600 students in grades 5 through 12.

• A college preparatory school with 100% college acceptance for all of its graduating students.

• The only public, non-exam school in the state in which 100% of students have passed the 10th grade Math MCAS for the past eleven years.

• A school full of dedicated, smart, hardworking, accessible, and passionate teachers.

• A safe, supportive, and academically rigorous school with high academic and behavioral expectations.

Attend an Information Session at our school!

February 4, 2014 from 6:00PM—7:00PM

Boston Collegiate Charter School 215 Sydney Street ■ Dorchester, MA 02125 ■ 617-282-6710

Please note: For each application you fill out, you may be required to submit up to two proofs of address (utility bills or rental lease) and a copy of the student’s birth certificate. Please bring plenty of copies with you as there isn’t a photocopier onsite!

Public Transportation: the closest T Stations are the MFA stop on the Green Line E or the Ruggles Station stop on the Orange Line Parking: a parking lot is available at the corner of Parker and Helleck Streets For more information: please call 978-212-5507 or visit www.masscharterschools.org

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In memoriam Established 1965

Salary of a full-time job should be enough to lift workers from poverty History focuses on the human rights aspects of Rev. Martin Luther King’s ministry. Ironically, he was on a mission for economic rights in support of wage increases for garbage collectors in Memphis, Tenn., when he was assassinated. Undoubtedly, Dr. King would support present minimum wage efforts to raise workers’ salaries to lift them from poverty.

The United States is unquestionably the wealthiest nation in the world. Nonetheless an estimated 15.1 percent of the population lives in poverty — 46.2 million Americans. Of that number, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, 10.5 million are employed. That amounts to 7.2 percent of the labor force. There is a movement underway to alleviate the problem of the working poor by raising the federal minimum wage from the present level of only $7.25 per hour.

Decades ago it was thought that the minimum wage was primarily for youngsters still in the care of their parents and for entry level workers who were learning the skills necessary for promotion. Most low salaried employees were retail clerks and fast food workers. According to the National Employment Law Project, fast-food workers are now not just ambitious teenagers. The average age is 29, and 26 percent are parents.

At $7.25 an hour, the income for one year is $15,080. The poverty level for a family of four is any income less than $22,050. The scarcity of employment at better pay has forced Americans to accept minimum wage jobs, and they usually have to have multiple jobs to put food on the table.

More affluent Americans have little occasion to witness the difficulties of those struggling for survival during an economic downturn. It is too easy to blame the difficulties of the poor as being self-inflicted. But the basic element of the problem is that the federal minimum wage level has not kept up with the cost of living. The value of the minimum wage has declined by 30 percent in the last 40 years.

Advocates for change have been proposing a federal minimum wage of $10.10. That would provide an annual income of $21,008, still less than the poverty level for a family of four, but a step up. Some protestors want an even greater jump in the wage but resistance from the business community is very strong.

During the Ronald Reagan presidency (19811989), the concept of trickle-down economics gained popularity. Another way of expressing the concept is that a rising tide lifts all boats. But that is not what has been happening in the U.S. For example, in 2012 the income of the top 1 percent of earners rose by 20 percent, while all the rest (99 percent) saw only a combined growth of 1 percent.

So much for the trickle-down theory.

President George W. Bush (2001-2009) provided substantial tax cuts to the wealthy, in compliance with the trickle-down principle, with the expectation that the so-called “job creators” would invest in the economy. Instead the nation had the “Great Recession” by the end of 2007. Now America has the largest income gap between the rich and the poor since the 1920s.

Every state has the right to establish a minimum wage that is higher than the federal level. In Massachusetts, the minimum wage is $8 an hour. However, the state Senate has raised that to $11 an hour by 2016. While that increase is making its way through the legislative process, an organized protest group called Raise Up Massachusetts collected signatures to place a minimum wage of $10.50 an hour on the ballot next year. They collected more than 280,000 signatures, enough to be on the ballot.

Many conservatives make it appear that those seeking a reasonable wage are claiming unwarranted benefits. American workers should not be treated like supplicants when the titans of industry have failed to create jobs that provide their employees with a reasonable living standard.

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Dominican ambassador’s take on controversial ruling

I was interested to read the Bay State Banner’s recent piece on the Dominican Republic’s immigration policy, which noted U.S. Representative Joseph Kennedy III’s understanding of the complexity of our nation’s challenges. His first-hand experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic gives him valuable insight to our country’s progress, and I appreciate him bringing attention to a key challenge we are proactively addressing — implementing a clear immigration policy.

We are working to implement a comprehensive immigration policy in an inclusive and transparent manner, one that respects both human rights and international agreements. The Dominican Republic is not the only country facing important challenges in migratory legislation — we appreciate the support of the international community, and our counterparts in Haiti, as we work to further the rights for all and enhance our country’s safety and prosperity.

The ruling by the Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Court provides the op-

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portunity for thousands of immigrants and their children to normalize immigration status in a way that protects their fundamental rights. This policy will also enhance our ability to combat human trafficking and improve border security.

The Dominican government is proactively working to help facilitate the naturalization process and improve the condition for undocumented foreigners overall. For example, the government will issue work and student visas, and a new Naturalization Law will solve the status of children of undocumented immigrants.

All the while, the government will continue its commitment to respecting basic human rights and guaranteeing free public

services to all persons within the Dominican Republic — the government invests 18 percent of its health-care budget to service the immigrant population, provides access to public schools for approximately 50,000 immigrant children, and protects workers of any nationality.

The government’s new immigration policy will enable the Dominican Republic to meet its development challenges while continuing to work towards a prosperous, secure future for all of Hispaniola.

ANÍBAL DE CASTRO Ambassador of the Dominican Republic Washington, D.C.

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OPINION Excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr.’s letter from a Birmingham jail

What do you think the minimum wage should be?

April 6, 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.”

Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would have little time for anything other than such correspondence in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work. But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I want to try to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms.

I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their “thus saith the Lord” far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco Roman world, so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was “well timed” in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word “Wait!” It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This “Wait” has almost always meant “Never.” We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that “justice too long delayed is justice denied.”

We have waited for more than 340 years for our constitutional and God given rights. The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jet-like speed toward gaining political independence, but we still creep at horse and buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch counter. We know through Perhaps it is easy for those who have painful experience never felt the stinging darts of seg- that freedom is never regation to say, “Wait.” But when voluntarily given by you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will the oppressor; it must and drown your sisters and brothers be demanded by the at whim; when you have seen hate oppressed. filled policemen curse, kick and even kill your black brothers and sisters; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six year old daughter why she can’t go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky, and see her beginning to distort her personality by developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people; when you have to concoct an answer for a five year old son who is asking: “Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?”; when you take a cross county drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will accept you; when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading “white” and “colored”; when your first name becomes “nigger,” your middle name becomes “boy” (however old you are) and your last name becomes “John,” and your wife and mother are never given the respected title “Mrs.”; when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro, living constantly at tiptoe stance, never quite knowing what to expect next, and are plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of “nobodiness” — then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair. I hope, sirs, you can understand our legitimate and unavoidable impatience. You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern. Since we so diligently urge people to obey the Supreme Court’s decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the public schools, at first glance it may seem rather paradoxical for us consciously to break laws. One may well ask: “How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?” The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that “an unjust law is no law at all.”

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Ten dollars an hour. You can’t survive off of $8. It would cut down on crime if you raised it. People won’t feel pressured so much.

I think $11. The lower paid population spends more of their income than the wealthy. Higher wages create a healthier economy.

With the cost of living, I think it should be between $11 and $13 an hour. I can’t afford to live in the city of Boston.

Monique Goodman

Brian Sheffey

Brenda Ramsay

It should be $10 or $12. The dollar is deflating. It doesn’t buy want it used to. Eight dollars is too little.

At least $10. Nobody wants to work for $8.

At least $15 an hour. People work hard and don’t get paid well. The cost of living is high.

William Miller

Kim Greene

Herbie Gilpin

Payroll Keeper Mattapan

Nonprofit Manager Dorchester

Geneologist Roxbury

RMV Supervisor Dorchester

Preschool Teacher Randolph

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Beth Williams

Roxbury Technology Corporation’s President Beth Williams is one of five new members appointed to the 2014 Manufacturing Council by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, according to an announcement from the department. The council, established in 2004, advises the Secretary of Commerce on challenges facing U.S. manufacturers and recommends programs and policies to help manufacturers maintain global competitiveness.

Williams has led Roxbury Technology since 2003. The company specializes in manufactured toner cartridges and imaging products.

“As the federal agency responsible for leading the government’s manufacturing policy, the Commerce Department is committed to doing everything we can to support this critical sector of our nation’s economy,” said Secretary Pritzker. “Our ‘Open for Business Agenda’ includes a strong focus on initiatives that will strengthen the manufacturing sector. The new members of our Manufacturing Council have unique expertise and perspective

that will be integral to our efforts to shape policies that support American businesses and workers, boost our economic growth, and create jobs.”

The council, which is directed by the U.S. Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration, is comprised of up to 30 members that represent a diverse and balanced cross-section of the manufacturing industry according to sector, geographic location, demographics, and company size. The Secretaries of Labor, Energy, and Treasury serve as ex-officio members of the Council to better collaborate on cross-cutting issues the Council will address.

At the inaugural SelectUSA 2013 Investment Summit in November, Secretary Pritzker announced her approval to revisions to the eligibility requirements for the Manufacturing Council. The change allows for the appointment of representatives of U.S. subsidiaries of foreign-owned or foreign-controlled manufacturers to the council. The adjustment supports President Obama’s SelectUSA initia-

tive that aims to increase foreign direct investment in the U.S. One of the council’s main efforts is working to ensure that the United States remains the preeminent destination for investment in manufacturing throughout the world. The council also provides a forum for proposing solutions to industry-related problems and helps ensure that there is regular communication between the U.S. government and the manufacturing sector.

The council recently held its first meeting for 2014 on Jan. 14.

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Although Boston has a population that is more than 50 percent people of color, it’s one of only a few cities in the country that has never had a black police commissioner.

With Evans’ six new appointments — four black men, a Latina and an Asian man — 12 of the department’s 24-member command staff are now women or people of color.

“You’re seeing a command staff that reflects your community,” Gross said. “That’s how we’re going to move forward.”

In his remarks to the audience, Evans emphasized his commitment to community policing, pledging to put more officers on foot patrols and on bicycles. He emphasized his commitment to violence reduction, citing the department’s work in removing 667 guns from the streets in the last year.

Evans also stressed the department’s commitment to homeland security in the wake of last year’s bombing at the Boston Marathon.

“After April 15, we had to take security to another level,” he said.

And he spent much of his address speaking about his commitment to creating a police department reflective of the city’s diversity.

“I put Superintendent Lisa Holmes in charge of the [Police] academy,” Evans said. “Lisa has really been effective at recruiting diverse candidates for the academy. I think the recruits will come out better prepared so they’re not soldiers ready for battle, but problem solvers.”

Gross noted that Evan’s assignment of people of color as captains in area substations is a departure from the immediate past, when there were none.

Kenneth Fong, who is Asian American, now heads Area A1 in downtown Boston. Alfredo Andreas, who is Latino, heads D13.

While the swearing-in ceremony was for Evans, many in attendance heaped praise on Gross, who served as the emcee of the event.

Walsh said he was happy with the commissioner’s picks for command positions, recalling a meeting with Evans shortly after he was named commissioner.

“We sat down and talked about what the command staff should look like,” Walsh said, adding he was particularly happy with Gross, who served at Dorchester’s Area C11 while Walsh was a Dorchester state Rep. “I loved the idea,” he said.

“I’ve known Gross for a long time.”

Evans’ appointments come after years of complaints from the Massachusetts Association of Minority Law Enforcement Officers and other community

Appointments in City Hall Earlier in January, Walsh took steps to diversify the leadership in City Hall, appointing former councilor and mayoral candidate Felix G. Arroyo head of the Department of Health and Human Services, former Boston housing Authority Chief of Staff Trinh T. Nguyen interim director of the Office of Jobs and Community Service and former Associate Director of Neighborhood Services Keith Williams interim director of the Office of Small and Local

“So far, I’m very pleased that [Walsh] is living up to what he said on the campaign trail as far as diversifying the command staff.”

— Sheriff Steven Tompkins groups about the lack of diversity in the department’s command staff.

Civic leaders at the swearing-in gave Walsh and Evans high marks for their appointments.

“So far, I’m very pleased that [Walsh] is living up to what he said on the campaign trail as far as diversifying the command staff,” said Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins, adding that Gross is an “outstanding officer.”

“We have a great working relationship with the majority of the new command staff,” said Michael Kozu, project coordinator with the Grove Hall-based Project RIGHT. “We’re really looking forward to continuing our work with them.”

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Under the previous administration, few black or Latino males headed major departments with staff members, budgets or other directors reporting to them.

Walsh also tapped Daniel Arrigg Koh, the former general manager of the news website HuffPost, as his chief of staff.

Koh was born to a Korean father and Lebanese mother.

At-large City Councilor Ayanna Pressley said she is encouraged by Walsh’s appointments so far.

“This is early in his term,” she said. “I have every reason to believe that he will honor his campaign promises to have a City Hall that reflects the diversity of the city.”

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Henriquez gets six months jail time in assault case

State Rep. Carlos Henriquez was handed a two-and-a-half year sentence with six months of jail time in an assault case. (Banner photo) Yawu Miller The details of what happened on the night of July 8, 2012 remain sketchy, but the end result is not: convicted of assault, state Rep. Carlos Henriquez has been sentenced to six months in prison and

will likely lose his 5th Suffolk District seat.

Henriquez, who maintained his innocence, began serving his sentence last week.

The jurors were presented with two different stories. Henriquez’s attorney, Stephanie Soriano-Mills,

said her client and Katherine Gonzalves met for sex in the backseat of Henriquez’s rental car outside the Arlington home where she lives with her mother, but Gonzalves was angered by his refusal to have a committed relationship with her.

Gozalves’ attorney said she refused Henriquez’s request for sex and he subsequently assaulted her, stole her cellphone when she tried to record him, then drove her to Boston where she escaped from his car.

Henriquez was charged with striking Gonzalves in the face, holding her down, choking her, taking her cellphone and removing its SIM card — three counts of assault and battery, one of witness intimidation and one of larceny.

The jury of four white women and two white men found him not guilty of three of the five charges, convicting him of two counts of assault for holding Gonzalves down and choking her.

Gozalves and Henriquez had been dating on and off for several months before the incident took place.

Soriano-Mills said she was stunned by the jury’s verdict and the judge’s decision to give Henriquez jail time for assault charges that usually result in a suspended sentence, especially given that her client had no prior convictions or arrests.

Soriano-Mills said the prosecution’s case was weak, noting the

Gonzalves was the sole witness and gave differing accounts of what happened.

“This woman had seven different accounts of what happened,” she said. “The first officer who saw her when she got out of the car that night saw no bruises or marks on her body.”

Soriano-Mills said that Henriquez will likely appeal his sentence, but will likely serve out much of his sentence behind bars before his appeal is heard.

Special election Both Gov. Deval Patrick and House Speaker Robert DeLeo have called on Henriquez to step down from his seat.

The 5th Suffolk District seat Henriquez has represented for two terms has had a turbulent history since Nelson Merced

became the first person of color to hold the seat in 1989. He was bumped from the seat in 1992, when Althea Garrison challenged his signatures, noting that he had not written the word Democrat at the top of one sheet.

Merced’s name was taken off the ballot and Garrison held the seat for one term, before she was unseated by Charlotte Golar Richie in 1994.

When Richie resigned in 1999 to head the city’s Department of Neighborhood Development, Marie St. Fleur won a hotly contested special election for the seat, holding it until 2010, when she left to head the city’s office of Intergovernmental Relations.

Henriquez won the resulting special election, and still holds the seat as of the Banner’s press deadline.

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or supported to move into leadership positions and would leave the company for other similar or higher-paying jobs immediately.

“Hiring people and paying them well is not enough,” Meléndez said. “When you bring someone in you have to onboard them properly — find out how they fit in with what they do and listen to them and include them in key decisions.

“No organization will gain anything if they appoint people based on their race or gender and not look at how their skillset fits.

We don’t think that tokenism works,” she added. “Companies like to think that everybody has the opportunity to move up — but that is really not true.”

The Commonwealth Compact is also part of the Inclusive Boston Alliance — along with groups such as the Urban League,

NAACP and the Salvation Army — which is an organization looking at how Mayor Walsh prioritizes issues that impact communities of color and tracking how he delivers on his promise to have a 50 percent diverse administration.

“The goal is over time it will have an impact and we will see some changes at the C-suite level,” Meléndez said. “People still perceive us as a racist state and that has a lot to do with who is in power.

“We are fighting the perception because we want people to live here. I live here and I love it,” she added.

The Partnership, a Boston company that helps professionals of color find high level jobs, has been fighting the diversity battle for over two decades, working with several thousand job seekers and several hundred of the city’s biggest companies. Carol Fulp, president and CEO of The Partnership, says that the message the company sends is about the importance of diversity, but also about its necessity in order to compete in business today.

“We approach the issue of diversity from a global marketplace perspective. This is about business. If you want to market globally you have to have individuals in your company that understand these different cultures,” Fulp said. “From a business perspective your workforce and customers are going to be diverse so it only makes sense that your workforce will reflect that diversity.

Fulp points out that estimates suggest that by 2050 the United States population will be 30 percent Latino, 13 percent African American and 54 percent people of color overall. The Partnership

tells businesses they had better be prepared to reflect the makeup of the population in their workforces.

However, she also points out that Boston already reflects the future diversity of the the United States as it is now a majority minority city — and the business world in the city has nowhere near caught up.

One thing she cautions against, like Meléndez, is thinking that just hiring people of color to entry-level positions in a company

nority city and we certainly see that from the individuals in corporations,” Fulp said. “We want to make sure that people of color have very strong leadership skills to be able to move up the corporate ladder.

“It is like a pyramid, everybody comes in qualified with strong technical skills but who moves up that pyramid to the top are those with leadership skills.”

According to Fulp, more and more companies are starting to get the message about diversity

“Boston has had a tough history as we all know. But we are now a majority minority city and we are really at a turning point and that is why all of us need to collaborate together.”

— Carol Fulp is enough. She says that large corporations across all industries do a pretty good job of diverse hiring at the lower levels of a company; the problem is diversity at the executive level and, particularly, providing an inclusive environment in which workers of color can move up the corporate ladder.

Companies also come to The Partnership to help them improve their workplace environment to support diversity, and Fulp says the first thing the organization does is suggest leadership development that supports people of color at all levels of a company.

“Our goal is to have programming at every level of the organization, from interns all the way up to senior executives,” she added.

“Yes, Boston is a majority mi-

and its importance, not just as a social justice issue but as a business issue that is necessary for a company to thrive.

“I think diversity is just good management,” Fulp said. “It is understanding that in order to have good innovation I can’t have people who all look alike at the table — I have to have different perspectives. You want to attract the best and the brightest of all ethnicities.

“Boston has had a tough history as we all know. But we are now a majority minority city and we are really at a turning point and that is why all of us need to collaborate together,” she added.

As suggested by the Commonwealth Compact studies, and by others that track diversity in Boston, one sector that has had success in delivering on diversity is higher education.

Schools including Boston College, Cambridge College, Emerson College, UMass Boston and Wheelock College all have people of color in high profile positions.

Emerson joined this list in July 2011 when Marvin Lee Pelton became president of the college.

Pelton has driven diversity efforts at the school not only with his presence but also by launching the college’s Inclusive Excellence

Initiative a year into his tenure.

This initiative gave a directive to the school to improve and establish a university-wide effort for diversity and inclusion.

Sylvia Spears, Emerson’s vice president of diversity and inclusion, said Pelton’s support from the top gives her the backing to take action that makes the college’s diversity efforts more than just a policy written down somewhere and have actually changed the faces — both faculty and students — that call Emerson home.

“I think Emerson is doing something that not many institutions are doing by putting in place the structures that will help the greatest growth in this area,” Spears said. “I think leadership is key — and the commitment of leadership to commit resources to efforts that are the right things to do.”

Emerson’s diversity efforts span not only recruitment of faculty and students, but also training and leadership development for current employees, and intercultural development for students.

“We have to create conditions that allow all members of our community to thrive. It is easy to recruit them into the setting, but they need help to survive,” Spears said. “That is what it takes for the diversity stuff to really have any power.”

According to Spears, the aim is for diversity and inclusion to become part of the culture of Emerson and she believes that is key to success in an educational world that is becoming increasingly diverse because it helps make the college a place welcoming to faculty and students from all backgrounds.

“For us the diversity and inclusion work is fundamentally connected to teaching and learning on our campus,” she said. “It really is something that is becoming the bedrock of the institution and I really think that is the only way you can positively affect diversity and inclusion.”

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Through meditation, keep climbing higher.

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Proposed tobacco settlement excludes black-owned media

Tobacco companies aggressively marketed to African Americans during the 1970s and 1980s.

George E. Curry The U.S. Justice Department and the Tobacco-Free Kids Action Fund have reached an agreement with the four major tobacco companies requiring them to spend millions across major media as part of a settlement for their misrepresentation of the hazards of smoking — but the companies will not have to make a single purchase from a black print or broadcast media company.

As part of a 24-page proposed consent agreement reached Friday, the companies will have to spend more than $30 million advertising with the three major television networks and run fullpage ads in 35 white and Hispanic newspapers as well as purchasing

space on their respective websites. black publications and media companies were not among those included in the agreement.

The agreement is scheduled to go before U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday for final approval.

“We are shocked and deeply disappointed that the Justice Department, the Tobacco-Free Action Fund and the tobacco industry would all agree to sign off an advertising plan that totally disrespects the black community,” said Cloves C. Campbell, chairman of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, a federation of nearly 200 black newspapers.

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“The industry’s past efforts to target African-American consumers have been thoroughly documented,” Campbell added. “It is sad that an industry that sought to exploit our community with a product that is harmful to our health now seeks to further devalue African-Americans by ignoring the black media when it is being forced to atone what a federal judge determined was a deliberate effort to deceive the American public.”

Peter S. Hamm, director of communications for the Tobacco-Free Kids Action, said on Monday that the media outlets were selected by Kessler and disclosed in an order issued Aug. 17, 2006. Hamm said he did not know how she determined what media outlets would be used to carry the advertising.

A telephone call last week requesting comment from the Justice Department was not returned.

The story of the agreement was first disclosed by Target Market News. The Chicago-based publication said an advertising source placed the value of the total buy at $30 million to $45 million.

The advertising campaign, which won’t go into effect until all appeals have been exhausted by the tobacco companies, was agreed to as part of a settlement that found tobacco companies

misled the public about the dangers of smoking. The four defendants are Altria, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, Lorillard and Philip Morris USA. The U.S. Justice Department filed suit against the cigarette manufacturers on Sept. 22, 1999 charging that they had violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corruption Organizations Act. They were found guilty at the conclusion of a trial that lasted from Dec. 21, 2004 to June 9, 2005.

Though the tobacco industry is bypassing black media while complying with a federal order to

“The health of the African American community has suffered disproportionately from the advertising campaigns of the tobacco companies, and black-owned media has been demonstrated to be the best way to engage the African American community,” Jim Winston, executive director of the National Association of Black-Owned Broadcasters, told Target Market News. “Yet, now that the tobacco companies are being required to educate the public about the harm that tobacco products have caused, the companies and the DOJ have no plan to direct any educational

“The health of the African American community has suffered disproportionately from the advertising campaigns of the tobacco companies, and Black owned media has been demonstrated to be the best way to engage the African American community.”

— Jim Winston disclose its deception, in the past it used the black media to target African-American consumers.

“The tobacco industry has gone to great lengths to target the African-American community over the past 30 years,” the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids stated. “Through market research and aggressive advertising, the industry has successfully penetrated this population. The industry’s ‘investment’ in the African-American community has had a destructive impact: African Americans suffer the greatest burden of tobacco-related mortality of any ethnic or racial group in the United States.”

advertising to our communities.”

Both Winston and Campbell said they plan to contact the Justice Department and ask it to direct tobacco companies to include black-owned print and broadcast media in their public education buys. If that fails, Campbell said, his organization will take stronger action.

“If our newspapers aren’t good enough to advertise in, their products — including the non-tobacco ones — aren’t good enough for us to consume,” he said.

George E. Curry is editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association.

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ArtsEmerson play a compelling story of colonialism

Susan Saccoccia A troupe of six young actors decides to stage a theatrical presentation — not quite a play — about a little known historical event: the extermination of a tribe in Namibia by the country’s German occupiers.

All they have to go on are letters from a German soldier.

How do they bear witness to an event with little testimony other than what is kept by one side, the German occupiers?

This dilemma is central to the play, “We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915,” a study in articulating the unspeakable.

As its title suggests, the play employs time-honored tools to expose outrage: parody and satire, forms that mingle humor and horror.

A co-production of ArtsEmerson and Company One Theatre, the play is on stage through Feb. 1 at the Emerson/Paramount Center’s Jackie Liebergott Black

Box Theatre.

The brick-walled performance space suits the raw, unfinished air of this widely acclaimed play

by Jackie Sibblies Drury. Like the Boston production’s director, Company One’s Summer L. Williams, Drury is a young black woman known for fearless, challenging work.

Through a hardworking ensemble of six actors, the production explores both the art of theater and the corrosiveness of power when those who wield it deny the humanity of others.

Scripted and staged as a semi-improvisational performance, its play-within-a-play structure mimics and questions the traditional elements of theater.

But the production’s use of traditional techniques — skillful improvisations, poignant acting, satire — account for its most compelling moments. When the production feigned earnest and sincere directness, denying illusion and blurring the boundaries between acting and life, it lost its edge.

Surrounding the performance space on three sides, audience members face each other as well

as the actors.

Set designer Jason Ries has strewn the floor with a few backpacks and cushions and installed an ominous-looking ladder as well as a board showing a crudely drawn timeline of the events in Namibia. Christopher Brusberg’s lighting keeps the space operating-room bright as the actors begin and darkens as their increasingly fraught efforts build to a harrowing finale.

Meredith Magoun’s costumes also echo the play’s transitions, varying from T-shirts and jeans to a hooded cloak that evokes photos of the tortured prisoner at Abu Ghraib.

The performance begins with exciting, unpredictable and fast-moving momentum.

In the role of Actor 6/Black Woman, Elle Borders, a petite powerhouse, introduces herself as “the creative director.”

With manic, lightly self-mocking energy, she delivers a wacky, classroom style lecture — “a presentation about the presentation,” complete with a vintage slide projector. Her terrific parody makes the terrible facts all

the more chilling.

In 1884, Germany occupied the African country now known as Namibia and quelled the rebellious Herero tribe with brutal suppression and military attacks.

The Germans forced the Herero into labor camps, sent them into exile in a harsh desert and ordered the extermination of any Herero remaining in their homeland.

Then the actors prepare to dramatize this harrowing story.

Carrying on like seasoned colleagues, they start with a group huddle and a few games to warm up their improvisational skills.

Actor 3/Another White Man, Joseph Kidawski, boasts that he can become the beloved grandmother of Actor 6/Black Woman. Despite his linebacker build, he then melts into the role and she as well as the audience are momentarily spellbound. Their delicate duet demonstrates the transporting, rabbitout-of-a-hat wonder of acting.

But as the ensemble grapples with their elusive material, the play’s humor dissolves into tension and frustration. “Let’s do this!,” Black Woman commands her fellow actors.

Impressive and never shrill as the ensemble’s dissenting voices were Brandon Green as Actor 2/Black Man and Marc Pierre, Actor 4/Another Black Man. As the group starts reading from the German soldier’s letters and acting out scenes, Green’s character objects, “Where are all the Africans?’’

The actors play roles within roles. As Jesse James Wood — Actor 1/White Man — portrays the soldier, his face shows him slowly waking up to the horror he is bringing to life.

Only one character has a name, Actor 5/Sarah, performed by Lorne Batman. A shadowy figure, Sarah is the wife back home who receives the soldier’s letters.

Blurring the boundaries between group improvisation and an encounter group, this segment of the play went on too long, adding a half-hour to a production billed as 90 minutes with no intermission. Worse, its overindulgence weakened the play’s impact.

After the final scene, the actors survey the audience with searching eyes. They seem to be seeking empathy—a response not earned by the play’s heavy-handed finale.

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be a Gaffigan show if he didn’t leave the audience with one of his classic bits “Hot Pockets” and you have to sing it when you say it. That is the only way. Make sure to catch Gaffigan next time he’s in town or when his special airs. You’ll start singing “Hot Pockets” too!

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Stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan headlined seven recent sold-out shows at The Wilbur.

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Hot Pockets …

Stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan’s soft-touch delivery mixed with his everyman persona has helped him rise to the top in the world of comedy. Headlining The Wilbur for seven sold-out shows Gaffigan, in preparation for taping his upcoming special, discussed

one of his favorite topics — food.

He launched into how kale has risen to “superfood” status, and also turned his brand of hilarity on fried bread and hot dogs. In between, he talked about his family (he has five kids under the age of 9), and the usually not so funny topic of cancer, but with him it’s safe to laugh. And, of course, it wouldn’t

The latest restaurant to hit Beacon Street in Brookline is the Italian restaurant Ribelle. Chef Tim Maslow really pushes the boundaries of flavors and food combinations. The restaurant is warm and inviting with great ambience and a huge wooden table in the middle for communal eating.

From the descriptions of the food it is a bit challenging to know what the ingredients are in each dish, but we rolled with it on a recent visit. We began with an order of charred kale cooked with peppers and sautéed red quinoa which gave it a nice crunch, followed by this buttery sesame seed bread, with a thin slice of chickpea, laced with a spicy mayo sauce and small lettuce leafs. The combination was quite delicious. For the main course, which was chicken and gemelli home-made pasta dish with bits chestnut added to it along with a bowl of Bolognese. By the time dessert rolled around, we were too

The Huntington Theatre Company’s latest production is the bold, sexy, and witty “Venus in Fur.” The two actors, Andrea Syglowski as Vanda and Chris Kipiniak at Thomas, are captivating as they bring their characters to life. This play is based on the Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s somewhat autobiographical novel “Venus im Pelz,” which details his penchant for submissive and erotic behavior. Not knowing anything about this story, it was engaging, funny and a bit naughty. This is for adults only.

The Man of Many Voices …

Stand-up comedian Pablo Francisco recently entertained a full house of fans at The Wilbur with his impressions and stories in what one may call a “comedic jazz riff.” His crazy impressions of Gary Busey, Al Pacino and

Arnold Schwarzeneggar had the audience in stitches as he seamlessly went from one character to another and back to himself.

The performance was a heady trip but well worth the hour plus stand-up, especially as he delighted the audience with his classic skit “The Little Tortilla Boy” in the voice of Don Francisco a.k.a. the “movie preview” guy.

Coming Up …

“Witness Uganda”, winner of the 2012 Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater, opens at the Loeb Drama Centre at the American Repertory Theater on Feb. 4 and runs through March 16. For show times and tickets, go to www. americanrepertorytheater.org.

Comedian Godfrey headlines Laugh Boston Feb. 6 to Feb. 8.

For show times and tickets, visit www.laughboston.com.

Michele Mitchell’s documentary “Haiti: Where Did the Money Go” screens in the Bright Family Screening Room at the Paramount Theatre on Feb. 7 and Feb. 8 at 7 p.m. For more information and to order tickets, go to www.artsemerson.org.

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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, Sections 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 ONE MILLION DOLLARS ($1,000,000.00). Said policy shall be on an occurrence basis and the Authority shall be included as an Additional Insured. See the insurance sections of Division I, General Requirements and Division II, Special Provisions for complete details.

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

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The Authority reserves the right to reject any sub bid of any sub trade where permitted by Section 44E of the above referenced General Laws. The right is also reserved to waive any informality in or to reject any or all proposals and General Bids.

This contract is subject to a Minority/Women Owned Business Enterprise participation provision requiring that not less than ONE (1%) PERCENT of the Contract be performed by minority and women owned business enterprise contractors. With respect to this provision, bidders are urged to familiarize themselves thoroughly with the Bidding Documents. Strict compliance with the pertinent procedures will be required for a bidder to be deemed responsive and eligible.

This Contract is also subject to Affirmative Action requirements of the Massachusetts Port Authority contained in the Non Discrimination and Affirmative Action article of Division I, General Requirements and Covenants, and to the Secretary of Labor’s Requirement for Affirmative Action to Ensure Equal Opportunity and the Standard Federal Equal Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications (Executive Order 11246).

The General Contractor is required to submit a Certification of Non Segregated Facilities prior to award of the Contract, and to notify prospective subcontractors of the requirement for such certification where the subcontract exceeds $10,000.

Complete information and authorization to view the site may be obtained from the Capital Programs Department Office at the Massachusetts Port Authority. The right is reserved to waive any informality in or reject any or all proposals.

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LEGAL NOTICE MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY 10 PARK PLAZA BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02116 Public Announcement of Request for Letters of Interest for Design-Build Services on the Rehabilitation of Merrimack River Bridge Piers Project The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (“MBTA”) hereby solicits Letters of Interest (“LOI”) from firms or teams interested in providing DesignBuild (DB) services for the Rehabilitation of Merrimack River Bridge Piers Project in Haverhill, MA under MBTA Contract No. B64CN02. The MBTA is using the DB contract delivery method for substructure and scour countermeasure improvements, seeking innovative solutions for the constructability complexities and limitations of working in a marine environment. The Project is being procured using a two part best-value Design-Build procurement process pursuant to M.G.L. c. 149A s. 14 et seq.

The minimum Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) utilization goal is 6%, the Minority Manpower Utilization and the Female Construction Workforce Utilization goals will be provided for the Project in the RFQ. This project is funded with State and Federal funds.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department Suffolk Probate and Family Court 24 New Chardon Street Boston, MA 02114 (617) 788-8300 SUFFOLK Division Docket No. SU10P0074PM CITATION ON PETITION TO MODIFY BOND G.L. c. 190B, §3-604 In the matter of: Johanna Creed To all interested persons: A petition has been filed by Donald G. Creed, III of Roxbury, MA requesting that the Court enter a Decree and Order Modifying the bond of the Personal Representative and for any other relief as requested in the Petition. Permit the substitution with personal surety in the amount of $2,000.00.

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 02/06/2014. 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.

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

Date: January 06, 2014 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU14C0008CA In the matter of Rodney Gerard Belcher of Dorchester, MA

NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME To all persons interested in a petition described: A petition has been presented by Rodney G Belcher requesting that Rodney Gerard Belcher be allowed to change his name as follows: Nogomo Kenyatta Ali IF YOU DESIRE TO OBJECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT BOSTON ON OR BEFORE TEN O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING (10:00 AM) ON 02/13/2014.

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

Date: Janurary 14, 2014 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. 13P2726 Estate of Virgie Lou Boswell Date of Death May 14, 2011

INFORMAL PROBATE PUBLICATION NOTICE To all persons interested in the above captioned estate, by Petition of Petitioner Calvin Boswell, Sr. of Decatur, GA. Calvin Boswell, Sr. of Decatur, GA has been informally appointed as the Personal Representative of the estate to serve without surety on the bond.

The estate is being administered under informal 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 interested parties 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. Interested parties are entitled to petition the Court to institute formal proceedings and to obtain orders terminating or restricting the powers of Personal Representatives appointed under informal procedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any, can be obtained from the Petitioner.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

Estate of William Haral Lawson Also Known As Bill Lawson Date of Death: September 1, 2012

You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 01/30/2014. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date.

INFORMAL PROBATE PUBLICATION NOTICE

IMPORTANT NOTICE

To all persons interested in the above captioned estate, by Petition of Petitioner Janice F. Lawson of Granite Falls, NC. Janice F. Lawson of Granite Falls, NC has been informally appointed as the Personal Representative of the estate to serve without surety on the bond.

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

If the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense.

SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. 13P2725

The estate is being administered under informal 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 interested parties 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. Interested parties are entitled to petition the Court to institute formal proceedings and to obtain orders terminating or restricting the powers of Personal Representatives appointed under informal procedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any, can be obtained from the Petitioner.

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

Docket No. SU13P3089GD

Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 In the matter of Jacob F Zollarcoffer Of Mattapan, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Dept of Developmental Services of Boston, MA, Robert C Guinto, Jr. of West Roxbury, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Jacob F Zollarcoffer is in need of a Guardian and requesting that Robert C Guinto, Jr. of West Roxbury, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve on the bond.

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

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

Date: December 27, 2013 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. 13P2733 Estate of Lawrence Freeman, Jr. Date of Death: May 17, 2012

INFORMAL PROBATE PUBLICATION NOTICE To all persons interested in the above captioned estate, by Petition of Petitioner Patricia Freeman of Shreveport, LA. Patricia Freeman of Shreveport, LA has been informally appointed as the Personal Representative of the estate to serve without surety on the bond.

The estate is being administered under informal 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 interested parties 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. Interested parties are entitled to petition the Court to institute formal proceedings and to obtain orders terminating or restricting the powers of Personal Representatives appointed under informal procedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any, can be obtained from the Petitioner.

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

Docket No. SU14P0008EA

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Allan M Young, Sr Date of Death: 01/09/2011 To all interested persons: A petition has been filed by Annie L. Young of Mattapan, 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 Annie L. Young of Mattapan, 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 02/06/2014. 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 06, 2014 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU14P0095EA Estate of Sarah T. Keady Also Known As Sarah Keady Date of Death October 03, 2012

INFORMAL PROBATE PUBLICATION NOTICE To all persons interested in the above captioned estate, by Petition of Petitioner Mary T Delapp of Hyde Park a Will has been admitted to informal probate. Mary T. Delapp of Hyde Park has been informally appointed as the Personal Representative of the estate to serve without surety on the bond.

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The estate is being administered under informal 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 interested parties 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. Interested parties are entitled to petition the Court to institute formal proceedings and to obtain orders terminating or restricting the powers of Personal Representatives appointed under informal procedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any, can be obtained from the Petitioner.

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TRAVEL DEMAND MODELER TRAFFIC ENGINEER The Central Transportation Planning Staff (CTPS) of the Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) is seeking a Travel Demand Modeler and a Traffic Engineer. These individuals will be involved in a variety of assignments including travel demand forecasting, transportation planning, traffic engineering, and transportation policy evaluation.

Phone: 617-265-5800 Fax: 617-265-5888 dgoldwait@trinitymanagementcompany.com Doug Goldwait, Property Manager 1916 Dorchester Ave. Dorchester, MA 02124

For more details about these positions, please visit www. bostonmpo.org. Resume and cover letter to Deputy Executive Director, CTPS, 10 Park Plaza, Ste. 2150, Boston, MA 02116, or recruitment@ctps.org Applicants must have the legal status for working in the U.S. AA/EOE

Family Child Care Business Enterprise Program Associate

Project Hope is a provider of family support solutions for homelessness and poverty in the Dudley area community. We seek a Program Associate to ensure compliance with EEC and licensing regulations and to monitor the quality of care that we deliver. Duties will include new intakes, service plan assessments, coordination of placement with child care providers, recruitment, data collection, record maintenance and reporting, home visits and training design and implementation.

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