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Troubled hiring process at O’Bryant School Howard Manly

“After concerns were expressed to the deputy superinIn a strongly worded letter, tendent prior to the interview Friends of the John D. O’Bry- process that the committee was ant School of Math and Science neither duly formulated [nor] blasted Boston Public Schools for representative of the rich diver“lack of oversight” and “neglect- sity of the O’Bryant community, ful execution” in the process of she failed to intervene to correct finding a new headmaster. the situation,” the letter stated.

The current headmaster, Steve Worse, the letter noted, the Sullivan, was asked to step down at deputy superintendent “was not the end of the last academic year,. present” during the interviews During the year, a selection com- and delegated the responsibilmittee reviewed applicants for a ity to the headmaster of another permanent replacement. exam school.

But the process was flawed from Named after Boston’s first Afthe beginrican American ning, the letter elected school charged, and c o m m i t underscored a A letter from tee member, deteriorating the John D. school environ- Friends of the John.

O’Bryant ment in which D. O’Bryant School School is loan O’Bryant cated on Malmath teacher stated that the search colm X Boureportedly told a process was “neither levard in Roxmeeting of staff bury and traces and faculty that transparent, its history back she would not 1893, when inclusive, democratic, to let “the inmates it was founded run the asylum.” equitable [nor] as the MeThe letter chanic Arts stated that the remotely diverse.”

High School. search process It became was “neither Boston Techtransparent, inclusive, democratic, nical High School in 1944. equitable [nor] remotely diverse.”

The O’Bryant is one of the Three candidates made it to city’s three exam schools. The the final round of interviews, but other two are Boston Latin Acadeach was rejected on what the emy and Boston Latin School. letter characterized as “baseless The school has a student popand subjective” grounds. ulation of about 1,300. Black The three candidates were all students are 35 percent of the African American — one woman school’s population, Hispanic stuand two men. The search com- dents are 29 percent and white mittee was comprised of five students are 11 percent. Nearly white members and one black 70 percent are considered low-inmember and, according to the come students. letter, included only one parent Boston school officials were who was not elected by the O’Bry- unavailable to comment.

O’Bryant, continued to page 7 ant Parent Council.

Legendary entertainer and social justice activist, Harry Belafonte (L) shares a laugh with Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogetree Jr. (R) after speaking at a health forum sponsored by Ogletree’s Charles Hamilton Houston Institute on Martha’s Vineyard.

Belafonte was given a special musical tribute by Larry Watson during the event. (Don West photo)

Roxbury residents: Bartlett Yard plans still lacking Martin Desmarais Developers of the Bartlett Yard in Roxbury are set to begin demolition as early as November on the new Bartlett Place and have a proposed plan that they feel is satisfactory to all.

While some neighboring residents welcome the project, many are discouraged that the plans do not meet a number of the original stipulations outlined by the city years ago.

A former MBTA bus yard, Bartlett Yard is now owned by Nuestra Comunidad Development Corp., and that company is working with Windale Developers on a $140 million project

called Bartlett Place with the ultimate aim of developing 323 units of housing and 54,000 square feet of commercial property on 8.5 acres of land.

Also included will be a grocery store, shops, offices, a public market and plaza and new roads.

Roxbury resident Rodney Singleton is part of the Bartlett Yard Project Review Committee (PRC) and also creator and moderator of the listserve Highland Park Neighborhood Watch. He addressed the major concerns that neighborhood residents still have about the proposed Bartlett Place.

“The community was a real partner in crafting the language,” Singleton said. “Bartlett Yard was

meant to be a place where the community could participate in ways that could foster and contribute wealth. That was the biggest thrust that we came up with as a community.”

Singleton said building wealth at Bartlett Yard can happen in a number of ways, including through home ownership, starting a business and working as part of the construction and development.

He pointed out that the focus on “building wealth” was included in the PRC’s Request for Proposal (RFP) that Nuestra Comunidad agreed to in 2006 when they won the right to develop Bartlett Yard.

Bartlett, continued to page 18

New book examines radical roots of MLK’s ‘March on Washington’ Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil

Youth and teens from 15 youth groups took part in the third Annual Kids Beach Bash and Splash on Aug. 15 at the Curley Recreation Center in South Boston. (Photo courtesy of Save the Harbor/Save the Bay)

As the nation gears up to mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, a new book examines the lesser-known history of the landmark event.

William P. Jones: The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights, offers a historical look into the making of the march from its radical roots in the 1940s to the organizational role of labor unions and women’s groups, and its ambitious

economic agenda.

A history professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Jones says that by shedding light on the past, the book will help readers see that the march was not just an icon of a bygone era, but also a “contemporary event” that is still relevant today.

“The march wasn’t a victory we can celebrate in the past,” Jones says, “but is part of an ongoing struggle that we can learn lessons from.”

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Gates’ Vineyard forum: ‘One nation, diverse and divided’ Shelley Moore Christiansen They could have been lining up final putts at Mink Meadows Golf Course or stuffing clams with friends.

Instead, the several hundred vacationers swarmed into the Old Whaling Church on Martha’s Vineyard the evening of Aug. 15, clutching some of the most coveted tickets of the island’s summer season.

For those with hearty appetites for conversations on race and politics, there was no place they would rather have been than on the wooden pews of the 2013 Hutchins Forum, hosted by Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research.

They came to be energized by leading lights in journalism, politics and academia. They were not disappointed.

“One Nation: Diverse & Divided” was the theme of this year’s “Skip Gates Forum,” as islanders may forever dub the event — a reference to its founder, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., also the editor-in-chief of The Root. As director of the Du Bois Institute, Gates initiated the annual debates on the Vineyard back in 1995. Benefactor Glenn H. Hutchins bankrolls the forum that now bears his name. Admission is free.

Thursday night’s bipartisan panel included New York Times

columnist Charles M. Blow; public broadcasting talk show anchor Maria Hinojosa, who also operates her own media production company; Linda Chavez, syndicated newspaper columnist, political analyst for Fox News and former White House director of public liaison under George H.W.

of television news. Hunter-Gault pressed the panel on how to bridge those divisions.

The Blow-Chavez dialogue nearly rivaled the famous Booker T. Washington-W. E. B. Du Bois debate.

Blow: “First, people must acknowledge the structural, sys-

“I believe in the promise of America and what this nation can accomplish when it responds to its higher angels.”

— Linda Chavez Bush; and returning panelist Lawrence “Larry” Bobo, Harvard sociology professor and founding editor of the Du Bois Review.

Returning moderator Charlayne Hunter-Gault kept the mood lively. Her directive to the panelists: We’re still divided as a nation — politically, racially, economically. “Trayvon put our divisions in stark relief,” she noted.

What’s causing those divisions today?

The conversation covered many bases, ranging from immigration reform, stop-and-frisk laws and the legacies of slavery and discrimination to the politically polarizing “cable-ization”

temic bias that still exists in this country. People asking me to forget the impact of history is the biggest impediment.”

Chavez: “The problems within the black race stem from family structure and children being born out of wedlock.” She hastened to add that the rule applies to families of every race.

Blow: “You can never talk about the breakdown of the black family unless you acknowledge that this country has endeavored for years to break the black family down.”

The audience applauded.

Chavez: “You can’t change history; you can only change your-

self.” She cited her own bootstrap rise from a dysfunctional home to personal achievement.

“We’ll do better as a society if we teach our children that.”

The audience applauded that, too.

Chavez also mixed it up with fellow Latina Hinojosa, an odd couple if ever there was one. The occasion of the forum was their first personal meeting.

Chavez: “I believe in the promise of America and what this nation can accomplish when it responds to its higher angels.”

Hinojosa: “[Is the] assimilation model working well for Hispanics? Sorry Linda, I disagree. It’s people putting their lives on the line that will make this country better.”

The two panelists ended their conversation as divided as they started, then Hunter-Gault introduced the future: Amaree Austin and Clayton Gentry. Austin is a rising sophomore at Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas.

Gentry is a 2013 cum laude graduate of the same storied institution.

Austin is African American; Gentry is white. They both recently participated in the Memory Project, a collection of essays about their elders’ experiences in the civil rights movement, most notably in the events surrounding the segregation of their high school in 1957 by the “Little Rock Nine.”

“I’ll be honest,” said Austin.

She checked with Hunter-Gault: “Can I be honest?”

“Sure, everybody else is,” said Hunter-Gault.

“A lot of teens need to think about what happened back then.

They have to understand what we

don’t want to go through again.

We need to prevent that, because that was not OK at all,” said Austin. “I tell my peers: ‘This is about our future,’ but they think, ‘Oh, these things happened way back then.’”

Gentry said, “I used to think discrimination was about white folks being against black folks in the ‘60s. Now I know the word ‘other’ or ‘outsider’ can be used by anyone. I’m not going to say I’m as disadvantaged as a black 18-year-old male, but just because there are no Jim Crow laws doesn’t mean that whites, blacks and Hispanics don’t notice differences or have prejudices anymore.

I know I still carry some of that, but I can better combat it when I’m aware of it.”

Out of the mouths of babes.

Shelley Christiansen is a freelance writer, public radio essayist and real estate broker living in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts.

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Boston studying Latino and black public school success Martin Desmarais Boston Public Schools takes reducing the achievement gap in education seriously and has been engaging in efforts to improve the performance of its black and Latino male students.

In June, BPS received a $250,000 grant from the Barr Foundation and made a commitment of $260,000 to collect data on black and Latino male students and start an advisory committee.

The ultimate goal is to make black and Latino male students more successful and ensure that a BPS education has a more positive impact for these students.

BPS is partnered with the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University on the project.

The Annenberg Institute is a national policy-research and reform-support organization that promotes quality education for all children, especially in urban communities.

The institute’s primary areas of focus are school transformation, college and career readiness and extended learning time.

Warren Simmons, executive director of the Annenberg Institute, is a crucial alley for BPS in examining the performance of black and Latino male students.

According to Simmons, the project will have two phases.

The first phase, which is already underway, is to collect all the existing data on the black and Latino popula-

tion of BPS, categorize it and look for patterns that highlight areas of concern and success.

The data that is being examined is information that BPS already keeps, such as information regarding suspensions, expulsions, enrollment in advanced placement courses and attendance.

The second phase will take a look at specific BPS schools that are highly successful at serving black and Latino male students and see how these successful strategies can be used at other schools.

“This is a proactive study as opposed to a reactive study,” Simmons said. “I think what Boston Public Schools is trying to do here is get ahead of the curve. … Rather than wait for the community to press for this, Boston Public Schools has asked for this to be done.”

Simmons also says it is more effective to use data to highlight issues that need to be fixed to improve the student experience than for educators to make assumptions or rely on stereotypes.

Klare Shaw, special advisor to the BPS superintendent, said that

by February 2014 the researchers and advisory committee should have some initial positions on schools that are leading the way in educating black and Latino male students and others that are struggling.

Between that time and the start of the next school year they will work on examining the data deeper

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with more research, then develop some case studies to highlight problems and success. She added that the hope is to kick off phase two by September 2014.

“At that point we would probably be engaging the community in some conversations,” Shaw said.

Carroll Blake, from the BPS Achievement Gap Office, said that the project will also take a look at the teachers in their dealings with black and Latino male students.

He said part of the effort includes taking a closer look at curriculum, both how the students react to it and how the teachers deliver the material. He, for one, is convinced that this kind of research will reveal that some systematic improvements will have to be made. “At some point we are going to have to make changes in policies and decisions,” he said.

The efforts have the full support and backing of BPS interim superintendent John McDonough, who praised the efforts to improve education.

“We are building a team of dedicated, culturally diverse educators, and this study will help us better understand how we can truly challenge all students,” said McDonough. “Being a top-performing urban district is not enough for us. We must raise the bar even higher for all children.”

Simmons said the ultimate goal is to eliminate the achievement gap among all students.

“That is a high bar to reach. …

To reach it you have to be constantly vigilant and research your own best practices,” he said. “This is something that doesn’t go away. … You really have to stay in front of this issue by examining the data.”

Simmons points out that Boston is not unique in examining the achievement of black males. In fact, several such studies have been conducted in school systems in New Orleans and Washington, D.C. The data in those cases showed that black male students were not getting what they needed to be successful. The good news is the school systems were able to improve performances.

Simmons and Blake both bring a personal identification with the proj-

ect that they say drives them to make sure it is successful.

“I am an African American male, and I have experienced these things in my own education career, being disengaged at times and having teachers come to my rescue and having peers come to my rescue. … It would have been better if the whole system had been mobilized,” said Simmons.

“I am a product of the Boston Public Schools. … For me it is like paying it forward. I never want a young man to come to Boston Public Schools [and] to have to change his career because he did not have the right preparation,” Blake said. “I want every young man to become what he wants to become.”

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven W. Tompkins (center) took part in the Annual Dominican Parade on Aug. 18. (Photo courtesy of the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department)

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Some progress, but still a long way to go Next week Americans will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech. Not all Americans. There are still too many who harbor hostilities to others because of their race or religion. They believe that the bounty of this nation is meant to benefit a few.

This is a malady that America has not yet cured.

In the opening lines of his famous speech, King pointed out that it was a century ago that Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, and “one hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.”

The eloquence of King’s language caused history to lose sight of the fact that his was the keynote address of the “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.” Other speakers like A. Philip Randolph, founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and United Automobile Workers president Walter Reuther delivered messages in support of racial equality in employment.

One can imagine how vigorous the opposition to racial equality must have been 50 years ago. The 1963 “March on Washington” was the largest political rally ever assembled in the nation’s capital until the numbers were greatly exceeded by the “Million Man March” of 1995. But in 1963, black leaders such as NAACP President Roy Wilkins, National Urban League President Whitney Young, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee leader John Lewis and others were campaigning for a strong civil rights act.

President John F. Kennedy submitted a civil rights bill to Congress which was signed into law

by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2, 1964, only 10 months after the 1963 “March on Washington.” Unlike some marches that are merely protests, the 1963 march had a strategy to obtain concrete results.

There was no expectation that whites or anyone else could be made to like those of another race. But the obligation was more transcendent. King stated it clearly: “When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.”

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 made it unlawful to discriminate on the basis of color in places of public accommodation, employment and education.

Some states had already passed such laws but the federal act made these protections applicable everywhere in the United States.

King’s call for nonviolence was assuring to some white supporters. King declaimed, “We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.”

King was able to move an emotional debate to a moral plane. Even a bigot would be touched by King’s “I have a dream” refrain. His declaration, “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character,” has been frequently quoted.

The cohort of civil rights leaders pushed on for enactment of the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965. The groundwork for freedom was then in place, but there have been no successors to lead the way to economic progress for African Americans.

That goal of the 1963 “March on Washington” is still to be achieved.

A story in The Bay State Banner’s Aug. 15 edition, headlined “Minority developers file suit against Northeastern Univ.,” conveyed only the legal and historical inaccuracies contained in a press release recently issued by a disgruntled developer.

While the university’s full response to these inaccuracies will come in a court filing in early September, we would like to correct the largest single erroneous assertion contained in the story and lawsuit.

Northeastern has, in fact, been working diligently for many years to bring a hotel — and promised jobs for the neighborhood — to the corner of Melnea Cass Boulevard and Columbus Avenue. We believe it is in the best interests of both the community and the university.

However, Columbia Plaza Associates has steadfastly declined to participate even in discussions about building the hotel, holding up the project and approximately 60 permanent jobs at the site, which the hotel developer has committed to filling with employees from the surrounding neighborhoods.

The current lawsuit, which we believe is without merit, is yet a further obstacle

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Opinion Eric Holder says the obvious — the drug war is a war on minorities Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The scuttlebutt is that Attorney General Eric Holder is poised to say what has long been obvious to anyone who has the faintest notion about how the wildly failed, flawed war on drugs has been waged for three decades.

The obvious is that the war on drugs has been a ruthless, relentless and naked war on minorities, especially African Americans. In the coming weeks, Holder may explain exactly how he’ll wind that war down. It shouldn’t surprise if he does.

President Obama and Holder have been hinting for a while that it’s time to rethink how the war is being fought and who its prime casualties have been.

Their successful push a few years back to get Congress to finally wipe out a good deal of the blatantly racially skewed harsh drug sentencing for crack versus powder cocaine possession was the first hint.

Another is the mixed signals that both have sent about federal marijuana prosecutions — sometimes tough, sometimes lax.

But if, and more likely when, Holder acts on much-needed and long-overdue drug law reforms, he’ll do it standing on solid ground. Past surveys by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the sex and drug habits of Americans and a legion of other similar surveys have tossed the ugly glare on the naked race-tainted war on drugs. They found that whites and blacks use drugs in about the same rate.

Yet more than 70 percent of those prosecuted in federal courts for drug possession and sale (mostly small amounts of crack cocaine) and given stiff mandatory sentences are blacks. Federal prosecutors and lawmakers in the past and some at present still justify the disparity with the retort that crack cocaine is dangerous and threatening, and leads to waves of gang shoot-outs, turf battles and thousands of terrorized residents in poor black communities. In some instances, that’s true, and police and prosecutors are right to hit back hard at the violence.

The majority, however, of those who deal and use crack cocaine aren’t violence-prone gang members, but poor, and increasingly female, young blacks.

They clearly need treatment, not long prison stretches.

“There’s been It’s also a myth that powder cocaine is benign and has no criminal a decimation of and violent taint to it. In a comprehensive survey in 2002, the Office certain communities, of National Drug Control Policy, in particular the White House’s low-profile task force to combat drug use, communities of color.” attributed shoplifting, burglary, — U.S. Attorney theft, larceny, money laundering and even the transport of undoc- General Eric Holder umented workers in some cities to powdered cocaine use.

It also found that powder cocaine users were more likely to commit domestic violence crimes. The report also fingered powder cocaine users as prime dealers of other drugs that included heroin, meth and crack cocaine.

The big difference is that the top-heavy drug use by young whites — and the crime and violence that go with it — has never stirred any public outcry for mass arrests, prosecutions and tough prison sentences for white drug dealers, many of whom deal drugs that are directly linked to serious crime and violence.

Whites unlucky enough to get popped for drug possession are treated with compassion, prayer sessions, expensive psychiatric counseling, treatment and rehab programs and drug-diversion programs. And they should be. But so should those blacks and other non-whites victimized by discriminatory drug laws.

A frank admission that the laws are biased and unfair, and have not done much to combat the drug plague, would be an admission of failure. It could ignite a real soul searching over whether all the billions of dollars that have been squandered in the failed and flawed drug war — the lives ruined by it, and the families torn apart by the rigid and unequal enforcement of the laws — have really accomplished anything.

This might call into question why people use and abuse drugs in the first place — and if it is really the government’s business to turn the legal screws on some drug users while turning a blind eye to others.

The greatest fallout from the nation’s failed drug policy is that it has further embedded the widespread notion that the drug problem is exclusively a black problem. This makes it easy for on-the-make politicians to grab votes, garner press attention and balloon state prison budgets by jailing more black offenders while continuing to feed the illusion that we are winning the drug war.

On that point Holder was blunt. “There’s been a decimation of certain communities, in particular communities of color,” Holder said in an interview.

This is no accident. The policy deliberately targeted those communities due to a lethal mix of racism, criminal justice system profit (someone has got to fill up the cells to justify building more prisons, hiring and maintaining waves of corrections officers and bloating state budgets in the process), political expediency and media-fed public mania over drug use.

This is why Obama and Holder have delicately, but to their credit, publicly, inched toward a rethink of the drug war — who it benefits and who it hurts.

They should be applauded for that.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst.

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Fifty years after the March on Washington, what do you think are the most serious problems facing black people?

Overincarceration, the disparate minority contact with the court system and the national obsession with the concept that racism is over.

We have a lot of issues — a lack of confidence in our ability to succeed and a lack of guidance and support for young people.

Economic stability. In order for us to progress, we have to be able to take care of ourselves, and that’s not happening.

La Mer Kyle-Griffiths

Denesha

Charles Jones

Lack of motivation. People don’t try to better themselves. They get stuck in their ways.

Drugs. Especially in the inner city.

Drug abuse is a serious problem.

We’re still judged by our looks, like Trayvon. There are some things I don’t think will ever change.

A. Gilbert

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Tony Rose

Tony Rose, publisher and CEO of Amber Communications Group Inc., recently received the 2013 African American Book Publisher of the Year at the Harlem Book Fair’s Wheatley Book Awards ceremony at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

The award was presented to Rose, a Boston native, by Max Rodriguez, founder of the Harlem Book Fair and the Wheatley Book Awards.

“It is our great honor to stand here at the Schomburg Center, the bastion of our African American culture, and receive this award,” Rose stated in a release.

The other 2013 Phillis Wheatley Book Award winners included Kei Miller’s The Last War ner Women (First Fiction), Sadeqa Johnson’s Love in a Carry-On Bag (Fiction), W. K. Stratton’s Floyd Patterson: The Fighting Life of Boxing’s Invisible Champion (Non-Fiction/Biography & Memoir) and Deborah Davis’ Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roo-

sevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation (Non-Fiction/History & Politics).

Prior Wheatley Book Award winners include Terry McMillan, Gordon Parks, Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison.

Earlier this year, Rose also received the 2013 44th Annual NAACP Image Award for Best Literary Work in the Youth/Teens category with Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons — A Dialogue With America’s Young Leaders by Gregory J. Reed.

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NAACP’s first youth summit promotes civic engagement

Youth summit participants bow their heads in a moment of silence.

Courtney Grey, director of Trauma Response and Recovery at the Boston Public Health Commission, responds to a panel question while NAACP Pipeliners listen attentively. (Bobby Shakes photos) Shanice Maxwell summer program are not strang“The fact that he got off upset ers to spearheading volunteer me a little bit and made me want Youngsters sporting yellow opportunities and workshops to to march,” she said. “It made me Boston NAACP t-shirts decorated address issues specific to young want to get my people together the Melnea A. Cass Recreation people in inner-city Boston. and try to do something about the Complex on Aug. 17. These young Raven Guerra, 15, host of the situation. So I originally wanted to people appeared eager and excited Youth Summit, found it necessary have a march but then [decided] on to participate in the branch’s first to do something to bring young having a summit for the youth to annual Youth Summit.

Bostonians together. Inspired by bring us all together so everyone While the summit was the what she felt was an unjust verdict could be on the same page. After first of its kind, members of the in the George Zimmerman trial, we’re all on the same page than we NAACP’s Pipeline to Leadership Guerra went to work. can be more effective.”

Unity and collective work were just two of the afternoon’s many themes. Violence, mental health, safety, spirituality and leadership were also addressed.

“Instead of trying to fight each other, claim hoods and rep streets that don’t even care about [us], we need to work together,” Guerra said while responding to a panel question on violence. “Most of us have the same skin color — why are we killing each other?”

The support of the community was clear as the youth were joined by parents and city officials including State Reps. Gloria Fox and Carlos Henriquez, City Councilors Tito Jackson and Ayanna Pressley, mayoral candidate John Barros, and Courtney Grey, director of Trauma Response and Recovery at the Boston Public Health Commission.

“Leadership doesn’t happen without involvement. … We need you,” said Henriquez after dis-

cussing the importance of being cognizant of mental health in one’s self and peers. “Pay attention to your feelings and your heart. I know that’s not a very political thing to say but we don’t talk about [it] enough in our community,” he noted.

Mayoral candidate John Barros echoed words of the other city councilors and state representatives when he said simply, “We need your leadership now.”

The summit was full of activities that promoted interactivity and sparked much-needed conversations.

“We can basically change what’s cool in our community,” said Paris Clacher, 14, Pipeline program participant. “Instead of smoking and drinking and partying, you can change cool to be helping out with the community, going out and volunteering at nursing homes and things like that.”

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O’Bryant continued from page 1

Richard Stutman, president of the Boston Teachers Union, said that he was unsure of the reasons that Sullivan was asked to step down and was unaware of the all the details involved in the search process. The one thing Stutman said he did know was that he respected Sullivan, who he believes

remains as the school’s headmaster.

“He’s a good leader, a good educator, willing to admit mistakes,” Stutman said. “He’s one of the best teachers in Boston.”

Stutman did say that a national search had been launched to find Sullivan’s replacement but that the search “went nowhere.”

According to the letter, the search for a new headmaster is only part of the problem.

The letter details a work envi-

ronment that was characterized as “racially hostile, disrespectful, dismissive and quite unprofessional.”

More troubling, according to the friends of the school, the math director “led the opposition to each of the applicants for the headmaster’s job.”

“The school department and O’Bryant community have known from the onset of the past school year that a new, capable and visionary headmaster is needed at

Chef Eric Brennan of Post 390 and Chris Himmel, the restaurant’s owner, visited the Blue Hill Boys and Girls Club and used fresh ingredients from their outdoor garden to create grilled pizzas. Top Left: Chef Eric Brennan of Post 390. Top Right: kids from the Blue Hill Boys and Girls Club of Dorchester. (Photos courtesy of the Blue Hill Boys and Girls Club)

the O’Bryant,” the letter stated.

“There also was more than sufficient time for a democratic and transparent process to unfold and to assure that discriminatory practices of the past would not emerge again.”

But according to the letter, the emergence of discriminatory practices is exactly what happened. The letter offered two potential solutions.

The first was to replace each

of the members on the selection committee and re-interview the top applicants for the position of permanent headmaster. The second proposed alternative was the appointment of a temporary headmaster from outside of the Boston Public Schools system.

The letter also urged the Boston Teachers Union to facilitate an “open and transparent” election of faculty, staff and students to sit on a new interview committee.

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“March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,” Aug. 28, 1963. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Joachim Prinz pictured. (Banner archive photos) While Roosevelt didn’t meet all of Randolph’s demands, it was enough to call off the march.

“We often see the goals of the continued from page 1 Civil Rights Movement as startThe March on Washington fo- ing with racial equality and excuses largely on the efforts of A. panding to include economic Phillip Randolph, the black trade justice, but in fact, the reverse is unionist and leader of the Broth- the case,” Jones says. “They were erhood of the Sleeping Car Por- initially concerned with economic ters, who first conceived of the justice and the issues about desegmarch in 1941 as a call to end em- regation and voting rights in the ployment discrimination.

South came later.”

Randolph leveraged the march After his first plan for a march to persuade Franklin D. Roosevelt never materialized, Randolph to issue an executive order pro- tried again — but failed — several hibiting job discrimination by the times over the next two decades. armed forces and defense contrac- It wasn’t until the 1960s, when tors — two of the nation’s biggest Randolph — who had become employers during World War II. head of the Negro American The possibility of tens of thou- Labor Council — was battling sands of African Americans mobi- segregation within labor unions lizing in the nation’s capital fright- and the exclusion of blacks from ened Roosevelt. As a result, less skilled jobs that the idea of a masthan a week before the march was sive demonstration in Washingscheduled to take place, the presi- ton seemed possible again. dent issued the Fair Employment Using their tremendous orgaAct, an executive order similar to nizing skills, Randolph and other what Randolph had proposed. march leaders secured pledges from Roosevelt also created the Fair the dozens of civil rights, labor and Employment Practices Commit- women’s groups across the country tee to enforce these new policies. to mobilize their members.

March

“People think that Martin Luther King and others said, ‘Let’s have a march,’ sent out some press releases and people just showed up,” Jones says. “But institutions were central to getting people to the march.”

The date was set for Aug. 28, 1963, to coincide with the eighth anniversary of Emmett Till’s murder.

Like Randolph’s earlier vision, the march was aimed at pressuring John F. Kennedy and Congress into taking more aggressive steps to enforce civil rights. Some of the movement’s specific demands included a comprehensive civil rights law, access to decent and affordable housing, de-segregated education, the right to vote, raising the minimum wage and a federal program to train and place unemployed workers.

March organizers also wanted the federal government to withhold funding from programs that continued to discriminate against African Americans, and to reduce Congressional representation in states that refused to allow blacks to vote.

More than 200,000 people rallied in Washington, D.C., that day and heard speeches by Randolph, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Chairman John Lewis, National Urban League Director Whitney Young, NAACP leader Roy Wilkins and others.

While today, the march is defined by Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech, Jones says that at the time, King’s words didn’t receive nearly as much attention.

In part, this was because “people didn’t see his speech as an expression of the goals of the movement” — King’s utopian

vision starkly contrasted with the radicalism of the nine speakers before him. It was only after King’s death in 1968, Jones explains, that the speech became legend.

“He was assassinated at a time when many people were frustrated with the progress toward racial equality and some of the goals that had been issued at the ‘March on Washington,’” says Jones. “So his speech gained popularity in the 1970s and into the 1980s as an optimistic expression of a period when the Civil Rights Movement seemed to be gaining ground.”

The government didn’t meet all of the march organizers’ demands, but the achievements were profound. The most significant, Jones says, was building support for the Lyndon B. Johnson’s Civil Rights Act of 1964, a stronger version of a bill Kennedy had supported months before the mass mobilization.

But more broadly, Jones argues that the march successfully “shifted the conversation to push for rigorous federal policies

aimed at creating racial equality and economic justice.” This not only inspired the Civil Rights Act, but also the Voting Rights Act and Johnson’s War on Poverty.

But today, just 50 years later, the Supreme Court is already reversing course — in particular, with its decision earlier this summer to strike down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. “What we saw this summer was an affirmation of the ideal of racial equality — that it’s a good thing to treat everyone equally,” says Jones, “but a decisive retreat from the idea that the federal government should play a hand or has the authority to uphold these ideals. The Supreme Court decision was a direct attack on the achievements of the march.”

This setback is just another reminder of the continued relevance of the march. Says Jones: “It was not something that we won, and now we can move on from. The issues that led people to participate in the march are very similar to what we’re still facing today.”

Protesters at the march carrying signs demanding new civil rights legislation.

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MLK: ‘… It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream’ Editor’s Note: Here is an excerpt of Dr. King’s historic speech delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, 1963.

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is

still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.

One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be

More than 200,000 people attended the 1963 “March on Washington.” A wide-angle view of marchers along the mall shows the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and the Washington Monument.

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guaranteed the “unalienable Rights” of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.”

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we’ve come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let

On Aug. 28, 1963, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at the “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom” in Washington, D.C. (Photos courtesy of the U.S. National Archives) us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.

We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro com-

We are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until “justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

— Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. munity must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.

We cannot walk alone.

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the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities.

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We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: “For Whites Only.” We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until “justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest — quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”

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Gun violence leading cause of death of black children Freddie Allen Gun violence is the leading cause of death among black children and teens, according to a new report by the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), a non-profit child advocacy group.

The report, Protect Children, Not Guns 2013, painted a grim picture of the national gun violence epidemic that is the second leading cause of death among all children ages 1-19. Only car accidents claim the lives of more children and teenagers than guns.

According to the report, white children were nearly three times more likely to be killed in a car accident than by a gun. In stark contrast, “Black children and teens were twice as likely to be killed by a gun than to

times higher,” stated the report.

The CDF report continued: “More than half of youth who committed suicide with a gun obtained the gun from their home, usually [using] a parent’s gun.”

In the last 50 years, white children and teenagers accounted for 53 percent of the gun deaths, and black children and teenagers accounted for 36 percent.

Yet looking at the gun deaths in 2010 alone, 45 percent of gun deaths and 46 percent of gun injuries were among black children and teens, according to the report, even though they account for only 15 percent of all children and teens living in the United States. Nearly 2,700 children died from gun violence that year.

The CDF report also challenged

owners in the United States.

In the wake of the Dec. 14 school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., which claimed the lives of 20 first-graders and six school staff, even a majority of NRA members (74 percent) were in favor of expanding background checks, at a time when NRA leadership fiercely opposed any bills that would do so.

The report offered a number of solutions to address the gun violence that children and teens face

growing up in America, including universal background checks that cover sales on the Internet and at gun shows, limits on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, boycotting products that glamorize violence and “supporting nonviolent conflict resolution in our homes, schools, congregations and communities.”

Writing in the report, Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund, implored parents, families, friends, mentors and community stakeholders to pressure Congress to support common sense gun safety and gun violence prevention measures for the nation, including consumer safety standards for all guns, public funding for gun violence prevention research and resources and authority

for law-enforcement agencies to properly enforce gun laws.

“Parents, remove guns from your home and be vigilant about where your children play. Boycott products that glamorize violence,” wrote Edelman.

Edelman continued: “The overwhelming majority of Americans agree we can and must do better.

Polls show the vast majority of Americans, gun owners and nongun owners, Republicans and Democrats, support universal background checks as a first step to making America safer for our children and for all of us. Together we can — and must — do better right now. So many child lives depend on it.”

This article was originally published in the Aug. 12 print edition of The Louisiana Weekly.

In 2010 alone, 45 percent of gun deaths and 46 percent of gun injuries were among black children and teens … even though they account for only 15 percent of all children and teens living in the United States. be killed in a car accident.”

Examining the most recent data available, the CDF study reported that 18,270 children and teens were killed or injured by guns in 2010.

“Children and teens in America are 17 times more likely to die from gun violence than their peers in other high-income countries,” stated the CDF report.

Despite the claims of pro-gun advocates, having a gun in the home does not make kids safer. In some cases, those homes are even more dangerous, because guns are present.

“A gun in the home makes the likelihood of homicide three times higher, suicide three to five times higher and accidental death four

the perceived power of the National Rifle Association (NRA), a group founded in 1871 that promotes gun ownership, marksmanship and self-defense training in the United States. According to the report, the NRA represents a small segment of all gun owners, which may show why the NRA’s hard-line stance on gun control policies often contradicts that of most gun owners.

The report said that the NRA claims nearly five million members, but somewhere between 52 million and 68 million adults living in the United States own the roughly 310 million guns in circulation. That means that the NRA represents less than 10 percent of all adult gun

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Lemon Zest!

Don Lemon talks about We Were There, an oral history of the “March on Washington” featuring the only surviving speaker, Congressman John Lewis

Kam Williams Born in Baton Rouge, La., on March 1, 1966, Don Lemon anchors CNN Newsroom during weekend prime time and serves as a correspondent across CNN/U.S. programming. Based out of the network’s New York bureau, Lemon joined CNN in September 2006.

In 2008, he reported from Chicago in the days leading up to the presidential election, conducting an interview with Rahm Emanuel on the day he agreed to serve as President Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff. He also interviewed Anne Cooper, the 106-year-old voter Obama mentioned in his election

night acceptance speech.

Lemon has covered many breaking news stories, including the George Zimmerman trial, the Boston Marathon bombing, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the Colorado Theater shooting, the Inauguration of the 44th President in Washington, D.C., the death of Whitney Houston and the death of Michael Jackson to name a few. And he anchored the network’s breaking news coverage of the Japan tsunami, the Arab Spring and the death of Osama Bin Laden.

Lemon graduated from Brooklyn college with a degree in broadcast journalism in 1996.

He began his career at WNYW in New York City as a news assistant while still in school. He has won an Edward R. Murrow award for his coverage of the capture of the Washington, D.C., snipers and an Emmy for a special report on real estate in Chicagoland.

In 2009, Ebony Magazine named him one of the 150 most influential blacks in America.

A couple of years later, he came out of the closet and discussed his homosexuality in his autobiography, Transparent.

Lemon recently caught a lot of flak from a number of African American pundits for agreeing with Bill O’Reilly’s criticisms of

the black community, especially because he even suggested that the conservative talk show host hadn’t gone far enough.

Lemon will host the upcoming CNN special, We Were There: The March On Washington – An Oral History. The special is set to debut on CNN on Friday, Aug. 23 at 10 p.m., 1 a.m. and 4 a.m.

What interested you in doing a special about the “March on Washington?”

We had been talking about it for a while as the 50th anniversary approached, and I kept indicating that I would love to be a part of it.

Somewhere, somehow, somebody

heard that, and they said, “Don really wants to do this. Let’s have him do it.”

Being an Emmy Award-winner and Edward R. Murrow Award-winner, I don’t think you’d have to beg too much.

Just because I’m here at CNN, I never rest on my laurels and presume I can coast now. I still throw my hat in the ring and push to have a voice. I am the face of this documentary for CNN, and I think that says a lot about how far we’ve come. Here I am, a young African Lemon, continued to page 15

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What ‘The Butler’ Gets Right

The film captures the rarely discussed schism within black families over the struggle for civil rights Marita Golden This has been a long, hot summer, dominated in part by the trial of George Zimmerman for the murder of Trayvon Martin. The trial, which became a media spectacle, was at its heart the story of the unfulfilled search for justice. The verdict in that case broke millions of Americans’ hearts and inspired the slogan: “We are all Trayvon.”

Now, as the summer nears its con-

clusion and we await the 50th anniversary celebration of the March on Washington, comes Lee Daniels’ The Butler, in its own way a story of the search for justice. This time the quest is mirrored in the life and work of a black man who served presidents and whose job was to “hear nothing, say nothing, only serve.”

If we are all Trayvon Martin, and I believe that we all are, then this complex and deeply satisfying film informs us that we are

Forest Whitaker on the set of The Butler with Cuba Gooding Jr. The star-studded cast also includes Mariah Carey, Lenny Kravitz, John Cusack, Jane Fonda and Robin Williams. (Photos courtesy of Lee Daniels’ The Butler)

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all also Cecil Gaines, the fictional stand-in for Eugene Allen, a White House butler who served eight presidents from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan. The film, inspired by the profile of Allen by Washington Post writer and acclaimed biographer Wil Haygood, is much more than the witness-to-history drama that the trailers seem to promise. Heading the stellar cast is Oprah Winfrey, acting in a rather limited role that she enlarges with a newfound cinematic confidence, and Forest Whitaker, giving a performance that is majestic, terrifyingly beautiful and his best in years.

One of the major contributions of this film is its charged and realistic dramatization of the little-discussed and rarely acknowledged schisms within black families over the strategies of the Civil Rights Movement and later the Black Power Movement. David Oyelowo plays Louis, Gaines’ sensitive, ever-questioning son, whom we first meet as a teenager who wants to attend a demonstration in response to the death of Emmett Till.

The elder Gaines, who managed to escape the South with his life after witnessing the murder of his father by a white man, has — through more hard work than his son could ever imagine — attempted to create a

bulwark against the intrusion of that legacy. Having been warned by the black maître d’ who hires him that “there is no tolerance for politics in the White House,” Cecil stamps out his son’s initial spark of activism.

Yet Louis goes on to attend college at Fisk in Tennessee, where he joins the Freedom Riders, gets arrested throughout the South while protesting segregation and ultimately joins the Black Panther Party, which he later leaves, disillusioned by the party’s violent rhetoric and actions.

The film brilliantly captures the feel, sound and tenor of those explosive years that changed so much for African Americans, women and other long-marginalized groups.

The sense that the world was teetering on the edge of destruction even as it was experiencing earth-shattering social and political change is the engine that drives those portions of the film, which shows with great poignancy the political education of both father and son.

In the Gaines family, as was the case in many black families, arguments over civil rights and the best ways to achieve equality resulted in silence, rejection and disengagement.

The black community never has been and never will be a monolith. Black newspapers called Martin Luther King Jr. a communist when he spoke out against the Vietnam War. Some black businessmen dreaded the dawn of integration, fearing that it would, as it did, destroy the foundation of many black enterprises. The Klan and Southern white powerbrokers could pay a black informant as little as $300 for tips and information that resulted in the death of someone active in the movement.

Cecil Gaines (Forest Whitaker) and his wife Gloria (Oprah Winfrey).

Back then, I got loud and proud as a student at American University.

I worked with the Black Student Union, volunteered “in the community” with Marion Barry’s Pride Inc. and raised money for a local “freedom school.” My heart nearly broke as I watched the scenes in the film of bitter conflict between father and son and mother and son over politics and pride. I remembered the mocking jokes of some of my family members at summer picnics — “Come here, Marita, and shake some of that black power on my hot dog.”

My father forced me to get rid of my Afro and told me that the only color that mattered to him was green. When I wrote a letter to my minister uncle to explain what this new angry quest for identity and justice meant, he refused to open the letter and instead tore it up and threw it back at me.

I too was vain and arrogant as only a youth can be when I told my mother, in another of the seemingly endless arguments about politics, “We won’t make any progress until your entire generation dies off.”

There is a moment in the film when Gloria (Winfrey) breathlessly, angrily reminds her son, who displays an arrogance designed to best and belittle his father, “Everything you have and everything you are is because of that butler.”

My parents did not live to witness my career as a writer whose work has been so deeply entwined with the defining moments of the political and cultural changes of the ‘60s.

We may have disagreed about many things, but I too know that everything I am and every word I write is because of my parents — the father who, as my first writing teacher, told me bedtime stories about Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth and the mother who told me that one day I was going to write a book.

So much of what makes this film a must-see is its nuanced portrayal of the life that Gaines lives outside the walls of the White House; he loves a son whose choices he cannot fathom and a wife to whom he gives everything but himself.

The Butler is essentially the story not just of one man, but of a family that witnesses history, as all families do. This is the story of how we make history with brave, bold decisions and with small moments when we simply can’t take it anymore. We are all children and the creators of history. History is our past, our families, our love, our loyalty, our faith. We are all Cecil Gaines. We are all the butler.

Marita Golden is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction and nonfiction. She is president emeritus of the Hurston/Wright Foundation, which works to discover and educate African American writers.

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Lemon

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American who has a voice at this major network. That is part of the fulfillment of Dr. King’s dream.

Does the documentary have a theme?

There are, for me, a few different themes. People like John Lewis and A. Philip Randolph put their lives on the line to participate. So, the first theme that stands out to me is courage. The second theme was the hope they exhibited in “the teeth of the most terrifying odds,” as James Baldwin said.

Thirdly, Bayard Rustin, who many call “The Architect of the Civil Rights Movement,” finally gets his due. I think that’s a fair characterization to some degree.

He’s the silent, strong man who made the march happen. But because he was gay and people tried to use that against him is probably why we don’t hear so much about him.

I remember feeling admiration as a child for the folks from my neighborhood who were going down to the “March on Washington,” because of everyone’s palpable sense of concern for their safety.

I think admiration is a good way of putting it. Whenever I see John Lewis, I invariably say, “Thank you.” And I will never stop. I don’t know how he’s still standing, because what he endured took courage and strength that I don’t know that I have.

How do you feel about that as probably the most prominent black celebrity to come out?

I don’t consider myself a ce-

lebrity. I’m just a journalist. Frank Ocean is a celebrity. Yeah, I was in the forefront and took a lot of heat for it. I think the President’s evolution in terms of gay marriage has helped change many people’s minds. I think it’s empowering for a person to live an authentic life.

It can only help when prominent and successful people of color come out and live authentically, because younger people who are being bullied and might be questioning whether they should continue to live might have second thoughts about taking their own lives. So yeah, I think any celebrity who comes out can only help a young person struggling with the stigma.

Do you think your coming out started a snowball effect among black gays?

I don’t know. But I do think it helps the next person, because I get positive feedback every day from someone who has read my book.

Is there any question no one ever asks you, that you wish someone would?

Yes, what do you get from icons like Dr. King, Malcolm X and John Lewis? What I get from them is personal empowerment, personal responsibility and that the only thing you truly own is your mind.

And once you truly own your mind, you’re free.

You can decide for yourself what is the best way to respond in the face of discrimination. How to carry yourself with dignity. What matters is how you think of yourself and having presence of mind.

Once you get that right, it doesn’t matter what anyone thinks of you, because you know how to carry yourself in the world.

What was the last book you read?

The last two books I read were: The New Jim Crow by Michelle

Alexander, and Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor.

What is your favorite dish to cook?

Seafood gumbo, because I get to make it with my family over the holidays.

If you could have one wish instantly granted, what would that be?

That we would not be so enamored with the slavery of equality, and be more enamored with the freedom of independence.

What key quality do you believe all successful people share?

Being self-possessed. Having a strong sense of self.

What was your best career decision?

Leaving Louisiana.

What advice do you have for anyone who wants to follow in your footsteps?

I think it’s great, if you want to follow in my footsteps, but I want you to be better than me, and you have to do it because you are passionately motivated by journalism and by a quest for the truth, not by a desire to be a celebrity. That’s not what this is all about.

And you have to be thickskinned, since you’re going to receive a lot of criticism, and that’s part of what being a journalist is. I feel really strongly about the oath that I’ve taken to inform and to tell the truth. I’m not a race protector, I’m a truth protector. The truth is the truth is the truth. And as long as you tell the truth, you’ll be okay in the end. A lot of people didn’t like Dr. King, either, especially the black establishment. So, you may not be liked, but you’ll be respected.

CNN’s We Were There includes testimony from U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), the sole surviving speaker from the “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.” The youngest speaker at the march, Lewis was 23 when he addressed the crowd on Aug. 28, 1963. Lewis acted as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from 1963 to 1966. (Photo courtesy of John Lewis)

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Community Calendar Friday

August 23

¡Revolución! IBA’s 45 Years of Victory!

This week we continue to celebrate IBA’s 45 Years of Victory through the closing reception of this dynamic exhibit that highlights the history and legacy of Festival Betances and the community of Villa Victoria. An event not to be missed! RSVP on Facebook. LA GALERÍA at Villa Victoria Center for the Arts, a program of IBA 85 W. Newton St., Boston. ON VIEW: July 18 – August 24, 2013. CLOSING RECEPTION: Friday, August 23, 6-8pm. FREE AND OPEN TO ALL! For more information, go to www.iba-etc.org or call 617-9271707. GALLERY HOURS: Thursday and Friday: 3-7pm / Saturday: 1-4pm or by appointment: 617-927-1742 / avrodriguez@ iba-etc.org.

Saturday August 24

W.E.B. Du Bois Celebration Join us for a celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. Du Bois in Great Barrington. At 2 & 3:30pm Guided Tour of the W.E.B. Du Bois Homesite, Corner of Church and River Streets, Great Barrington. Meet at W.E.B. Du Bois River Garden, River Walk. Transportation provided, registration required, RSVP Appreciated.

Contact Wray Gunn (wraygunn@ msn.com) to RSVP or register for a guided tour of the Homesite. Or visit www.duboisnhs.org.

Monday August 26

Menino’s Movie Nights Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s Movie Nights, part of the Boston Parks and Recreation Department’s ParkARTS program sponsored by Bank of America, will give residents and visitors plenty of chances to enjoy popular films under the night skies in city parks. All shows begin at dusk. Free popcorn will be provided by AMC Loews Theatres and Skinny Pop Popcorn. Bring your blankets and chairs and make yourself comfortable. In addition, the Boston’s Children’s Museum’s “The Big Cake Tour” will host fun family activities before each Monday night movie beginning at 7pm. West Roxbury, “We Are Marshall”; Monday, August 26 — Iacono Park, 150 Readville St., Hyde Park, “E.T. The Extraterrestrial.” For more information please call 617-635-4505 or visit the Boston Parks and Recreation Department online on Facebook or at www.cityofboston.gov/parks.

Wednesday August 28

Get Fit in the Park for Free!

Line Dancing With Boston Rhythm Riders from 6-7pm. Outside the Franklin Park Golf Clubhouse. Line Dancing is a Franklin

Park Moves for Health favorite!

You know the Boston Rythm Riders & 4Stars Dance Studio from the morning Playhouse in the Park. Get up and get moving!

We even have a brand new boom box for great music! This class is for all shapes, ages, and fitness levels. You don’t want to miss out!

Kids will love it too.

Mayor Menino’s Wednesday Night Concerts Mayor Menino’s Wednesday Night Concerts continue with the series finale featuring Roberta Flack. All shows begin at 7pm at City Hall Plaza. For more information, please call the Boston Parks and Recreation Department at 617-635-4505, visit www.facebook.com/boston parksdepartment, or go to www. cityofboston.gov/parks.

Thursday August 29

Harold Night: Fresh Blend Every Thursday night our resident ImprovBoston Harold teams perform Harold, THE classic long form improv format, with occasional special guests. From a single audience suggestion, each Harold team creates a 25-minute comedy show from scratch, an original improvised set exploring a world of characters we guarantee you won’t soon forget.

Shows take place at ImprovBoston, 40 Prospect St., Cambridge.

9:30pm, tickets: $10. More information on ImprovBoston is available at http://improvboston.com.

Upcoming Paul Revere Memorial Association Lecture Series Paul Revere Memorial Association Lecture Series: A War of Divisions: The Impact and Aftermath of the American Civil War. September 4 from 6:307:30pm — Freedom Rising: The Emancipation Proclamation, the 54th Massachusetts Regiment & Boston’s Black Community.

S e p t e m b e r 1 1 from 6:307:30pm — A Grand Tour During the Civil War: The Wheatons Go to Europe. September 18 from 6:30-7:30pm — The Caning: The Assault That Drove America to Civil War. September 25 from 6:30-7:30pm — Revolutionary Memory, Civil War Sacrifice: Pauline Revere Thayer and Preserving the Revere Legacy. Free and Open to the Public. Sign Language interpretation is available upon request (with advance notice).

Wheelchair accessible. Assisted listening devices are available. All Lectures Take Place at Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington Street at the corner of Milk Street in downtown Boston. Accessible

by MBTA. Use State or Downtown Crossing Stops. For directions to Old South Meeting House, please call 617-482-6439 or visit www. osmh.org. For more information about the Paul Revere Memorial Association Lecture Series please

contact Patrick M. Leehey, Paul Revere House, at 617-523-2338.

This series is made possible by a grant from the Lowell Institute.

Staged reading: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom S e p t e m b e r 9 , 7pm, The Strand Theater, 543 Columbia Rd., Dorchester. Ma Rainey, a blues singer, is recording an album in Chicago in 1927. The band hired for the occasion includes a trumpet player who is brimming with ambition and seething with repressed anger.

Free. For more information, please visit our Facebook page: Emancipated Century: August Wilson Readings.

Wildlife Exploration The ParkSCIENCE series continues with one-hour nature walks at 7:30am on September 10 at Millennium Park, West Roxbury, and at 10am on October 8 at Olmsted Park, 217 Jamaicaway, Jamaica Plain. This program is made possible in part with funding from a Green Parks – Green Kids Grant resulting from a partnership between the National Recreation and Park Association and the National Recreation Foundation. For more information please call 617-635-4505.

Fifth annual Boston Book Festival Award-winning novelist and essayist Salman Rushdie will present the 2013 keynote address at a 7:30pm appearance at Old South Church (645 Boylston St., Boston) on Friday, October 18.

Rushdie’s novels include The Satanic Verses and the Booker Prize-winning Midnight’s Children. Rushdie’s most recent work is Joseph Anton: A Memoir, which, according to the New York Times, “reminds us of his fecund gift for language and his talent for explicating the psychological complexities of family and identity.”

Tickets for Rushdie’s October 18 presentation and conversation with Harvard’s Homi Bhabha are available on the Boston Book Festival website (www.boston bookfest.org) for $10.

Ongoing Summer Scene at Roxbury’s Marcella Park Through August 30. Hawthorne Community Center invites 5-21 year olds and adults to Roxbury’s Marcella Park for free

evening programs. The lineup includes: Mondays: Tennis (6-12 year olds from 5-6 pm; 13-18 year olds from 6-7pm; adults f ro m 7 - 8 p m ) . Tu e s d a y s a n d Thursdays: 5:30-6:30-Jazzy Dance for 6-18 year olds; 6:308:00-Soccer/Rox for 5-18 year olds; Wednesdays: 5:30-6:30Double Dutch for 5-18 year olds; 6:45-7:45-Junior Basketball Fridays: 5:30-6:30-Double Dutch; 6:45-7:45 Teen Basketball for 13-16 year olds. And Hawthorne hosts the ReadBoston Storymobile from 1:15-2pm on Wednesdays (July 10-August 14), a special activity for 3-10 year olds and their caregivers.

Roxbury’s Marcella Park (corner of Highland and Marcella Street in Roxbury). Contact: Samantha: hyccroxbury@hotmail.com; 617427-0613.

Concerts in the Courtyard One of Boston’s most beautiful spaces will be filled with music in a free, lunchtime concert series on Fridays in August. The courtyard at the Central Library in Copley Square will feature music that ranges from jazz to classical and from blues to Broadway. All concerts begin at 12:30pm. The complete schedule is available at www.bpl. org/concerts.

Paul Revere House This summer at the Paul Revere House 19 North Square in Boston learn 18th c. crafts in August. Most events are free with museum admission: adults $3.50, seniors and college students $3.00, children 5-17 $1.

Members and North End residents admitted free at all times.

In summer, the Revere House is open daily, 9:30-5:15.

Re-membering Egypt: In Search of Osiris The Multicultural Arts Center presents Re-membering Egypt: In Search of Osiris, a new photographic exhibition by artist Hakim Raquib, on view in the Upper Gallery until October 1 8 . In capturing the photographic images of Egypt Raquib refers to the allegory of the myth of Osiris, an Egyptian God that has been dismembered by his brother and scattered throughout the land. The Exhibition attempts to “assemble” Egypt highlighting the physical natural beauty of its people and the landscape. Artist

Reception will be held on Thursday, September 19, 6-8pm.

Multicultural Arts Center, Upper Gallery, 41 2nd St., Cambridge.

Gallery website: www.multicultu ralartscenter.org/galleries/. FREE and open to the public. Regular Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10:30am - 6pm, galleries are also open 1 hour prior to all performances in the Theater.

Cuba: Printed Stories The Multicultural Arts Center presents Cuba: Printed Stories (translated from Spanish - Cuba: Historias Grabadas) on view until October 18, in the Lower Gallery. The exhibition is curated by Astrid Martinez-Jones of Latin Art Space and features two contemporary Cuban printmakers, Norberto Marrero and Janette Brossard, telling stories of ordinary and staged life through unique etchings, screen prints, collagraphs, woodcuts and engravings. Artist Reception will be held on Thursday, September 19, 6-8pm. FREE and open to the public. Regular Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10:30am - 6pm. www.multicul turalartscenter.org/galleries/.

The Emancipated Century: Readings of August Wilson’s 10-Play Cycle The Performing Arts Department and the Trotter Institute at UMass Boston present The Emancipated Century: Readings of August Wilson’s 10-Play Cycle. Through December 16. All performances begin at 7pm. For more information, please visit our Facebook page: Emancipated Century: August Wilson Readings.

South Shore Chess Club 100% free and open to everyone, the SSCC meets Mondays 7-10pm at the Hough’s Neck Community Center, 1193 Sea St. Quincy. Play chess, learn chess, and make new friends. www. southshorechess. com, 857-888-1531, or southshore chess@gmail.com for more info.

West African Drum class Master Senegalese drumm e r M a m a d o u Ly n x N d j a y e teaches all level of Djembe drumming. Thursdays from 7:309pm. English High School, 144 McBride St., Jamaica Plain. Contact: 617-359-1552 for further information. $10.

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Mayoral Election Campaign Calendar

Mayoral Candidates

Below is the calendar for upcoming mayoral forums. This list gives you a great opportunity to get out and meet the candidates in person. We will update the calendar as it changes. If you have any questions email news@bannerpub.com

Here’s the list of mayoral candidates and their websites. Find out where they stand on key issues and how they plan on achieving their goals.

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9/10

Youth Group Forum First Parish Church, Meetinghouse Hill, Dorchester 6 p.m.

Teens from the Cape Verdean Community (CVC) UNIDO’s Youth Leadership Academy are planning the event.

9/11

Ward 10 Mayoral Candidates’ Night Parks Community Building, 2 New Whitney St, Mission Hill 6 p.m.

9/11

South End Business Alliance Forum Calderwood Pavilion, 527 Tremont St., South End 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Boston Courant is sponsoring the forum.

9/12

Ward 19 and Ward 5 Democratic Committees First Baptist Church, 633 Centre St., Jamaica Plain 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

NAACP Forum Salvation Army KROC Community Center, 650 Dudley St., Dorchester 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Coalition for Community Forum Roxbury Community College, Media Arts Center, 1234 Columbus Ave., Roxbury Crossing 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Sponsored by NAACP, Urban League of Massachusetts, Commonwealth Compact and KROC

9/16

9/18

9/19

Action for Boston Community Development forum Action for Boston Community Development, Inc., Melnea Cass Room, 178 Tremont St., South End 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

City Councilor Felix Arroyo

Boston Teachers Union Forum Boston Teacher’s Union Local 66, 180 Mt. Vernon St., Dorchester 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

www.charlesforboston.com

www.forwardwithfelix.com

John Barros

www.barrosforboston.com

Charles Clemons

District Attorney Dan Conley www.danconleyformayor.com

Boston University School of Education Forum Boston University, Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

City Councilor John Connolly

Back Bay Association Forum Liberty Mutual Conference Center, 175 Berkeley St., Back Bay 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

www.charlotteformayor.com

Dorchester Board of Trade Freeport Tavern, 780 Morrissey Blvd., Dorchester 6:30 p.m.

UMass Boston’s Professor Paul Watanabe to moderate.

UMass Boston’s McCormack School, The Boston Foundation and WBUR UMass Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd., Dorchester 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

www.Connollyforboston.com

City Councilor Rob Consalvo www.robconsalvo.com

Charlotte Golar Richie

City Councilor Mike Ross www.mikeforboston.com

Bill Walczak

www.billforboston.com

State Rep. Marty Walsh www.martywalsh.org

David James Wyatt www.davidjameswyatt.org

City Councilor Charles Yancey www.charlesyancey.org

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Now, he added, Roxbury residents feel this has been lost in the current plans for Bartlett Place.

“It is very disturbing to me that we seem to have forgotten that the developer responds to the PRC,” said Singleton. “What the community ends up with is usually not what was in the Request for Proposal, and that to me is very frustrating.”

While Singleton said there is satisfaction that the Nuestra Comunidad is in talks with a local Boston-based grocery store to be part of the first phase of Bartlett Place, there are still worries about how any other local businesses might be involved.

“This idea of building wealth should extend to local business,” Singleton said. “There is not a lot of retail space there. … Can you get a mom and pop store in Bartlett Place? Is the rent something they can afford? Are we growing our own local businesses in ways that they can build wealth too?”

Another concern is that the idea of “building wealth through home ownership” is not going to be addressed in the Bartlett Place

project until the final phase of Nuestra Comunidad’s current plan. Singleton says there are major concerns that, tucked away on the last phase of the project, this wealth building will never actually happen.

He also said that the original RFP called for the housing to be one-third low-income housing, one-third moderate-income housing and one-third market-rate housing. For the proposed 332 units of housing at Bartlett Place this would mean about 110 units of each. However, plans now detail 60 percent affordable and 40 percent moderately priced or market-rate housing. The housing will be a mixture of homes for sale and rental units.

Singleton lastly said that the community hope is that Nuestra Comunidad will rely on minority businesses for the work on the development, as the RFP also detailed.

“We haven’t seen what the minority business enterprise utilization is going to be,” Singleton said. “They have to do 40 percent or better. Interestingly enough in the RFP it says 51 percent. We would like to see that as a goal because it is in the RFP. It is something the community worked very hard to put together and said this

is something we want.”

Nuestra Comunidad has played up the public plaza part of the design for Bartlett Place, which is slated to be used as an open market that will have arts and events venues.

The corporation has dubbed the development a “creative village” and points to the recent success of Bartlett Events as an illustration of

Jason Turgeon, producer of Bartlett Events and a resident of the Highland Park neighborhood near the Bartlett Yard, sees the inclusion of the wall as a big win for the artistic community in Roxbury. “I think in the original design they were not really going to use that in that way,” he said.

“I think that right there is a very

“What the community ends up with is usually not what was in the Request for Proposal, and that to me is very frustrating.”

— Rodney Singleton the fact that the Roxbury community welcomes such a thing. Since spring, events have been held on the property and local artists have created large murals on the sides of vacant buildings.

The positive community reaction has led Nuestra Comunidad to include plans to keep a 20-foot L-shaped wall, which is covered with a mural, in the final development of Bartlett Place. The wall will be used as a backdrop for public events.

concrete victory for us. I think we have had a pretty positive impact and I am hopeful that it lasts.”

Turgeon is encouraged that demolition on the site is slated to begin this fall. “How can you do worse than what is there now?” he asked. “You have an 8.5 acre brown field that has nothing on it and has been like that for 15 years.

There are a lot of people that are still kind of frustrated that it is still a vacant lot. … I think there will be

a general sense of relief when they finally break ground on the buildings. I think the sooner they break ground on that thing the better.”

Singleton wholeheartedly agrees with Turgeon on redeveloping the parcel. But Singleton says many have a slightly different view on the art and painting at Bartlett Yard and the community events that have been happening there.

“The reality is Nuestra Comunidad is supposed to be developing that site. … They are having all these events because they are trying to take attention from the fact that the site is not being developed,” Singleton said. “You are not supposed to be an events coordinator of the site. You are supposed to be a developer of the site. … People see through that. They are angry about what is going on there. … They also understand that Nuestra has been stalling.”

Nuestra Comunidad’s current plan for Bartlett Place has four proposed phases. The first phase will be about 100 units of housing and a grocery store. The second phase will target senior housing.

The third phase is being considered to develop artist housing and work space. The fourth phase would be the development of homes for sale.

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Public Meeting Notice for proposal on Smith Leadership Academy Charter Public School Expansion and Relocation Notice is hereby given that the Smith Leadership Academy Charter Public School 23 Leonard Street, Dorchester, Mass 02122 Board of Trustees will hold a public meeting on a proposal school expansion and school relocation as required by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education on Thursday August 29, 2013 at the Grove Hall Branch Public Library, 41 Geneva Ave. Dorchester, Ma 02121 from 6:00pm -7:45pm. This will be the second of three meetings; The purpose of this public meeting is to allow input into the planning of this relocation and development project on the part of the local citizens and any other interested parties, governmental agencies or groups.

All persons interested in the design, location and construction of the Smith Leadership Academy facilities and the potential impact to the existing school and students are invited to appear and express their views.

The public meeting shall take place August 29, 2013 at the Grove Hall Branch Public Library, 41 Geneva Ave. Dorchester, MA. 02121, starting at 6 pm and ending promptly at 7:45 pm (limited space available) in the Jazz Room of the facility.

The final public meeting shall take place at Smith Leadership Academy 23 Leonard St. Dorchester, Mass. 02122 October 8, 2013 starting at 6 pm and ending at 8 pm.

Those having special needs (wheel chairs, hearing impaired and interpreter) shall contact Ms. Marshall at Smith Leadership Academy Charter Public School at 617 474-7950.

Smith Leadership Academy Charter Public School 23 Leonard Street Boston, MA 02122 Telephone: (617) 474-7950

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Deadline for voter registration is Sept. 4 for mayor’s race The deadline to register to vote, update your address or change your political party for the Sept. 24 Preliminary Municipal Election is Wednesday, Sept. 4.

Residents who are looking to register to vote or make a change to their current registration may do so by applying in person at City Hall, requesting an application by mail by calling the Boston Election Department at 617-6353767 or by downloading a mail-in registration form off of the Election Department website.

The Boston Election Department, located in City Hall Room 241, will be open until 8 p.m. on Sept. 4 to accommodate last-minute voter registrations. Those looking to fill out a voter registration form after 5 p.m. on that date should enter City Hall by the Congress St. entrance. All registrations that are mailed to the Election Department must be postmarked by

Sept. 4 in order for changes in registration status to come into effect by the upcoming election.

All registrations postmarked after the Sept. 4 will not be processed until after the Preliminary Municipal Election and changes will not be in effect until the Municipal Election on Nov. 5.

Please visit the Election Department website at www.cityofboston.gov/elections to: • find a list of neighborhood locations where registrations can be found.

• d ownload a voter registration card or absentee ballot application.

• search to verify your voter status.

For additional questions regarding your voter status, please contact the Election Department at 617-635-3767, or visit us at One City Hall Square, Room 241, Boston, MA 02201.

The deadline to register to vote, update your address or change your political party is Wednesday, September 4

To register to vote or make a change to current registration: • Apply in person at City Hall • Request an application by mail by calling the Boston Election Department at 617-635-3767 • Download a mail-in registration form from www.cityofboston.gov/elections

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

DESCRIPTION​​

DATE​

TIME​​

WRA-3688​ ​

Purchase of Two Submersible 4” 36HP Pumps​KSB Model #KRTK100-316 or Equal

09/04/13​

11:00 a.m.

WRA-3677 ​Purchase of Concrete Piping and 09/04/13​

Accessories​ WRA-3687​

Supply and Delivery of Aqua Ammonia to the​​John J. Carroll Water Treatment Plant

09/04/13​

11:00 a.m.

3:00 p.m.

Please contact the MWRA’s Document Distribution Office at MWRADocumentdistribution@mwra.com for bid documents and bid submittal information.

IINVITATION FOR BIDS The Brookline Housing Authority, the Awarding Authority, invites sealed bids from general contractors for masonry repairs at the High Street 200-1 and Egmont Street 200-2 state-assisted veterans/family housing developments in Brookline, Massachusetts in accordance with the documents prepared by Buck, Smith & McAvoy Architect, Inc. The Project consists of selective lintel replacement, concrete and masonry repairs, stoop repairs and the removal of caulking containing asbestos.

The work is estimated to cost $1,000,000.

Bids are subject to M.G.L. c.149 §44A-J and to minimum wage rates as required by M.G.L. c.l49 §§26 to 27H inclusive and Federal Davis Bacon wage rates and the higher of the two rates shall be paid.

THIS PROJECT IS BEING ELECTRONICALLY BID AND HARD COPY BIDS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Please review the instructions in the bid documents on how to register as an electronic bidder. The bids are to be prepared and submitted at www.biddocsonline.com . Tutorials and instructions on how to complete the electronic bid documents are available online (click on the “Tutorial” tab at the bottom footer).

General bidders must be certified by the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance (DCAMM) in the category of MASONRY. General Bidders must include a current DCAMM Prime Contractor Certificate of Eligibility and a signed DCAM Prime Contractor Update Statement.

General Bids will be received until 2:00 P.M., Thursday, September 19, 2013 and publicly opened online, forthwith.

Filed sub-bids for the trade listed below will be received until 2:00 P.M., Thursday, September 12, 2013 and opened forthwith. Filed sub-bidders must be DCAMM certified for the trade listed below and must include a current DCAMM Filed Sub-Bidder Certificate of Eligibility and a signed DCAMM Filed Sub-Bidder’s Update Statement.

SUBTRADE: Section 07 90 00 Waterproofing, Damp-proofing & Caulking

All Bids shall be submitted electronically online at www.biddocsonline.com no later than the date and time specified above.

General bids and sub-bids shall be accompanied by a bid deposit that is not less than five (5%) of the greatest possible bid amount (considering all alternates), and made payable to the Brookline Housing Authority Bid Forms and Contract Documents will be available for pick-up at www.biddocsonline.com (may be viewed electronically and hardcopy requested) or at Nashoba Blue, Inc. at 433 Main Street, Hudson, MA 01749 (978-568-1167).

There is a plan deposit of $50.00 per set (maximum of 2 sets) payable to BidDocs Online Inc. Deposits may be electronically paid or must be a certified or cashier’s check.

This deposit will be refunded for up to two sets for general bidders and for one set for sub-bidders upon return of the sets in good condition within thirty (30) days of receipt of general bids. Otherwise the deposit shall be the property of the Awarding Authority. Additional sets may be purchased for $50.00.

Bidders requesting Contract Documents to be mailed to them shall include a separate check for $40.00 per set for UPS Ground (or $65.00 per set for UPS overnight), payable to the BidDocs Online Inc., to cover mail handling costs.

A Pre-bid Conference will be held at 10:00 A.M. on Thursday, September 5, 2013 at 224 High Street, Brookline, MA. For an appointment call Akil Alexander at 617-608-3324.

The Contract Documents may be seen in person or by electronic media at: MHC/Joseph Merrit & Co Nashoba Blue Inc. 433 Main Street 17 Everberg Road – Unit C Hudson, MA 01749 Woburn, MA 01801 978-568-1167 (781) 430-2008Project Dog Reed Construction Data 18 Graf Road Suite #8 Document Processing Center Newburyport, MA 01950 30 Technology Parkway (978) 499-9014 South, Suite 500

Norcross, GA 30092-4578 (203) 426-0450 LEGAL NOTICE REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS The MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY (Authority) is soliciting consulting services for MPA CONTRACT NO. A315-D1, FY14-16 ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN REVIEW SERVICES. The Authority is seeking a qualified multi-discipline consulting firm or team, with an emphasis on architecture, with proven experience to provide professional services to include the evaluation of design submissions to enhance the planning and design quality of each project selected for design peer review services on an on-call, as needed basis. These services are expected to be provided at any Massport owned or operated aviation and maritime facility including Boston-Logan Airport, L.G. Hanscom Field, Worcester Regional Airport, Conley Terminal, and Cruiseport Boston. The Consultant must be able to work closely with the Authority, its designated design consultants and other interested parties in order to provide such services in a timely and effective manner. The projects for review may range from small and simple to relatively large and complex.

The Consultant shall demonstrate experience in the peer review of several disciplines including but not limited to architecture, planning, design, and interior design. It is the goal of the Authority to improve and enhance the overall design quality and aesthetic for each project selected by providing an independent review process to evaluate the vision and goals of the design, and to provide input for improvement to the design program and aesthetic.

The Consultant shall demonstrate its ability to understand the design, cost and constructability issues for each project reviewed in order to effectively evaluate the design quality and to provide the services required to meet the Authority’s goal.

Services may include, but shall not be limited to, the review and evaluation

of all level of design documents, cost estimates, investigations, reports, and value engineering proposals. The Consultant may be required to provide limited conceptual design services to develop and/or advance the design quality and to work with the designated design consultant to provide as needed design-assist services to enhance the project. Neither review of abatement of hazardous or contaminated materials nor services associated with airfield design (e.g., runway and taxiway design) are included in the scope of work for this Agreement. The development of concept plan and elevation sketches, evaluation of project definition documents, limited preliminary design services and ongoing design review through construction may be required.

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

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

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

The Authority expects to select one (1) consultant. However, the Authority reserves the right to select a different number if it is deemed in its best interest to do so. The Consultant shall be issued a contract in an amount not to exceed TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($250,000). The services shall be authorized on a work order basis.

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

In order to be eligible for selection, all aspects of Provision 44, Chapter 7C of the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts shall be satisfied including the majority of the firm’s Board of Directors or ownership shall be registered in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in accordance with the applicable provisions of the statute. Consultants shall furnish professional registration status of the firm’s board of directors or ownership. All individuals responsible for technical disciplines shall, upon commencement of the project, be registered Architects or Engineers, in that discipline, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

The Authority may reject any application if any of the required information is not provided: Cover Letter, Insurance Requirements, Litigation and Legal proceedings, Registration of the Board of Director as defined in MGL Chapter 7C Section 44, Proposed M/W/DBE (percentage), Part II for every sub-consultant.

The submission shall be evaluated on basis of: (1) current level of experience and knowledge of the team in performing the requested services, (2) familiarity with this type of assignment and a demonstrated ability to respond in a timely manner, (3) geographic location and availability of the Project Manager and other key personnel to be assigned to the project, (4) experience and expertise of sub-consultants,

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

In the matter of: Theophelus A. Browne Respondent (Person to be Protected/Minor) Of: Mattapan, MA CITATION GIVING NOTICE OF PETITION FOR APPOINTMENT OF CONSERVATOR OR OTHER PROTECTIVE ORDER PURSUANT TO G.L c. 190B, §5-304 & §5-405 To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Florence G. Browne of Roxbury, Crossing, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Theophelus A. Browne is in need of a Conservator or other protective order and requesting that Florence G. Browne of Roxbury Crossing, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Conservator to serve Without Surety on the bond.

The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondent is disabled, that a protective order or appointment of a Conservator is necessary, and that the proposed conservator is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court.

You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 08/29/2013. This day is not a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date.

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

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

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

Date: July 30, 2013 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate

(5) experience and knowledge of implementing BIM, (6) M/W/DBE and affirmative action efforts, please indicate the proposed % of M/W/DBE participation, (7) current level of work with the Authority, & past performance for the Authority, if any, and (8) experience with sustainable design concepts.

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

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

Submissions shall be printed on both sides of the sheet (8 1/2” x 11”), no acetate covers. Fifteen (15) copies of a bound document and one PDF version on a disc each limited to:

SUFFOLK ss.

A petition has been presented to said Court by Cosmo Camoscio of Newton in the County of Middlesex, representing that he holds as tenant in common undivided part or share of certain land lying in Boston in said County of Suffolk and briefly described as follows: EXHIBIT A 3-5 QUINCY COURT, BOSTON, MA Known and numbered 3-5 Quincy Court, and being shown as Lot 8 and 9 on “Plan of Property in City Proper District, Boston, Mass., from Surveys by Charles Fuller Whitney, dated May 25, 1928, #4621”, recorded with Suffolk County Registry of Deeds in Plan Book 5011, Page 584, and bounded and described as follows: NORTHERLY

by Lots 5 and 6 on said plan by two lines passing through a brick wall and lying four inches south of the north face of said brick wall, thirty-eight and 71/100 (38.71) feet and five and 03/100 (5.03) feet, respectively;

WESTERLY

by Lots 2, 3 and 4 on said plan, by two lines through the middle of the areaway, shown on said plan, eighteen and 12/100 (18.12) feet and eighteen and 35/100 (18.35) feet, respectively;

SOUTHERLY

on Lot 10 on said plan, by two lines through the middle of a one foot brick wall extended, twenty-four and 20/100 (24.20) feet and thirty-four and 79/100 (34.79) feet. respectively; the

EASTERLY

boundary of the premises begins at a point in the west face of the brick wall on the land now or formerly belonging to Fred Joy and running Northerly from said point along said Joy land, five and 69/100 (5.69) feet; thence turning at substantially a right angle and running

WESTERLY

twelve and 48/100 (12.48) feet on Lot 7 on said plan, thence turning slightly towards the south and continuing on said Lot 7, six and 16/100 (6.16) feet to the center of said Quincy Court; thence turning at substantially a right angle and running

NORTHERLY

on the center line of said Quincy Court, twenty-six and 60/100 (26.60) feet to the Northerly bound of the premises first above given. Containing 1,700.1 square feet of land, according to said plan.

(3) no more than ten (10) projects each limited to one (1) page under SF 330, Section F, (4) no more than 3 sheets (6 pages) of information contained under SF 330 Section H addressing the evaluation items (except for the litigation and legal proceedings history), and (5) no more than 2 sheets (4 pages) of other relevant material not including a 2 page (max.) cover letter, SDO certification letters, covers, dividers, and other required information.

This submission, including the litigation and legal proceedings history in a separate sealed envelope as required shall be addressed to Houssam H. Sleiman, PE, CCM, Director of Capital Programs and Environmental Affairs and received no later than 12:00 Noon on Thursday, September 12, 2013 at the Massachusetts Port Authority, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, Suite 209S, Logan International Airport, East Boston, MA 021282909. Any submission which is not received in a timely manner shall be rejected by the Authority as non-responsive. Any information provided to the Authority in any Proposal or other written or oral communication between the Proposer and the Authority will not be, or deemed to have been, proprietary or confidential, although the Authority will use reasonable efforts not to disclose such information to persons who are not employees or consultants retained by the Authority except as may be required by M.G.L. c.66.

The procurement process for these services will proceed according to the following anticipated schedule: EVENT DATE/TIME Solicitation: Release Date

August 15, 2013

Deadline for submission of written questions

August 29, 2013 by 12:00 PM

Official answers published (Estimated)

September 6, 2013 by 5PM

Solicitation: Close Date / Submission Deadline

September 26, 2013 by 12:00 PM

Times are Eastern Standard Time (US).

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS PROBATE COURT Docket NO.SU13E0077PP1

To Anthony Camoscio of Tewksbury in the County of Middlesex, Frank Camoscio of Waban in the County of Middlesex and To The City of Boston in the County of Suffolk and to all other persons interested

(1) an SF 330 including the appropriate number of Part IIs, (2) resumes of key individuals only each limited to one (1) page under SF 330, Section E,

Docket No. SU13P1737PM

setting forth that he desires that - all the following described part - of said land may be sold at private sale for not less than One Million Two Hundred Thousand ($1,200,000.00) dollars and praying that partition may be made of all the land aforesaid and according to the law, and to that end that a comissioner be appointed to make such partition and be ordered to make sale and conveyance of all, or any part of said land which the Court finds cannot be advantageously divided either at private sale or public auction, and be ordered to distribute the net proceeds thereof If you desire to object thereto you or your attorney should file a written appearance in said Court at Boston before ten o’clock in the forenoon on the 5th day of September, 2013, the return day of this citation.

Witness, Joan P. Armstrong, Esquire, First Judge of said Court, this 2nd day of August, 2013.

Patricia M. Campatelli, Register

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

Docket No. SU08P1153AD1

Citation on Petition for Order to Render Estate of Elizabeth Ammons Date of Death: 05/20/2008

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 08/30/2013. 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: July 30, 2013 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate

To all interested persons: A petition has been filed by Charles Cullen Jones of Dorchester, MA requesting that the Court enter an Order that Guadulesa Rivera of Los Angeles, CA be ordered to render an Account, compel distribution and for such other relief as requested in the Petition.

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

Docket No. SU13D0625DR

Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Carlos A Ribeiro

vs.

Maria G Da Veiga Ribeiro

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

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

You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Carlos A Ribeiro, 5 Lynville Ter, Apt 1, Dorchester, MA 02121 your answer, if any, on or before 10/03/2013. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court.

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

Date: July 23, 2013 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate

Unquity House 30 Curtis Rd., Milton

Unquity House is a 139 unit apartment complex offering activities and security for ages 62 and over.

Studio and One bedroom apartments with utilities included, prices range from $695 to $872. Accepting applications, some income restrictions apply.

Please call 617-898-2032 or visit our website at www.mreinc.org

CHELSEA APARTMENT

4+ bdrms Newly renovated, 2000+ sq ft apt in 3 fam, no smkng/pets, hrdwd flrs, eat-in kit, pantry, lg master bedroom, din and lv rm, laundry rm, enclosed frnt/bck prchs, off street prkng, T access, min to Bost.

Sec 8 OK

617-283-2081 Affordable Rental Opportunity

375 MARKET STREET 375 Market Street, Brighton, MA 02135 5 UNITS # of Units

Type

Rent

Income Limit

2

2 bed/2 bath

$1,365

Up to 70%

2

1 bed/1 bath

$1,194

Up to 70%

1

3 bed/2 bath

$1,535

Up to 70%

MAXIMUM INCOME per Household Size HH size

70%

HH size

70%

1

$46,250

4

$66,100

2

$52,850

5

$71,350

3

$59,450

6

$76,650

Applications may be requested:

By Email Email request to: bostonbookkeeper@comcast.net Between September 9, 2013-September 16, 2013 (5pm) In Person Applications may be picked up at: 167 Corey Road Suite 102, Brighton, MA 02135: Mon-Tue-Wed 9/9-9/11/2013, 10am-12pm Thur 9/12/2013, 5pm-7pm, Fri 9/13/2013, 10am-12pm Sat 9/14/2013, 10am-2pm, Mon 9/16/2013, 10am-12pm Incomplete applications, applications submitted without required documentation, and applications postmarked after the deadline will be rejected and will not participate in the lottery.

Please return completed applications to:

By Mail to Chapel Street Trust, PO Box 576, Medford, MA 02155 In Person to 167 Corey Road Suite 102, Brighton, MA 02135 During the days and times listed above only Returned applications will NOT be accepted via email.

Deadline for completed applications: Postmarked by September 25, 2013 Selection by lottery. Asset, Use & Occupancy Restrictions apply.

Disabled/Handicap households have preference for 1 wheelchair accessible unit. Preference to Boston Residents. Preference for Households with at least one person per bedroom.

For more information or reasonable accommodations, please call 617-733-4488, prompt 2 Equal Housing Opportunity

Room for Rent

Need a quiet person to rent a good size room in a 4bd apt in Dorchester, off Blue Hill Ave. Rent $580/mth or $155 /wk. includes utilities. Call 617-312-0164. Available now.

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DORCHESTER/MILTON 1st Class Office Space ample parking. $750/mo. heated OWNER 617-835-6373 Brokers Welcome

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A senior/disabled/ handicapped community 0 BR units = $1,027/mo 1 BR units = $1,101/mo All utilities included.

Call Sandy Miller, Property Manager

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Program Restrictions Apply.

ELDERLY AFFORDABLE HOUSING AVAILABLE We are currently accepting applications at: Prence Grant ❖ Marshfield, MA ❖ 1&2 bedrooms Meadowbrook ❖ Carver, MA ❖ 1 bedrooms The Woodlands ❖ Plympton, MA ❖1 bedrooms Applications will be accepted upon a continuing basis for all apartments.

APPLY TODAY: 781-936-8733 x304 for The Woodlands x305 for Meadowbrook & Prence Grant

South Shore Housing Development Corp. / HallKeen Management

Director of Behavioral Health (Full-time)

Oversee all behavioral health activities of growing, busy health and social services agency. This includes supervision of social work staff, program and policy development and compliance with licensing requirements. Collaborate on research projects sponsored by Hearth.

Master’s degree in social work and LICSW required. Minimum of 3 years experience in clinical supervision. Extensive knowledge of Community Based Flexible Supports (CBFS) program. Minorities and bilingual Spanish speakers are strongly encouraged to apply. Salary commensurate with experience.

Outreach Program Director (Full-time)

Responsible for the oversight and management of the Outreach Department. Coordination of reporting requirements for private funding and public contracts. Direct hiring, training, management, and supervision of program staff including Senior Case Manager, Housing Advocates, Social Work Students, and Data Manager. Direct service and supervisory experience with the elder, homeless population is essential. Graduate degree in Social Work, Public Health, or behavioral health related field strongly preferred. Minimum of two years post graduate experience in elder services, mental health and/or substance abuse issues. Management experience preferred. Key Senior Management role that participates in agency leadership. Competitive salary and benefits.

Respond: Hearth, Inc., 1640 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02118 Fax: 617/369-1566 or Email: pjones@hearth-home.org Hearth, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

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ENERGY COORDINATOR/PLANNER

GROUNDS SERVICES ATHLETIC WORKER to service the indoor and outdoor needs of DAPER (Dept. of Athletic, Physical Education and Recreation - Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Responsibilities include providing custodial services (e.g., trash removal; floor scrubbing; and complete cleaning and sweeping of bathrooms, showers, and locker rooms); outdoor surface maintenance (e.g., mowing, fertilization, aeration, irrigation, seeding and lining of fields); ice rink set-up and maintenance (including Zamboni operation); field layout for competitions (e.g., set up of goals, flags, hurdles, etc.); indoor court surface maintenance (e.g., painting ice and oil mopping athletic floors); setting up for athletic and nonathletic events that are hosted by DAPER facilities (e.g., public address systems, bleacher/ chair and table arrangements); maintenance of small power tools, hurdles, goals, nets, etc.; and other duties as assigned.

JOB REQUIREMENTS REQUIRED: a Class D Massachusetts' driver's license; a 1C, 2B hoisting license; ability to perform heavy lifting (50 pounds) and snow shoveling; willingness to work in a team environment and to learn to operate all required equipment including paint machines, Zamboni, moving equipment, etc.; customer service awareness; and basic computer competency. Job #10287 Must be available to work any and all work schedules and be available for all Institute emergencies, including snow removal.

Spring/summer shift: Wednesday-Friday 10:00 A.M. – 6:00 P.M. and Saturday-Sunday 7:30 A.M. - 3:30 P.M. Winter operations shift: Wednesday - Sunday 10:00 A.M. – 6:00 P.M.

The Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), the regional planning agency for Metro Boston, seeks an Energy Coordinator/Energy Planner (hereafter, Coordinator/Planner) to help achieve the local and regional clean energy goals of its long-range regional plan, MetroFuture. For further detail on MAPC and its energy work see www.mapc. org and http://www.mapc.org/clean-energy.

Duties: Help cities and towns to develop plans, policies, zoning, and programs to promote energy efficiency, to advance renewable energy in the residential, commercial and municipal sectors, design and run regional energy projects, e.g., procuring energy-efficient equipment or services, or planning energy initiatives among neighboring municipalities; prepare and present reports on municipal and community energy use to relevant stakeholders, including municipal boards and staff.

Qualifications: MA in planning, public policy, engineering, or public or business administration, with training in energy systems or related disciplines and a minimum of one year of professional experience working directly with energy issues in a public or private sector setting; or relevant bachelor’s degree and a minimum of three years of professional experience working directly with energy issues in a public or private sector setting; experience with the laws, rules, and regulations regarding energy procurement practices, the Green Communities Act, and other federal, state and local regulations; Strong research, writing, and public presentation skills.

This is a full time position with an excellent state employee benefits package.

Starting salary will range from $45,000 to $55,000 depending on qualifications and experience. Position open until filled. Candidates must have legal authorization to work in the USA and a valid driver’s license and/or the ability to arrange transportation to meetings in different parts of the region.

PLEASE SEE COMPLETE JOB AD AT WWW.MAPC.ORG (Jobs at MAPC) and APPLY ONLINE AT LINK THERE. Pease attach cover letter, resume, writing sample, and and three professional references.

Submission of a resume is required as part of the application process.

MAPC is an EOE/ AA employer. Diverse candidate are encouraged to apply. Posted 8-15-13 by Thomas E. Hauenstein, Manager of Human Resources.

Apply online at: http://jobs.mit.edu/ MIT is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

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