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In announcing that he would not seek an unprecedented sixth term, Mayor Thomas Menino, the former Hyde Park City Coun-cilor, touched off a wave of acco-lades, including one from Presi-dent Barack Obama.

“Boston is the vibrant, welcom-ing and world-class city it is today because of Tom Menino,” Obama gushed in a statement. “His efforts to revitalize neighborhoods, schools and businesses, better integrate police officers into their communi-ties and reduce gun violence, reach out to the homeless and marginal-ized, and engage young people in the life of their city has charted Boston on a course for a better future.”

Recently elected U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren received a key en-dorsement from Menino during her campaign against GOP darling Scott Brown and was equally profuse: “Tom Menino is the best. Period. He is the best mayor in America. He is the best friend to the neighbor-hoods and people of Boston. He is the best example of how a city can and should be governed.”

For Menino, his work in Boston starts and ends with his love for a city that has sometimes painfully moved past the ugly days of court-ordered busing to taking major strides in becoming a world-class, inclusive city. “My No. 1 thing is bringing racial har-mony to the city,” he told the New York Times last year.

For the last 20 years, Menino, the first Italian-American to hold the seat, breaking an Irish stran-glehold on the job since the 1930s, has held the reigns without much political competition in large part because of his commitment to the city’s core — its neighborhoods.

“I am here with the people I love, to tell the city I love, that I will leave the job that I love,” Menino, 70, the city’s longest-serving mayor, told the standing-room-only crowd of well-wishers that included Gov. Deval Patrick, Treasurer Steven Grossman, U.S. Sen. William “Mo” Cowan, U.S. Reps. Stephen F. Lynch and Mi-chael Capuano, and Attorney Gen-eral Martha Coakley, along with

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In 1971, President Rich-ard Nixon launched the War on Drugs and argued that drug abuse was “public enemy number one” in the United States.

But instead of framing drugs as a matter of public health, the government placed them in the realm of law enforcement. Four decades later, this country has ar-rested 45 million people and spent more than $1 trillion in the name of fighting drugs. It now locks up more people than anywhere else in the world — 2.3 million — all while the rate of illegal drug use has remained un-changed.

The failure of America’s drug war is the subject of a new documen-tary by Eugene Jarecki, “The House I Live I n , ” n a m e d after the song by Paul Robe-son. The film, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and premieres next week on PBS, explores the human toll the War on Drugs has taken on the nation, particularly in black America.

“This modern era of black people being so overrepresented in who gets arrested, who gets charged with crimes, who gets sentenced and the severity of those sentences, is the critical fea-ture of our system of mass incar-ceration,” Jarecki says. “It’s just the latest chapter of America using drug laws as a thinly veiled means of social and racial control.”

Jarecki’s interest in the Drug War stems from personal expe-rience. Days after he was born, Jarecki’s affluent, Jewish par-ents hired an African American migrant from the South named Nannie Jetter to look after him. When the family decided to move from Connecticut to New York a few years later, they offered to double Jetter’s salary if she fol-lowed them. She agreed, leaving her own children behind in order to care for Jarecki.

But this was “the wrong thing to do,” Jetter says in the film. In her absence, Jetter’s youngest son,

James, started e xper iment -ing with drugs, and eventually died of AIDS. Seeing his own connection to James’ addic-tion, Jarecki set out to un-derstand the deeper social and economic forces at play in America’s rela-tionship to ille-gal substances.

The film is filled with personal stories similar to James’, showing the intersec-tion of poverty and drugs, and the ripple effect it has on families and the broader community.

A man loses his job, turns to low-level drug dealing to pay his bills and after his third offense gets a life sentence behind bars. A man is sent away to prison and is unable to raise his son; his son is sent away to prison and is unable to raise his son; his son is sent away to prison and is unable to raise his son.

“It’s a system that basically

Scott Hass

When he learned that his grandson Thomas was graduating from Harvard, Hillard Pouncy did what any other proud grand-father would do. He got in a car and drove overnight to see him.

Climbing into his Jaguar and putting on his golfer’s flat cap, he made it to his son’s house just outside of Philadelphia, and there joined the family for the trip fur-ther north. At 86 years old, this was no easy feat, especially con-sidering his drive started in Geor-

gia, some 1,000 miles away from Harvard Square.

But Pouncy’s family was used to how he did things. His inde-pendence, his unwillingness to discuss his plans or collaborate, and his belief that he could still get things done no matter his age were the norm.

That independent streak was cultivated in part during his days as a Tuskegee Airman. As a member of this elite group of black U.S. military, Pouncy devel-oped a conviction that he was on

Menino’s exit triggers flood of love, support and thanks

New PBS documentary probes war on drugs in ‘The House I Live In’

Reflections on life as a Tuskegee airman

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“This modern era of black people being so overrepresented in who gets arrested, who gets charged with crimes, who gets sentenced … is the critical feature of our system of mass incarceration.”

— Eugene Jarecki

The Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association (MBLA) celebrated its 40th anniversary at the Annual Gala on March 28. MBLA President Rachel Rollins was the host, with honorees including Justice Rogerlee Thompson and Professor Derrick Bell (posthumously). Among those in attendance were (L to R) Middlesex District Attorney Gerard Leone; Rollins; Theodore Wells Jr., keynote speaker; Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley; Wayne Budd and MBLA Director Adam Foss. (Don West photo)Tuskegee, continued to page 19

Mayor Thomas M. Menino, the longest serving mayor in Boston history, tells a packed crowd at Faneuil Hall last week that he would not seek re-election. (Photo courtesy of Mayor Menino’s Office)

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Seated: (L to R) Janet Dewart Bell, Theodore Wells Jr. and Judge Rogeriee Thompson. Standing: (L to R) MBLA Board members Pratt Wiley, Doreen Rachal, Donald Deng, Angela Gomes, Wesley Alexander, Adam Foss, Natashia Tidwell, Rachael Rollins, Tavares Brewington, Abim Thomas, Deke Mathieu and Serge Georges.

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On March 28, 2013, the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association hosted its Annual Gala and celebrated its 40th

anniversary. MBLA President Rachael Rollins hosted the event and honorees included Justice Rogeriee Thompson, the first African-American Justice appointed to the United States First Circuit Court of Appeals, and Professor Derrick Bell (posthumously), the first African American Professor granted tenure at Harvard Law School. Theodore V. Wells, Jr. was the keynote speaker for the evening.

Marc Morial

“No voting qualification or prereq-uisite to voting, or standard, practice or procedure shall be imposed or applied by any State or political subdivision to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color.” Voting Rights Act of 1965

Last month during Supreme Court oral arguments in [Shelby County v. Holder], Justice Anto-nin Scalia called a key part of the Voting Rights Act — Section Five — a “racial entitlement.”

Section Five requires that the Justice Department or a federal court “pre-clear” any changes made to voting procedures by cov-

ered jurisdictions to ensure they do not “deny or abridge the right to vote on account of race or color.”

This act was established to fix a broken system, and it remains relevant today. As long as blatant voter suppression measures like voter ID laws and district gerry-mandering are being used to keep certain groups from the polls, the Voting Rights Act — in its en-tirety — remains necessary.

And to clear up any confusion that Justice Scalia or anyone who found merit in his argument has, let’s be clear: Voting “rights” are indeed that — a right guaranteed to every citizen of the United States. They are not a special privilege. They are not a gift.

Justice Scalia’s comments are a shameful reiteration of a right-wing political interpretation of the Constitution. The fact is, the Voting Rights Act was in response to an inarguably unjust and unfair system for voting in this country.

Prior to the Voting Rights Act, millions of African Ameri-cans, primarily in the South, were forced to run a gauntlet of “voting qualifications or prerequisites,” including ludicrous literacy tests, discriminatory poll taxes and other bureaucratic restrictions.

And when those measures failed, blacks were routinely sub-

jected to intimidation, economic sanctions, beatings and even murder. The 1964 murders of three voting rights activists at the hands of Mississippi Klansmen and the March 7, 1965 Bloody Sunday beating of peaceful voting rights marchers by Alabama State troopers are horrific examples.

While there has been undeni-able progress since 1965, voting rights abuses are still sadly a part of the American electoral land-scape. In fact, every presidential election of this new century has been plagued by voting problems — from “hanging chads,” to Tea Party-backed campaigns of Elec-tion Day intimidation to new

voter ID restrictions. Cutbacks in early voting even led to a Florida woman, 102-year-old Desiline Victor, having to stand in line for three hours to vote in November’s presidential election.

The Voting Rights Act, and specifically its Section Five pre-clearance provisions, is still needed to protect against such abuses. While Justice Scalia is either confused or misguided in his characterization of the right to vote as a racial entitlement, in 2006, Congress upheld this basic right by overwhelmingly reautho-rizing the Voting Rights Act for another 25 years.

House Speaker John Boeh-ner said at the time: “The Voting Rights Act has been an effective tool in protecting a right that is fundamental to our democracy and renewing this landmark law will ensure that each and every cit-izen can continue to exercise their right to vote without the threat of intimidation or harassment.”

We intend to hold the Speaker to those words. If the Supreme Court declares any part of the Voting Rights Act unconstitu-tional, Congress will have a final chance to keep Section Five alive.

Marc Morial is President and CEO of the National Urban League.

Attn. Justice Scalia —Voting is a basic right, not a special privilege

As long as blatant voter suppression measures like voter ID laws and district gerrymandering are being used to keep certain groups from the polls, the Voting Rights Act — in its entirety — remains necessary.

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I was very impressed by the article written by Anthony W. Neal (“Edgar P. Benjamin: Philanthropist, noted attorney and banker,” Bay State Banner, March 28, 2013.)

I knew Mr. Benjamin. I am a cen-tenarian, who was born, educated and still living in Boston. Benjamin was the attorney for a real estate company called the Eureka Reality Company that my father, James E. Guilford, was the accountant [for].

In 1934 I bought a barbershop that was located on Tremont Street and I needed an attorney to help me use the social security system to pay my employees properly. Mr. Benjamin helped me and I never had any trou-ble with the IRS during the whole 40 years that I was in business.

Mr. Neal’s story was so accurate about the accomplishments of Mr. Ben-jamin, some of which I didn’t know.

I do know this. My great aunt, Mrs. Rose Randolph, a centenarian, resided in what was then called the St. Monica Rest Home for the el-

derly until her death. The center was in financial trouble until Benjamin took charge of its operation. It was later named Rest haven, and then the home was named after Benjamin. I thought that was such a great deed.

James E. Guilford Jr.Roxbury, MA

RoxComp health center needs federal and state review

A serious financial audit is neces-sary to see where the discrepancies in spending occurred (“Roving Camera: What should be done to save Roxbury

Comprehensive Health Center,’ Bay State Banner, Mar. 28, 2013).

Pay the money for an executive di-rector and hire a grant writer with a proven track record — not someone with a tarnished reputation. Get more involved in the community it serves such as fundraisers, open houses and sponsorship of health fairs in the area. Make the place look more inviting from the exterior — plant some flow-ers and clean the windows. Apply for all eligible grants and appropriately use the funds.

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“This old age stuff is not all that it’s cracked up to be.”

Nothing is more complex and more challeng-ing than to be mayor of a major city. The diver-sity of religion and ethnicity assure multiple re-actions to any policy decision, and varied vested interests battle over economic issues. It is no wonder that most mayors endure the confl icts for only a few years and move on.

Tom Menino has continued to lead Boston with vigor for a record 20 years, and he has per-formed superlatively. His open secret has been his love for the city. It is unremarkable for poli-ticians to state that they love Boston, but few love the city like Menino. Everyone under-stands that the greatest recommendation for a proposal vying for the support of the mayor was

that it offers the greatest benefi t to the citizens of Boston.

There was never a back story to be concerned about on any issue. Menino would take enor-mous political risks for the benefi t of his fellow Bostonians, and he would change his public sup-port on a position if it turned out that a better plan was proposed. It is indeed rare for a power-ful politician to acknowledge that he might have erred. And in 20 years there has been no indica-tion of unseemly payoffs or favors.

Tom Menino always maintained a nobility of purpose with which other highly principled citi-zens could affi liate. Mayor Menino has established a high standard for his successors to emulate.

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Quotes from Swami Muktananda reprinted with permission from SYDA Foundation. © SYDA Foundation

Easter is the holiest of Christian holidays. Christmas festivities are replaced by solemnity. The devout contemplate the importance of the religious teachings of their own denominations.

People normally underestimate the sociological importance of such teachings and the customs of their community. When community values change and social stability goes awry, people rarely attri-bute the result to a failure to observe social values. It is usually easier to attribute the phenomenon of things falling apart to factors outside of one’s own culture, but Koreans assumed responsibility.

The New York Times recently published an ar-ticle about the social impact of a major deviation from Confucian principles in South Korea. There has been an alarming increase in suicides among people 65 and older. In 2000, there were 1,161 such deaths but by 2010 there was a substantial increase to 4,378.

Research by sociologists concluded that ignor-ing some Confucian principles was responsible for the tragic statistic. One of the fi ve major principles of Confucius is the development of love within the family: Parents are to be unstinting in the care and

education of their children and they are to be re-warded by the fi lial piety of their sons.

The rapid industrialization of South Korea forced a change in this principle. Parents have had to be excessive in assuming the cost of education for their children. These expenses made it diffi cult for parents to provide for their old age. However, when it came time for their children to step up and support their parents, the children were absorbed in their own industrially ambitious lives.

What made it worse, elderly parents could not get aid from the government unless they certifi ed that their children were unable or unwilling to care for them. Many parents felt that suicide was preferable to such a humiliating admission.

If the sociological analysis is accurate, members of the younger generation were induced to deviate from the social pattern. This left the elderly with a choice between humiliation or annihilation, and the annual suicide rate increased by 277 percent in only 10 years.

One must wonder what changes in the black culture have induced the sharp growth in homi-cides by urban black youth.

A decline in cultural values

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The Massachusetts Port Authority recently announced that José C. Massó III is the Authority’s new director of community relations.

Massó has a long career in govern-ment, community affairs, communica-tions and consulting. He will be respon-sible for directing the development and implementation of programs designed to lessen the impact Massport’s facilities have on its neighbors.

Massó, 62, lives in Boston. He began his public service career in 1983 in the Governor’s Office of Commu-nity Services and has held key posts at the MBTA, Northeastern Uni-versity and the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration. He has had a successful career in broadcasting and was inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2010. He is fluent in Spanish and skilled in cross-cultural communications.

“Massport is fortunate to have someone of Massó’s caliber heading community relations,’’ said Thomas J. Keady Jr., who worked with Massó at Northeastern University

and is now vice president for gov-ernmental and community affairs at Boston College. “He has a great understanding of Boston and its

neighborhoods and has a great atti-tude about helping people. He likes to get to ‘yes,’ and in community af-fairs, it is all about getting to yes.’’

Now that Mayor Menino has decided to not seek reelection, what are you

looking for in the next mayor?

Get doctors to do better by ad-dicts. Some folks with substance abuse and HIV/drug issues are not getting the service they deserve.

Samuel RiveraProject MEDorchester

At least half the action Menino put in in terms of jobs and develop-ment. We got lots of able-bodied folks who are not on these con-struction sites.

Richard Andrews Jr.Heavy Equipment Operator

Roxbury

Someone who cares about the youth in black communities who keep committing crimes against themselves.

Tony F.Unemployed

Roxbury

Better education, more programs for young people and opening up more community centers.

Boris NapierProject ME

Boston

I want to see a mayor put brothers to work.

IjalilProject MEDorchester

Summer jobs, cleaner streets, more outdoor events during the summer in my neighborhood.

Greg BogartyProject MEGrove Hall

Democrats have few cards to play on gun control

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took heat from some Democrats and gun control advocates for dumping provisions for restarting the ban on assault weapons sales, and from early appearances, the requirement for more stringent background checks.

Both are the cornerstones of any meaningful gun control legislation. Without them, whatever the Senate finally comes up with would be tepid and ineffectual.

But Reid isn’t to blame for the cave on these proposals. The votes weren’t there to get the assault weapons ban through for reasons that anyone who has watched the doings in Congress on gun control for the past two decades knows full well. That’s the double wallop of the NRA’s iron grip on key legislators, and the deep-seated, passionate belief of millions that gun rights are inviolate no matter how much carnage and grief they wreak. The two can’t be separated.

A tip of just how the two go hand-in-hand came when the Obama Ad-ministration got nowhere when it renewed its push to get Caitlin Halligan a judgeship on the influential D.C. Court of Appeals. GOP senators torpe-doed the confirmation, but her confirmation was DOA when the NRA said it didn’t want her on the bench because she was a key player as New York Solicitor General in filing lawsuits against gun manufacturers.

An even more ominous tip of the fears of gun owners over alleged gov-ernment overreach on gun control legislation is the skyrocket in gun sales since the Sandy Hook massacre, and the soar in profits of gun manufactur-ers. The NRA’s coffers have been immeasurably enriched by both the manu-facturers and the individual contributions of gun rights advocates.

This, in turn, has enabled the NRA to double down even harder on legislative pressure on GOP Senators to hang tough against meaningful gun control bans and to cowl into si-lence protests against the NRA from some Democrats.

The NRA has been wildly suc-cessful in sending that message for the past decade through a well-oiled, well-versed, labyrinth of PACs, lob-byists, legal counsels, divisions, funds and a foundation. In 2008, it was di-rectly or indirectly involved in nearly 300 campaigns for the House and Senate. NRA-backed candidates or incumbents won 230 of them.

It has spared no expense in padding its congressional win scorecard. It ranked in the top tier of contributions received, lobbying dollars spent, and money garnered and spent by its PACs. In 2012, 15 out of its near 30 lobbyists had government ties.

The assumption that the NRA is basically a front for conservative GOP business and political interests is another bad misread. Though a big share of the NRA’s campaign dollars went to Republicans, it has been adept at spreading the largess around. In 2012, Democrats received over $250,000 in NRA campaign contributions. In the decade since the assault ban ex-pired in 2004, nearly 20 strong gun control bills have died still-born in House and Senate committees.

The political jockeying by Reid and some Democrats to get consider-ation for the background checks proposal was a textbook example of a back pedal on a legislative proposal.

There was optimism that it was a done deal to get this into the final bill that the Senate will consider. Some Republicans seemed to give their consent to it, and indeed it did pass the Senate Judiciary Committee, but then it went stillborn, ostensibly over the worry that enforcing background checks for private sales would tramp on Second Amendment rights. Trans-lated, a wider requirement for background checks on sales would chill gun ownership and would open the door for a ban on even more gun sales. This is the dreaded bogeyman of the NRA top cats and they have never been shy about screaming loudly every chance they get that any gun control measure, no matter how seemingly innocuous, will take the country down the supposedly dark and dangerous road to a gun sale ban.

This was plainly evident when the power behind the congressional throne, specifically the NRA’s top congressional lobbyist, virtually ordered that Congress “reject” the tougher provisions. The provision for universal background checks is still on the congressional table for consideration, but given the NRA’s dogged determination to wipe that off the table too, few are betting they’ll lose on this either.

There was great hope after the Sandy Hook massacre that Congress would heed the will of the majority of Americans that want tough and meaningful gun control legislation on the books. Polls still show that that hope hasn’t diminished. But neither has the power of the NRA and the mil-lions of fervent gun rights advocates to thwart it. Put bluntly, Democrats still have few legislative cards to play on gun control.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst.

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There was great hope after the Sandy Hook massacre that Congress would heed the will of the majority of Americans that want tough and meaningful gun control legislation on the books.

Charlene Crowell

One of the worst ironies of the nagging economic recession is that consumers with the fewest financial resources have lost the

most. Now, a new report finds that payday loans not only strip much-needed income from low-income families, but also harm the economic viability of the commu-nities where they operate, drain-

ing nearly $1 billion a year. Written by the Insight Center

for Community Economic Devel-opment (Insight Center), it also reveals other net negative impacts of these small-dollar, high cost

loans on economic growth and personal bankruptcy filings.

The Insight Center examined the net economic impact of the $3.3 billion in interest that bor-rowers paid to non-bank payday lenders in 2011. The study found that if consumers collectively had an additional $3.3 billion in dis-cretionary spending, it would have resulted in $6.34 billion in economic activity and created 79,000 jobs.

In comparison, payday lend-ing activity added $5.56 billion to the national economy and created 65,000 jobs.

Combining these figures shows a net loss from payday lending of $774 million in economic growth and over 14,000 jobs — in addi-tion to $169 million lost through Chapter 13 bankruptcies.

“This nearly $1 billion loss in economic activity should serve as a strong signal that, in addition to the well-documented harm to the fami-lies directly receiving payday loans, payday lending harms local com-munity economies and the overall economy,” the report states.

“Payday lending drains over $2.5 million from the economy each day,” the report continued. “In addition, we estimate that more than 38 people lose their jobs each day due to the economic drain of payday lending.”

Payday lending has been a centerpiece of the Center for Re-sponsible Lending’s (CRL) re-search and policy efforts over the past decade. CRL also supported the new report’s development.

Earlier CRL research deter-mined that each year, 12 million Americans become entrapped in

payday loans, taking out an aver-age of nine loans per year. With more than 22,000 locations, there are more than two payday stores for every Starbucks coffee store.

CRL has also documented how storefront payday lenders tend to concentrate locations in low-income and communities of color. The Southern states of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennes-see and South Carolina had the highest number of payday stores per 10,000 residents. Outside of the Deep South, Missouri and Nevada were the only states with comparable density of payday storefronts.

Similarly, the Insight Center found that five states that charged the greatest amount of payday loan interest were California, Texas, Florida, Mississippi and Il-linois. In these locales, financial payday losses ranged from $135 million in California to $55 mil-lion in Illinois.

Remarking on the Insight Cen-ter’s new findings, Keith Corbett, CRL executive vice president said, “Payday lending is really financial assault on communities of color. By preying on consumers with few resources, this predatory prod-uct takes what little they have and winds up leaving borrowers worse off than before these loans.”

Corbett’s comments are under-scored by the Insight report. “Far from creating opportunity, payday lending creates impoverished households and endangers local economies,” the report concluded.

Charlene Crowell is a communi-cations manager with the Center for Responsible Lending.

Report: Payday loans drain up to $1B from communities

Prime Minister Jose Maria Neves of Cape Verde visited a community forum at Dorchester House on Sunday as part of his official visit to the United States. The Prime Minister delivered remarks about his meeting with President Obama, his vision for Cape Verde and his commitment to good governance and democracy. Seated (L-R) are Cape Verdean Minister of Communities Fernanda Fernandes, Prime Minister Neves and President and CEO of the Dorchester House Walter Ramos. (Photo courtesy of Dorchester House Multi-Service Center)

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Kelly Bates

Boston families eagerly awaited a new plan to assign our children more equitably to seats in the public schools. The Three Zone system had too many shortcomings, in-cluding no assurance that a child would be assigned to a high-quality school in their neighborhood.

The new Home Based student

assignment plan adopted by the Boston School Committee and recommended by the External Advisory Committee on School Choice is equally problematic when it comes to the core issue of school quality.

Because of the new plan’s in-adequacy, I was one of two from among the 27 advisory commit-tee members to vote against it. I am a proud Boston Public School parent, and the other vote came

from a proud Boston public school teacher.

Looking back three years, I was one of the lucky parents who won big under the old plan and the Boston Public School lottery system. My son got into our first-choice school — one with a great reputation, good MCAS scores and teachers, a dynamic curric-ulum with arts, gym and music,

and the strong supports of before and after school.

But in neighborhoods across Boston, such as Hyde Park, Mat-tapan, Roxbury, Dorchester, South Boston and those with pri-marily low-income children and children of color, most families are nowhere as lucky.

Many of their schools are fail-ing. The reason is the absence of true quality, which comes down to excellent, well-paid and supported

teachers and school leaders, rigor-ous and dynamic school curricula, strong parental involvement, arts, technology, cultural program-ming and key supports such as before and after school.

I accept that there is no per-fect student assignment plan, but we can do even better than what the Boston School Committee ad-opted. We need a much bolder ap-proach that will result in a system with consistent high quality, and one that gives teachers and schools the resources and tools to meet their students’ needs.

Improving MCAS scores is one approach, but not the only mea-sure of success. Throwing in a few charter schools surely isn’t enough to change an entire system.

Bottom line, we cannot afford a public education system of the haves and have-nots. A child’s entire future can hinge on the ed-ucation they receive. All the data prove it. It’s the difference be-tween a great job and a good one; a path to college or a path to prison; access to social opportunities or access to trouble, like drugs, teen pregnancy or violence.

At the final meeting of the External Advisory Committee where the home-based assign-ment plan was passed, I insisted that our report include a number

of recommendations aimed at going the next step. Most impor-tant is what should be at the top — to increase academic profi-ciency across all schools, all grade levels and all students.

School Superintendent Carol Johnson agreed and immediately appointed a quality school advi-sors team consisting of community members and experts to advise the school district on ways to acceler-ate student achievement.

Everyone inside and outside government now needs to em-brace the goal of high quality

schools for everyone and for every neighborhood. It’s a matter of ur-gency for our children and fami-lies in the city.

Student assignment is just that — an assignment process. School quality is really the ultimate issue, and we can’t claim victory in Boston until that is fulfilled.

Kelly Bates is a parent with a child in the Boston Public Schools and a former member of the External Advi-sory Committee on School Choice. She is an attorney and the Executive Di-rector of the Access Strategies Fund.

BPS needs bold approach to ensure quality schools

The Bay State has a new queen, as Janelle Woods-McNish was crowned Mrs. Massachusetts on Sunday, March 17 at the Boston Marriott-Newton. The Boston resident, mother of 4-year-old twins and MBA candidate at Simmons College is the first African American to win the title.

We can do even better than what the Boston School Committee adopted. We need a much bolder approach that will result in a system with consistent high quality.

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Shanice Maxwell

According to the United States Department of Agriculture, it’s imperative to “make half your plate fruits and vegetables.”

But in a society marked by fast-paced living, busy schedules, on-the-go meals and TV dinners, it

can be difficult to enjoy the proper fix of fruits and veggies needed to keep healthy and in tip-top shape. Juicing, though, makes consump-tion easier and increases the nu-trients gained by processing fruits and vegetables in a juicer, separat-ing the fibers from the liquid and leaving only the juice to drink.

It allows for high-boost ab-sorption of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, says Jennifer Thompson, 41, certified iridolo-gist, detox expert, raw food coach and author from Philadelphia.

“In one meal, you wouldn’t normally have the capacity to eat half [a] bunch [of] celery, 10 car-

rots, eight large kale leaves, an entire handful of parsley, two apples, a lemon and a cucumber. Take all of those ingredients, put them in the juicer, and you’ve just ingested all the same nutrients in a few easy sips,” Thompson said.

There are no limits to what fruits and vegetables can be in-cluded in a juice. And after pin-pointing diet deficiencies, recipes can be catered to individual needs. Juicing can also be a remedy for weight loss and ridding the body of unwanted toxins from poor eating selections.

While varying studies disagree on the advantages of juicing, pro-ponents believe the practice can reverse the negative effects of un-healthy dining.

Joe Cross, 46, founder/CEO of Reboot With Joe and creator of the hit film “Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead,” knows the power of juicing well.

“I lost about 80 pounds in the two months I was juicing, and was able to get off all of the medica-tion I was taking for my chronic autoimmune disease without even one flare-up,” said Cross, of Sydney, Australia. “And I’ve been able to maintain that for the five years since we filmed [the movie].So I’m not exaggerating when I say that juicing saved my life.”

Chef Giovanna Henry, 37, from Boston by way of Brooklyn and Grenada, can also relate.

“I had a high blood pressure issue,” Henry said. “When I was pregnant with my third child, I had a lot of difficulty and actually de-livered six weeks early because of that. So once I had her, I got more into juicing just to get healthier, do things in a more natural way and get off the medication.”

Since then, it has become a bona fide passion for Chef Henry, who

now specializes in juicing and works with clients to find the recipes best suited for their diet and lifestyle.

She hopes more people of color will partake in juicing, since these communities are disproportion-ately affected by health disparities linked to diet, such as hyperten-sion, high LDL cholesterol, dia-betes and obesity.

Carl ‘Crush’ Foster, 41, of Dorchester is the CEO/co-founder of Juice Hugger, a Brook-lyn-based beverage company created to bring “affordable raw, pressed and organic unpasteur-ized juices to urbanites.” His af-finity for juicing comes from win-ning a battle with weight control.

“[It] gives you natural energy that we all have, we just deplete it … especially in the urban com-munity,” Foster said. “We call it the ‘itis,’ but really it’s just the result of us eating heavy, ‘carby,’ greasy, salty, sugary foods. All of our blood rushes to our stomach to break all of that down [and] takes it away from our brains, our minds, our thinking, so we get tired and sluggish and we’re like ‘oh that’s the itis, that’s some good eating’ but it’s really not good at all. Food is not supposed to make you tired; it’s supposed to give you energy. Juicing does just that.”

Vedet Coleman, 33, founder/CEO of StraightJuicin’, a business devoted to helping people reclaim their health, agrees.

“[In communities of color] I think the problem is access and exposure,” said Coleman, of Bal-timore. “There really hasn’t been any exposure to juicing in our communities. I mean it’s not like Big Mama was a juicer when she was making Sunday dinner in ‘Soul

Green GoblinINGREDIENTS:3 leaves of organic kale3 organic carrots with stalk4 Granny Smith apples (use Pink Lady apples if you want more of a sweet flavor)

DIRECTIONS:1. Using a juicer, load these in-

gredients one by one — no need to peel them, and be sure to keep apple skins on.

2. Once everything has been juiced, pour, sip and enjoy!

HEALTH BENEFITS:• Kale is high in iron, antioxi-

dants, Vitamins A, C and K• Carrots are a great source of Vi-

tamin A, potassium, folic acid, magnesium and copper; they help to lower blood pressure

• Apples contain Vitamins A and B1 and are a good source of cal-cium and potassium; they are a good cleanser.

Popeye’s PunchINGREDIENTS:1 handful of organic spinach1 organic kiwi½ organic pineapple¼ organic papaya1 cup of coconut water (fresh as possible)1 tsp. flax seeds

DIRECTIONS:1. Cut the pineapple and papaya

up into cubes.2. Slice the kiwi.3. Using a Nutribullet or blender,

add in all ingredients.4. Blend until contents reach

a liquefied consistency and bottoms up!

HEALTH BENEFITS:• Spinach is rich in antioxidants,

iron, fiber and Vitamin A• Kiwi is a powerful antioxi-

dant, immune booster and full of Vitamin C

• P ineapp le s a re a l so an immune booster and contain Vitamin C

• Papaya is chock full of fiber and lowers cholesterol levels

• Coconut water is an excellent source of calcium and minerals

• Flax seeds are high in Vitamin B, magnesium, manganese, antioxidants and omega 3

Sweet Island TreatINGREDIENTS:1 frozen organic banana2 fresh organic bananas2 cups of organic strawberries¼ of an organic mango1 cup of ice½ cup of rice milk (may also sub-stitute with almond or oat milk)

DIRECTIONS:1. Cut mango and bananas.2. Slice strawberries.3. Add ice and pour in milk.4. Using a blender, allow the

ingredients to mix until smoothie consistency is reached. Add more rice milk or ice depending on how thick or slick you want this beverage to be, and imagine yourself on the island of your choice with every swallow.

HEALTH BENEFITS:• Strawberries are high in fiber

and sugar, so be careful if you’re a diabetic

• Bananas are fibrous and full of potassium, magnesium, and cleanse your intestinal tract

• Mangoes are full of fiber, Vi-tamin C, pectin, promoting heart health and minimizing constipation

• Rice milk is a healthier alter-native for milk that’s also high in Vitamins A and D as well as calcium

Chef Giovanna Henry inserts organic kale into the juicer to prepare the Green Goblin juice. (Daniel Irvin photos)

Juicing, continued to page 9

Getting your juice on with Chef Giovanna:3 RECIPES FOR BEGINNERS

Contact Chef Giovanna at: wellfedcommunity@gmail.com

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Bottoms up: your guide to fruit and vegetable juicing

Food.’ We do what we are taught to do, but when you know better, you do better. What we are trying to do is help folks know better.”

“Folks should care about juic-ing because it literally can save

your life,” she added. “We have people who juice with us who have totally discarded their blood pressure medicine, got off their diabetes medicine, cured autoim-mune diseases and the list goes on and on.”

Many juicers say the short- and long-term health benefits of juicing outweigh any of its draw-

backs, such as spending slightly more on produce and a juicer, and foregoing the temptation of takeout.

“I feel so lethargic after having an unhealthy meal, but with juic-ing, you feel amazing,” said Bianca Brown, 26, equity sales desk assis-tant for Canaccord Genuity from South Boston. “It’s enjoyable, it’s

relaxing, it’s therapeutic.” “It allows [me] to get all my

nutrients in a sip and quickly. The benefits are infinite,” said Jihad Scudder, 30, school counselor and student advocate for Boston Public Schools from Roxbury.

In the end, it is an investment in health.

“If your health is important to

you and if living to see tomorrow is important, then juicing is some-thing you should get into,” said Chef Henry. “Just like breathing, it should be a part of your life.”

Chef Giovanna Henry may be contacted for juicing tips, advice, a free consultation and more at wellfed-community@gmail.com.

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Over the past few months, I have been weighing my own place in Boston’s bright future. During that time, I have been blessed to regain so much of my health.

I am back to a mayor schedule, but not a Menino schedule.

And I miss that. I miss hitting every event, ribbon cutting, new homeowner dinner, school play and chance meeting. Spending so much time in the neighborhoods gives me energy. Being with our

residents builds our trust. It may not be the only way to lead Boston, but it’s the only way for me.

So I am here with the people I love, to tell the city I love that I will leave the job that I love. I can run, I can win, and I can lead, but not ‘in-the-neighborhoods-all-the-time’ as I like. …

I will be very proud if I have changed our city in some ways that last. I know from community lead-ers, business executives, nonprofit champions and teachers of all types that there are more ways to impact our city than just this one.

So I do plan to stay very en-gaged in Boston’s future. I am not retiring, but just turning one page on this chapter to the next. …

I have no plans to pick the person to fill this seat. I just ask that you choose someone who loves this city as much as I have. …

One of the great blessings of this job was meeting half the people who live in this city. I get asked all the time how I met so much of Boston. I just did what

I loved, and then it wasn’t too hard:

All you do is start in Roslin-dale and rebuild its Main Street with neighbors.

You walk with the proud resi-dents of Bowdoin-Geneva every Christmas Eve as they survey their progress, and you keep walking until the job is done.

You promise the people of Grove Hall a supermarket and shopping mall, and you deliver.

You say in West Roxbury that a landfill will become a park and then you return for soccer games.

You shovel dirt in Dudley Square to move what seemed like mountains.

To build Boston’s waterfront with a new generation, you col-laborate, because that’s what truly meeting people is.

You open your arms to all new Bostonians and then stand with

them as they become citizens. And then you cut a ribbon on the small business they started.

And then, when their chil-dren graduate at the top of their class, you have them for lunch and marvel at how fast they rise up in a city that welcomes them all.

You stand with new homeown-ers in public housing and tell them they deserve a yard and a front door. You reach out to the homeless on cold winter nights and say they count also.

You rally with gay friends and neighbors.

You work with business execu-tives to provide summer jobs and

then talk with teens about what they learned. You visit the younger kids at Camp Harbor View.

If you want to meet half the people in our city, all you do is go to their homes, their jobs, where they raise their families and where they strive to improve their neighborhoods and say this: Boston is the greatest city on earth. The buzz around this city is amazing. … It gets better every day because of you, and as long as you work together that will never change.

Excerpted from Menino’s speech last Thursday.

Menino: ‘To tell the city…I will leave the job I loved’

So I am here with the people I love, to tell the city I love that I will leave the job that I love. I can run, I can win, and I can lead, but not ‘in-the-neighborhoods-all-the-time’ as I like.

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city councilors and members of the city’s State House delegation.

Known for his boundless energy and 18-hour days, Menino is said to have met at least half of the city’s nearly 635,000 during his tenure. He attended so many neighborhood meetings, braved so many frigid nights to count and care for the homeless, and shov-eled so much dirt at new construc-tions sites that one former oppo-nent once quipped that Menino was known to show up for the opening of an envelope.

As he walked with a cane to the podium at Fanueil Hall to make his announcement last week, Menino was not the same “urban mechanic,” who had pledged years ago to eschew all the grand visions and trappings of modern day politicians and concentrate on the day-to-day grind of running a major municipality: public educa-tion, urban crime and, of course, pothole repairs.

His health is just not the same. Last year, while on vacation in Italy, the 70-year-old mayor was treated

for a respiratory infection. While in the hospital he suffered compli-cations including a compression fracture in a vertebra in his spine and was diagnosed with Type 2 di-abetes. After being discharged, he spent three months recuperating.

“I’m back to a mayor’s sched-ule, but not a Menino schedule,” he said. “Spending so much time in the neighborhoods gives me energy... It may not be the only way to lead Boston, but it’s the only way for me.”

Despite his health problems, Menino remains feisty, drawing the heartiest laugh when he boldly asserted: “I can run, I can win and I can lead, but not in the neigh-borhoods all the time as I like.”

A Boston Globe poll last

showed that Mr. Menino re-mained immensely popular and that almost three-fourths of re-spondents said the city was head-ing in the right direction. But it also showed that voters were con-cerned about his health and am-bivalent about returning him to office for an unprecedented sixth term. Only 43 percent said they wanted him to run again, and 36 percent said they did not.

Menino’s support is wide, deep and longstanding. Menino was president of the City Council when then-Mayor Ray Flynn was appointed ambassador to the Vati-can. Menino became acting mayor for four months. Elected to his first term in November 1993, he won re-election by wide margins in 1997, 2001, 2005 and 2009.

To Harvard President Drew Faust, Menino has been a “power-ful advocate for the role that edu-cation and research play in fueling innovation and prosperity.”

“Discoveries and degree hold-ers are as much a part of his legacy as buildings and businesses,” Faust stated, “and his efforts to promote education will pay dividends for generations to come.”

Menino’s departure creates a virtual free-for-all among lesser-

known politicians. Boston City Councilor John Connolly had already declared his candidacy. Other potential candidates in-clude state Rep. Martin Walsh, City Councilors Tito Jackson and Rob Consalvo, state Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz, and Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley.

On April 17, candidates can apply for nomination papers, the first step in getting their name on the ballot for the preliminary elec-tion, scheduled for Sept. 24. The top two vote-getters will compete in the Nov. 5 final election.

“I have no plans to pick the person to fill this seat,” Menino said. “I just ask that you choose someone who loves this city as much as I do.”

Meninocontinued from page 1

On March 27, Mayor Thomas Menino met with the student government of Madison Park Vocational Technical High School in Roxbury. (Jeremiah Robinson photo via Mayor’s Office)

“I’m back to a mayor’s schedule, but not a Menino schedule. Spending so much time in the neighborhoods gives me energy... It may not be the only way to lead Boston, but it’s the only way for me.”

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At an early age, Travaris Spears, known to many as “Varis” or simply as “V,” displayed a charm that was engaging and magnetic.

An energy and passion for performing led him to sing and dance, often imitating his favorite artists and celebrities. Using the world as his stage, Travaris leaves a lasting impression, thanks to a gift for communicating and in-teracting with people from all walks of life.

In fact, after performing in a Tiny Tots school play, the director and audience members expressed to his mother that he had some-thing special. In 2007, he moved from Rochester to Brooklyn, N.Y., with his mother, Tanika.

Although Travaris was blessed with natural talents, he commit-ted himself to various activities that enhanced his character and improved his chances of blos-soming as a professional artist.

The discipline Travaris has displayed at such a young age is unrivaled and enables him to become fully engaged in a host of skill-building activities. His repertoire includes enrollment at

the American Tap Dance Foun-dation, weekly guitar lessons and voice and acting coaching.

While maintaining excellent grades in school, he has appeared in music videos, print ads and several indie films.

Here, he talks about his new movie, “Admission,” a romantic comedy co-starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd, where he plays Rudd’s adopted son, Nelson.

What interested you in “Admission”?

I think the thing that made me most interested in this role was playing a kid that had a life to-tally different from mine. Nelson is adopted. He travels the world with his father … no stability, no mother. It was interesting prepar-ing myself mentally for this role.

What was it like being on the set of your first feature film?

It was so exciting being on set for the first time. Everyone welcomed me with love. It was a great cast to work with.

Were you at all nervous acting around big stars like Paul Rudd and Tina Fey?

Yes, I was nervous at first. I ac-tually auditioned with Tina Fey before I was offered the role, and she made me feel really comfort-able. We connected immediately. I was also able to meet Paul Rudd before I came on set to discuss some of the scenes, and he was very friendly and cool to work with. After the initial meeting, I was no longer nervous.

How would you describe your character, Nelson?

Nelson is an outgoing kid, very caring and outspoken. He loves to socialize like myself. Nelson is a kid who wants stability, a normal life, a mom and the same friends and the same school, instead of traveling the world with his father. Nelson hates traveling.

Are you anything like him in real life?

Yes, Nelson and I are outgoing, caring, not shy and we like stabil-ity. I couldn’t imagine traveling the world, being taken away from my friends and family constantly.

What message do you think people will take away from the film?

People will see that change is not always bad; you can find many things in change, including happiness.

What was it like to see yourself up on the big screen for the first time?

It was amazing. I was so ex-cited, I remember thinking “what will I look like?” and hoping I did a good job and that people would like my character. The one thing I was shocked about was every-thing I worked on was not in the movie. I learned about the editing of movies at my first screening of “Admission.” During the movie I said, “Mom, what happened to this scene? I worked really hard on that and it was taken out.”

Besides acting, you sing, dance, play guitar and even box. Which is your favorite?

I’m involved in a lot of activities and I enjoy them all, but if I could pick a favorite it would be acting.

What do you like to do to unwind?

On a busy day for me, once I finish work, I like to play video games or listen to music.

When was the last time you had a good laugh?

I always have good laughs daily. I’m a happy kid. For exam-ple, I’m a member at Gleason’s boxing gym, and my nickname there is Happy.

What was the last book you read?

The last book I read was “The Red Pyramid” by Rick Riordan.

What is your favorite dish to eat?

Chicken Pad Thai and cheese pizza.

When you look in the mirror, what do you see?

When I look in the mirror I see a handsome young man — smart, charming, willing to work hard for his dream, never giving up. And someone willing to help other people.

If you could meet any historical figure, who would it be?

It would be Martin Luther King, because he never gave up on his dream.

Veni! Vidi! Varis!

Travaris Spears talks about co-starring in the new romantic comedy “Admission”

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Get Konnected! Turns 5…Bathed in lights of purple (Co-

lette’s favorite color as I’m told), as opposed to its usual emerald green, the jam-packed Emerald Lounge was the site of the fifth anniver-sary of Colette Phillip’s popular networking event Get Konnected! on Tuesday, March 26. It was an evening of celebration with a wide array of friends and supporters (in-cluding Gov. Deval Patrick) min-gling, reconnecting and celebrat-ing five years of Phillips’ success at bringing together urban profes-sionals in Boston.

Hey Young World…Old school hip hop came alive

for a packed 20- to 40-something crowd at the Wilbur Theatre last Friday. DJ Kaos got the party started as he spun the best ’80s and ’90s hip hop from artists such as Poor Righteous Teachers, Chubb Rock, Eric B. & Rakim, MC Lyte and Onyx, just to name a few. The air was filled with anticipation for Slick Rick and Big Daddy Kane to hit the stage. The audience cheered as Rick the Ruler came out dressed in all black, sporting his famous eye patch, and per-formed his signature hits “Mona Lisa,” “La-Di-Da-Di” and “Chil-dren’s Story.” Still smooth at the age of 48, Rick slow-bopped on stage to the delight of the crowd. Next up was the Smooth Op-erator himself, Big Daddy Kane. Decked out in all-white with light grey shell-toes Adidas sneakers, a grey scully and sunglasses, Kane ripped the mic with his classics “Ain’t No Half Steppin’,” “Raw” and “Smooth Operator.”

By The Way, Meet Vera Starck

The latest offering by The Lyric Stage Company of Boston is the witty, charming and entertain-ing production of “By The Way, Meet Vera Stark,” written by Pu-litzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage. The comedy takes a funny and irreverent look at racial stereotypes in Hollywood through the life of Vera Stark, a headstrong African-American maid and budding actress in the 1930s, and her tangled relation-ship with Gloria Mitchell, her

boss and white Hollywood star struggling to reclaim her career. Vera Stark, played by the delight-ful and engaging Kami Rushell Smith, pulls you in with her win-some personality and expressive eyes, and Hannah Husband por-trays the role of Gloria Mitchell with good comic timing mixed with a dose of vulnerability, heart and chutzpah. A commentary on race in the 1930s, but also for the present time, Vera Stark is worth spending a couple of hours at the theatre. The comedy is directed by Summer L. Williams and runs through April 27. Tickets can be purchased at www.lyricstage.com.

Coming Up…Tonight (April 4), the Boston

Jewish Film Festival presents a screening of the documentary Koch, about former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, at the West Newton Cinema at 7 p.m.

This Friday night, celebrate “MFA First Fridays” featuring an evening of fine art, music, signature cocktails and delicious tapas all at the Museum of Fine Arts. Music will be provided by DJ Denise LaCarubba. The fun starts at 6 p.m. and is 21+.

On Saturday, April 6, World

Music/CRASHarts presents Dianne Reeves at the Berklee Performance Center for one show at 8 p.m. For tickets and information call World Music/CRASHarts at (617) 876-4275 or purchase online at www.World-Music.org.

Back in town for their annual visit are The Harlem Globetrot-ters this Saturday, April 6 and this Sunday, April 7 at 1 p.m. at the TD Garden. For more informa-tion or to purchase tickets, visit www.tdgarden.com.

“Girl on Fire” singer Alicia Keys brings her “Set the World on Fire Tour” to The Agganis Arena along with opening act Miguel on Wednesday, April 10 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available at www.ticketmaster.com.

The Orpheum Theatre presents Ben Harper on May 4 at 7:30 p.m.

Something for the whole family: The Big Apple Circus has taken residency at City Hall Plaza now through May 12. Tickets are avail-able at www.bigapplecircus.org.

If you would like me to cover or write about your event, email me at inthemixwithcolette@gmail.com.

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The Performance Series That Embraces Art, Culture & Spirituality

Thurs April 4“THE NEW ROXBURY: Art, Culture & Spirituality” Featuring Brother Doumafis Lafontan, Gallery Musika Vanhu [previously Gallery Basquiat] and The Fulani Haynes Jazz Collaborative + Open Mic

Thurs April 11Recording Artist Kendall RamseurA Fusion of Vocal, Cello & Guitar Works + Community Teaching Artist Neil Horsky Collaborative Poetry Game + Open Mic

Thurs April 18: “SNEEZE: The Things I Used To Do,”Author, Monica Cost Reading Excerpts, Q&A, Book Signing + Def Jam & Slam Poetry Queen Iyeoka & BCAP, musician, lyricist, song-writer, recording artist Prepare to Tear It UP! + Open Mic

Thurs April 25London BridgezSoul Word Artist & Founding Member of the Neo.Logic Beatnik Assembly + Open Mic

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ALL ARE WELCOMEALL ages, races, beliefs, shoe sizes & hairstyles

Haley House Bakery Cafe Kitchen Open until 8:30pm

Coming on Wednesday April 17th:What is the Notion? The History of A Nubian Notion.

Join us for an evening while Jumaada Abdal-Khallaq H. Smith (daughter of founder Malik Abdal Khallaq) and other family members share stories of A Nubian

Notion Inc, at one time the largest one stop Afrocentric store in New England. For many years, A Nubian Notion Inc. was the only store in Boston selling African and African American products. Cards, jewelry, art, fabric, Afro-piks (an original design), dashikis (created by Mrs. Elva Lee C. Abdal-Khallaq, the wife of Malik Abdal-Khallaq), books and much more were available, providing the Roxbury com-munity with knowledge, self-awareness and cultural identity. After the presentation about the store’s history, a panel (moderated by Candelaria Silva and including artist Ekua Holmes) will reflect on the impact A Nubian Notion had on them and on the Black community in Boston. The audience is invited to bring memories to share.

The evening is free and open to the public. Program begins at 7pm. Dinner is available

for sale from 5PM on. Seating is limited.

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The cast of “By The Way, Meet Vera Starck” grace the stage during the Lyric Stage Company’s production of the play. (Photo courtesy of the Lyric Stage Company)

Delighted to reconnect at Get Konnected!’s fifth anniversary, (L-R) Lisa Simmons, direc-tor of the Roxbury International Film Festival, and Rhonda DaSilva, recruiter/sourcer for Tufts University, were all smiles after seeing one another. (Colette Greenstein photo)

‘Smooth Operator’ Big Daddy Kane rip-ping it on the mic at the Wilbur Theatre last Friday. (Michael Helly photo)

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SaturdayApril 4

Harold Night: Fresh Blend Longform Jam

Every Thursday night our resident ImprovBoston Harold teams perform Harold, THE classic long form improv format, with occa-sional 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. 9:30pm. Tickets: $10. ImprovBoston, 40 Prospect St., Cambridge. More information on ImprovBoston is available at http://improvboston.com.

Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot on Respect: Witness and Justice

A Lowell lecture series presen-tation; free and open to the public; Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot will pres-ent a view that draws its contours from the African-American historic journey of liberation and focuses on the ways that respect creates equality, empathy, and connec-tion. 6-8pm, Museum of African American history, 46 Joy St., Beacon Hill. Contact: 617-725-0022 ext 222. More Info: http://www.maah.org/.

Simmons College/Beacon Press Race, Education and

Democracy LecturesCo-sponsored by the Boston

and Cambridge Public Schools. Lecturer: Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, President, University of Mary-land, Baltimore County; Chairper-son of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans. Topic: Edu-cating Achievers in Math, Science and Technology; 4:30–6pm, Rais-ing a Generation of Achievers in Math, Science, and Technology — It Takes a Village/via SKYPE. For more information and to reg-ister, visit www.raceandeducation.com. Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston. Contact: Theresa Perry, theresaaperry@gmail.com; 617-521-2570. Free and open to the public.

Upcoming

The People’s Law School: Community Education

Workshops & Open HouseThe Legal Services Center of

Harvard Law School presents The People’s Law School: Com-munity Education Workshops & Open House. Saturday, April 13, 1-5pm, 122 Boylston St., Jamaica Plain, next to Stony Brook MBTA Station — Orange Line, Parking also available. Free & Open to the Public — For More Information Call 617-522-3003. Legal Clinics Include: Employment, Consumer Protection, Veterans, Tax, Social Security, Housing & Small Claims.

Keeping Well in Mind, Body, and Spirit

Patients and their family mem-bers, caregivers, and friends are invited to attend the American Cancer Society’s I Can Cope workshop, titled ‘Keeping Well in

Mind, Body, and Spirit’, Tuesday, April 16, 2-4pm, at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Cardinal Cushing Pavilion, Division of Hematology Oncology, 5th Floor, 736 Cam-bridge Street in Brighton. The free workshop will examine the physi-cal, emotional, intellectual, social, and spiritual dimensions of well-ness. Participants will be encour-aged to think of ways of maintain-ing health in spite of cancer, and to explore strategies for increas-ing well being. The workshop will be facilitated by Lauren Schairer, MSW, LCSW. To register, or for more information, please contact Lauren Schairer at 617-789-2662 or Lauren.Schairer@steward.org.

Vento ChiaroThe Boston-based woodwind

quintet acclaimed nationally for its technical virtuosity, intrepid take on the classical repertoire, and educational mission will per-form a free concert on April 16 at 5pm in Chelsea, MA at Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC), Chelsea Campus, Community Room. The concert is sponsored by the Free For All Concert Fund, which ensures that all Bostonians have access to high quality clas-sical music in perpetuity.

From North Square to Old North Church: A

Paul Revere Walking TourThe Paul Revere House and

the Old North Church are pleased to offer a new guided walking tour of North End sites related to Paul Revere, ending with a visit to the church’s bell-ringing chamber and the story of the Midnight Ride. Participants will gain a hands-on understanding of both Revere’s life in the neighborhood and what actually happened on April 18, 1775. Families with chil-dren in grades 5-8 are encour-aged to attend. Reservations are required and may be made by calling 617-523-2338. $10 Adults, $6 Children (ages 5-17). A self-guided visit to the Revere House is included in the admis-sion price. Tuesday, April 16, 2-3:30pm. The Paul Revere House, 19 North Square, Boston.

Boston Debate League’s (BDL) Public High School Debaters

B o s t o n C i t y C o u n c i l -lor Charles C. Yancey and the Boston City Council will host the Boston Debate League’s (BDL) Public High School Debaters on Wednesday, April 17, 5:30-7pm, in the Iannella Chambers on the 5th Floor at Boston City Hall. The debate, which is open to the public, will focus on whether or not the US federal government should increase investment in its transportation infrastructure. Two teams of debaters (one which will argue for increased investment and the other against increased investment) will be judged by a distinguished panel of Boston leaders and former debaters.

National Poetry Month: Open Mic Night

Thursday, April 18 , 5:30-7:45pm; Showcasing a night of poets and singers. M.C. for

the evening is Art Collins. At the Dudley Branch Library, 65 Warren St, Roxbury. Open and free to the public. Call if you want to partici-pate — 617-442-6186.

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and see where it takes you. The biggest thing is don’t worry about it. You’re always gonna be moving somewhere … Join us on a kaleidoscopic road trip through an American landscape filled with hopes and dreams, violence, chicken jokes, ill-con-ceived business ventures, back-yard barbeques, and love stories. An invigorating 3-D mash-up of low and high culture inspired by pop artist Robert Rauschenberg, bobrauschenbergamerica romps through an America both actual and mythical with song, dance, and the sheer exhilaration that comes from living in a country where people make up their lives as they go. Along the way, we encounter bathing beauties and lady truckers, derelicts and would-be farmers, lovers, more lovers, and, of course, Mom. April 18 at 8pm, all tickets $1! Tufts Univer-sity Medford/Somerville Campus. Balch Arena Theater Box Office — 617-627-3493.

Midnight Ride Storytelling Program

Find out what really happened on Paul Revere’s ride! Separate the facts from the myths, then retrace Revere’s route from his home to the banks of the Charles River. Partici-pants don hats and carry props as they go, taking on the roles of Paul and Rachel Revere, their children, British soldiers, rowers, John Han-cock and Samuel Adams. Particu-larly appropriate for kids in grades K-4. Reservations are required and may be made by calling 617-523-2338. $4.50 for each adult and child age 5 and up. Friday, April 19, 10:30am – 12pm. The Paul Revere House, 19 North Square, Boston.

Collections Up Close “Collections Up Close” is a

series of free events to encour-age a deeper appreciation of the Arboretum and plants in our lives. There will be guided tours, fun sci-ence and craft activities for kids, scavenger hunts, and knowledge-able staff and volunteers on hand. Magnificent Maples, Sunday, April 21, 1-3pm, Location: Maple Col-lection http://arboretum.harvard.edu/plants/featured-plants/maple-collection/. Explore our world-class maple collection as flowers bloom and new leaves unfurl. With sup-port from Harvard Forest and the Boston Parks & Recreation Depart-ment’s ParkSCIENCE program.

Freedom Rising: The 150th Anniversary of The Eman-cipation Proclamation and African American Military Service in the Civil WarIn commemorat ion of the

150th Anniversary of the Eman-cipation Proclamation several Greater Boston educational, his-torical and cultural organizations are collaborating to present Free-dom Rising: The 150th Anniver-sary of The Emancipation Procla-

mation and African American Mili-tary Service in the Civil War from May 2-4. Freedom Rising takes place throughout Greater Boston with lectures by Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian Eric Foner and others, a Symposium focusing on the hemispheric impact of the Emancipation Proclamation, and Roots of Liberty, a performance with special guests Danny Glover, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and author Edwidge Danticat exploring the impact of the Haitian Revolution on the antislavery movement and the Civil War. All events are free and open to the public. No res-ervations necessary. For more information, to RSVP, or to join a mailing list to keep informed about Freedom Rising, the gen-eral public should visit FreedomRising2013.com. To attend any of the events on May 2-4, please RSVP by April 26.

Collections Up Close “Collections Up Close” is a

series of free events to encour-age a deeper appreciation of the Arboretum and plants in our lives. There will be guided tours, fun sci-ence and craft activities for kids, scavenger hunts, and knowledge-able staff and volunteers on hand. Lilac Sunday, Sunday, May 12, 10am - 4pm, Location: Lilac Collec-tion http://arboretum.harvard.edu/plants/featured-plants/lilacs/. This beloved Boston tradition celebrates the lilacs as well as many other spe-cial collections at their peak at this lovely time of year. With support from Harvard Forest and the Boston Parks & Recreation Department’s ParkSCIENCE program.

Franklin Park Kite & Bike Festival

Saturday, May 18 11am - 3pm — at the Shattuck Picnic Grove in Franklin Park, Circuit Drive, Roxbury. Join thousands of people in Boston’s giant back-yard, Franklin Park, and celebrate spring! Bring your own kite or buy one in the park. Free bike “rent-als” of all sizes, including train-ing wheels, available from Boston Bikes. Enjoy a picnic from local food trucks. FREE. Brought to you by Discover Roxbury: www.discoverroxbury.org and the Franklin Park Coalition: www.franklinpark-coalition.org For more information check the websites or call: 617-442-4141.

Collections Up Close“Collections Up Close” is a

series of free events to encour-

age a deeper appreciation of the Arboretum and plants in our lives. There will be guided tours, fun sci-ence and craft activities for kids, scavenger hunts, and knowledge-able staff and volunteers on hand. Rhododendron Ramble, Sunday, June 2, 1-3pm, Location: Rho-dodendron Dell http://arboretum.harvard.edu/plants/featured-plants/rhododendron-dell/. Stroll through Rhododendron Dell at the foot of Hemlock Hill and enjoy the diverse display of rhododendrons in bloom. With support from Har-vard Forest and the Boston Parks & Recreation Department’s Park-SCIENCE program.

Point and CounterpointS i m m o n s C o l l e g e p re s -

ents Point and Counterpoint, an exhibition of paintings and prints by Juan José Barboza-Gubo, Jennifer R. A. Campbell and Sydney Hardin through April 18 at the Trustman Art Gal-lery, located on the fourth floor, Main College Building, 300 the Fenway in Boston. Closed April 15. The exhibit is free and open to the public.

Free Fitness ClassesEach free class is 30 minutes

and meets in the gym; anyone over the age of 16 welcome. Every Wednesday, 12:30-1pm or 1-1:30pm. Dorchester House Gym, 1353 Dorchester Ave.

Hans Tutschku: Unreal Memories

The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University presents Hans Tutschku: Unreal Memories, a sound installation conceived for the rooftop of the building, occurring from through May 29. Specially conceived for the rooftop of the Carpenter Center of the Visual Arts in cel-ebration of the 50th anniversary of the building, Unreal Memo-ries is composed of transformed voices from many different cul-tures. Original recordings serve as models for computer trans-formations that create an imagi-nary intercultural journey, where voices from elsewhere come together. They call us, they cel-ebrate, they open a short sonic window into our busy everyday lives. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge.

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Boston election department recruiting poll workers for upcoming elections

The Boston Election Depart-ment is recruiting poll workers for the important work of staffing the City’s 254 precincts for all upcom-ing Elections in 2013.

Special Elections for the U.S. Senate, the First Suffolk Senato-rial District and the Eighth Suf-folk Representative District will

take place this spring, and have placed a burden on the exist-ing pool of poll workers, many of whom take days off from their regular jobs to serve.

The dates for the Special Elec-tions are April 30, May 28 and June 25.

In order to guide voters through the electoral process and to ensure that all the polling loca-tions are adequately staffed, the Election Department requires a full complement of poll work-ers. There is also a critical need for bilingual individuals to serve

in all the poll worker roles: war-dens, clerks, and inspectors. Bi-lingual speakers of Spanish, Cape Verdean, Vietnamese, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Russian, Portu-guese and Somali are strongly en-couraged to apply.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following: assist with preparing the voting loca-tion for opening; hang signs in ac-cordance with legal requirements; count ballots; check in voters; maintain a record of the Election Day’s activities; provide assistance to voters with disabilities; assist in

removing signage; pack up election materials; and help check counts at the end of the day.

There are stipends ranging from $135-$175 for poll work-ers. While it is encouraged that all poll workers be available from 6 a.m. to the closing of the polls at 9 p.m., those workers serving as inspectors or interpreters may opt for a half-day shift: 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. or 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. (pro-rated pay rate of $9/hour). All first -time Poll Workers must attend a mandatory 2-hour training ses-sion prior to the elections.

Poll workers must be registered voters in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Preference will be given to those applicants who have a strong voter history. All poll workers must exhibit a pro-fessional and helpful demeanor, and must be respectful and mind-ful of the ethnic and cultural di-versity of Boston’s voters.

For an application or more information, please contact 617-635-4491 or email: election@cityofboston.gov. Applications can also be printed out from: www.cityofboston.gov/elections. Submitting an application does not guarantee an assignment.

Senior whole health offers free exercise classes in Roxbury and Jamaica Plain

Senior Whole Health (SWH), a health plan for seniors who have both Medicare and MassHealth, will offer free exercise classes

to residents of Roxbury and Ja-maica Plain. Gladys Grullon, a well-known aerobics instructor and performer from “Seniors in Action,” will teach the classes in both English and Spanish.

Classes will be held every Thursday to June 6 between 10 and 11 a.m. at the Boston Hous-ing Authority’s Armory Apart-ments in Roxbury.

“Healthy living and exercise is a life-long endeavor,” said Ja-maica Plain City Councilor Matt O’Malley. “It’s a terrific initiative that will benefit scores of residents.”

SWH Chairman and CEO Wayne Lowell said that regular exercise is an important part of a healthy lifestyle and helps seniors maintain their “quality of life and keep them living independently and at home.”

The classes will include in-struction on how to exercise prop-erly and incorporate exercise into participants’ daily routines.

“Exercise classes promote healthy living, help people prevent and deal with chronic diseases, and bring neighbors together to form strong social networks,” said Grullon. “They’re also a great way to get ready for walking and other outdoor activities available in the spring and summer.”

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Simmons College/Beacon Press held the latest installment of their lecture series “Race, Education and Democracy” on Saturday, March 30. Dr. Freeman A. Hrabowski III, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, spoke at the event, sponsored by the Boston Public School system and the Cambridge Public School system. (L to R) Dr. Hrabowski, Cambridge Mayor Henrietta Davis, Simmons College Africana Studies and Education Professor Theresa Perry, and Alfred Fantini, a member of the Cambridge School Committee.

Remain far from other’s wealth.Neither go anywhere near itnor cast your eyes upon it.Never let it creep into your meditation.Regard women with respect and affection.Never harm a woman.Consider her the mother of the universe. — Swami Muktananda

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As a long-time reproductive justice advocate, I have spent the better part of my career working to ensure that women, regardless of income or background, have access to the care that they need.

For me, Women’s History Month provided a perfect oppor-tunity to take stock of the work that still needs to be done so that women and girls can claim agency over their own destinies.

A lot of progress has taken place over the past 100 years, but none has been as central to improving the lives of women and their fami-lies as access to safe and effective reproductive health care.

Ironically, in many communi-ties, we are still fighting to gain access to such basic care. In fact, the legislative battles of the past three years have been as intense and crucial as any we’ve fought since Roe v. Wade — the 1973 Su-preme Court decision that legal-ized abortion in the U.S.

Numerous polls show over-whelming voter support for wom-en’s access to affordable birth con-trol, safe and legal abortion and preventive services, such as STD testing and treatment. Since 2011, legislators have introduced more than 1,100 rights-related provi-sions aimed at limiting or eliminat-ing access to these services, accord-ing to the Guttmacher Institute.

With almost 20 percent of Af-rican Americans uninsured and over 10 percent of black families living below the poverty level, Af-rican Americans have a lot at stake in this fight.

Many efforts to eliminate access have been squarely tar-geted at communities of color, particularly African Americans. For example, In 2011, Mississippi legislators tried to pass a so-called “personhood” bill, which would have deemed a fetus a person and banned not only access to safe and legal abortion in the state but also emergency contraception, com-monly known as the morning after pill.

As the state with the highest percentage of African Americans — 37 percent — and one of the country’s highest poverty rates, Mississippi’s “personhood” bill would have had a disproportion-ate and devastating effect on the black community. African Ameri-cans have also been the target of vitriolic, anti-reproductive-rights campaigns in recent years, includ-ing one financed by Georgia Right to Life — a largely white, male conservative group — that put up billboards accusing black women who choose to end their pregnan-cies of committing genocide.

All of this activity and notoriety has made black women’s bodies the topic of hot debate in recent years. And yet, few polls have ac-tually looked at African American support for reproductive health services, including birth control and safe, legal abortion.

A new survey commissioned by a coalition of reproductive justice organizations is providing some definitive insight that legislators would do well to consider and reproductive justice advocates would be smart to act on.

The poll (conducted by Belden Russonello Strategists and spon-sored by Black Women for Well-ness, Black Women’s Health Im-perative, New Voices Pittsburgh, SisterLove, Inc., SPARK Repro-ductive Justice and individual re-productive justice activists, in part-nership with Communications Consortium Media Center) que-ried a random sample of more than 1,000 African American adults.

Surprisingly, 86 percent of Af-rican Americans believe that con-traception is a part of basic health care. An even larger percent-age believes that publicly funded health services should provide birth control to low-income women who want it.

When questioned about abor-tion, 79 percent of respondents said they support it remain-ing legal and that they believe it should be available in their own communities. In fact, African American support for legalized abortion is nearly identical to the overall percentage of Ameri-cans who, in a recent USA Today/Gallup poll, said they support le-galized abortion.

Most significant, an over-whelming majority of African Americans said that regardless of how they personally feel about abortion, it should remain legal, and women should have access to safe care if and when they need it. This belief held across political and religious lines, with 74 per-cent of conservatives, 88 percent of liberals and more than three-quarters of regular churchgoers saying abortion should remain safe and legal.

These findings are enlighten-ing and can be a persuasive argu-ment against continued efforts by some legislators and interest groups to reduce access to repro-ductive health-care services and vilify the women who use them.

Even today, following a na-tional election that was won largely on the basis of how women — particularly women of color — voted, too many lawmakers are working to rescind the broadened access to birth control provided by the Affordable Care Act.

Given that African American women are more likely to expe-rience pregnancies that result in poor maternal and infant health outcomes, we have an urgent need for our views to be accurately rep-resented and seriously considered.

This new poll makes clear to lawmakers and groups that would target our communities with ra-cially charged rhetoric that a ma-jority of African Americans — like most other Americans — believe women, not politicians, should be trusted to make decisions about their reproductive health.

Getting out of the way of women and our ability to access the care we need is the best way to pay tribute to Women’s History Month.

Eleanor Hinton Hoytt is the pres-ident and CEO of Black Women’s Health Imperative.

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The Boston Foundation released a report last week showing that the Patrick-Murray Administration’s investments in the life sciences are making a measurable impact on job creation and spurring economic growth across the state.

“The Life Sciences Initiative is meeting its growth objectives and then some,” said Gov. Deval Patrick in an event announcing the report at the Boston Founda-tion last week. “Because we chose to shape the future we wanted, rather than just wait to see what happens, Massachusetts is now the world’s leading life sciences supercluster, and we have the jobs and economic opportunity that come with that.”

In 2007, Patrick proposed a 10-year, $1 billion Massachusetts Life Sciences Initiative. The initia-tive was passed by the Legislature in 2008, and the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) was charged with implementing it. The goal of this initiative has been to make the Commonwealth home to the most vibrant life sciences su-percluster in the world, attracting investment dollars, creating well-paying jobs, expanding a techni-cally skilled workforce and sup-porting an energetic landscape for innovation and entrepreneurship.

The report, “Life Sciences In-

novation as a Catalyst for Eco-nomic Development: The Role of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center,” was unveiled during an “Understanding Boston” forum at the Boston Foundation.

The research found that the MLSC has had a measurable impact on job creation through its over $300 million in invest-ments as of June, 2012. Over the last 10 years, the report stated, the life sciences cluster has cre-ated jobs in Massachusetts at a faster pace than any other indus-try sector in the Commonwealth, and since 2008, Massachusetts has overtaken all competitor states in the rate of life sciences job creation.

The MLSC is driving job cre-ation through several different programs, including loans to early-stage companies, grants to support industry-academic research collab-orations, cutting edge infrastruc-ture, growth incentives, workforce training and internships that help smaller companies access Massa-chusetts workers.

The research found that the MLSC’s investments in start-up companies is an especially strong draw to Massachusetts for larger companies, which rely on smaller companies to help them access and develop new technologies at a faster rate. The MLSC’s role in helping these start-up firms gain

traction in Massachusetts has been instrumental in encouraging the larger bioscience companies to locate and create jobs in the Com-monwealth, the report stated.

Building on these targeted in-vestments, Patrick unveiled a budget proposal in January that includes new investments in education and transportation, investments that have proven to create new jobs and economic opportunities.

The report was conducted through the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeast-ern University and authored by Barry Bluestone and Alan Clay-ton-Matthews.

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MacArthur Genius Grant recipient and first African American woman in Harvard’s history to have an endowed professorship named in her honor, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot delivers “Respect; Witness and Justice,” on Thursday, April 4, 6 p.m. at the Museum of African American History on Joy Street.

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a mission.After the service, he went on to

earn a doctorate in organic chem-istry from Syracuse University in the early 1950s, and then had a long career with Union Carbide traveling the globe.

He was clearly one of the best and the brightest, able to flourish during one of the most oppressive times in American history.

During WWII, the United States military was racially segre-gated, but the necessities of war created a need for talent regardless of color. The birth of the Tuskegee Airmen was a case in point.

It started in 1939, when Con-gress passed the Appropriations Bill Public Law 18, which con-tained an amendment that al-lowed funds to be used to train African Americans to become pilots (in schools separate from white trainees).

Then, in June of 1941, with war looming, the first squadron of black pilots was activated at Tuske-gee Institute in Tuskegee, Ala.

Some historians credit the success of the Tuskegee Airmen with helping to inspire President Harry Truman to sign Executive Order 9981 in July, 1948, which ended segregation in the U.S. military, and arguably paved the way for the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision that integrated public schools.

Nowadays, most of the Airmen are, of course, in their late 80s or 90s. Many have passed on. Pouncy is one of the few still alive.

How old were you when you enlisted in the Airmen?

I must have been close to 20. Let’s see, I’m 90 now, so this was in about 1941. I stayed on active duty for about three years during

World War II and then was a re-servist for 17 years in the New York Air National Guard, so we’re talking a good 20 years.

What were your responsibilities as a Tuskegee Airman?

Well, let me say that I wanted to be a pilot. And then, less than two weeks before graduation, they told me I wasn’t good enough. I wasn’t fast enough. It was a crush-ing blow to my ego. They said I was ‘washed out.’

Please describe the training process to become a pilot.

There were three phases. In primary, all the instructors were black. In basic, all the instructors were white — they were carefully selected to train the black cadets. Because if you hated black people, you couldn’t teach them flying! Flying is all about trust. Finally, there was advanced training.

The training was difficult.It was. We lost a great deal of

people in training.

What were you going to do since you couldn’t become a pilot?

So my choices then were navi-gation or bombardier. In Decem-ber, 1944, I graduated as a bom-bardier. Second lieutenant.

Second lieutenant![Laughs] Second lieutenant

and a gentleman! It was by an ‘Act of Congress’ that I was made a gentleman! I want you to know that our Congress made me a gentleman.

Where did you grow up?I grew up in Eufaula, Alabama.

There’s a Eufaula, Oklahoma, but I’m from Alabama. It’s on the Chattahoochee River, and I never had gone more than 30 miles from my home until I went off to col-lege at the Tuskegee Institute.

That’s where I saw the Airmen.

What was it you liked about them?

Well, for one thing I saw that the girls had crushes on those guys! They liked their uniforms and how they carried themselves. So we went for it!

What was it like?The Tuskegee Airmen had very

high standards. Initially, you were required to have at least two years of college training. But with the war, they changed the rules. They

gave applicants an exam. If you passed, they would accept you. I was assigned to the 477th Bom-bardment Group. We were given training on B-25s — the same bombers that bombed Tokyo in the early part of the war.

And this term, ‘Red Tails,’ that was used to refer to the Tuskegee Airmen? What was that about?

The Tuskegee Airmen were part of the 332nd Air Group —we were the black guys that flew for the air force. And each group used colors to designate itself. All planes had some kind of I.D. We painted the wings red as our spe-cial emblem. We were the black guys with the red tails.

How many Tuskegee Airmen were there?

I think that there were about 16,000 in total — not just the nearly 1,000 pilots, but the navi-gators, radio operators, bombar-diers and a lot of people on the ground: Doctors, nurses, me-chanics, instrument people and so on. The Haitian government

sent five men who became pilots, and after the war was over they went back to Haiti.

What was it like being part of a black elite group during a time when the country was deeply racist?

[Laughs] You know, a lot of people ask me that. I don’t think we put a whole lot of energy or thought into that — we were so busy doing our job that we didn’t have time to think about it philo-sophically. We didn’t have a lot of time to discuss it — because we just wanted to come back in one piece.

Right, but after the war when you had time to reflect? Now?

Now sometimes I ask myself: You were kind of foolish. Wasn’t that a stupid thing to do? Flying when the country didn’t care about us? Now I’m not an historian, but I also think: a lot of people tell us that our air corps, the Tuske-gee Airmen, helped lead the Civil Rights Movement. So maybe it was worthwhile.

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President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama greet Tuskegee Airmen prior to a movie screening of “Red Tails” in the Family Theater of the White House, Jan. 13, 2012. (Official White House photo by Pete Souza)

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chews people up and spits them back out again with shattered lives, destroyed families, destroyed communities,” Jarecki says.

In addition to these personal stories, Jarecki’s film features law enforcement officials, judges and experts such as David Simon, creator of the hit television show “The Wire,” Harvard professors Charles Ogletree and William Julius Wilson and Michelle Alex-ander, author of “The New Jim Crow,” who explain the history of the War on Drugs, and how it came to target African Americans.

As historian Richard Miller points out, the link between drug policy and race reaches back hun-dreds of years.

During the 19th century, many of today’s illicit drugs — such as cocaine, heroin and opium — were legal, and frequently used by upper-class whites. California was the first state to criminalize smok-ing opium, not coincidentally, around the same time that the drug was being used by upwardly mobile Chinese immigrants on the West coast.

Similarly, hemp — which was once an agricultural staple in the United States — was banned in the 1930s as it became associated with Mexican immigrants and known by its Spanish name, mari-juana, and cocaine was outlawed as African Americans migrated to Northern cities.

“These laws set up a very dan-gerous precedent of racial control,” Miller says in the film, and “target immigrant groups seen as threat-ening to the economic order.”

Decades later, these drug

laws were taken to another level. “When Nixon launched the Drug War in 1971, that ad hoc, impro-vised history of drug laws with racial implications was suddenly codified into a federal and state-by-state program on a national scale,” Jarecki says. “Once a little law here or a little law there being implemented in improvised ways, became systematized.”

In one of his previous works, the 2005 documentary, “Why We Fight,” Jarecki investigated the country’s military-industrial com-plex — and the filmmaker says that it bears striking resemblance to the system of mass incarcera-tion produced by the Drug War.

“They’re just two very good examples of our willingness to put profit before people and princi-ple,” he says. “For wars that profit a specific subset of the popula-

tion, we trade the very lives of our own young men and women and a lot of men, women and children overseas. And the prison indus-trial system is the domestic sister of the military industrial complex, in the sense that here at home, we’re trading human lives for eco-nomic profit.”

While Jarecki finds some hope that the Drug War may be crum-bling after Colorado and Wash-ington’s recent vote to legalize marijuana, he still says there’s a long way to go.

“We’ve been at this for four decades,” he says. “And what do we have to show for it? A record of total failure: Drugs are cheaper, purer and more in demand and more in use today than ever before.”

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NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATIONIN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE

DISTRICT COURT DIVISIONFILE NO: 13 CVD 2215

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF CUMBERLAND

CHRISTOPHER N. REEVESPLAINTIFF,

VS.LAKEESHA A. KELLY

DEFENDANT

TO: LAKEESHA A. KELLY

TAKE NOTICE that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above entitled action; the nature being sought is for an absolute divorce. You are required to make a defense to such pleading not later than forty (40) days after the first publication of this notice being March 28, 2013, and upon your failure to do so, the Plaintiff seeking service against you will apply to the Court for the relief sought.

ROGER R. COMPTONAttorney at Law

5311 Raeford RoadP.O. Box 42836

Fayetteville, NC 28309(910) 424-6393

Commonwealth of MassachusettsThe Trial Court

Probate and Family Court Department

SUFFOLK Division Docket No. SU13A0027AD

In the matter of Takyi D'Moni Foster

CITATION G.L. c. 210, § 6

To any unnamed or unknown parent and persons interested in a petition for the adoption of said child and to the Department of Children and Families of said Commonwealth.

A petion has been presented to said court by Tiffany Foster of Dorchester, MA, Jaqueline Wingo, of Dorchester, MA requesting for leave to adopt said child and that the name of the child be changed to Ta'Kyi D'Moni Foster.

IF YOU DESIRE TO OBJECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT BOSTON ON OR BEFORE TEN O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING (10:00 AM) ON 05/30/2013.

WITNESS, Hon. Joan P Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.Date: March 18, 2013

Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTSPROBATE COURT

SUFFOLK ss. Docket NO. SU13E0025QP

To all persons interested in the estate of Arthur Frederick of Boston in the County of Suffolk.

A petition has been presented to said Court by Flagstar Bank and its suc-cessors and Or its assigns of Boston in the County of Suffolk. Praying that this Honorable Court ratify/confirm the deed executed by the Administratrix of the estate of Arthur Frederick which was recorded at the Suffolk County Registry Deeds at Book 11029, Page 295 (and attached hereto as Exhibit A), thereby confirming that Deshawn Parris and Oneika Parris are the right-ful sole owners in fee of the subject property, and for such further relief as this Honorable Court may deem just and proper for the reasons more fully described in said petition.

If you desire to object thereto you or your attorney should file a written ap-pearance in said Court at Boston before ten o'clock in the forenoon on the 18th day of April, 2013, the return day of this citation.

Witness, Joan P. Armstrong, Esquire, First Judge of said Court, this 18th day of March, 2013.

Patricia M. Campatelli, Register.

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. AP1318-C1 FY13-15 AUTHORITY-WIDE TERM WELDING & METAL FABRICATION, BOSTON, BEDFORD AND WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, will be received by the Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Programs Department Office, Suite 209S, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013 immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly.

NOTE: PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 10:30 A.M. LOCAL TIME ON TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013.

The work includes PROVISION OF ALL EQUIPMENT, MATERIALS, LABOR AND SUPERVISION NECESSARY TO MAKE STEEL REPAIRS AND TO FABRICATE IRON TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT ON AN AS NEEDED BASIS OVER A TWO (2) YEAR PERIOD. WORK UNDER THIS CONTRACT WILL BE LIMITED TO NON-BUILDING RELATED REPAIRS.

Bid documents will be made available beginning THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2013.Bid Documents in electronic format may be obtained free of charge at the Authority's Capital Programs Department Office, together with any addenda or amendments, which the Authority may issue and a printed copy of the Proposal form.

The estimated contract cost is FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, ($450,000).

A proposal guaranty shall be submitted with each General Bid consisting of a bid deposit for five (5) percent of the value of the bid; when sub bids are required, each must be accompanied by a deposit equal to five (5) percent of the sub bid amount, in the form of a bid bond, or cash, or a certified check, or a treasurer's or a cashier's check issued by a responsible bank or trust company, payable to the Massachusetts Port Authority in the name of which the Contract for the work is to be executed. The bid deposit shall be (a) in a form satisfactory to the Authority, (b) with a surety company qualified to do business in the Commonwealth and satisfactory to the Authority, and (c) conditioned upon the faithful performance by the principal of the agreements contained in the bid.

The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a performance bond and a labor and materials payment bond, each in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract price. The surety shall be a surety company or securities sat-isfactory to the Authority. Attention is called to the minimum rate of wages to be paid on the work as determined under the provisions of Chapter 149, Massachusetts General Laws, Section 26 to 27G, inclusive, as amended. The Contractor will be required to pay minimum wages in accordance with the schedules listed in Division II, Special Provisions of the Specifications, which wage rates have been predetermined by the U. S. Secretary of Labor and /or the Commissioner of Labor and Industries of Massachusetts, whichever is greater.

The successful Bidder will be required to purchase and maintain Bodily Injury Liability Insurance and Property Damage Liability Insurance for a combined single limit of TEN MILLION DOLLARS, ($10,000,000.00). Said policy shall be on an occurrence basis and the Authority shall be included as an Additional Insured. See the insurance sections of Division I, General

Requirements and Division II, Special Provisions for complete details.

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

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

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

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITYTHOMAS P. GLYNN

CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

Sealed General Bids for MPA CONTRACT NO. H219-C1 REHABILITATE OLD T-HANGAR TAXILANES, RELOCATE RUNWAY 29 END PERIMETER ROAD L.G. HANSCOM FIELD, BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS, will be received by the Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Programs Department Office, Suite 209S, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2013, immediately after which, in a designated room, the proposal will be opened and read publicly.

NOTE: PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT L.G. HANSCOM FIELD, 200 HANSCOM DRIVE, CIVIL AIR TERMINAL, SUITE 315 AT 1:00 PM LOCAL TIME ON THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013.

The work includes PAVEMENT REMOVAL, FINE GRADING, REPAVING OF APPROXIMATELY 275,000 SF OF APRON AND TAXILANE PAVEMENT AT THE OLD T-HANGARS, RELOCATION OF THE PERIMETER ROAD AT THE RUNWAY 29 END INCLUDING EXCAVATION, GRADING AND SELECT MATERIALS PLACEMENT, APPROXIMATELY 3,300 LF, 12 FT WIDE.Bid documents will be made available beginning WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013.

Bid Documents in electronic format may be obtained free of charge at the Authority's Capital Programs Department Office, together with any addenda or amendments, which the Authority may issue and a printed copy of the Proposal form.

The estimated contract cost is ONE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($1,500,000).

A proposal guaranty shall be submitted with each General Bid consisting of a bid deposit for five (5) percent of the value of the bid; when sub bids are required, each must be accompanied by a deposit equal to five (5) percent of the sub bid amount, in the form of a bid bond, or cash, or a certified check, or a treasurer’s or a cashier’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company, payable to the Massachusetts Port Authority in the name of which the Contract for the work is to be executed. The bid deposit shall be (a) in a form satisfactory to the Authority, (b) with a surety company qualified to do business in the Commonwealth and satisfactory to the Authority, and (c) conditioned upon the faithful performance by the principal of the agreements contained in the bid.

The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a performance bond and a labor and materials payment bond, each in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract price. The surety shall be a surety company or securities sat-isfactory to the Authority. Attention is called to the minimum rate of wages to be paid on the work as determined under the provisions of Chapter 149, Massachusetts General Laws, Section 26 to 27G, inclusive, as amended. The Contractor will be required to pay minimum wages in accordance with the schedules listed in Division II, Special Provisions of the Specifications, which wage rates have been predetermined by the U. S. Secretary of Labor and /or the Commissioner of Labor and Industries of Massachusetts, whichever is greater.

The successful Bidder will be required to purchase and maintain Bodily Injury Liability Insurance and Property Damage Liability Insurance for a combined single limit of $5,000,000. Said policy shall be on an occurrence basis and the Authority shall be included as an Additional Insured. See the insur-ance sections of Division I, General Requirements and Division II, Special Provisions for complete details.

This contract is subject to a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise participation provision requiring that not less than TEN PERCENT (10.0%) of the Contract be performed by disadvantaged business enterprise contractors. With respect to this provision, bidders are urged to familiarize themselves thor-oughly with the Bidding Documents. Strict compliance with the pertinent pro-cedures will be required for a bidder to be deemed responsive and eligible.This Contract is also subject to Affirmative Action requirements of the Massachusetts Port Authority contained in Article 84 of the General Requirements and Covenants, and to the Secretary of Labor’s Requirement for Affirmative Action to Ensure Equal Opportunity and the Standard Federal Equal Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications (Executive Order 11246).

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

A Contractor having fifty (50) or more employees and his subcontractors having fifty (50) or more employees who may be awarded a subcontract of $50,000 or more will, within one hundred twenty (120) days from the contract commencement, be required to develop a written affirmative action compliance program for each of its establishments.

Compliance Reports - Within thirty (30) days of the award of this Contract the Contractor shall file a compliance report (Standard Form [SF 100]) if:

(a) The Contractor has not submitted a complete compliance report within twelve (12) months preceding the date of award, and

(b) The Contractor is within the definition of “employer” in Paragraph 2c(3) of the instructions included in SF100.

The contractor shall require the subcontractor on any first tier subcontracts, irrespective of the dollar amount, to file SF 100 within thirty (30) days after the award of the subcontracts, if the above two conditions apply. SF 100 will be furnished upon request. SF 100 is normally furnished Contractors annually, based on a mailing list currently maintained by the Joint Reporting Committee. In the event a contractor has not received the form, he may obtain it by writing to the following address:

Joint Reporting Committee 1800 G Street Washington, DC 20506

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

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITYTHOMAS P. GLYNN

CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. L892-C1, TERMINAL B SUBSTATION

REPLACEMENT, LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, EAST BOSTON, MA., will be received by the Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Programs Department Office, Suite 209S - Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2013 immediately after which, in a designated room, the proposal will be opened and read publicly.

Sealed filed sub bids for the same contract will be received at the same office until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2013, imme-diately after which, in a designated room, the filed sub bids will be opened and read publicly.

NOTE: PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 1:00 PM LOCAL TIME ON THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013.

The work includes the removal of four (4) single ended electrical substations and replacement with four (4) double ended stations. To accommodate the double ended stations, the work also includes expansion of the existing sub-station rooms with steel framed, metal panel clad additions at each of the four (4) substations. The project also includes the provision of preconditioned air units, ground power units and the associated infrastructure at various Terminal B, Pier A aircraft passenger loading bridges.

Bid documents will be made available beginning WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013.

Bid Documents in electronic format may be obtained free of charge at the Authority's Capital Programs Department Office, together with any addenda or amendments, which the Authority may issue and a printed copy of the Proposal form.

In order to be eligible and responsible to bid on this contract General Bidders must submit with their bid a current Certificate of Eligibility issued by the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance and an Update Statement. The General Bidder must be certified in the category of GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION. The estimated contract cost is $12,000,000.

In order to be eligible and responsible to bid on this contract, filed Sub-bid-ders must submit with their bid a current Sub-bidder Certificate of Eligibility issued by the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance and an Update Statement. The filed Sub-bidder must be certified in the sub-bid category of work for which the Sub-bidder is submitting a bid proposal.

Bidding procedures and award of the contract and sub contracts shall be in accordance with the provisions of Sections 44A through 44H inclusive, Chapter 149 of the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

A proposal guaranty shall be submitted with each General Bid consisting of a bid deposit for five (5) percent of the value of the bid; when sub bids are required, each must be accompanied by a deposit equal to five (5) percent of the sub bid amount, in the form of a bid bond, or cash, or a certified check, or a treasurer’s or a cashier’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company, payable to the Massachusetts Port Authority in the name of which the Contract for the work is to be executed. The bid deposit shall be (a) in a form satisfactory to the Authority, (b) with a surety company qualified to do business in the Commonwealth and satisfactory to the Authority, and (c) conditioned upon the faithful performance by the principal of the agreements contained in the bid.

The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a performance bond and a labor and materials payment bond, each in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract price. The surety shall be a surety company or securities sat-isfactory to the Authority. Attention is called to the minimum rate of wages to be paid on the work as determined under the provisions of Chapter 149, Massachusetts General Laws, Section 26 to 27G, inclusive, as amended. The Contractor will be required to pay minimum wages in accordance with the schedules listed in Division II, Special Provisions of the Specifications, which wage rates have been predetermined by the U. S. Secretary of Labor and /or the Commissioner of Labor and Industries of Massachusetts, whichever is greater.

The successful Bidder will be required to purchase and maintain Bodily Injury Liability Insurance and Property Damage Liability Insurance for a combined single limit of $10,000,000. Said policy shall be on an occurrence basis and the Authority shall be included as an Additional Insured. See the insur-ance sections of Division I, General Requirements and Division II, Special Provisions for complete details.

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

HEATING, VENTILATING, AND AIR CONDITIONING WATERPROOFING, DAMP PROOFING, AND CAULKING MISCELLANEOUS AND ORNAMENTAL IRONROOFING AND FLASHING PAINTING PLUMBINGELECTRICAL

The Authority reserves the right to reject any sub bid of any sub trade where permitted by Section 44E of the above referenced General Laws. The right is also reserved to waive any informality in or to reject any or all proposals and General Bids.This contract is subject to a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise participation provision requiring that not less than TEN PERCENT 10% of the Contract be performed by disadvantaged business enterprise contractors. With respect to this provision, bidders are urged to familiarize themselves thoroughly with the Bidding Documents. Strict compliance with the pertinent procedures will be required for a bidder to be deemed responsive and eligible.

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

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

A Contractor having fifty (50) or more employees and his subcontractors having fifty (50) or more employees who may be awarded a subcontract of $50,000 or more will, within one hundred twenty (120) days from the contract commencement, be required to develop a written affirmative action compliance program for each of its establishments.

Compliance Reports - Within thirty (30) days of the award of this Contract the Contractor shall file a compliance report (Standard Form [SF 100]) if:

(a) The Contractor has not submitted a complete compliance report within twelve (12) months preceding the date of award, and

(b) The Contractor is within the definition of “employer” in Paragraph 2c(3) of the instructions included in SF100.

The contractor shall require the subcontractor on any first tier subcontracts, irrespective of the dollar amount, to file SF 100 within thirty (30) days after the award of the subcontracts, if the above two conditions apply. SF 100 will be furnished upon request. SF 100 is normally furnished Contractors annually, based on a mailing list currently maintained by the Joint Reporting Committee. In the event a contractor has not received the form, he may obtain it by writing to the following address:

Joint Reporting Committee 1800 G Street Washington, DC 20506

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

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITYTHOMAS P. GLYNN

CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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Send resume and cover letter to, Executive Director, CSNDC, 587 Washington Street, Dorchester, MA 02124

or email: gail@csndc.com by May 1, 2013.

CODMAN SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD 587 WASHINGTON STREETDORCHESTER MA 02124

Asset ManagerMarch 2013

The Asset Manager manages the physical, financial and social health of the CSNDC’s 900+/- unit affordable housing and 50,000+ sf commercial RE portfolio. Manage financial workouts/restructur-ings for existing properties, fill commercial vacancies, develop and implement related marketing strategies, manage relationships with commercial tenants, develop/implement proactive asset manage-ment systems such as dash boards, deal books, lease interest proto-cols, asset management plans and automated systems to insure key benchmarks for financing, refinancing, lease and contract renewal, and tenant comportment etc, are timely identified and addressed. Connect systems and work with the work of other agency depart-ments in furtherance of complementary goals. Manage reporting and communications, oversee and evaluate the third party property management company, represent the NDC in various public forums, work closely with NDC resident resources staff to insure social goals are met etc. Minimum Bachelor’s degree required in related field with 4-5 years relevant experience in affordable housing develop-ment and/or asset management required.

Central Boston Elder Services, a non-profit corporation helps Boston area seniors remain in their homes by providing short and long-term care. Programs and services are offered to help seniors

remain self-sufficient and are available to residents living in the Boston neighborhoods of Allston, Back Bay, Fenway, Mission Hill, North Dorchester, North Jamaica Plain, South End and Roxbury.

CBES is hiring for the following positions:

Supervisor RNRegistered Nurse (RN)

Bilingual Case ManagersApplicants can apply by mail, fax or

email your resume to: HR@centralboston.org

Central Boston Elder Services2315 Washington Street , Boston MA, 02119

Fax: 617-277-5025

Reasonable Accommodations will be provided upon verbal or written request for persons with disabilities.

One household member must be 62 years of age or older at time of occupancy.Preference for City of Boston residents for up to 70% of the units.

The development has a CBH set-aside for 5 units for persons with disabilities living in institutions or at risk of institutionalization.Preference for 1 barrier-free unit to households who require wheelchair access. Preference for displaced and homeless households.

James M. Salah Family Housingat Cheriton Heights

Senior Affordable Housing Rental Opportunity18 Cheriton Road – West Roxbury – Massachusetts - 02132

Applications may be picked up in person at… Cheriton Grove Apartments

20 Cheriton Road, West Roxbury, Ma. 02132

On the following dates04/8/2013 to 04/22/2013 Mon. thru Friday (9:00 AM to 5:00 PM)

4/8/2013 & 4/9/2013 Mon. & Tues. (6:00 PM to 8:00 PM)04/13/2013 Saturday (9:00 AM to 12:00 PM)

or via the mail by calling Cheriton Grove Apartments 617-325-1913.

# of Units #of BRs Rent % of AMI

31 1 30% of adjusted income 50%

23 1 $1,062 60%

7 1 30% of adjusted income 30%

2013 income limits# in HH 30% AMI 50% AMI 60% AMI

1 $19,850 $33,050 $39,660

2 $22,650 $37,800 $45,360

Sec.8 households are encouraged to apply. Rents at payment standard.Rent & income limits based on HUD guidelines and subject to change.

Selection by lottery. Use and Occupancy restrictions apply

NOTE: This property is a smoke free facility

Deadline for applications: 4/29/2013Completed applications may be returned to

Cheriton Grove at the above dates and timesor mail applications postmarked by 4/29/2013 to:

Cheriton Grove Apartments 20 Cheriton Road

West Roxbury, Ma. 02132

Information Sessions

Wednesday April 10, 2013, 1:00 PMCheriton Grove Apartments, Community Room

20 Cheriton Rd., West Roxbury, MA 02132

Wednesday, April 17, 2013, 1:00 PMThe Community Builders , 3rd Floor Conference Room

95 Berkeley St., Boston, MA 02116

Attendance is encouraged but not required.

The Proteus Fund seeks a full-time Officer for Partnerships to work on the Death Penalty Abolition Fund, a new Proteus Fund program, and Proteus Fund. As a member of the Partnership Team who reports to the Director of Partnerships, the Officer for Partnerships will be responsible to develop and manage an outreach and engagement program for foundation funding partners. This includes proposal and report writing, promotional writing, special events management, and branding and communication.

Qualified candidates will have a Bachelor’s degree and five to seven years of experience in philanthropy, fundraising, communications or relevant manage-ment-level position. Additional qualifications and a detailed job description can be found on the organization’s website, http://www.proteusfund.org/officer-partnerships-job-description. The organization prefers candidates who can work out of its office in Amherst, MA but strong candidates in other parts of the state or country will be considered.

The Proteus Fund is a grant-making foundation committed to advancing justice through democracy, human rights, and peace. We partner with individual donors and foundations to achieve their goals, through strategy development, research and fund management. Proteus is known for tailored grant- making initiatives that are responsive, have high impact and integrate support for lobbying activity. Our work advances issues at the leading edge of democracy and social change.

Interested candidates should submit a letter of interest with Subject Line: Officer for Partnerships, a resume, salary requirements, and contact information for three references. Our preference is to receive all materials via email at hr@proteusfund.org. Applications received by April 15, 2013 will be given priority consideration.

Proteus Fund believes that one of the great strengths of community is the rich diversity of its residents in race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age and physical ability. Proteus Fund affirms publicly its moral and legal commitment to a policy of equal opportunity in employment.

THE PROTEUS FUND 15 Research Drive, Suite B

Amherst, MA 01002 Telephone: 413 256-0349, Fax 413 256-3536

www.proteusfund.org hr@proteusfund.org

OFFICER FOR PARTNERSHIPS