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- Boston implements Vaccine Equity Grant Initiative
- 25 Investigates: Marijuana lobby floods lawmakers with campaign donations
- BOSTON. RACISM. IMAGE. REALITY.
- House to begin moving on criminal justice bill
- Harvard Think Tank Gets Millions Study Poverty But Will Learn Anything New
- Commonwealth Shakespeare Gets Tony Shalhoub and Brooke Adams for Staged Reading
- AG’s new council aims to amplify communities of color voices– The Bay State Banner, November 3rd, 2016
- Boston activists make a statement with Flint water effort-The Boston Globe, February 22nd, 2016
- Governor Dukakis Supports UMN’s Work! – Boston Globe, April 25, 2013
- Newton Fundraiser Promotes Jamacia Plain Non-Profit – Boston Globe, April 18, 2013
- Amid school changes, giving voice to busing’s past – Boston Globe, April 7, 2013
- Activists working to ensure fair wages at Walmart – The Bay State Banner, April 28, 2011
- A Proven Route to Education: In 1995, a bold experiment in public education was undertaken in Boston – the introduction of pilot schools. Forged by a unique collaboration… (read more)
- Groups Seek Stimulus Jobs For Minorities: Advocates for the poor and minority groups are urging the Patrick administration to reserve a portion of the jobs created by the economic stimulus package for low-wage earners, the long-term unemployed, and young adults… (read more)
- How To Spread The Stimulus: More Massachusetts residents are experiencing the heavy weight of empty pockets. Competition for jobs has more than doubled over the past year, and unemployment rates are pushing 8 percent. Frustration is especially high… (read more)
- Breaking Bars to Jobs: Today, Patrick will unveil his plan to overhaul the state’s Criminal Offender Record Information law, better known as CORI. The administration has mapped out its approach largely behind closed doors… (read more)
- For Ex-Offenders, CORI Law Not Working: At a time when residents of high-crime neighborhoods are on edge over the plague of gang and gun violence, Mayor Thomas Menino ventured up to Beacon Hill this month to lobby on behalf of the city’s ne’er-do-wells. The mayor was there to testify at a Judiciary Committee hearing in favor of a bill to limit employer access to criminal records. While some might say Menino should focus his energies on law-abiders, not lawbreakers, he is driven as much by a concern for the former as the latter… (read more)
- Senate To Take Up Crime Records: Horace Small, executive director of the Union of Minority Neighborhoods and a proponent of CORI reform, said he would prefer sealing records after seven years for felony convictions and three years for misdemeanor convictions; studies have shown that former inmates who stay clean that long are unlikely to commit new crimes…(read more)
The formerly incarcerated still struggle to find work– The Boston Globe, March 22nd, 2017
“But poor blacks did benefit from the fact that there was a black man in the White House less than 100 years after we were hanging from trees,” Horace Small said.
Obama speech marks unofficial countdown for black Americans– January 10th, 2017
“But poor blacks did benefit from the fact that there was a black man in the White House less than 100 years after we were hanging from trees,” Horace Small said.