Author: Truman Dickerson
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A ‘full-service support system’ makes Salvation Army’s responses invaluable
Kroc Center team is ever at the ready to assist Bostonians impacted by disasters such as house fires. Truman Dickerson reports… When an apartment building in Mattapan went up in flames last month, the Boston Fire Department, as usual, responded…
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Jazz cafe secures $2.5m to open in Nubian Square
A jazz club with an attached restaurant is set to open in Roxbury’s Nubian Square next month after it secured nearly $2.5 million in public and private funding. Jazz Urbane Cafe, the brainchild of composer and Berklee College of Music…
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Family says Dorchester man fatally shot by police officer was experiencing mental health crisis
A high-profile civil rights attorney representing Stephenson King Jr.’s family said Thursday that King was in the midst of a mental health crisis when Boston police fatally shot him and that body camera footage from his shooting should be released. “If the…
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Family of Dorchester man killed by police officers retains attorney who represented George Floyd, Breonna Taylor
The family of Stephenson King Jr., a Dorchester man who was shot and killed by a Boston police officer on a Roxbury street last month, has retained a high-profile civil rights attorney whose previous clients include the families of George…
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Hundreds celebrated 250th anniversary of Evacuation Day on Dorchester Heights
Above: Revolutionary War reenactors fire their muskets at the city. The guns were only loaded with powder, not actual bullets. Photo by Truman Dickerson Hundreds of people and dozens of Revolutionary War reenactors on Tuesday, March 17 celebrated the 250th…
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BPD officer charged with manslaughter in shooting death of Dorchester man last week
A Boston police officer charged with manslaughter after he shot and killed a Dorchester man suspected in an apparent carjacking in Roxbury last week was released on personal recognizance after his arraignment Thursday. The officer, Nicholas O’Malley, 33, of West…
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Among city’s Black clergy, Rev. Jesse Jackson’s spirit lives on
When Pastor John Borders was serving as the chaplain of the Suffolk County Jail in the late 1980s, he invited the Rev. Jesse Jackson to speak to his congregation of prisoners. Around that time, in a conversation Borders said he’ll…