Category: Dorchester Reporter
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Fluker-Reid bill proposes Office of Freedmen Affairs to support descendants of people formerly enslaved
A bill sponsored by Rep. Brandy Fluker-Reid would create the first state-level office modeled after The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands — known as the Freedmen’s Bureau… Legislators are looking to the past to support a specific group…
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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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Some want to rename Ruggles Station. But who was Ruggles?
An online movement to rename a T station is gaining traction after a local librarian learned that it memorializes a family that included an enslaver. The Ruggles station on the orange line gets its name from Ruggles Street, which is…
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US Rep. Pressley eulogizes Emmanuel Damas who died in ICE custody, pushes rare House vote on Haiti TPS
Massachusetts officials are calling for accountability among local and federal law enforcement in the wake of the death of Dorchester’s Emmanuel Damas in immigration custody last month. Massachusetts Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley and Senators Ed Markey and Elizabeth Warren demanded a full investigation into…
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Students at Dever Digitizing Day create a time capsule for a school that’s closing
Students, staff and community members gathered at the school last Thursday (March 26) for Dever Digitizing Day, an initiative to create a digital archive preserving the school’s nearly seven decades of history… Vibrantly colored butterflies filled large display boards at…