Category: Dorchester Reporter
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Kyre Ambrose danced before he could walk; his legacy will endure through a scholarship
Kyre Ambrose’s love of dance began before he was born. “I used to joke all the time when he was in my stomach, if we were out somewhere and there was music playing, you would just see my stomach just…
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JP ‘Wakes Up The Earth,’ takes to the streets to advocate for environmental, economic policy, civil liberties
Amid a sea of giant puppets, performers on sky-high stilts and oversized butterfly wings replacing backpacks, hundreds of families, non-profits and residents of all ages congregated to welcome spring and advocate for issues impacting their communities. The Wake Up The…
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Boston’s Citizenship Day turns hope into reality for aspiring US citizens
Citizenship Day, which will be held this year on May 2 at the Reggie Lewis State Track Athletic Center in Roxbury, is an annual event where aspiring citizens can get help with their citizenship applications for free… Since arriving in…
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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…