Category: Dorchester Reporter
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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…
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Police seek suspects who assaulted pregnant woman in Uphams Corner supermarket
Police are searching for two teenagers who allegedly assaulted a pregnant woman in a Dorchester supermarket Sunday. One of the suspects threw a stolen tub of yogurt at the woman’s face, according to a police report. Police responded to a…
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The good, the bad and the ugly of Boston’s snow removal
Neelima Cherukuri dressed in her best cheetah print shorts and sandals before she picked up her shovel and braved the cold outside her Carson Street apartment. “I’m not really cold right now,” she said. “I’m very lazy to put on…
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First Parish Dorchester vigil for Minneapolis victims ‘just a beginning,’ congregants hope
Above: Theodore Stocker attended the vigil with his seven-year-old daughter, Juniper Stories. Kelly Broder photo.
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Legislators petition to name Dorchester Courthouse after the late Juvenile Court Judge Leslie E. Harris
A new bill in the Legislature proposes to rename the Dorchester Courthouse in Codman Square for the late Judge Leslie E. Harris as tribute to the work and legacy of the lifelong educator who spent his early years as a…
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Lawmakers on verge of passing new literacy standards legislation
Late last month the Massachusetts Senate unanimously passed The Right to Read bill that the House had approved without objection last fall, moving the Legislature a big step closer to the creation of a new statewide standards for literacy education…
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Boston-based college readiness program helps underprivileged students succeed
Carolyn De Jesus Martinez, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic, spent a chunk of her high school years bouncing around homeless shelters in Boston. As a result, she said, school became “a very safe space” for her, and she founded…