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On June 21, 1974, Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity issued his finding that Boston’s schools were segregated by the actions of the Boston School Committee. He ordered busing as a remedy beginning that September. There was fierce opposition to the ruling among many whites in Boston while Black families and children acted with courage that fall when rocks pelted their buses on

Stan McLaren, a longtime Dorchester resident and community health center leader, is the new president of Carney Hospital. He comes to the role after nearly four years as the president and CEO at Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center on Blue Hill Avenue. He started his duties at the Dorchester Avenue campus on Monday. McLaren has served since 2018 on the board at the

By Bill Walczak, Reporter Columnist May 13, 2021 Bill Walczak, Reporter Columnist One of my rediscovered pleasures following vaccination is going into bookstores. A few weeks ago, I picked up Patrick Radden Keefe’s book “Say Nothing,” which is about “the Troubles,” the longtime conflict that turned violent in Northern Ireland in the late 1960s and lasted about 30 years. Keefe, who was raised in the Ashmont section of Dorchester, is a writer for The New Yorker magazine, and has publis...

By Daniel Sheehan, Reporter Staff May 6, 2021 Dorchester resident Kafi Dixon is one of the subjects featured in "A Reckoning in Boston." “A Reckoning in Boston,” a new documentary film that focuses on two Dorchester residents enrolled in a night course at Codman Square Health Center, will make its debut at the Independent Film Festival of Boston today (Thurs., May 6).  Director James Rutenbeck initially expected to make a film about the Clemente Course in the Humanities, a free educational...

By Katie Pedersen, Reporter Correspondent May 6, 2021 Gail Latimore Since the first uncertain weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation (NDC) has continued to offer desperately needed services to Dorchester residents even as its physical office remained closed. Tracing its roots to local activism in the 1970s and 1980s, the non-profit has worked to promote affordable housing, homeownership, equitable transit options, and economic development in Codma...

By Katie Pedersen, Reporter Correspondent May 6, 2021 Katie Pedersen, Reporter Correspondent A group of activists gathered near the Second Church of Dorchester in Codman Square last Thursday, April 29 to call for state lawmakers to pass legislation to halt no-fault evictions in the wake of the Covid pandemic. Photo by Katie Pedersen About thirty people joined a march along Washington Street in Codman Square last Thursday to push for state lawmakers to adopt a bill intended to halt no-fault evic...

April 30, 2021 While the BPL may be closed for browsing, you can still pick up books, CDs, DVDs, and kits at your local branches. We’re excited to share some new kits available around the BPL: Gardening Kits The Codman Square, East Boston, Egleston Square, Jamaica Plain, Parker Hill, Mattapan, South End and South Boston branches will be offering Resilient Gardening Kits starting on May 5th. There will be 850 kits spread between the branches,...

Bob Michelson Special to the Journal & Sun Codman Square Health Center (CSHC), a federally qualified community health center located in Dorchester, is seeking to partner with Randolph Public Schools on a competitive grant to establish a school-based health center (SBHC) at Randolph High School. The Health Resource Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has issued a competitive request for proposals to expand school-based centers, and Codman Square Health Cen...

From This Year Of Hurt And Beyond, There Is Hope "While the task of addressing this trauma crisis is significant, it is not insurmountable." Jordi Clave / EyeEm/Getty Images/EyeEm By Ayanna Pressley As we mark one year since the COVID-19 crisis began, a year that has been defined by loss, grief and isolation, there is hope on the horizon. Thanks to our dedicated essential healthcare workers, recently we surpassed 125 million vaccine shots administered to people across the c...

Daily Table announces free grocery delivery to customers Community Content Daily Table, a nonprofit grocery store with three locations in Roxbury, Dorchester and Cambridge, announced it will offer free grocery delivery to customers within a 2-mile radius of each of its stores.  Daily Table made the decision as communities continue to navigate how to best protect the health of their families during the ongoing pandemic. Online shoppers will benefit from the same low prices offered in stores wit...