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Mayor Kim Janey, the Office of Tourism, Sports, and Entertainment, and the City of Boston’s Latinx Employee Resource Group will host a Salsa Dance Party on Thursday, October 14 on City Hall Plaza to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month. This family-friendly event is free and open to the public and will take place between 5:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.

Neighbors are clamoring for community involvement in the sale of the historic building.

‘Is This a Joke?! Mass. Nonprofits Get Part of Scotts $2.7B Mega-Donation © Provided by New England Cable News MacKenzie Scott attends the SEAN PENN J/P HRO GALA: A Gala Dinner to Benefit J/P Haitian Relief Organization and a Coalition of Disaster Relief Organizations at Milk Studios on January 6, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. One of the worlds richest people recently gave away nearly $3 billion to historically overlooked and underfunded organizations across the country -- including to 1...

By Daniel Sheehan, Reporter Staff May 27, 2021 Daniel Sheehan, Reporter Staff Last week, Mayor Kim Janey announced the Joy Agenda, a city-wide initiative that will feature a number of job opportunities for creatives, including the 2021 Transformative Public Art Program, which is now accepting applications. Last year, 24 public art projects were awarded grants totaling $35,000 as part of the program. This year, the call has been split into three opportunities. Option one is for artists intereste...

Crismely Tinidad, left, the Housing Service Coordinator at the Bronx River Community Center, translates for a resident who only speaks Spanish as he registers with a Somos Community Care screener at a pop-up COVID-19 vaccination site at the Bronx River Addition NYCHA complex, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) “Hola, ¿ha sido vacunado?” This simple question — "Hello, have you been vaccinated?” — repeated by volunteers from Lawyers for Civil Rights, stationed outside the ...

Dynopalooza, a virtual concert featuring several up-and-coming BU musicians, will raise money for the Boston-based nonprofit Hyde Square Task Force, which supports underserved youth. The concert takes place Saturday, May 8, starting at 5 pm.

The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council (JPNC) met virtually on March 23, where members heard updates from committee chairs, and one new member was elected to the Council. Housing & Development Committee       Committee chair Carolyn Royce reported that members of the Friends of Blessed Sacrament Church came before the committee to speak about their public statement regarding their wishes for a future developer of the church, which is currently owned by the Hyde Square Task Force, which has...

The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council (JPNC) Housing & Development Committee met virtually on March 16, where committee members heard from the Friends of Blessed Sacrament about their requests to future developers of the Blessed Sacrament church site, as well as reviewed the proposed project for the BMS Paper site at 3390 Washington St. Blessed Sacrament       Betsaida Gutierrez, a community activist and member of the Friends of Blessed Sacrament, a group aiming to “preserve the Blessed...

Share this article Share this article The Whittier Street Health Center (WSHC), a comprehensive and innovative health care and wellness center championing equitable access to high-quality, cost-effective health care for diverse populations, proudly announces its partnership with community-based organizations in Boston, including the Brazilian Worker Center, Hyde Square Task Force, Agencia ALPHA, León de Judá and Lawyers for Civil Rights, in launching a mobile COVID-19 vaccination unit. BOSTO...

The Friends of Blessed Sacrament/Amigos de Blessed Sacrament put out a public statement on February 15 to lay out requests to future developers of the Blessed Sacrament church, as it is now being sold by the Hyde Square Task Force (HSTF) for $2.5 million, after no development partner was found to make necessary repairs to the church building and make it usable for the community.  The Friends of Blessed Sacrament “represent the voices of hundreds of residents, small business owners, former pa...