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Five high school students formed a team to study and compare food prices at Stop & Shop in a lower-income community in Jamaica Plain where he lives as compared to a Stop & Shop in Dedham.

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Tucked away in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood is the Hyde Square Task Force, a nonprofit that has taken pride in educating the youth on Afro-Latin roots...

Mayor Kim Janey and the Offices of Health and Human Services and Public Safety today announced the nonprofit organizations selected to receive grants from the 2022 Youth Development Fund. Totaling $1,250,000 in funding, 54 Boston-based organizations will receive funding to provide positive violence intervention, prevention, and response services throughout the city. 

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...

Hyde Square Task Force youth perform an Afro Cuban dance piece during an open mic night in Jamaica Plain in 2019. (Courtesy Mark Saperstein) Hyde Square Task Force, a Jamaica Plain nonprofit organization, has been awarded a $500,000 grant by The Lewis Prize for Music. The organization trains young people in Afro-Latin music, dance and theater in tandem with civic engagement. Celina Miranda, executive director of Hyde Square Task Force, said in the past year they applied for more than 100 grants...