"White Privilege: What It Is and How It Matters" will be presented by Peggy McIntosh of the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College and Gwendolyn VanSant, CEO and founding
âWe need pens,â someone calls out. âWhere are the pens?â
The vaccinators have been readying themselves for the past hour, rushing to fill the van with syringes, signs and doses of the Moderna vaccine. The details still are coming together at the last possible moment as the van pulls up in a church parking lot ringed by white blossoms.
Scribes grab clipboards and pull on jackets before they head outside, where several cars already have pulled in for the Friday morning clinic.
Zenani Santos, 19, waits in one of those cars. Santos, one of just over a dozen people registered for this site, describes herself as âin the middleâ on the vaccine enthusiasm scale.
BOSTON â A bill proposed by state Sen. Adam Hinds seeks to crack down on hate crimes as incident reports rise in Berkshire County and statewide.
The reform bill seeks to better define what constitutes a hate crime â which some legislators find vague under the current law. Hinds, D-Pittsfield, partnered with Attorney General Maura Healey and state Rep. Tram Nguyen, D-Andover, to file the legislation.
âIt strengthens the ability of law enforcement to protect victims, in a way, by providing those clear definitions,â Hinds said.
âIt also addresses the challenge of what the penalties would be, based on the seriousness of the underlying offense,â Hinds said, adding that it was common for all alleged offenders to be grouped together collectively, regardless of the severity of the alleged crime.
BOSTON â A bill proposed by state Sen. Adam Hinds seeks to crack down on hate crimes as incident reports rise in Berkshire County and statewide.
The reform bill seeks to better define what constitutes a hate crime â which some legislators find vague under the current law. Hinds, D-Pittsfield, partnered with Attorney General Maura Healey and state Rep. Tram Nguyen, D-Andover, to file the legislation.
âIt strengthens the ability of law enforcement to protect victims, in a way, by providing those clear definitions,â Hinds said.
âIt also addresses the challenge of what the penalties would be, based on the seriousness of the underlying offense,â Hinds said, adding that it was common for all alleged offenders to be grouped together collectively, regardless of the severity of the alleged crime.