The Allston park gets its proper due after a correction of a decades-old clerical error.
As Black History Month comes to a close, the correction of a decades-old clerical oversight has resulted in the proper naming of a park in Allston-Brighton after a prominent African-American citizen.
James H. Roberts, who died in 1969, was a resident of Seattle Street in Allston and a WWII veteran who worked for the State Treasury Department for 28 years and at the time of his death was the director of the Vietnam Conflict Veterans Bonus program. A member of the NAACP, Roberts was active in local church and youth organizations as well as the Cub Scouts as a Cubmaster and Committee Chairman of Cub Scout Troop One. He was a veteran of the Massachusetts State Guard and served honorably in the Burma-China-India Theater.
By Maddie Kilgannon, Reporter Correspondent
February 10, 2021
Maddie Kilgannon, Reporter Correspondent
With City Councillor Andrea J. Campbell having set her sights on the mayor’s office, a number of candidates have been doing the groundwork to fill her District 4 seat, which primarily includes sections of Dorchester and Mattapan, as well as parts of Roslindale and Jamaica Plain.
Jacob Urena, Josette Williams, Brian Worrell, Leonard M. Lee, Sr., William Dickerson III, Joel Richards, and Trevour Smith have all set up accounts with the state’s Office of Campaign and Political Finance, each naming the District 4 seat as their target.
Last September, Campbell, who successfully challenged veteran Councillor Charles Yancey in 2015, announced her run for mayor, in the process leaving her seat open to others this year.
By Maddie Kilgannon, Reporter Correspondent
February 3, 2021
Leonard Lee, Sr.
Longtime community organizer Leonard M. Lee Sr., 63, threw his hat in the ring for the District 4 seat that will be left vacant by Andrea Campbell on Wednesday. It s his first time running for office, although he s been politically active for decades.“I get more done by not being a politician than being a politician, he said. I know city councillors who don’t do a third of what I do.”
Lee lives in Dorchester s Melville-Park neighborhood, not far from where former District 4 councillor Charles Yancey, who held the seat from 1983 until he was defeated by Campbell in 2015.