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Gun violence Published: 3/1/2021 9:12:54 AM This Black History Month, I attended a Feb. 7 Massachusetts-wide virtual event marking National Gun Violence Survivors Week. This event was produced by the Massachusetts chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. A year ago, the Western Massachusetts group of Moms Demand met Juanita Batchelor at a peace march in Springfield. Juanita’s son Darrell Jenkins was killed by a gun wielding shooter on June 4, 2014. The homicide remains unsolved. Juanita has founded MORE (Mothers Overlooking, Reaching Out, Empowerment) an organization seeking ...

Middle Georgia State's BROS Initiative helps Black male students graduate BROS members help each other with coursework, and offer friendship and encouragement in situations outside the lecture halls. Author: Katelyn Sabater (13WMAZ) Updated: 7:27 PM EST February 17, 2021 MACON, Ga. — A new study reveals college graduation rates continue to vary widely between races, with Black students obtaining the lowest rate. Brothers Reaching Out for Success, or BROS, is a Middle Georgia State University initiative trying to increase the number of Black graduates. Accordi...

>> Steven Petrow, The New York Times Published: 16 Feb 2021 11:35 AM BdST Updated: 16 Feb 2021 11:35 AM BdST Connecting with others on social media has helped ease the fear and loneliness of pandemic living. (Evan Cohen/The New York Times) Depression crept up on me over the summer and into the fall, so slowly that I wasn’t aware of the change in my well-being — until suddenly I was. "); } For most of that time I chose to tough it out, largely keeping quiet about my downward trajectory. I knew I wasn’t alone. A few months into the pandemic, the Centers for Disease and Control and Prev...

Reaching Out to Refugees Longtime journalist Richard Chacón now leads government efforts to help refugees and immigrants acclimate to life in Massachusetts. By Corinne Steinbrenner (COM’06) Each year, roughly 75,000 refugees enter the United States, and more than 2,000 of them begin their new lives in Massachusetts. As director of the Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants, Richard Chacón (CGS’86, COM’88) is charged with helping those refugees settle as quickly and comfortably as possible into their new communities. It’s a job for which Chacón—who has been crossing bord...