By Rebeca Pereira, Reporter Correspondent
June 2, 2021
Rebeca Pereira, Reporter Correspondent Queenie Santos s goal: Get kids ready for the next steps of life. Flavio D photography
Last March, Quennette “Queenie” Santos’s mother, Izora Kindell, succumbed to renal failure after a tough battle against kidney and lung cancer. She was 92.
Much like her daughter, who herself had been diagnosed with stage four bilateral breast cancer five years earlier, “Momma” wore a smile on her face throughout her treatment and kept the doors to her home in Harbor Point open to the children who passed through the Walter Denney Youth Center next door.
PORTSMOUTH – The inaugural Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) Seacoast Leaders awards ceremony Sunday night, Feb. 28, went well and will be an annual event, according to organizers.
Clifton West Jr., one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter Seacoast, the host organization for the event, said he was pleased with the evening.
“It went better than I thought it would, for the first time,” said West. “I found the stories that were told, and the passion displayed inspiring. It was such a beautiful event. I look forward to the next one.”
The event is intended to highlight people of color whose work has benefitted the Seacoast region.
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Trinidadians in US donate tablets to students
MP for the San Fernando East Brian Manning with children at his constituency office. -
A group of Trinidadians living in South Florida and California has donated 12 fire HD tablets with cases, protective shields, and stylus pens to the San Fernando East constituency office to help schoolchildren in the area.
One of the organisers, Claudette Alexander, said: “People are excited about giving back to our children in TT.
A media release said MP for the area Brian Manning and the staff at the office have been working to provide schoolchildren with devices and are trying to deliver as many as possible to those who need them. Manning is working with the principals and area managers to distribute devices which have been donated by various philanthropists, it said.
A son of New Orleans became The Man in Dorchester
Bruce Seals spent 30 years in Boston, steering vulnerable kids in all the right directions. He died this week at 67, long before his time.
By Kevin Cullen Globe Columnist,Updated December 17, 2020, 5:53 p.m.
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Bruce Seals was often surrounded by kids at the Boys and Girls Club.John Tlumacki/Globe Staff/File/1995
For the 30 years he spent in Boston, Bruce Seals might as well have had NOLA stamped on his forehead.
He was pure New Orleans: the accent, the laid-back attitude, the dry humor, the âWhere yâat?â