Activists march on MLK Day in protest of police brutality
“MLK lost his life in the fight against Jim Crow,” Satter said, “We got a new Jim Crow in America. [For people of color] their cases almost never go to trial, people are forced to plead to crimes they never committed.”.

City releases body camera study
The Boston Police Department has released preliminary results of a body camera pilot project showing that the 120 officers outfitted with the devices were slightly less likely to use force and garnered fewer complaints than a similar number of officers in the study who did not wear the cameras.

World reacts to Trump’s vile remark
President Donald Trump’s comments last week disparaging Haiti, El Salvador and African countries with a slur have sparked international outrage and confirmed fears of an administration whose immigration policy is guided more by bias than any coherent principles of justice.

BPDA officials discuss Glover’s Corner planning process
The Boston Planning and Development Agency hosted another community workshop last week to discuss the future of Glover’s Corner. The meeting highlighted continued concerns about how future development will impact the area.

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A leadership vacuum
The Civil Rights Movement launched a number of black heroes who will be long remembered. Leading the list is Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who demonstrated great courage as well as extraordinary diplomatic and political skills. Also well recognized during this period was Malcolm X.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
However, in 1992 during the Flynn administration, the elected board was replaced with a seven-member appointed board that the Mayor’s office filled. Since then, the current school committee has had little reason to be responsive to the stakeholders in.

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I think that people should take more active roles in their communities. People are spending time working to make ends meet and can’t take part in social and political movements..

IN THE NEWS
The METCO Board of Directors announced the appointment of Milagros (Milly) Arbaje-Thomas as its new chief executive officer, noting that Arbaje-Thomas embodies the passionate commitment to education, demonstrated leadership experience and deep...

Forget Trump, the real story is the GOP’s never-ending race baiting
The first is what the GOP senators in the room with him said and did about the slurs. They ducked, dodged, denied, and played a hear no evil, see no evil, game. When the public furor couldn’t be ignored any longer, they retreated into silence. The one exception was South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham.

Trump’s Voter Fraud Commission gone, but scrutiny will continue
In an unexpected executive order January 3, President Donald Trump abruptly dissolved the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, which he’d set up after alleging with no evidence that he lost the popular vote because of millions of illegal votes.

Salvadoran Immigrants and allies rally to fight TPS decision
In response to President Trump’s decision to repeal Temporary Protected Status for 200,000 Salvadorans in the U.S. Immigrant advocacy group Centro Presente organized a rally last Wednesday at Boston City Hall with city and state officials in attendance.

BIZ BITS
Life changes — getting married, having a baby, buying or selling a home, sending a child off to college or retiring — often come with changes to your tax situation.

Home GROWN
the dilemma of wondering what to do next when a long career ends. She worked for 21 years at Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care, overseeing the opening and licensing of new child care facilities until 2016.

Make the effort to improve your written communication skills
At work, written communication can include anything from emails to contracts. It is a central part of the workplace across many industries and is the professional pathway to keeping in touch, solidifying business agreements and collaborating. You can demonstrate proficiency in written communication by composing clear, concise and error-free messages.

Take My Hand
On Monday, Jan. 15, Boston Children’s Chorus performed their 15th annual tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., for the first time at Symphony Hall. “Take My Hand,” paid homage to Dr. King’s legacy while calling attention to the work that is still to be done.

Melinda Lopez bears witness in ‘Mala’
Mala is the play’s narrator and sole character, a role performed by Lopez that is somewhat modeled on herself. Like Lopez, Mala is a Cuban-American reflecting on the harrowing experience of caring for terminally ill parents.

HEAR WORD!
Written and directed by Ifeoma Fafunwa, the play of vignettes explores female stories of resistance in a patriarchal society. Fafunwa says, “With the current climate in America, audiences will get to connect with a culture that’s very different from their own.

In ‘Bassoonery 34 x 3’ performers celebrate an unsung instrument
During “Bassoonery 34 x 3” at Community Music Center of Boston on Jan. 11, four performers breathed a marathon of notes into their bassoons. Their eyes were focused, faces moving expressively with each note.

Gold rush
Citrus season outlasts the holidays by about two months. But there are many moods and phases to this rollout, thanks to the thousands of citrus varieties growing within our borders. For some types of citrus, like the oroblanco, the season is early, short and worth catching for citrus nerds like me.

FOOD
For oven-roasting or pan-sauteing your meals to caramelized perfection, do not overcrowd your pan, LG says. Doing so will steam your veggies or protein — not good for flavor or presentation. Instead, sear on the stovetop in batches, or use multiple sheet pans when roasting in the oven, if you have a lot of ingredients.