Marchers demand Puerto Rico’s freedom
Members from the event’s 12 co-sponsor groups, including the Boston crew of Mijente, the nationwide Latinx collective that issued the initial call for action, rallied alongside survivors and those directly impacted by Hurricane Maria, in Betances Plaza on West Dedham Street at around 6 p.

New ed. alliance, same funding crisis
“The report highlights the critical disparities facing black and Latino students and the dramatically different experience than that of their higher-income, mostly white, counterparts,” said Amanda Fernandez, founder and chief executive of Latinos for Education, who called the partnership the first of its kind.

Housing activists clash while city tweaks goals
Scores of neighborhood activists, real estate developers and urban planning professionals gathered at Roxbury Community College last week for the YIMBY Town conference, a convening of like-minded souls who rally around a “Yes-In-My-Back-Yard” approach to meeting the demand for new housing.

Race-based admissions necessary to diversify schools
The panel, organized by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice, included Oren Sellstrom, litigation director for the Lawyers’ Committee, Tanisha Sullivan, president of the Boston branch of the NAACP, and professors Kim McLaurin and Renee Landers from Suffolk University Law School.

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DeVos protects the predators
College classrooms across the country are filled with students eager to learn. An estimated onethird of students now rely on loans to pay for the cost of their education. There has been some debate as to whether the cost of higher education is worth it, but most of the jobs with a future require relatively well educated employees.

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Barbosa was director of Lesley’s Office of Multicultural Affairs and Student Inclusion for two years prior to his appointment as chief diversity officer on Sept. 1, a post in which he will lead the university’s newly-established Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.

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It doesn’t affect me too bad. I deal with a lot of families and seniors. You see six people in a two-bedroom apartment or people moving out to Lynn or Chelsea..

Speaking the unspeakable —what happens if Kavanaugh withdraws?
The common refrain whispered and publicly uttered about Brett Kavanaugh withdrawing from SCOTUS consideration goes like this. If he withdraws all Trump will do is pick another rightwing hard case for the bench. And with sex now dominating the thinking and conversation about SCOTUS picks, the next pick would be a woman.

Hub teacher runs summer education camp in Haiti
“I thought ETE camp was going to be a one-time thing,” says Gilbert. “I fell in love with the kids and I wanted to continue, but I was a senior in college ... when you have to figure out your career, your life … and then that January, the earthquake hit.”.

BIZ BITS
Before you select a plan, check if your doctor is in your health plan’s care provider network. Visiting doctors that are in-network is one way to help keep your costs lower. If you select a plan that would make your visit to a doctor or hospital outside the network, make sure you understand the costs.

Cleaning up construction
Lois Reason first tapped into her entrepreneurial spirit at the young age of 8, while helping a family friend with house cleaning in exchange for a weekly stipend. Although Reason has spent the bulk of her career running Rise & Shine Contract Cleaning, a post-construction cleaning company she founded in 2000, she has held a variety of occupations.

Chasing green
Clean energy in the form of wind, solar and hydroelectric power comprised 18 percent of all U.S. electricity production in 2017, up from 15 percent the prior year. In 2017, the solar industry alone employed nearly 100,000 U.S. workers, up 20 percent from 2015, and today the wind and solar industries employ more than 300,000 Americans.

5 questions: Belinda Davids
In 2013, Davids beat almost 15,000 other hopefuls to take on the dream role and it was her own eternal love of Whitney Houston that prepared her for the show. Exposed mainly to R&B and gospel as a child, Davids was innately drawn to Houston’s musical style.

Pops in the Park
This Sunday, Sept. 30 at 3 p.m., the Boston Pops presents a free concert and community arts festival at the Playstead in Franklin Park. Last year’s inaugural concert was the first time the Pops had performed in Franklin Park in 17 years. Pops conductor Keith Lockhart says, “I continue to be amazed by the patchwork quilt that is Boston.

Get on your feet
For the second consecutive year, the Racines Black Dance Festival will bring African dance to the forefront in Boston. Founded by local artists Marianne Harkless Diabate, Baindu Conte-Coomber and Mckersin Previlus, the festival, which runs Oct.

‘Expressions Unbound’ exhibit celebrates American outsider art
Andrew and Linda Safran’s interest in American outsider art began with their acquisition of William L. Hawkins’ painting “Hippo” in 1989. It was the “simplicity and the vibrancy” of the large-scale image — a black hippo painted against a striking red background — that first appealed to them.

Housing activists discuss anti-displacement strategies
Amanda Govan of Reclaim Roxbury, a group focused on neighborhood empowerment, and one of the event’s organizers, stressed the power of community organizing: “This is hitting city-wide. It doesn’t matter what color your skin is. We all should have rights to live comfortably.

3 questions: Ed Glaeser, YIMBY champion
Harvard University Economics professor Ed Glaeser has become an icon in the YIMBY movement. In 2011 he wrote “Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier,” a tome that in some ways sums up the tenets of YIMBY-ism.