Investments, cuts in school budget
Boston Public Schools officials last week announced a $1.39 billion budget and highlighted targeted investments in science instruction, supports for schools facing budget reductions and inclass administration of the ISEE exam the district uses for admission to its three exam high schools.

Dot Block project raises displacement concerns
Developers of one of the largest residential complexes planned for Dorchester squared off against affordable housing activists at a meeting Monday, defending the Dot Block project against charges that it will drive up rents in the area and force longtime residents out of the city.

New data show more diverse Hub
The report, titled “Boston in Context,” includes demographic trends from around the city’s neighborhoods between 2013 and 2017, based on the American Community Survey. The BPDA also released a report with an overview of the data from the entire city between 2010 and 2017.

April Ryan speaks about Trump backlash
“I didn’t realize how bad it was,” Ryan said in a question-and-answer session Friday at Northeastern University, where she was promoting her third book, “Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House,” which came out in August 2018.

Campbell calls for change to City Council elections
Campbell said that doing so would save the city money, as it costs over $800,000 to hold citywide elections, which often have turnout under 20 percent when only city council positions are on the ballot. It would also give councilors more time to focus on important projects.

The 19th Amendment failed to enfranchise all women
Donald Trump’s State of the Union address was a regurgitation of his insipid political positions. It is remarkable that even Republican stalwarts could find any measure of rhetorical achievement in the speech. But the evening was not lost. Women elected to Congress as Democrats dressed in white to recall the travails of the suffrage movement.

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A technological challenge for low-income Americans
Cell phones, tablets and computers have transformed the American economy. While the young seem to be technologically proficient, it is distressing to watch senior citizens struggle to induce cellphones to perform properly.

IN THE NEWS
Shani Fletcher was appointed Grassroots program development officer for the City’s Department of Neighborhood Development. Fletcher will be responsible for creating and preserving community gardens, urban farms, and other open spaces, under the leadership of Chief of Housing Sheila Dillon.

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Most importantly, I’d like to see a president who is concerned about inner city issues and, of course, a president who puts the people first..

Tough call on Fairfax resignation
Let me be perfectly clear. Few men have been more hardline when it comes to tossing the book at men, and that includes Black men, who commit acts of sexual abuse, victimization or molestation, and especially rape. Now we come to Virginia Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax.

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More than 700 applications for 39 affordable units
Located at the corner of Raynor Circle and Melnea Cass Boulevard, the construction project includes a four-story, 16-unit building and a five-story, 60-unit building at the corner of Melnea Cass Boulevard. The project is being developed in partnership with the Boston Housing Authority and Preservation of Affordable Housing, Inc.

Dudley business in peril?
Following the news of Haley House cafe temporarily closing and a flood of other businesses in the area following suit, Roxbury community members mobilized last Saturday morning at an emergency roundtable to discuss solutions for what they’re calling an economic crisis.

BIZ BITS
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Economic Development Center
PHOTO: MAYOR’S OFFICE PHOTO BY JOHN WILCOX Mayor Martin Walsh attends the Economic Development Center Launch in the Bolling Building..

Celebrity Series presents tribute to Beatles’ landmark album
The Mark Morris Dance Group brought its evening-length suite “Pepperland,” a tribute to the landmark 1967 Beatles album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” to Boston last weekend. Presented by the Celebrity Series of Boston, which also co-commissioned the work, the company performed three sold-out shows at the Boch Center Shubert Theatre.

#HellaBlack
Pioneered by Lyndsay Allyn Cox, the director of theatre arts at the BCA, the show featured work by Kadahj Bennett, Jean Appolon Expressions, Connections Dance Theater, Ashley Rose, Billy Dean Thomas, Actors’ Shakespeare Project and Melissa Alexis of Cultural Fabric.

Onstage sensation
Eartha Kitt’s spirit is alive and well and currently in residence at Cambridge’s Multicultural Center for the Arts during the Bridge Repertory Theater’s run of “Who is Eartha Mae?” The one-woman show, created and performed by powerhouse triple...

Booker T. Washington’s message to young African Americans in Cambridge
On the night of Sept. 2, 1903, national black leader Booker Taliaferro Washington delivered a short but uplifting address to young black Cantabrigians on the importance of saving, purchasing property and going into business. Invited by then-third Assistant U.

William Monroe Trotter: A race man
William Monroe Trotter considered his newspaper, the Guardian, to be in the abolitionist tradition. His idol was William Lloyd Garrison, editor of the Liberator, and leader of the abolitionist movement in the United States. Trotter kept a bust of Garrison on his desk.

Why we remember
Half a century after the 13th amendment abolished slavery, Harvard-trained historian Carter G. Woodson, working with the Association for the Study of Negro (now African American) Life and History, created Negro History Week to be observed during the second week of February.

Black history is American history
ATLANTA — In 2018, the tomb holding Martin Luther King Jr. was covered in plastic while workers spruced up the reflecting pool that surrounds it. Written in the tiles is King’s promise that he will never be satisfied “until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
In this biography, David W. Blight, Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, answers this question. Douglass was one of America’s most important social reformers.

Developers say P3 near ready for groundbreaking
The 7.25-acre Roxbury property on Tremont Street, across from the Boston Police headquarters, is set to become a mixed-use development with a shopping mall, 727 residential units, office space, a parking garage and a museum containing art by African American artists.

Angela Davis speaks about gender violence, racism
But even though various forms of violence have a suggested singularity and permanence, they are all interconnected, and all “deeply connected to the violence of the state,” in Davis’ view.