Roxbury line contested in media, on the street
While the historical boundary between Roxbury and Dorchester runs between Blue Hill Avenue and Columbia Road, Boston Latin Academy, which currently occupies the building formerly inhabited by Roxbury Memorial High School, was identified in a Globe column as a Dorchester-based exam school when it recently was promised a $2 million gift.

SJC rules against BPD’s hair test use
While Gannon is white, black officers filed suit against the police department in 2007 charging that the department’s use of the test by the firm Psychemedics, which purports to find evidence of drug use by detecting trace amounts of drugs in human hair, produces a disproportionate number of false positives in hair samples from African Americans.

Council probes maternal health disparities
“There is a lot more that we need to do … to make sure that we are pinpointing and targeting certain populations,” said Councilor Kim Janey. “To make sure we are doing more for them and providing the services that they actually need, recognizing the intersection of womanhood and blackness.

Violent suppression of equality in Mississippi
The concept of “freedom and justice for all” is too lofty a principal for many Americans to embrace. Evidence of this incapacity is the continued vandalism of the memorial to Emmett Till, even though it has been established that he was innocent of the alleged misconduct that provoked his lynching.

John Conyers: a champion for civil rights
There are presently 55 members in the Congressional Black Caucus. When John Conyers was first elected to Congress in 1964, he increased the number of African American members in the House to five. He was reelected 26 times and served in office for 52 years.

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Remembering Congressman Elijah Cummings and the journey still ahead
The nationally televised Oct. 25 funeral services for the late Congressman Elijah E. Cummings paused partisan debates and revealed how a son of Baltimore worked tirelessly for his constituents and for this nation.

IN THE NEWS
Reid has over 20 years of affordable housing, commercial, and community development experience in the private, public and non-profit sectors. Currently, she serves as MPDC’s vice president of programs, overseeing youth development, health equity, public safety, arts and cultural, and community facilities programming.

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I’m an educator. I’m hoping the city council will work with the superintendent to address issues of equity. Right now, we have very few school leaders of color, very few Latinx people..

Walsh exec. order aimed at equitable contracting
“This executive order establishes a set of sound business practices in the City of Boston’s procurement process that will increase transparency, accessibility, and efficiency across all departments and agencies,” said John Barros, chief of Economic Development, in a statement sent to news media.

Dia de los Muertos
Mayor Martin Walsh attends a traditional Dia de los Muertos celebration in Copley Square..

‘Rent’ cast at Berklee
(L-R): Boston Conservatory faculty member and Broadway veteran Laura Marie Duncan (in white); actor Benjamin H. Moore (in green shirt in the center); and actor Shafiq Hicks (in white with gray scarf on the end) pose with Berklee College of Music’s Audire Soundtrack Choir & Orchestra during their visit to the school’s Fenway campus.

Housing needs to be the Boston City Council’s top priority
We need more rental opportunities for students and families. We need homeownership opportunities for new couples living and working in Boston and for single parents trying to stabilize the future of their children.

Program offers hope for ex-gang members
Paul Burns sits behind a battered wooden desk. He meticulously takes notes from his book, HVAC Fundamentals: Volume 1: Heating Systems, Furnaces and Boilers, studying the craft of heating and ventilation repair. He bends his head toward the manual and whispers sentences from chapter nine: “Indoor Air Fundamentals.

BECMA annual meeting
Joseph Feaster, Segun Idowu, Mayor Martin Walsh and Darryl Settles enjoy a moment during the Black Economic Council of Massachusetts annual meeting..

Greenhouse opens in Hyde Park
The farm consists of a 4,600-square-foot Dutch-designed climate-controlled greenhouse in which We Grow Microgreens owners are growing the sprouted salad greens, fresh herbs, edible flowers and other produce they sell to local restaurants and at farmers’ markets.

Hidden in plain sight
The year is 1953. Starched suits, Jell-O molds and McCarthyism are all the rage. In Boston Lyric Opera’s “Fellow Travelers,” showing at the Emerson Paramount Stage Nov. 13 through 17, the era comes to life in a performance eerily relevant to our contemporary world.

BANNER YEAR
Visitors to the Museum of Fine Arts can reflect on a new array of faces in the Eunice and Julian Cohen Galleria. Three new banners by Robert Pruitt have been installed, hanging from the ceiling and visible from the first and second floors of the space.

When Mozart meets marimbas
For the third time, ArtsEmerson welcomes South Africa’s Isango Ensemble to their Cutler Majestic Theatre for a short run of “The Magic Flute,” Nov. 6 through 10. This production is Mozart like he’s never been heard before.

Wearing your heart on the stage
Boston Moving Arts Productions dances onto the stage with a new showcase, “In My Heart,” Nov. 8 and 9 at the Boston Center for the Arts. The performance features four vignettes highlighting regional choreographers, including a premiere by Whitney Schmanski and works by Chavi Bansal, Ali Kenner Brodsky and Aysha Upchurch.

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POPPIN' PEPPERS!
Hot peppers and cheese is a winning combination. Whether it’s red flakes on a slice of pizza, a spicy tray of cheese-drenched nachos or a serving of ema datshi (a Himalayan dish of hot chile and molten cheese), the action is the same: The fat in the cheese embraces the bite of the capsaicin, absorbing the heat with its creaminess.

TIP OF THE WEEK
Excessive intake of energy drinks could have negative effects on the intellectual development of children, according to a recent study by the John Tung Foundation. Researchers found that the amount of caffeine in energy drinks can affect intellectual development, reduce sleep quality, and cause heart palpitations and anxiety in children and teens.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department
A Petition for Formal Adjudication of Intestacy and Appointment of Personal Representative has been filed by Aicha Kaba of Mattapan, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order and for such other relief as requested in the Petition.