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While President Michel Martelly is not the first head of state to politicize the Haitian carnival, he made history last February when he deliberately attacked civil liberties, prohibiting Port-au-Prince residents from peacefully assembling and organizing their carnival.
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THE MICHAEL J. EPSTEIN MEMORIAL LIBRARY – Volume 1
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Nina Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina during the Great Depression. Simone’s mother, Mary Kate Waymon, was a Methodist minister and housekeeper and her father, John Divine Waymon, worked as a handyman and part-time minister. At three years old, Eunice displayed musical talent by playing the piano by ear.
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When Home Is The Street is a documentary that takes you inside the lives of youth who raised themselves on the street. The synopsis reads:
“What makes children turn to the streets? How can street-connectedness be overcome? This documentary tries to answer these questions with testimonies and daily life images of youth who grew up on the streets of Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro.”
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You write something, and then it is time to write something else, and again. That is how it happens. That is how it works.
But the grief of our recent local tragedy lingers. Grief arrives in ways that won’t be charted. There is no timetable; the clock has no hands. And words fall away.
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She walked through the door with one of my regular customers and all eyes locked on to her. She knew it, too. As she moved I watched her walk, tall, beautiful, swaying slowly. Her eyes dropped to mine. Little did I know that Heather was going to play a major part in my life, and then take me down.
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Emily Raboteau’s Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora is an intimate journey into a vast array of longings for a utopian homeland. These longings find their most common expression in the hope for the land of promise, Zion.
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I never thought I would end up a homeless veteran. By society's standards, I did all the right things; I joined the Army, graduated college, and published my first children's book, The Pet Mouse, on Amazon.com. But time and circumstance can change anyone's life. In 2009, my life began its unraveling descent into homelessness.
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“Life injures you sometimes. Sometimes you fall and you need someone to help you get up again. That’s what this place did.” José is a recent graduate of AIDs Action’s LEAP 2.0 program, which is run from the West Roxbury Boomerangs store, one of an award-winning chain of thrift shops.
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Social justice issues have long been a hotbed for contradictory information flung every which way, forcing citizens to reevaluate their long-held beliefs. Principles are challenged by new situations and a changing social landscape, questioning morality and identity. The current issue subjected to this battle is that of LGBTQ rights.
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On Friday, March 1st, the First Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain held a Hip-Hop, Spirituality, and Social Justice open mic night. The event featured Walter Hidalgo, author of Beyond the Four Walls: The Rising Ministry And Spirituality Of Hip-Hop and associate director of Youth Ministries for Riverside Church in New York City, and Mariama White-Hammond, executive director of Project Hip-Hop.
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I’m one of those people who reads just about everything that I can get my hands on, mostly news stories. Some catch my eye, some don’t. Last weekend, I ran across a story or rather stumbled across one that I wish hadn’t caught my eye. I was watching a local news show on the local PBS channel.
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Spare Change News is twenty-one years old this month. The organization has been part of Greater Boston for so long that it would be difficult to imagine this area without the paper and its vendors.
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As our fiscal year draws to a close, despite our best efforts to raise revenue and control costs, we find ourselves in need of your support now more than ever.