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Massachusetts ACLU to outline state legislative agenda

The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts is heading to Beacon Hill to outline its legislative goals. The organization is calling on state lawmakers to push back against what it describes as the "forces of racism, sexism and anti-immigrant sentiment unleashed by the 2016 presidential election." The group said elected officials have to acknowledge new [...]

2017-04-20T19:41:21+00:00March 20th, 2017|WCVB|

Travel ban could have health implications for millions of underserved Americans

President Donald Trump’s new travel ban could mean a loss of healthcare providers in some the country’s poorest areas. There are 7,000 doctors from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — the six countries targeted in Trump’s new executive order — who work in the United States. Collectively, they keep more than 14 million [...]

2017-04-20T19:42:26+00:00March 6th, 2017|Metro Boston|

Man Versus Money and Machine

...John­son’s cam­paign team is fa­mil­i­ar with us­ing an un­tra­di­tion­al play­book to pro­pel un­der­dog can­did­ates... An­oth­er cam­paign ad­viser, Doug Ru­bin, helped elect Dev­al Patrick as the first Afric­an-Amer­ic­an gov­ernor of Mas­sachu­setts. Like John­son, Patrick was a Har­vard Law School gradu­ate with no polit­ic­al ex­per­i­ence pri­or to run­ning — and was ini­tially viewed as a long-shot. He [...]

2022-03-15T16:49:32+00:00January 10th, 2017|National Journal|

Once an inmate, now a CEO: Ex-con works to turn youths around

While in prison, Valverde did his best to redeem himself, earning two college degrees, teaching fellow inmates how to read and write, and working as an HIV/AIDS counselor. Next week, he’ll take over as chief executive officer of YouthBuild USA Inc., an organization with a global network of programs aimed at helping young, low-income dropouts [...]

2017-01-03T21:13:39+00:00December 26th, 2016|Associated Press|
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