Boys and Girls Clubs of Dorchester launch 50th anniversary this weekend dotnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dotnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
For six years now, it has existed as a dream project, but just beyond the grasp of the people who conjured it up in the first place. But now, the ambitious plan to build a $70 million state-of-the-art indoor facility to house athletic fields, practice courts, and other programs for city kids and teens is finally within grasp, with hopes of an actual groundbreaking before the
Boston renames Dorchester school for civil rights icon Ruth Batson baystatebanner.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from baystatebanner.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Boston School Committee voted unanimously on April 10 to change the name of the merged BCLA/McCormack 7-12 school on Columbia Point to the Ruth Batson Academy in honor of the Roxbury woman who fought for equitable education in Boston through the 1960s and 1970s. Principal Ondrea Johnston said the school community, which began its merger in 2021, settled on the name Ruth
Batson is just the latest in her generation of Black Boston activists to be honored by a BPS school. The district’s McKinley schools were rededicated to Mel King last year.