“Whenever we see that a community is struggling, we like to step up and help aid. From there we got a lot of friends involved,” said Enough Is Enough founder and CEO, Aryan Kumar, a junior at Advanced Math & Science Academy in Marlboro.
It all started after George Floyd was killed in May last year. No mentorship, no leading the students, ages 16 and 17, launched the organization themselves after seeing fellow students across the country protesting and speaking out against systemic racism.
Kumar said as peaceful protests were happening across the country late last spring and early summer, he was struck by how few there were in Central Massachusetts. So, with that in mind, he took action by reaching out to his peers to create a group and lead their own peaceful protests.
Former Shrewsbury star Delaney Couture returns to action at Providence
Forward helps Friars to victory after long layoff with knee injury
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Former Shrewsbury High hockey standout Delaney Couture returned to action Feb. 5 for No. 10 Providence after being sidelined for about seven weeks with a knee injury.
In the Friars’ 5-4 win over New Hampshire on Feb. 6, Couture assisted on the winning goal at 14:13 of the third period.
Couture, who finished her illustrious career at Shrewsbury with 186 goals and 86 assists and recorded the most points and most hat tricks of any player (female or male) in Colonials history, tore the medial patellofemoral ligament in her right knee and also sustained a minor sprain of her medial collateral ligament during practice the day before PC’s semester-ended series with Maine in mid-December.
Group of students, staff, parents to discuss hot-button issue
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The use of Native American imagery and symbols by Massachusetts high school athletic teams has been a contentious and continuing issue since at least the late 1990s with change occurring at a glacial pace.
But dramatic and meaningful progress for those who believe such imagery is racially and culturally insensitive has been made the past six months, an offshoot of an energized social justice movement that began in the summer.
Here in Central Mass., it’s led to Nashoba Regional ditching Chieftains for a yet-to-be-determined mascot in July, Grafton switching from Indians to Gators in November, and North Brookfield dropping Indians, Athol dumping Red Raiders and Algonquin forming a study group to review its Tomahawks nickname in December.