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The Horrible Death of Mikayla Miller, a Black LGBTQ+ youth, in Hopkinton, Massachusetts & The Role of a Biased System
By: Audrey Cole/TRT Reporter
MASSACHUSETTS Today, hundreds of people rallied while chanting “say her name” and holding signs reading “Black Lives Matter” once again for a black life taken in the country, this time it was for a Black LGBTQ+ teenager from Hopkinton, Massachusetts. The rally was led by former City Councilor Tito Jackson and Violence in Boston’s Monica Cannon-Grant, according to WBZ Boston.
The body of Mikayla Miller, 16, was found hanging from a tree on April 18 in her suburban hometown, one day after her mother, Calvina Strothers, said she was jumped by a group of five white teenagers.
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THE NUMBERS ARE IN Burn rates are rising among Boston’s mayoral candidates, but cash flow is falling.
Five of the six major candidates City Councilors Andrea Campbell, Annissa Essaibi George and Michelle Wu, state Rep. Jon Santiago and former Boston economic development director John Barros brought in less cash in April than March.
The congresswoman joins advocates and family members demanding answers on what happened to the Hopkinton teen found dead in the woods near her home in April.
Somerville, Mass., hoping to recover money it put up to save Green Line Extension project
Somerville officials hope to get money back now that the Green Line Extension project is healthy.
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Back in 2016 it was called “an extreme and unprecedented arrangement for a state infrastructure project.” Today, however, the city of Somerville, Mass., might be getting its money back.
Five years ago Somerville and Cambridge committed $50 million and $25 million, respectively, to keep the Green Line Extension project on its feet. Cost overruns almost killed the project, but for Somerville and Cambridge it was too big to fail. Cambridge City Manager Richard Rossi and Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone said even though their cities were not to blame for the cost overruns, the line was important enough to try to save. They called the situation, “an extreme and unprecedented arrangement for a state infrastructure project.”