What is the future of Bostonâs Black-owned restaurants?
These businesses entered the pandemic at an economic disadvantage. Itâs time for everyone to invest in them, and not just during Black History Month.
By Devra First Globe Staff,Updated February 2, 2021, 6:52 p.m.
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The music cues in the videoâs background, a staccato beat before a jazzy horn kicks in. A masked woman inside Mattapanâs Cafe Juice Up speaks. âHello, Boston,â says Representative Chynah Tyler. âI want to welcome you to the fourth annual Black Restaurant Challenge.â
February is Black History Month, and since 2018 it has been an occasion around which to rally support for the cityâs Black-owned restaurants. The challenge is simple: Patronize one Black-owned restaurant each week of the month. The goal: Keep these businesses in business. Black-owned restaurants are 80 percent more likely to fail within the first year of operation, according to the campaign.
Codman Square Health Center Founder We Have To Make Sure That We Don t Miss Any Opportunities To Get That Vaccine Into The Arms Of People, Local Community Health Leader Says
Scientists at Oxford University say their experimental coronavirus vaccine has been shown in an early trial to prompt a protective immune response in hundreds of people who got it.
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Codman Square Health Center Founder
There s growing frustration over the distribution of the coronavirus vaccine in Massachusetts. One of the people calling for changes to how the state administers the vaccine is Bill Walczak, founder and former head of Dorchester s Codman Square Health Center. Walczak spoke with GBH All Things Considered
Akeem Polimis
A 17-year-old boy from Dorchester was found shot to death in a car in Quincy on Friday night (Jan. 15), according to Boston Police, who say they have arrested an 18-year-old man from Dorchester on murder charges.
Akeem Polimis, a student at the Codman Academy Charter Public School, was fatally shot at 29 Ferndale St. near Codman Square around 6:45 p.m. on Friday, police say. However, somebody put him into a car, and drove him to Victory Road in Quincy’s Squantum neighborhood, where police found him dead in the car.
Juan Nazario, 18, of Dorchester, was arrested around 11:30 a.m. on Saturday on charges of murder and unlawful possession of a gun and ammunition. Police did not say if Nazario was the one who drove Polimis’s body to Quincy, but whoever did crashed into a car at Adams and Park streets in Dorchester, which caused the front bumper to fall off farther down Park Street as the driver made his way to the Expressway.
Polimis
The Boston Police Department reports that Akeem Polimis, 17 and a student at the Codman Academy Charter Public School, was fatally shot at 29 Ferndale St., near Codman Square in Dorchester around 6:45 p.m. on Friday.
However, somebody loaded him in a car, and drove him to Victory Road in Quincy s Squantum neighborhood, where police found him in the car, dead, police say.
Juan Nazario, 18, of Dorchester, was arrested around 11:30 a.m. on Saturday on charges of murder and unlawful possession of a gun and ammunition, police say.
Police did not say if Nazario was the one who drove Polimis to Quincy. Whoever did crashed into a car at Adams and Park streets in Dorchester, which caused the front bumper to fall off further down Park Street as the driver made his way to the Expressway.
By Katie Trojano, Reporter Staff
December 17, 2020
Katie Trojano, Reporter Staff
The storefront in Codman Square the former site of Xo Restaurant will be converted into a recreational marijuana store.
A recreational cannabis store at 517B Washington St. in Codman Square last Tuesday won unanimous approval to move forward from members of the city’s Zoning Board of Appeal.
Low Key Dispensary plans to convert an existing two-story building into a 17,000-square-foot retail space above 17,000 square feet of storage space. It also received a letter of approval from the Boston Cannabis Board last week.
The store plans to be open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.