Bank of America pledges $1 million to King Boston efforts, the biggest corporate gift so far
Itâs also giving $500,000 to community health centers to speed up vaccination efforts
By Jon Chesto Globe Staff,Updated April 25, 2021, 1 hour ago
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King Boston expects to need about $9 million to pay for The Embrace and the plaza where it will sit, on the Tremont Street side of Boston Common.Rendering Courtesy of King Boston
The fund-raising efforts to honor Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife. Coretta Scott King. in Boston are finally approaching the organizersâ $15 million goal â and a million-dollar gift from Bank of America is helping them get there.
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By Simon Rios, WBUR Reporter
April 22, 2021
Simon Rios, WBUR Reporter
The vast majority of Boston voters believe racism is a serious issue facing the city, according to the recently Dorchester Reporter-WBUR-The Boston Foundation poll released last week.
Gail Coutain of Mattapan originally from Trinidad and Tobago said in an interview that she has experienced racism first-hand. Like when a man at a gas station recently told her to go back to her country. She even hears insensitive comments from white colleagues at her job in state government.
She recounted: “Statements like, ‘I’m so sick of hearing about Black Lives Matter. who really cares?’ So I looked at her and I said, ‘Do you realize I’m Black?’ [And she said] ‘I don’t mean you, you’re fine.’ I excuse some of it because it’s unconscious, but it’s there.”
By Kathleen McNerny, WBUR Reporter
April 22, 2021
Kathleen McNerny, WBUR Reporter
More parents want their children back in classrooms this fall even if they aren’t comfortable sending them back into school buildings now, according to a new WBUR-Dorchester Reporter-The Boston Foundation poll.
Only 49 percent of parents surveyed said they want their children back in school buildings right away. But 67 percent said they wanted in-person learning come September. As in previous polls, Black and Latinx parents were more likely to hesitate about sending their kids back into classrooms.
“It’s tough,” said Tawana White of Mattapan, who helps care for her eight-year-old niece. “Yes, you want the children to go back. I feel like it’s very necessary for them. It’s their social life. . I just would love to know there’s a great enough handle on what’s going to happen with the coronavirus between now and September, but we don’t know. It’s up in the air at this point.�