In 1983, Ed and Mary Forry launched a monthly newspaper from a makeshift office in their Lower Mills home. Forty years later, The Reporter is still in business and the Forry’s vision of creating a quality hometown newspaper for Boston’s largest neighborhood remains a weekly work in progress. When he left his home near Dorchester Park that Monday morning in August of 1983, Ed
About two or three times a week, just after dusk, state Rep. Russell Holmes grabs a pair of wire cutters and some gloves and meets up with former Boston Police Capt. Haseeb Hosein and his truck to take on a special mission: the removal of all signs posted by a company they say is preying on Black, Brown, and low-income communities and the elderly.
In Boston, the average white-owned food business earns $1.1 million per year, while Hispanic-owned businesses earn $243,000 and Black-owned businesses earn $475,681. Can partnerships like this one help close those disparities?