“Jesus” died last week. Not the historic Jesus of Nazareth, the man who, Christians believe, died and then rose from his grave a few days later. I write rather of the 12-year-old “Jesus” of the Morton Street projects, the Haitian American child actor who won the lead role in the musical “Godspell” that was staged at the old St. Gregory’s Elementary School back in May 1985.
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
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For many Haitian migrants who arrive in Boston from South America and Mexico, they now find themselves stuck in limbo instead of the land of opportunity. Officials with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services blame the long wait on labor shortages, as well as a backlog of applications left to them by former President Donald Trump’s administration.
Nearly every day, scores of Haitian men and women, some of whom walked thousands of miles to seek asylum in the United States, make their way to a modest office in Mattapan Square, the headquarters of the nonprofit Immigrant Family and Service Institute (IFSI). The migrants, who have been granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) by the US government, are looking for help