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Renaming ceremony to be held at Florida Ruffin Ridley School Community Content The Public Schools of Brookline will celebrate the formal renaming of the Florida Ruffin Ridley School at 3:30 p.m. Feb. 26. The event will be streamed online at http://brooklineinteractive.org/LIVE by the Brookline Interactive Group. Due to the ongoing nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, only a small group will gather for the in-person ceremony at the school. The ceremony will feature remarks by those closely involved with the renaming process, including representatives of the student committee, town meeting members who filed the original petition and local historians who will share their research about the school’s namesake and about the history of slavery in Brookline that prompted the school renaming process. ....
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Opinions | Black women have shaped politics in Boston for centuries Kabria Baumgartner New Boston City Council President Kim Janey at Boston City Hall on Jan. 6, 2020. Boston entered a new political frontier Monday, officially ushering in the most diverse City Council in the city s history and electing new leadership with what councilors said is a proactive agenda to tackle inequities in housing, transportation and education access. (David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe/Getty Images) At the end of February 2021, Kim Janey will probably vacate her position as president of the Boston City Council to become the city’s acting mayor. Should this happen, Janey will be only the second Black woman to lead a major city in New England and the first to do so in Boston. Janey, a Roxbury native, is well prepared for this role, given her decade-long experience as a community organizer and her work representing District Seven for the past three years. And importantly, ....
JFK school, named for slaveholder, now honours Black activist by The Associated Press Last Updated Jan 22, 2021 at 1:58 pm EDT BROOKLINE, Mass. An elementary school that was once attended by John F. Kennedy is being renamed to honour a Black activist and suffragist after research revealed its previous namesake enslaved people. The public school district in Brookline announced Friday that it will hold an online ceremony next week formally renaming the school as the Florida Ruffin Ridley School. The town agreed on the name in 2019 after deciding to abandon its previous one, the Edward Devotion School. Devotion, who died in 1744, left money to the town on the condition it was used for a school. Town residents later proposed a name change after finding that Devotion owned at least one slave. ....