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Activists Working to Ensure Fair Wages at Walmart

"Even though the unemployment rate is high in our community, we know people want to work," said UMN Executive Director Horace Small. "Our job is to make sure people are treated fairly." "It's not about keeping them out," said Russ Davis, executive director of Massachusetts Jobs With Justice. "It's really about holding mem accountable." "I think the operative word in all this is fight," Small said. "Our concern has always been the community first. Knowing we're going to be taking on the bigges...

Retired Educator Still Plans to Give Back

"Politics, hey man, you learn how to play the game," said [David G. Carter], 68, who retired last month after five years as chancellor. "I didn't do it alone. I had good people around me." "I've had a great life, to go from three sleeping on a bed with a bb gun in case [a] rat or mouse ran across the floor. I know what it is to be on welfare," said Carter, who lived with his mother and brother after his father died. Not long before his death, when Carter was five, a fire destroyed the family ...

In the News

"I was delighted to appoint Ms. [Michelle Williams] to the vitally important position of chief probation officer," [Ronald Corbett] said. "The competence and commitment she brings to her position is. reflective of the breadth and depth of talent that exists in the Massachusetts Probation Service." "It is a huge honor," Williams said of her appointment. "I am achieving die career goal I set as well as making my mother proud."

Obama Aide Visits Harvard Business School

"It's surreal to be here at Harvard, given what my family has been through to get where it is now," [Michael Blake] said. "My mother looks at what I'm doing now and jokes that '[we] went from no house to the White House.' " Blake's focus now is "Start Up America," which helps aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners. "This phase has five themes: educate; innovate; build; reform; and responsibility," he said. Blake's final thought about the discussion was a global one. "We're looking a...

Photo Exhibition

West's Latin American images focus on the people of Bolivia, Peru and Argentina. His contractual work for ACCIÓN International allowed him to chronicle the people in their granting area. Bakery Cafe's Marketing Director Bing Broderick said the opening reception "... had a nice turnout of photographers, which gave the event a cool vibe."

Noted Authors Dyson and Mosley Speak in Boston

The Friends of the Libraries at Boston University hosted an evening witli celebrated author Walter Mosley. The writer of more than 34 critically acclaimed books, Mosley's most recent work includes "The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey," published in November 2010 and the third novel in his Leonid McGiIl series, "When the Thrill is Gone," published in March 2011. [Michael Eric Dyson], an ordained minister and author of more than one dozen books including "Debating Race," said Haymarket's strength res...