Before the July 3 Tampa Bay Devil Rays game, 8-year-old Jimmy Fund Clinic patient Jordan Babbitt of Dorchester threw out the first pitch.

Northeastern parcel plan raises Roxbury’s ire


Yawu Miller

Roxbury activists say they are ready to shut down construction work on Northeastern University’s 1,200-student dormitory at the corner of Ruggles Street and Columbus Avenue. Full story

Dorchester activist fights sale of makeshift crack pipes

David Cogger

Mesfen Manna is fed up.

The Dorchester resident and neighborhood activist is tired of seeing lives destroyed by crack cocaine. And he is frustrated by Blue Hill Avenue storeowners who continue to exploit the opportunity to make money by selling drug paraphernalia to addicts and kids, further fueling an epidemic that has been a scourge on poor, mostly black sections of Boston since the 1990s. Full story