Sugar Ray Leonard visits youngsters at Children’s Hospital Boston.
ESPN’s ‘Contender’ boxers hit Dudley Sq.
Bridgit Brown
ESPN sent the four semi-finalist fighters from the third season of its series “The Contender” to the heart of Roxbury last Saturday.
Sakio Bika, Jaidon Codrington, Sam Soliman and Wayne Johnsen greeted youngsters from the Fit Kidz program of the nonprofit Body By Brandy 4 Kidz on Washington Street. Full story
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President Bush (left) presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to civil rights pioneer Benjamin Hooks.
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Boston youth speak out on violence, education, health
Talia Whyte
As the old saying goes, children should be seen, not heard. But today, with quality of life problems growing for many Boston kids, more adults are recognizing that the city’s youth need to be part of the conversation about finding solutions.
Aiming to help jumpstart the dialogue, the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) has hosted a series of recent community meetings intended to give youth a chance to voice their opinions on a range of health and safety issues. Full story
 Hub Puerto Rican activists livid at racial e-mail gaffe
Yawu Miller
It happens to everyone at least once. An absent-minded click of the mouse. The eye’s momentary inability to distinguish between “reply” and “reply to sender and recipients.”
But not everyone makes this mistake with words that can offend well-known members of their community. Throw in a racial slur, and it can get ugly.
That’s the predicament Boston School Committee member Angel Amy Moreno found himself in recently. That is, former Boston School Committee member.
One can only imagine what went through Moreno’s head on Oct. 9 when he referred to José Massó as “el negrito del batey,” which translates loosely into “the little black yard boy.” Full Story
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