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As Hub activists preach nonviolence, a 7-year-old girl urges them to forgive, but not forget
Mai-Anh Hoang
Hundreds of buttons, each bearing the image and name of a deceased young person, lay on a banner with a white dove in the center. The banner travels throughout Boston as a memorial to youth lost to street violence.
Twenty people have been murdered in Boston this year, according to the most recent Boston Police Department statistics. In some of the homicides, kids have been both the victims and the killers. A disproportionate number of the murders — 12 of the 20 — took place in Dorchester.
This Sunday, Mother’s Day, hundreds of walkers are expected to converge at Townfield Park in Dorchester’s Fields Corner to participate in the 3.6-mile Mother’s Walk for Peace. The walk is one of a number of events taking place in May intended to highlight the problem of street violence in Boston’s inner-city communities during what is being called “Peace Month.” Full story
Gov. Patrick eyes the future, one line item at a time
Howard Manly
History has yet to be written on the gubernatorial skills of Deval Patrick.
But one thing is clear: Patrick is well on his way to changing the climate inside the State House. Change is what he promised, and change he is delivering.
He wears it well. Full story
 A lifetime champion of educational equity
Margarita Persico
Robert Marshall has taken care of his community for decades, and at the age of 60, he shows no signs of slowing down.
These days, when he’s not busy as a substitute teacher at Madison Park Technical Vocational High School and at Boston Day and Evening Academy, both in Roxbury, you can usually find him putting up yard signs for the Barack Obama presidential campaign or working the phone banks for the local politicians he supports. If you miss him there, he’s probably out fundraising, going door-to-door to talk with folks about their political leanings, or dropping off literature at churches.
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