BOSTON – It’s that time of year again — back to school! And with it comes the frenzy of registration and the fear of not getting a spot. Take Shirley Porcena for example,…
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Mike O’Toole, president of PJA Marketing and Advertising and board chairman of College Bound Dorchester, has spent his adult life trying to solve especially difficult problems for the betterment of…
Two decades ago, Luis Rodrigues was in prison, a gang member who aspired to be the top drug dealer in Boston. On Tuesday, his 5-by-8-foot photographic portrait stood on the…
If a picture says a thousand words, College Bound Dorchester and The Uncornered Project is hoping a larger-than-life photo documentary of former gang members side by side with elected officials and community leaders will…
For Mayor Marty Walsh, it was alcoholism. For Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, it was trauma. For NFL broadcaster Andrea Kramer, sexism. Everyone knows that success doesn’t always come easy, and that even…
College Bound Dorchester joins Janet Wu of Bloomberg Baystate Business Radio to discuss their Uncornered photo documentary, currently on display at Boston Common… [To read the full story, click here.]
Two men met in a prison cell in 2009, doing time for different crimes. Elias Perea grew up in Dorchester. So did Luis Rodrigues. They hailed from different neighborhoods, each a…
For families that rely on school meals to provide a significant portion of their kids’ daily nutrition, the short New England summer can sometimes seem very long. For 20 years,…
On a trip to Borneo in 1993 to study orangutans, Kinari Webb saw rainforest habitat being lost to illegal logging. People living in the Indonesian region would cut down trees…
Sometimes experience can be the best teacher, agrees Maure Aronson, executive director of Global Arts Live. For the second time, the institution he leads is changing its name — but…
