Gunung Palung National Park on the island of Borneo is home to diverse species found nowhere else, and beloved by the people who live on the Indonesian island. But like…
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In Boston city, community leaders are engaged in a bold experiment: To use higher education to transform the city’s most dangerous neighborhoods. The program “Boston Uncornered” recruits gang members to…
GLOUCESTER, MA: Usually I’m against cluttering up an exhibition with period photographs and related bric-a-brac—believing that a show’s concentration should be on the world created inside, not outside, works of art. I…
Something happens in the shallow waters off the Dry Tortugas islands, 70 miles west of Key West, Florida, that happens nowhere else. Every year, like clockwork, sharks gather for their…
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,…
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.]
