by voteadmin | May 27, 2025 | DTV, Top
Ron Bell, founder of the civic engagement organization Dunk the Vote, shows off the new “know your rights” handbook his organization has begun distributing in Boston’s predominantly Black neighborhoods. PHOTO: GBH News For Richard Claytor, watching...
by voteadmin | May 24, 2025 | DTV, Top
MILTON — Despite the harsh wind and rain of a rare spring nor’easter, over 50 people gathered at Parkway Methodist Church Thursday evening to mark the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s death. In a small hall adjacent to the sanctuary, activists, community and...
by voteadmin | May 24, 2025 | DTV, Top
Hodan Hashi was 21 years old when George Floyd was murdered on May 25, 2020. She was about to become an activist. “It just felt like we should say something, our voices do matter,” Hashi said on an episode of GBH News Rooted this week. “And that was, I think, the...
by voteadmin | Mar 24, 2025 | DTV, Top
Ron Bell (right), founder of Dunk the Vote, hands out copies of the organization’s “Black Book” at the Boston Office of Black Male Advancement Empowerment Summit, March 7. The book explains civil rights broadly, as well as specifically in reference to areas like...
by voteadmin | Dec 9, 2024 | DTV, Top
Neighborhood Leadership awardee Flora Bannis, of Flora’s Child Care on Brent Street, was surprised by a contingent of her students during her award presentation. Seth Daniel photos With a packed house in the Great Hall at Codman Square, the annual Hidden Heroes &...
by voteadmin | Nov 24, 2024 | DTV, Top
Ron Bell Honored The Codman Square Neighborhood Council has awarded Ron Bell the 2024 Millennium Award for community impact. I cannot think of anyone who deserves to be honored and recognized more yet never seeks attention for self. Ron Bell received TEN citations...
