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Bobby Brown’s Bum Rap
Bobby Brown was late, of course. He’d been ordered to show up at the Norfolk County Probate and Family Court in Canton at 8:30 a.m. […]
Public vs. Private — The Best High Schools
Chris Coughlin, a tall, sandy-haired senior at Noble and Greenough School, knew he’d had enough of Natick High School when his geometry teacher assigned a […]
Growing Up in Gangland
Elliot Delgado shivers inside his collar as a stiff wind blows through the park in Dorchester’s Fields Corner section. He’s not wearing a hat, and […]
The Shape of Jazz That Was
It was on Washington Street, walking by Krey’s music store at age 11, that I was first drawn to what has become a lifetime immersion […]
Getting the Blues
Rivulets of sweat run east and west of Peter Parcek’s eyes, trickling from under the band of his porkpie hat as he squints at his […]
When a Gangsta Goes to College
Jason Pierce had been gone two years from the ghetto. A college man now, and hauled up by his own bootstraps too. He’d always been […]
The Ways of the Gun
The Ways of the Gun