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Potential group home in Roxbury

Description: Resident of Garrison Trotter section of Roxbury is unhappy that nearby vacant house owned by city may become group home for mentally ill. City official says no class can be excluded by local objection.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/11/1991

Roxbury Community College

Description: Roxbury Community College suffers from budget cut, enrollment drop, and chiefly a crisis of confidence in president Walter Howard. Students rally to save the school. Campus, photo of Howard.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/15/1991

Roxbury child murders

Description: Touching reactions from friends and classmates of 11 year old Charles Copney, killed on a Saturday evening on Highland Avenue, Roxbury, in a shooting that also killed a teenager.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/22/1991

Roxbury pilgrimage

Description: On Good Friday, parishioners and clergy march through Roxbury past sites of violence in a pilgrimage of hope for the community. Stations of the cross.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/29/1991

Shakur Ali

Description: Shakur Ali, negotiator of Roxbury gang truce and guardian to delinquent boys, offers himself as role model to youth in crisis & his home as constructive environment. Highland Avenue sign, boarded up house.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/02/1991

TOCN show tape

Description: Advocates for poor protest outside House Ways and Means chair Rep. Thomas Finneran's office against budget cuts; Reps. John McDonough, Stanley Rosenberg. Parcel 18 Ruggles Center in Roxbury to be occupied by Registry of Motor Vehicles; Mayor Raymond Flynn, Gov. William Weld, BRA executive director Stephen Coyle, Rev. Tony Bethel. Architect's scale model of City of Boston development in Coyle's office. Studio interview with Myron Weiner (MIT) and Kishore Mandhyan (BC) on assassination of Rajiv Gandhi and election violence in India. Young Boston children make fanciful, recycled art of objects from industrial surplus bins. Dr. Walter Drew of Institute for Self Active Education encourages this for its free-spirited creativity and joyous expression.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/21/1991