Description: Private security company hired by MHFA patrols Roxbury buildings at night to keep them free of gang and drug activity. They find used drug paraphernalia in hallway. Night street scenes with youth. Sneakers hanging from trees.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/25/1990
Description: Roxbury street scenes. Black pedestrians. Grove Hall bus. Squeal of orange line elevated trolley on overhead tracks. People board bus. Nubian Notion on Dudley Street. Traffic, many taxis pass through intersection. District 2 Boston police station. Cars on Columbia Road. Two UPI B+W stills of murder scene on Fellows Street.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/23/1979
Description: Ruggles Street day care center. Children play with white paste-like substance, colored paper, buttons, markers. Teacher oversees activities.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/03/1984
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
Description: Southwest Corridor Project. Roxbury, Orange Line construction.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/21/1981
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
Description: Theroch II in Roxbury is worst public housing in the city. Tour of pitiful interiors. Interview with tenants and landlord Herbert Long who is not paying mortgage to HUD.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/17/1989
Description: Urban Renewal Roxbury Enviromentals with snow.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/10/1982
Description: POSSIBLE SALE OF WESTMINSTER - WILLARD PLACE SUBSIDIZED HOUSING IN ROXBURY. BUCKMINSTER IN KENMORE SQUARE.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/09/1986
Description: Exterior of welfare office at 1491 Tremont Street in Roxbury. “Overseers of the Public Welfare” inscribed above entrance. Several people, mostly black, walk by and enter and exit the building.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/15/1977