Juneteenth Roxbury
Homecoming celebration
Gov. Deval Patrick (center) was joined by (left to right) state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson and state Reps. Byron Rushing, Willie Mae Allen and Gloria L. Fox at the Roxbury Homecoming celebration, held last Saturday in Franklin Park. Patrick signed legislation declaring June 19 “Juneteenth Independence Day,” making Massachusetts one of 25 states to commemorate the end of slavery. For more photos from the celebration, please see our Boston Scenes section.
 At long last, new leader
in place for Boston’s schools
Howard Manly
After 18 months of fits and starts, Boston is finally poised to hire a new school superintendent.
Carol R. Johnson, the current school superintendent in Memphis, Tenn., attended a news conference on Tuesday with Mayor Thomas M. Menino, announcing her intention to serve the system here of nearly 57,000 students and 145 schools. Full story
SJC ruling OKs ‘stop and frisk’ searches
Dan Devine
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled last Friday that police officers who stop and frisk pedestrians they suspect of carrying illegal firearms — based on observational factors such as the way a person is walking — are not violating the pedestrians’ constitutional rights.
The court’s unanimous ruling upheld the conviction of 25-year-old Mattapan resident Michael DePeiza on charges of unlawfully carrying a firearm and ammunition and reversed a 2006 state Appeals Court decision that Boston police officers had violated DePeiza’s constitutional rights — even though he was carrying an illegal gun. Full story
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Upcoming Court decision could hold future of integrated schools in the balance
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• Speakers at civil rights memorial service decry voter apathy
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• MIT professor resigns to protest colleague’s tenure denial
• Sheriff Cabral, leading Mass. legislators endorse Hillary Clinton
•State Dept. of Public Health devotes $600K in anti-crime funding to hospitals across Mass.
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