Fred Wesley, a legendary sideman who played with the likes of James Brown, rocks the house at the Berklee Performance Center. More in Scenes
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Hub group works to help residents claim tax credits
Jin-ah Kim
It’s 7:15 p.m. on a Thursday night in February, and at the intersection of Washington and Ruggles streets, the Roxbury Resource Center is packed.
Inside the center, five people look at Form 1040s reflected on their computer monitor screens, crunching numbers on their keyboards as they sift through reams of papers. A dozen people wait for their names to be called. One, a weary-eyed woman, comforts her irritated young children.
These days, scenes like this are commonplace at the Roxbury Resource Center, one of the 24 free tax preparation sites that are part of the Boston Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Coalition, which kicked off its sixth tax season last month. Full story
Winning isn’t everything
Socialist campaign stresses workers’ rights
Talia Whyte
This is a fact: Róger Calero has absolutely no chance to become president of the United States.
He is still running nevertheless, and while his campaign has not triggered a single blip on the national political radar, his lack of name recognition is not the real reason his campaign is doomed from the start. Full story
An apology delayed
 Ten years ago, domestic problems, slavery haunted Clinton on historic tour
Howard Manly
President Bill Clinton’s trip to Africa couldn’t have come at a better time. Daily news reports of extramarital affairs had the White House staff in a tizzy, constantly scrambling from one subpoena to another with no end in sight, never knowing what bombshell would drop next. Full story
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