in the Mix
It was a packed house for Colette Phillips Communications, Inc.'s second anniversary celebration honoring The Next Generation: Massachusetts Firsts at her monthly networking event. Being honored on this night for their remarkable firsts were: Boston City Councilors Ayanna Pressley and Felix G. Arroyo Jr.; TOUCH 106.1 FM owner Charles Clemons; Susan Quinones, the first Latina chief of staff, Massachusetts Department of Transportation; Cambridge City Councilor Leland Cheung; State Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz; Newton Mayor Setti Warren; Shirley Leung from the Boston Globe; and Lisa A. Wong, the first Asian American to be elected mayor of Fitchburg. More »
Black conservative tea party backers take heat
ALBANY, N.Y. - They've been called Oreos, traitors and Uncle Toms, and are used to having to defend their values. Now black conservatives are really taking heat for their involvement in the mostly white tea party movement - and for having the audacity to oppose the policies of the nation's first black president. More »
Book recounts lessons from Mandela's life
"Mandela's Way: Fifteen Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage" (Crown, 256 pages, $23), by Richard Stengel: WWNMD - What would Nelson Mandela do? That's the question writer Richard Stengel asked himself repeatedly while collaborating with Mandela on the iconic South African leader's autobiography. More »
Activist speaks on human rights violations
In 2007, Luther Castillo was part of a team of Cuban-educated doctors who opened a hospital in Ciriboya, a community of Garifuna - the descendants of Africans and Arawak and Carib Indians that live on the Atlantic coast of Honduras. More »
