Walgreens closing

Asked about the impact of the closure of a local Walgreens, the roomful of elders at the Vine Street Community Center expressed alarm and concern over access to prescriptions in a city where big drugstore chains are shutting down their outlets in communities of color.

In the falling dusk of a chilly January evening, community members gathered in Roxbury last Friday to protest the looming closure of the Walgreens on Warren Street. Amid a chorus of car horns, sign-wielding demonstrators lined up on the median, chanting, “Hell no, Walgreens!”