Boston, MA
AG Healey, Education Leaders and Boston Sports Teams Hold Conference at TD Garden on Preventing and Addressing Hate in School Sports
BOSTON — As a part of a brand new collaborative effort to stop and deal with hate and bias in class sports activities, Legal professional Normal Maura Healey partnered with the Division of Elementary and Secondary Training (DESE), the Massachusetts Affiliation of College Superintendents (MASS), the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Affiliation (MIAA), and the Massachusetts College Directors’ Affiliation (MSAA) in internet hosting a convention known as “Addressing Hate in College Sports activities” which supplied college directors, athletic administrators and employees, coaches, and referees from throughout the state with programming and data on greatest practices to construct constructive environments and forestall, report, and deal with hate incidents.
The day-long convention, held right now at TD Backyard, was deliberate in collaboration with Northeastern College’s Heart for the Examine of Sport in Society, ADL New England, and different neighborhood organizations, and featured representatives from the Boston Bruins, Boston Celtics, Boston Crimson Sox, New England Patriots, Boston Pleasure, Boston Renegades, and the New England Revolution. A keynote speech was delivered by Boston Celtics Legend Dana Barros.
“As a former pupil athlete and coach, I do know that sports activities generally is a highly effective unifier,” stated AG Healey. “At this time, we introduced collectively coaches, athletic administrators, and educators who’re dedicated to making sure that younger folks can take part in class sports activities in a secure and inclusive surroundings. I’m grateful to all our neighborhood companions on this collaborative effort and look ahead seeing these greatest practices put to work.”
Recognizing the facility of sports activities to drive social change, and in response to an increase in reported hate-based and hazing incidents throughout Massachusetts, the convention is a part of an initiative the AG’s Workplace launched with instructional organizations earlier this yr throughout a digital call-to-action.
“Sports activities are an essential piece of faculty life, whether or not you’re an athlete or sitting within the stands,” stated Elementary and Secondary Training Commissioner Jeffrey C. Riley. “Sports activities groups and occasions needs to be locations the place everybody feels welcome and revered, and I hope that this convention will empower faculties and athletic officers to construct a extra constructive tradition for our college students.”
“There isn’t any place for hate in our society, and our faculty athletic applications have an obligation to set these requirements and expectations,” stated Dianne Kelly, Revere Public College Superintendent and President of the Massachusetts Affiliation of College Superintendents. “The Addressing Hate in College Sports activities Convention brings superintendents, principals, athletic administrators and coaches collectively centered on the objective of making the person and staff tradition that helps the variety of our collective communities.”
“MIAA and MSAA are dedicated to offering the help and sources our members want to advertise behaviors that instill respect for self, staff, opponents, officers, guidelines and the sport itself,” stated Robert Baldwin, Government Director of the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Affiliation and the Massachusetts College Directors’ Affiliation. “We’re excited to be working with the Legal professional Normal’s Workplace and different companions to make the most of the collective energy of constructive affect to assist pupil athletes and teacher-coaches function position fashions to empower ALL contributors within the strategy of constructive choice making. When teacher-coaches, pupil athletes, and recreation officers select the privilege of taking part in interscholastic athletics, they assume the duty for proper motion.”
At this time’s occasion supplied attendees with info from panelists on the way to acknowledge bias and hate, be taught greatest practices, hear experiences and classes from college and athletic leaders in stopping and addressing hate, and methods for coaches, athletic employees, and organizations to construct constructive and inclusive environments.
Following right now’s occasion, regional trainings throughout the state will probably be performed in 2023 by Northeastern College’s Heart for the Examine of Sport in Society to offer extra in-depth coaching and equip college and athletic program leaders with the instruments they should empower and help their college students and to stop and deal with hate.
For extra info on the AG’s initiative on addressing hate and bias in sports activities and to signal your college up for upcoming applications and trainings, click on right here.
At this time’s convention was made attainable partly by Director of Strategic Initiatives Elise Yannett, Civil Rights Division Chief Abigail Taylor, Kids’s Justice Unit Director Liza Hirsch, Advance Coordinator Katherine McGee, and Government Bureau Assistant Sage Scott, all of the Legal professional Normal’s Workplace.
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Statements of help
Dan Lebowitz, Government Director of The Heart for the Examine of Sport in Society at Northeastern College
“The Addressing Hate in College Sports activities Convention is an empowering, intentional, and multi-intersectional gathering of presidency leaders, college directors, athletic administrators, coaches, employees, college companions, non-profits and different dedicated stakeholders, every totally vested in making a sustainable tradition of security for highschool youth, and equally, for all these in, and tangent to, their communities, each on the enjoying subject and past. The convention is the start of a large-scale initiative, together with 12 regional trainings, that may enable faculties statewide to have interaction in facilitated conversations that assist ideate, innovate, and implement how we are able to transfer past a gift, too typically typified by hate and harm, to a future that’s monument to well being and therapeutic, and that additional offers a pathway to changing into the most effective variations of our particular person and collective selves. We, on the Heart for the Examine of Sport in Society at Northeastern, applaud Legal professional Normal and Governor Elect, Maura Healey, for her unwavering dedication to the youth, households and communities of the Commonwealth. We stay grateful for her considerate management and forefront imaginative and prescient in creating this essential participatory platform of constructive change company and sustainable change. Moreover, we’d prefer to thank the devoted employees of the AGO and all the opposite companions who’ve labored tirelessly to make this occasion and initiative each attainable and a high precedence.”
Phil Fogelman, ADL New England Training Director
“Over the previous few years, ADL has responded to numerous incidents of antisemitism, racism, and bigotry in center and highschool sports activities applications. It’s time to go from responding to stopping. We’re grateful to AG Healey’s management for convening this essential convention and empowering coaches and directors with the methods and instruments to have the ability to forestall and reply to bias incidents and the abilities to foster therapeutic and training of their communities within the aftermath. Everybody has the appropriate to play with none concern of being focused with hate or bias.”
Boston Bruins and TD Backyard
“We’re fortunate to dwell in a sports activities metropolis with groups that perceive the numerous energy and affect of their platforms and work so carefully collectively on essential initiatives regardless of being rivals in our market. On the Bruins we proceed to make our Hockey is For Everybody work a precedence by offering instructional sources and fostering inclusivity to drive out hate in sports activities. This work is ongoing as we try to be the most effective we might be on and off the ice. Thanks to AG Healey and her workplace for placing collectively this nice occasion.”
Wealthy Gotham, Boston Celtics Workforce President
“The good Invoice Russell as soon as stated there is no such thing as a such factor as different folks’s youngsters. All of us have the duty to make sure that children developing are afforded the appropriate to be taught and play sports activities in an surroundings freed from hate and discrimination. The Celtics are dedicated to doing our half and applaud the Legal professional Normal’s workplace for launching this initiative.”
Sarah McKenna, Senior Vice President, Fan Companies & Leisure, Boston Crimson Sox
“The Boston Crimson Sox are proud to have interaction with the Legal professional Normal’s workplace and with Massachusetts college directors, athletic administrators, and educators on the essential matter of addressing hate in class sports activities. Skilled sports activities golf equipment like ours have a strong platform with the capability to achieve thousands and thousands, and the Crimson Sox are dedicated to utilizing ours to advertise respect, unity, and inclusion, and to offer a secure and welcoming expertise for all. A convention like todays, and the regional trainings that may observe, will enable attendees and their colleagues to make use of their platforms in their very own communities. We thank Legal professional Normal Healey and her workplace for the chance to hitch all of Boston’s skilled sports activities groups to share this message.”
New England Patriots and New England Revolution
“Congratulations to the co-hosts and organizers of right now’s convention. Addressing hate, in any kind at any stage, is essential to eradicating it. There are few issues that deliver communities collectively fairly just like the communal bond shared via sports activities. Whether or not as a spectator or participant, sports activities have a novel unifying energy. We hope all contributors be taught the significance of embracing variations, supporting each other, and dealing collectively to realize success. The values realized via the teachings of teamwork at a younger age can propel you to realize nice issues in life. We applaud all who use their sports activities platform to contribute to a staff and make these round them higher.”
Molly Goodwin, Proprietor of the Boston Renegades
“At our core, the Boston Renegades are dedicated to fostering an inclusive sports activities surroundings the place girls of all backgrounds can thrive. We consider that everybody deserves the chance to play sports activities in a approach that fosters progress. It’s unbelievable to see the collaboration between state leaders, skilled sports activities groups, college directors and coaches, working collectively to make sure that the youth of Massachusetts have a constructive sports activities expertise. Collectively, we should take a stand towards hate and proceed to make use of sports activities as a platform that unites communities. We’d prefer to thank Maura Healey and the Legal professional Normal’s Workplace for his or her help of ladies’s skilled athletics and their dedication to stop and deal with hate and bias incidents. Our collaboration with the AG’s Workplace and the town’s instructional establishments promotes a constructive and inclusive sports activities surroundings in any respect ranges. We acknowledge the facility of sports activities to drive social change, and we’re proud to be a part of this initiative.”
Colleen Coyne, President of the Boston Pleasure
“As somebody who grew up loving sports activities and as a mother or father of youth athletes, I consider the sort of occasion is essential. Sports activities are purported to be a secure place for youths to go to proceed to be taught and turn into well-rounded residents. It’s essential that the leaders in our faculties have the coaching and instruments they should guarantee each athlete has the absolute best expertise. I’m honored to be part of right now’s convention.”
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Boston, MA
Nine ways to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day around Boston – The Boston Globe
SMALL ACTS, BIG IMPACTS: A DAY OF SERVICE From Saturday to Monday, give back to the community with the Discovery Museum’s “Day of Service” in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day’s designation as a National Day of Service. Donate or collect supplies for the Welcome Basket drive, and make a warm welcome card in support of the Refugee and Immigrant Assistance Center. Donations for these care packages — including cleaning and laundry supplies, hygiene products, infant care items, and winter clothing — will go to immigrant or refugee families in need of essential daily items. Free admission. Jan. 18-20, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., 177 Main St., Acton. discoveryacton.org
MLK DAY CONCERT — VOTING WITH PURPOSE AND WITHOUT FEAR On Sunday, the Association of Black Citizens of Lexington is hosting a concert in honor of MLK Jr. Day and in celebration of the lives of Martin Luther King Jr. and activist Fannie Lou Hamer. Both civil rights leaders were integral in the fight for equal voting rights and access to ballots for all voters. Enjoy songs of spirituality and freedom — performed by Brother Dennis and Friends — as an homage to the songs that motivated those at the Meredith March Against Fear in 1966 and many other civil rights activists of the 1960s. Tickets are $25. Jan. 19, 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Follen Church, 755 Mass. Ave., Lexington. eventbrite.com
EMBRACE HONORS MLK On Sunday, Embrace Boston hosts Embrace Honors MLK 2025, a formal evening of joy, music, and community. Leaders to be honored include former Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and first lady Lauren Baker, and former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and first lady Diane Patrick. Hosts include Melisa Valdez, in-arena host for the Boston Celtics, and Latoyia Edwards, Emmy-winning anchor from NBC 10 Boston. DJ Envy, DJ Papadon, and the Berklee All Star Jazz Band are among the entertainers booked. Tickets are $450. Jan. 19. 6:30 p.m.-midnight. Big Night Live, 110 Causeway St. embraceboston.org
PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. CELEBRATION The Peabody Essex Museum will honor the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday with a variety of art installations. View the works of Bethany Collins (”America: A Hymnal”), David Boxer (”The Black Books”), and Alison Saar’s (”Weight)”. Starting at 11 a.m., join fluid acrylics artist Rahim Gray to learn the way he incorporates social justice and music in his work and to make pour art of your own. Free admission. Jan. 20, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 161 Essex St., Salem. pem.org
ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM — MLK JR. DAY OF SERVICE Visit the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Monday to stroll its galleries, hear storytellers, and participate in activities. Featured exhibits include performance artist Dzidzor’s soundscape “Riot: A Sermon of Anger, Dreams, and Love,” Crystal Bi’s “Dream Portal” hands-on installation, and a performance by Amanda Shea and musician Wylsner Bastien of “Why We Still Dream” at Calderwood Hall. Free admission. Jan. 20, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 25 Evans Way. gardnermuseum.org
CELEBRATE! WITH GEORGE RUSSELL JR. AND FRIENDS The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum hosts a Monday performance of some of Martin Luther King Jr.’s favorite songs by George Russell Jr. and Friends. The event is free to the public per the support of the Martin Richard Foundation and the Mass Cultural Council. Jan. 20, 10:30.-11:30 a.m. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Columbia Point. eventbrite.com
MFA BOSTON OPEN HOUSE, MLK DAY In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. and the communal and artistic spirit of the holiday, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston will offer free admission Monday to any visitors with a Massachusetts ZIP code. Within the museum, view ArtSpark’s “Radical Heroes” program and make your own window-hanging at the “Stained Glass: Doves” station. The museum offers several other performances and talks; see the website for the schedule. Jan. 20. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave. mfa.org
BOSTON CHILDREN’S CHORUS — ROAD TO FREEDOM This year’s Boston Children’s Chorus MLK Day program educates about Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, two civil rights leaders who are often perceived as ideologically unaligned, though the interconnectedness between the two is more complex. The “Road to Freedom” program at Symphony Hall on Monday is designed to educate the Boston community on the similarities between the two activists, and the vital role both hold in shaping social movements of the past and present. $15-$75. Jan. 20, 4 p.m. Symphony Hall, 301 Mass. Ave. bso.org
ANNUAL MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. CELEBRATION Join the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras and the Boston community for a celebratory program of memorable performances on Monday. The two-hour program, presented in conjunction with the Museum of African American History, will include spiritual and cultural performances, spoken word and readings, and guest speakers. Free admission. Jan. 20. Starts at 1 p.m. Strand Theatre, 543 Columbia Road. eventbrite.com
Haley Clough can be reached at haley.clough@globe.com. Follow her on Instagram @hcloughjournalism.
Boston, MA
Boston Celtics vs. Toronto Raptors: Where to watch free NBA live stream
A pair of division foes in the Eastern Conference meet up on Wednesday, Jan. 15 when the Boston Celtics travel to take on the Toronto Raptors at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto.
The game is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. EST and will be broadcast on NBC Sports Boston. Fans looking to watch this NBA game can do so for free by using DirecTV Stream, which offers a free trial. You can also watch on FuboTV, which also offers a free trial and $30 off your first month, or SlingTV, which doesn’t offer a free trial but has promotional offers available.
The Celtics are looking for their first winning streak since they beat the Raptors, Timberwolves and Rockets consecutively to end December and start January. Boston enters this matchup at 28-11 while Toronto is 9-31 and winless in two previous matchups with the defending champions.
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Who: Boston Celtics vs. Toronto Raptors
When: Wednesday, Jan. 15 at 7:30 p.m. EST
Where: Scotiabank Arena in Toronto
Stream: FuboTV; Sling; DirecTV Stream (free trial)
Betting: Check out our MA sports betting guide, where you can learn basic terminology, definitions and how to read odds for those interested in learning how to bet in Massachusetts.
What is FuboTV?
FuboTV is an internet television service that offers more than 200 channels across sports and entertainment including Paramount+ with SHOWTIME. From the UEFA Champions League to the WNBA to international tournaments ranging across sports, there’s plenty of options available on FuboTV, which offers a free trial and $30 off the first month for new customers.
What is DirecTV Stream?
DirecTV Stream offers practically everything DirecTV provides, except for a remote and a streaming device to connect to your television. Sign up now and get three free months of premium channels including MAX, Paramount+ with SHOWTIME and Starz.
What is SlingTV?
SlingTV offers a variety of live programing ranging from news and sports and starting as low as $20 a month for your first month. Subscribers also get a month of DVR Plus free if they sign up now. Choose from a variety of sports packages without long-term contracts and with easy cancelation.
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Court papers say ex-NBA player Jontay Porter laid out betting scheme in a text; 6th person arrested
By JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — A sixth person was charged Monday in the federal sports betting case involving ex-NBA player Jontay Porter, and authorities disclosed a text message Porter allegedly sent explaining how to cash in on his plans to bench himself in a January 2024 game.
The former Toronto Raptors center already has pleaded guilty in the criminal case and was banned from the NBA for life. He admitted that he agreed to withdraw early from games, claiming illness or injury, so that those in the know could win big by betting on him to underperform expectations.
Although the new developments don’t affect the legal case against Porter, they put the scheme in what a court document says were his own words.
“Hit unders for the big numbers,” Porter wrote to an alleged conspirator on Jan. 26, 2024, according to a court complaint against yet another alleged schemer, Shane Hennen. He was arrested Sunday at the Las Vegas airport while boarding a flight to Panama.
“No blocks no steals. I’m going to play first 2-3 minute stint off the bench then when I get subbed out tell them my eye killing me again,” Porter wrote, according to the complaint. It identifies him only as “NBA Player 1” but makes clear through references — such as the details of his guilty plea last year — that it’s Porter.
He had scratched an eye during a game on Jan. 22, 2024, keeping conspirators in the loop by text even from the arena, according to the complaint. But he wasn’t on the injured list when the Raptors faced the LA Clippers four days later.
Porter ultimately played about 4 1/2 minutes in that game before saying he had aggravated the eye problem. Then he pulled out of a March 20 game against the Sacramento Kings after less than three minutes, saying he felt ill. His performance in both games fell well below what sportsbooks had anticipated.
Porter told a court in July that he got involved in the plot to try to clear his own gambling debts. He’s set to be sentenced in May. He could face anything from no jail time to 20 years behind bars; prosecutors have estimated his sentence at about 3 1/2 to four years in prison.
A message was sent to his lawyer Monday to seek comment on the developments.
Hennen was released without bail after his arraignment Monday in Las Vegas on charges including wire fraud conspiracy. The court complaint alleges that he placed bets through proxies after co-conspirators alerted him to Porter’s plans for the Jan. 26 game, and that he also got a heads-up about the March 20 game and likely told other gamblers about it.
A message seeking comment was sent to his attorney.
Besides Hennen and Porter, four other people also have been charged to date. Two have pleaded guilty, a third has pleaded not guilty, and the fourth hasn’t entered a plea.
The complaint against Hennen alleges there were still more conspirators involved. It’s unclear whether more people may yet be arrested.
The Associated Press contributed to this article
Boston, MA
Constantine Manos, photographer for landmark ‘Where’s Boston?’ exhibit, dies at 90 – The Boston Globe
Among Mr. Manos’s books were “A Greek Portfolio” (1972; updated 1999), “Bostonians” (1975), “American Color” 1995) and ”American Color 2″ (2010). Mr. Manos’s work with color was notably expressive and influential.
“Color was a four-letter word in art photography,” the photographer Lou Jones, who worked with Mr. Manos on “Where’s Boston?,” said in a telephone interview. “But he was making wonderful, complex photographs with color, and that meant so much.”
Yet for all his formal skill, Mr. Manos always emphasized the human element in his work. “I am a people photographer and have always been interested in people,” he once said.
That interest extended beyond the photographs he took. He was a celebrated teacher. Among the students he taught in his photo workshops was Stella Johnson.
“He’d go through a hundred of my photographs,” she said in a telephone interview, “and maybe he’d like two. ‘No, no, no, no, yes, no.’ Costa really taught me how to see. I remember him looking at one picture and saying, “You were standing in the wrong spot.’ Something like that was invaluable to me as a young photographer.
“He was a very, very kind man, very generous. But he was very strict. ‘How could you do that?’ He was adored by his students and by his friends, absolutely. We were all lucky to have been in his orbit.”
Mr. Manos, who moved to Provincetown in 2008, lived in the South End for four decades. The South Carolina native’s association with the Boston area began when the Boston Symphony Orchestra hired him as a photographer at Tanglewood. He was 19. This led to Mr. Manos’s first book, “Portrait of a Symphony” (1961; updated 2000).
Constantine Manos was born in Columbia, S.C., on Oct. 12, 1934. His parents, Dimitri and Aphrodite (Vaporiotou) Manos, were Greek immigrants. They ran a café in the city’s Black section. That experience gave Mr. Manos a sympathy for marginalized people that would stay with him throughout his life. As a student at the University of South Carolina, he wrote editorials in the school paper opposing segregation. Later, he would do extensive work chronicling the LGBTQ+ community with his camera.
Mr. Manos became interested in photography at 13, joining the school camera club and building a darkroom in his parents’ basement. After graduating from college, Mr. Manos did two years of Army service in Germany, working as a photographer for Stars and Stripes. He joined Magnum in 1963. This had special meaning for him. Mr. Manos’s chief inspiration as a young photographer had been Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of Magnum’s founders. He was such an admirer he made a point of using the same equipment that Cartier-Bresson did.
That same year, Mr. Manos entered a seafood restaurant in Rome that was around the corner from the Pantheon. Prodanou, his future husband, was dining with friends. Noticing Mr. Manos, he gestured to him. “Would you join us for coffee?” The couple spent the next 61 years together, marrying in 2011.
Mr. Manos lived in Greece for three years, which led to “A Greek Portfolio.” He undertook a very different project in the Athens of America. Part of the city’s Bicentennial tribute, “Where’s Boston?” was a slice-of-many-lives view of contemporary Boston.
Located in a red-white-and-blue striped pavilion at the Prudential Center, it became a local sensation. The installation involved 42 computerized projectors and 3,097 color slides (most of them taken by Mr. Manos), shown on eight 10 feet by 10 feet screens. Outside the pavilion was a set of murals, consisting of 152 black-and-white photographs of Boston scenes, all shot by Mr. Manos.
“The most important thing I had to do was to keep my picture ideas simple,” he said in a 1975 Globe interview. “Viewers are treated to a veritable avalanche of color slides in exactly one hour’s time.”
In that same interview, he made an observation about his work generally. “I prefer to stay in close to my subjects. I let them see me and my camera and when they become bored they forget about me and then I get my best pictures.”
Among institutions that own Mr. Manos’s photographs are the Museum of Fine Arts; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Library of Congress; and the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
In addition to his husband, Mr. Manos leaves a sister, Irene Constantinides, of Atlanta, and a brother, Theofanis Manos, of Greenville, S.C.
A memorial service will be held later this year.
Mark Feeney can be reached at mark.feeney@globe.com.
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