She has dedicated most of her life to giving back to the Latino community in Boston and the state of Massachusetts. As head of ABCD’s Boston Hispanic Center for more than two decades, Jenny Cintron has been a key player, in connecting the non-profit organization with the Latino families they serve.

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Every dance track on the radio today, every wedding that ends with the anthem “Last Dance,” owes a debt to Donna Summer, the Dorchester-born singer and songwriter who died this week at 63. Summer’s big, smooth, confident voice, honed through years of singing gospel as a child at Grant AME Church in the South End, helped catapult her to stardom.

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By John J. Drew

On May 10, the U.S. House of Representatives approved far-reaching legislation to cut $310 billion from the deficit over the next 10 years.

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By Jeremy C. Fox, Town Correspondent

The Action for Boston Community Development agency has announced that it will dedicate its central office building in honor of the late Robert M. Coard, ABCD’s president and CEO for more than four decades.

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Will ask pols to keep $9M funding for Mass. summer work program

By Marie Szaniszlo
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 

Nearly 200 teenagers will lobby state lawmakers today to restore $2.1 million in funding as Massachusetts faces a summer-job crunch for youngsters.

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