New Bedford

Visited the bakery on Acushnet Ave., where the owner, Benedicto, has had many problems with violence – including a carjacking. But he wasn’t there. A woman named Juana…

Transito Santos isn’t sure how her partner, Feliciano, died. All she knows is this: he had worked a seven-day week, Monday through Friday at the fish processing plant,…

Manuel was attacked three times on the streets of New Bedford before he went to the police. The first time was in 2006. He had worked the night…

Met with Manuel, a man who’d been stabbed and attacked three times before going to police. In talking to him, came up with a process I might try…

Visiting the CEDC weekly now, trying to put in the time, understand the issues, meet the people, convey that I don’t want to make anything worse for them….

There are some 5,000 Mayan immigrants in the New Bedford, a community that has become established there over the last decade. Mostly undocumented immigrants, these are people who…

Had lunch with Corinn Williams and Jennifer Velarde, a young lawyer who has done so much work to assist the Guatemalan community. Ate at an unbelievable back-alley Portuguese…

Energized from a wonderful, week-long fellowship at the Institute for Justice and Journalism, I returned home with new eyes, encouraged to keep looking at the communities around me,…