my children and husband are still living in roxbury. and we are the fourth generation to live in that community. we understand firsthand what happened in the country over the past four decades starting with a war on drugs which was really a war on black people. we saw the crack epidemic come into roxbury, the problem was crack left quickly but the very draconian hard on crime policies that incarcerated millions of black and brown people never left. so that's the work that we now do at the national council for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and girls. i didn't think that there was anything coming into the community with all the personal experience i had, coming as a criminal defense lawyer. coming from being married to a man who two decades ago served a two-year mandatoriy criminal drug sentence. this is very personal to me. i did not think there was anybody could tell me more about our broken criminal justice system when i left my 5-month-old baby boy and my 12-year-old daughter in the parking lot of the federal prison for

i bought 700 free memberships to the roxbury ymca.] onliney had to do was go and register. children, we had 2 sometimes let them get in with two kids. we wanted to change things in boston. in the news, someone is always getting killed. a young girl got killed with a stray bullet recently. it affects all of us. she was just on the bus stop trying to get on the bus and cats running down the street, missed somebody and got a young girl killed to read it affects us in boston, so me, with my voice i try to do what i can suit take my celebrity and try to bring people together and talk to them. an opportunity to share my microphone with some of the panelists and say that yes, we do have to watch the kids. in my hood, a lot of artists leave the hood and don't come back. we see them, rocking the ny hat, that they lived behind the gates. so, if you are not a foot soldier, and you're talking about something, you're only seeing it so that the audience can continue to connect with you. [applause] you're not really saying it because you're down the

he seems to appear on a role listing soldiers who march to boston and roxbury went george washington and the continental army seized dorchester heights. we know caesar was there during that military engagement. once washington and the army c dorchester has fortified, the british army eventually had to abandon it. during that time period, he appears to just be a standard militia soldier. the militia was composed of all adult men able to bear arms. slave owning was not extremely common in this area. it did not pervade every level of society. most slave owners from the upper echelons of society, so they tend to be town and civic leaders, ministers, officers in local militia companies, large time merchants, or sometimes even farmers who have a little more wealth and property. those are the type of men that owned slaves. enslaved people really depend on where they live. enslaved men and women who lived in boston lived very different lives than enslavement of women who lived in concord. concord, the most common form of enslaved labor for men was farm labor. they tended to work on the farm,

i am born and raised very proud in roxbury massachusetts. my children are still living in massachusetts with my husband and family and we have a fourth-generation. we understand firsthand what's happened in the country over the past four decades starting with a war on drugs which was a war on black people. it's incarcerated with many people that never left so that's the work of the national council it was affected by mass incarceration as a criminal defense lawyer and being married to a man who two decades ago served a ten year mandatory minimum drug sentences. i didn't think that there is anything anybody could tell me about the criminal justice system when i left my five month old daughter in the parking lot of the federal prison in danbury connecticut to step into that prison. it's an increase of incarceration and i'm going to tell you they are separating mothers and children but when we talk about the violence and gun violence and social issues that we are dealing with in our communities today, we cannot do that and find solutions that a

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i bought 700 free memberships for the roxbury ymca.ey had to do was go online and just register. if the parents had two kids, we sometimes later get in with two kids because we wanted to change things in boston. up on our new summit is always getting killed a young girl got killed with a stray bullet and it affects all of us, even if it's not our child because she is just at the bus stop trying to get on the bus and the cats are running down the street missing who they were trying to hit which should've been happening anyway but the young girl got killed. and that affects us in boston. so me as a voice i could drag to do as much as i can with our kids and i take my celebrity and i tried to bring people together to talk to them. so this being here today is an opportunity to share the microphone with some of the panelists just to say that yes, we do have to look at the kids. in my field a lot of artists leave their hood and don't come back. okay? we see them rocking the boston at on the ny have but to live behind the gate. so if you're b