Paterson may be first black, blind New York governor
ALBANY, N.Y. - The man poised to succeed the disgraced Eliot Spitzer will not only become the first black governor of New York. He will also be the state's first legally blind governor, and its first disabled governor since Franklin D. Roosevelt. More »
The comeback, RCC women back in the game after four-year hiatus
Mark Leszczyk has a thing for lost causes. In 1999, he took the girl's basketball coaching job at Our Lady of Fatima High School in Providence, R.I., which hadn't won a single game in four years. His first year, the team won one game. The next year, they went to the league playoffs. Last Saturday, six years after Leszczyk had moved on, they played for a Rhode Island state championship. More »
Whittier's Williams to be honored by UMass-Boston
Frederica Williams, president and CEO of Whittier Street Health Center in Roxbury, will receive the University of Massachusetts-Boston's Robert H. Quinn Award for Community Leadership in recognition of her long-running commitment to reversing racial disparities in health care and being an advocate for community health in urban and multicultural communities, the health center announced Sunday. More »
