Past dusk on a recent November evening, over a dozen women – mostly strangers – gathered in a third-floor conference space at JVS CareerSolution to confront an unfortunate reality that bound them. “I don’t think it’s something talked about ever,”
When Abdul Barrie founded his own HVAC company, Environmental Systems Engineering, in 2002, he was eager to start drumming up business. “I wanted to be hired because I was capable, not because I was a minority,” remembers Barrie, who is
At its ribbon-cutting last fall, the Uphams Crossing residential complex was hailed for transforming the site of the long-shuttered St. Kevin’s School into 80 units of much-needed affordable housing. But the success of the St. Kevin’s redevelopment extends well beyond