Michael Patrick MacDonald
AT THE HEIGHT of troubles over the desegregation of South Boston's housing projects not so many years ago, a young African-American and a freckled redhead, obviously Irish-American, cross paths at the edge of the Old Colony Housing Project and nearly come to blows. They take off their shirts, ready to go at each other. To add the weight of historic ... (Full article: 726 words)
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