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Segun Idowu
The Change We Need
Executive Director
Black Economic Council of Massachusetts (BECMA)
Please begin by telling us more about yourself. Where are you from and who inspired you to do the work you’re engaged in now?
I grew up in Boston. In terms of inspiration, my grandfather, Rev. Earl W. Lawson, had the largest influence on my life. He was a pastor in Malden at Emmanuel Baptist Church. He was very active in the Civil Rights Movement here in Boston. It wasn’t just because he was a Black man in Massachusetts that got him involved in that revolution, but also the fact that he attended Morehouse College. That’s significant because it was there that he met a fellow classmate, Martin Luther King, Jr. As a result of that friendship and that of another civil rights legend, Virgil Wood, a lieutenant of King in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Massachusetts, my grandfather became a key figure in the movement he
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Ayanna Pressley
American politician (born )
Ayanna Soyini Pressley (born February 3, ) is an American politician who has served as the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 7th congressional district since This district includes the northern three quarters of Boston, most of Cambridge, parts of Milton, as well as all of Chelsea, Everett, Randolph, and Somerville.[1]
Pressley served as an at-large member of the Boston City Council from through She was elected to the United States House of Representatives in after she defeated the ten-term incumbent Mike Capuano in the Democraticprimary election for Massachusetts's 7th congressional district and ran unopposed in the general election.[2] Pressley was the first black woman elected to the Boston City Council and the first black woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts.[3][4] Pressley is a member of "The Squad", a group of progressive Congress members.
Early life and education
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On February 21st and 22nd, Campus Activities Board (CAB) put on an event in Gasson called the “History of Black Lives at Boston College”. Their goal was to exhibit Black history throughout the years at BC as a part of their effort to celebrate Black History Month. The event consisted of a circle of boards depicting important Black members of the BC community in athletics, lärjunge government, faculty, and administration.
Each portion of this chronological gallery walk consisted of a poster profiling a specific person and their contributions to the Black community at BC, as well as various newspaper clippings from The Heights and photographs depicting the highlighted person. Additionally, there were plaques around the chronological exhibit showing the numbers of Black students at BC over the years.
The first stop was Casper Ferguson ‘37, BC’s first African American graduate, and later Dr. Ferdinand Rousseve, the first full-time Black faculty member. It then moved on to Lou Montgo