BOSTON/South End - Community members joined Boston congresspersons, intellectuals, artists and activists to honor South End community organizer, activist and professor Mel King Thursday night at United South End Settlements. King, who is most recognized for his successful effort to prevent the Copley Square Development from displacing South End residents, presented a video reading of his latest book of poetry, titled Streets, and engages audience members by encouraging them to share stories of their childhood streets and neighborhoods.

BOSTON/South End - As over 350 housing advocates, politicians, bankers and realtors filled the main ballroom at the Colonnade Hotel on Monday for the half-day Open Doors conference - organized by the Citizens Housing and Planning Association together with The Warren Group (publisher of Banker and Tradesman) and a number of major banks with the stated purpose of helping pro-actively implement foreclosure relief in Massachusetts - about 15 protestors held a demonstration calling for a moratorium on evictions and foreclosures nationwide.

BOSTON/South End - If a picture is worth a thousand words, then how many words might dozens of artworks by local kids express?