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By Barbara Seese,Special to Dorchester Banner CAMBRIDGE — Dorchester Center for the Arts is pleased to welcome Strong Feather Creations to Studioworks, the onsite artisans’ shop at DCA. These handcrafted one-of-a-kind Native American cloth dolls were created by Cambridge resident Denise “Strong Feather” Lowe-Williams, a member of the Narragansett Indian Tribe located in Charlestown, Rhode…
This article was first published in the State of Faith newsletter. Sign up to receive the newsletter in your inbox each Monday night. Unlike “faith group” or “church” or “Bible study,” the term “cult” evokes a powerful emotional reaction. When you hear it, your ears perk up as you await juicy details, just like they would…
A senior wealthy Nigerian politician, his wife and a medical “middleman” have been found guilty of an organ-trafficking plot, after they brought a 21-year-old man to the UK from Lagos. Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56, and Dr Obinna Obeta, 50, were convicted of conspiring to exploit the man for his kidney, in…
BOSTON – The owner of Stash’s Pizza was arrested this morning on forced labor charges for allegedly employing a victim who lacked immigration status and forcing him to work for years while threatening him with deportation and subjecting him to repeated verbal and physical abuse. Stavros Papantoniadis, a/k/a “Steve Papantoniadis,” 47, of Westwood, was…
BOSTON (WWLP) – The owner of a Boston pizzeria chain was arrested Thursday morning for allegedly forcing an employee that lacked immigration status to work, threatening him with deportation as well as verbal and physical abuse. Stavros Papantoniadis, 47, of Westwood, owner of Stash’s Pizza, has been charged with one count of forced labor. He…
Ike Ekweremadu, 60, tells Old Bailey he paid Dr Obinna Obeta £1,800 to find kidney donor for his daughter A Nigerian politician accused of organ trafficking to the UK issued an “abide by the law” instruction to a doctor who offered to find a kidney donor for his sick daughter for a fee, the…
Read our campaign field report. In a win for the Freedom United community, this week the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Bill comes into force, criminalizing child marriage in England and Wales. A win for the Freedom United community With our partners at IKWRO, Forward, Karma Nirvana, Independent Yemen Group and Girls Not Brides,…
Chocolate is often hailed as an aphrodisiac and Americans seem to have quite the love affair with the sweet confection in all its forms. Charles M. Schulz best summed up America’s love of chocolate when he said, “all you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” Chocolate originated in Central…
I have recently read dozens of news reports on the peril of ‘spiking’ whereby young women are rendered near-unconscious by perpetrators who spike their drinks with drugs or – more recently – literally inject the women via hypodermic needle with an incapacitating substance. One victim, who lost the ability to walk, talk, or even hold…
They’re promised a better life – instead the victims of human trafficking are raped, beaten and tortured. Union Street in Lynn is known by advocates as an open-air market where women are sold for sex. Mary Speta, head of the nonprofit Amirah, is on a personal mission to help end the cycle of exploitation. “There…
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