The 114th National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Convention took place over the weekend, during which U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Hyde Park) gave a speech her office called a "love letter to Black Boston."
During the speech Saturday, July 29, Pressley mentioned several sub-categories of black people she said matter, including "black babies."
A Massachusetts resident got a six-month prison sentence plus two years of supervised release and was ordered to pay $965,569 for his role in a lottery fraud scheme last week.
Mohamed Jaafar, 31, who lives in Watertown, received the sentence from U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton after being found guilty of one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States. His co-conspirators, Ali Jaffar and Yousef Jaafar, were sentenced to five years and 50 months, respectively, this past May, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
