BOSTON – In the wake of the recent police shootings in Dallas and Baton Rouge, one enterprising musician is using music to bridge the divide between Boston's law enforcement and the city's youth.
Shaw Pong Liu, who has spent the last four months embedded with the Boston Police Department as part of Boston's 2016 Artist-in-Residence program (AIR), started Code Listen, a collaborative music group with the Boston Police department, Teen Empowerment, and other youth organizations.
BOSTON — About two years ago, Father Joe Quinn became one of about 100 people in the world to be diagnosed with a rare incurable condition that he said left him with the possibility of "saying goodbye to life."
Unable to take narcotics, the Franciscan friar was in "excruciating pain" until he found a medicine that he said helps him cope with the pain and lead a productive life in the face of his diagnosis.
