ROXBURY, MASS., JAN. 12, 2017…..Without mentioning the mayor by name, Boston City Councilor Tito Jackson tore into what he said was Boston Mayor Marty Walsh's misplaced focus on the city's wealthy business community as he announced his mayoral bid at a rally in Dudley Square on Thursday.
"Across the city, gentrification has become a neighborhood norm. We seem to be judging our success by the number of million-dollar condos, skyscrapers and publicly funded helipads that are being built rather than the mobility of our families and the percentage of them who are managing to escape poverty. Can a brother get an amen?" Jackson said to cheers from his crowd of supporters.
The annual march protests Roe vs. Wade, the January 1973 federal Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. The march is scheduled for Saturday, January 14.
