![]() ![]() The city and the nation believed Charles, and the Boston police invaded the Mission Hill community. Charles Stuart, a White man, called 911 to report that minutes after leaving a birthing class at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Mission Hill, a six-foot tall Black man with a raspy voice wearing a black sweatsuit shot him in the stomach and his wife Carol in the head. On the night of October 23, 1989, an incident stunned Nick, the community, and the country. ![]() The Young Life center was based in a three-story (triple decker) house where Nick, the White program director, and a team of mostly Black men offered mentoring, tutoring, academic advising, and recreation at no cost. He had a desire to make a difference in the community, so he volunteered with Young Life as an outreach worker to at-risk youth of color. A few years before I married Nick, he was pursuing a PhD while living in Boston’s Hyde Square, a mostly Dominican, Puerto Rican, and African American inner-city community. ![]()
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