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A Novel By Michael Patrick Murphy

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Boston Herald Radio: Sweeney & Malone - Thursday, October 11, 2018

Boston Herald Radio: Sweeney & Malone – Thursday, October 11, 2018

Boston Herald Radio Sweeney & Malone Michael Patrick Murphy calls in to talk Neighborhood Lines October 11, 2018 LISTEN: Select Air Date October 11, 2018 - Michael Patrick Murphy starts @30:00 ...
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Dorchester Reporter: First-time author delves into Boston’s racial divide

Dorchester Reporter: First-time author delves into Boston’s racial divide

Dorchester Reporter By Daniel Sheehan, Reporter Staff August 16, 2018 "First-time author delves into Boston’s racial divide" Michael Patrick Murphy knows that history is cyclical. The South Shore native spent the formative part of his adolescence in South Boston and Dorchester, attending Boston College High School and UMass Boston. At that time, running from the late ‘80s through the early ‘90s, racial tension was at a high level. Although the desegregation of the city’s public schools had been happening since the mid-1970s, it was just starting to take place at private and parochial schools, which at that point were almost ...
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WCVB TV Chronicle August 16, 2018: Pages

WCVB TV Chronicle August 16, 2018: Pages

Neighborhood Lines featured on Boston's Chronicle TV Show! WCVB-TV Chronicle Air Date: Thursday, August 16, 2018 "History Comes to Life in Two New Books" Tonight, we sample the work of some local authors, ranging from harrowing memoir to historical fiction. Pulitzer Prize winner Mike Stanton profiles the pride of Brockton, heavyweight champ Rocky Marciano, in his biography Unbeaten: Rocky Marciano’s Fight for Perfection in a Crooked World. In Call Me American, Abdi Nor Iftin details his amazing journey from the war zone of Mogadishu, Somalia to Maine. Author Bill Martin sends his character Peter Fallon off on a sixth fictional ...
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BNN News: Lessons form a City in Conflict

BNN News: Lessons form a City in Conflict

BNN News with Chris Lovett interviews Michael Patrick Murphy about the new book! BNN News Air Date: August 8, 2018 "Lessons from a City in Conflict" Michael Patrick Murphy talks about his new work of fiction, "Neighborhood Lines," about growing amid Boston's violence and racial division during the late 1980s. Interview for BNN News. Aired August 8, 2018.   Watch on YouTube ...
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Taking Small Steps Away from Racism

Taking Small Steps Away from Racism

Joyce Ferriabough Bolling · Tuesday, August 14, 2018 Boston Herald Writer and political activist Joyce Ferriabough Bolling takes a look at "Two stories, both true, one on the big screen and one in novel form, help to underscore some fundamental truths that work to help us build both a better Boston and a nation free from racism." "The book is a must-read gem — the kind of short story that deserves wider exposure for the important messages it imparts about respect for one’s humanity regardless of color and neighbor­hood. By the way, the young men in the book are ...
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Neighborhood Lines on Urban Update with Byron Barnett

Neighborhood Lines on Urban Update with Byron Barnett

Neighborhood Lines on Urban Update with Byron Barnett WHDH-TV Channel 7 Boston Air Date: August 5, 2018 Thanks to Urban Update for having Neighborhood Lines on the show - A Great Program with Great people! ...
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Launch Party! Neighborhood Lines

Launch Party! Neighborhood Lines

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Bill Brett Boston on Neighborhood Lines

Bill Brett Boston on Neighborhood Lines

Bill Brett celebrates book launch with Michael Patrick Murphy July 29, 2018 billbrettboston.com THEATER DISTRICT — Michael Patrick Murphy celebrated the release of his novel “Neighborhood Lines” at a party on the rooftop of the Revere Hotel in Boston... Read Full Article ...
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Stark and Subtle Divisions: A Collaborative History of Segregation in Boston

Created by graduate students in the History and American Studies departments at UMass Boston, this site showcases letters, photographs, legal documents, artifacts, and interviews that explore de facto segregation in Boston and the federally-mandated desegregation of Boston public schools. Students unearthed materials from various collections in separate Boston archives, selected a representative sampling, and presented them here, together, in new collaborative context. Visit Stark & Subtle Divisions Exhibit→ ...
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“I just want to do #godswill “
:

“My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord”

2nd Clip 

“He stood for #nonviolence and #peace for all man of all kind “
:
“ Carry out what he started “

MLK 🙏
:

Man I never imagined when I published NeighborhoodLlines
In 2018 ( A story of a #blackandwhite #teenfriendship from late #80’s early #90’s that we as people would ever experience #racial and #civil #unrest like 2020😳! 
:

Words without action are useless !
-What are you doing for others?

:
#enoughisenough 
#unitedwestand 
#whatareyoureading 
#allschoolread

“I just want to do #godswill “
:

“My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord”

2nd Clip

“He stood for #nonviolence and #peace for all man of all kind “
:
“ Carry out what he started “

MLK 🙏
:

Man I never imagined when I published NeighborhoodLlines
In 2018 ( A story of a #blackandwhite #teenfriendship from late #80’s early #90’s that we as people would ever experience #racial and #civil #unrest like 2020😳!
:

Words without action are useless !
-What are you doing for others?

:
#enoughisenough
#unitedwestand
#whatareyoureading
#allschoolread
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Jan 16

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I have worked in this City since 1990 in and out of  most of the Highrise buildings (crawled in the tunnels along rats and sat in meetings across #billionaires) I miss it and I love it with a passion ! The #strength , the #people , the #schools and #education , businesses and corporations , the #diversity, the #unions and the #sportsteams 
:

It still felt #eire this week as the streets and buildings remain fairly empty !
: 
But I see the light at the end of the tunnel !
#allthewayup 
:
#staypositive💯 
#lfg
#2021 
#onelife
#rebuildtheworld 
#bringitback 
#reincarnatethegovernment 
#bostonstrong 
#bostonbusiness 
#enoughisenough 
#stayhealthy

I have worked in this City since 1990 in and out of most of the Highrise buildings (crawled in the tunnels along rats and sat in meetings across #billionaires) I miss it and I love it with a passion ! The #strength , the #people , the #schools and #education , businesses and corporations , the #diversity, the #unions and the #sportsteams
:

It still felt #eire this week as the streets and buildings remain fairly empty !
:
But I see the light at the end of the tunnel !
#allthewayup
:
#staypositive💯
#lfg
#2021
#onelife
#rebuildtheworld
#bringitback
#reincarnatethegovernment
#bostonstrong
#bostonbusiness
#enoughisenough
#stayhealthy
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Jan 16

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These two #powerful #murals were in #southboston during the time frame Neighborhood Lines was originally written in 97’
I viewed them daily for a decade and I was intrigued for more information at every pass ! 
Check them out #ODB 👊@olddirtyboston 
:

I searched for months for these two specific pics that are in the Neighborhoodlines #novel, all over the internet , libraries etc. I asked an old friend who found these on a 20 year old hard drive 🙄! Thanks TK. . #loughgall #martyrs 
#gibraltar IRA that’s  how I spell Ireland 🇮🇪, that’s what Ireland means to me!
March 6, 1988 was the Date of Gibraltar, as I was freshman in high school, my brain couldn’t get enough of what was going on in the world 🌍and in this city! 
:
Imagine being a #freshman in #highschool this year 🤦‍♂️
:
Never thought life could get crazier than the 90’s 😳

These two #powerful #murals were in #southboston during the time frame Neighborhood Lines was originally written in 97’
I viewed them daily for a decade and I was intrigued for more information at every pass !
Check them out #ODB 👊@olddirtyboston
:

I searched for months for these two specific pics that are in the Neighborhoodlines #novel, all over the internet , libraries etc. I asked an old friend who found these on a 20 year old hard drive 🙄! Thanks TK. . #loughgall #martyrs
#gibraltar IRA that’s how I spell Ireland 🇮🇪, that’s what Ireland means to me!
March 6, 1988 was the Date of Gibraltar, as I was freshman in high school, my brain couldn’t get enough of what was going on in the world 🌍and in this city!
:
Imagine being a #freshman in #highschool this year 🤦‍♂️
:
Never thought life could get crazier than the 90’s 😳
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Jan 7

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#uechiryu is a #karatestyle #martialart from Okinawa Japan. Formerly Pangainoon, meaning "half-hard, half-soft" — the idea of a hard outer shell of muscle, while breathing to remain soft on the inside.
Rated the best #selfdefense style of by @karatebyjesse 
See his YouTube clip👈 
:
This style was developed in the  #Shoalin temple in China by Kanbun Uechi .
It was first brought to the US right here in #Boston in 1958 at the Boston YMCA and then at the infamous Hancock Street dojo on Columbus Ave in 1962 by an American Army soldier 🇺🇸 George Mattson who had been accepted and taught by an Okinawan Uechi Master During the #vietnamwar ! So many cool stories 👊! 
: 
I Recently Returned to the #dojo since COVID start in March. Home
Dojo only in full effect !✊🥋
:
👈 2nd/3rd video I Performed these Katas with a mask on 😷😳 🤦‍♂️, as 
one #sensei is 68 and the other will be 84 next month. I certainly want to protect them from this nightmare 🙏! 
Performing these in front of them after such an emotional crazy year was a powerful experience ! 
:
I realized how much my
#Innerchi was being expressed through this style of art! 
:
#kata are forms—a choreographed routine of steps, turns, blocks, strikes, and kicks
 :
2 advanced katas :
Kanchin
Sanseiryu - 36 positions of attack and defense 
:
No Neg comments - I am aware of the finer details And imperfections/corrections,  tempo adjustments that are needed here but this was the stamp I left on the floor at this moment of time !  I will continue to create the fine tuning corrections and the journey of mastery my Entire life. 
:
This Shinkookai dojo 
has brought people
From around the world together in practice, knowledge sharing and friendship within this style and other styles, grateful to be a part of it . 
Owner John Tosches #rip passed in June! 

:

I encourage martial arts of any kind  Tai-chi - Muay thai - Kung fu as a practice, habit , movement therapy !
:
Just Think of all the #healthbenefits - #brainhealth - #mindbodyspirit 
#neuralnetworks #brainbodyconnection Thanks to @zendenmedical for no surgery and being able to move this way. 

#discipline
#self-actualization
#focus 
#neverstoptraining 
#humility 
#theway

#uechiryu is a #karatestyle #martialart from Okinawa Japan. Formerly Pangainoon, meaning "half-hard, half-soft" — the idea of a hard outer shell of muscle, while breathing to remain soft on the inside.
Rated the best #selfdefense style of by @karatebyjesse
See his YouTube clip👈
:
This style was developed in the #Shoalin temple in China by Kanbun Uechi .
It was first brought to the US right here in #Boston in 1958 at the Boston YMCA and then at the infamous Hancock Street dojo on Columbus Ave in 1962 by an American Army soldier 🇺🇸 George Mattson who had been accepted and taught by an Okinawan Uechi Master During the #vietnamwar ! So many cool stories 👊!
:
I Recently Returned to the #dojo since COVID start in March. Home
Dojo only in full effect !✊🥋
:
👈 2nd/3rd video I Performed these Katas with a mask on 😷😳 🤦‍♂️, as
one #sensei is 68 and the other will be 84 next month. I certainly want to protect them from this nightmare 🙏!
Performing these in front of them after such an emotional crazy year was a powerful experience !
:
I realized how much my
#Innerchi was being expressed through this style of art!
:
#kata are forms—a choreographed routine of steps, turns, blocks, strikes, and kicks
:
2 advanced katas :
Kanchin
Sanseiryu - 36 positions of attack and defense
:
No Neg comments - I am aware of the finer details And imperfections/corrections, tempo adjustments that are needed here but this was the stamp I left on the floor at this moment of time ! I will continue to create the fine tuning corrections and the journey of mastery my Entire life.
:
This Shinkookai dojo
has brought people
From around the world together in practice, knowledge sharing and friendship within this style and other styles, grateful to be a part of it .
Owner John Tosches #rip passed in June!

:

I encourage martial arts of any kind Tai-chi - Muay thai - Kung fu as a practice, habit , movement therapy !
:
Just Think of all the #healthbenefits - #brainhealth - #mindbodyspirit
#neuralnetworks #brainbodyconnection Thanks to @zendenmedical for no surgery and being able to move this way.

#discipline
#self-actualization
#focus
#neverstoptraining
#humility
#theway
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Repost from @michael.patrick.murphy
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Happy New Year 

2020 #rearview- before this year - I thought I had seen some serious shit in this lifetime.
But this year Def put me #ononeknee several times !! 
always #riseup and #comebackswingingandsmiling 
:
Chaos
Businesses handcuffed, SeveralDeaths-too many, masks, lockdowns , Civil Unrest , Political and Media corruption circus! 

:
Clarity
Internal Happiness , Physical and mental health is the most important component in life!
#thebestisyettocome 
#onwardandupward 

:

#Staypositive
#Stayhealthy 
#staywoke
#greatreset 
#PMA
#Backontrack 
#Newmindset
#LFG
#thecolorpurple
#seethepositives
#everydayisromperroom
#presentmoment 
#2020vision 
#newfocus
#higherpower 
#dontbeasheep

Repost from @michael.patrick.murphy
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Happy New Year

2020 #rearview- before this year - I thought I had seen some serious shit in this lifetime.
But this year Def put me #ononeknee several times !!
always #riseup and #comebackswingingandsmiling
:
Chaos
Businesses handcuffed, SeveralDeaths-too many, masks, lockdowns , Civil Unrest , Political and Media corruption circus!

:
Clarity
Internal Happiness , Physical and mental health is the most important component in life!
#thebestisyettocome
#onwardandupward

:

#Staypositive
#Stayhealthy
#staywoke
#greatreset
#PMA
#Backontrack
#Newmindset
#LFG
#thecolorpurple
#seethepositives
#everydayisromperroom
#presentmoment
#2020vision
#newfocus
#higherpower
#dontbeasheep
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Dec 29

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#twoofakind 
:

What’s the conversation here?

:

That goose was delicious 
What’s next on the menu? 
#relationshipgoals❤️ 
#teamwork 
#doubletrouble

#twoofakind
:

What’s the conversation here?

:

That goose was delicious
What’s next on the menu?
#relationshipgoals❤️
#teamwork
#doubletrouble
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Dec 28

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Some may say I lack patience but this was just #divineintervention 🤷‍♂️
My old man had some amazing #wildlife photos he captured!
This morning I saw two bald 🦅 enjoying their breakfast, 
Then I doubted it, even though I had seen them with my own two eyes !!
This afternoon I had goosebumps when these #powerfuleyes stared right through me !!

“Caption this Photo” 

:

There were two many geese f***cking around so had to call in the Calvary !

:

#youtalkingtome

“It’s hard out here , this neighborhood is no joke”
:

I live and breathe this nature everyday”

:

No matter how much the 21st century battle field changes - #trueAmericans are watching and will take down the #deepstate political media propaganda scams and take back this country. 

:

Son Someday I will explain #survivalofthefittest to you
Although I know you already instinctively have full understanding 😂

:

Long live the #AmericanEagle
And the #AmericanDream 🙏🔥👊

#spiritanimal
#lionsnotsheep
#staywoke

Some may say I lack patience but this was just #divineintervention 🤷‍♂️
My old man had some amazing #wildlife photos he captured!
This morning I saw two bald 🦅 enjoying their breakfast,
Then I doubted it, even though I had seen them with my own two eyes !!
This afternoon I had goosebumps when these #powerfuleyes stared right through me !!

“Caption this Photo”

:

There were two many geese f***cking around so had to call in the Calvary !

:

#youtalkingtome

“It’s hard out here , this neighborhood is no joke”
:

I live and breathe this nature everyday”

:

No matter how much the 21st century battle field changes - #trueAmericans are watching and will take down the #deepstate political media propaganda scams and take back this country.

:

Son Someday I will explain #survivalofthefittest to you
Although I know you already instinctively have full understanding 😂

:

Long live the #AmericanEagle
And the #AmericanDream 🙏🔥👊

#spiritanimal
#lionsnotsheep
#staywoke
...

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Dec 24

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Merry Christmas and God bless to all.  Enjoy this very different time with your closest loved ones !
#timeisprecious 
#stayhealthymyfriends 
#2021vibes 
#familytime

Merry Christmas and God bless to all. Enjoy this very different time with your closest loved ones !
#timeisprecious
#stayhealthymyfriends
#2021vibes
#familytime
...

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