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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 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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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 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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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 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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Check out pictures from our launch party July 18, 2018 ...
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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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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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