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sixth overall since the school was formed by a merger in 1977, continuing a proud basketball tradition begun by Patrick Ewing, who led CRLS to its first three state championships from 1979-81. Rumeal Robinson, Ford's half-brother, continued the tradition with a state title of his own in...
Robert P. Moses, a civil rights leader and Cambridge resident known for his work in education, received a lifetime service award from a Boston public service organization at the Strand Theater on Friday night.
The Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL) presented Moses with the award at the keynote event of its 17th annual conference, which brought more than 1,500 college students to Cambridge from across the country, India, Bulgaria and the United Kingdom.
Moses spoke to the COOL crowd about his work with the Algebra Project and what he refers to as "sharecropper education," or the system of educational inequity leftover from the years following the Civil War.
"There is a growing number of children in our cities who are going to be the designated serfs of the information technology age," Moses said. "They're being trained to work in the plantations of our cities--McDonald's."