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From YouTube: Black Boston COVID-19 Coalition Billboard Unveil
Description
Mayor Janey joins in with the Black Boston COVID-19 Coalition to unveil a new billboard and mobile medical van aimed at increasing the rollout of vaccinations, testing, and medical information in local communities. The Black Boston COVID-19 Coalition was organized one year ago to ensure that Black residents recieved neccesary attention and resources to battle the pandemic.
A
B
Good
morning,
can
you
guys
hear
me,
so
I
want
to
start
by
thanking
cheryl
for
that
wonderful
introduction,
but
more
important
for
all
of
the
work
that
she
does
in
our
community.
Definitely
as
the
executive
director
of
mass
vote,
which
I'm
a
founding
board
member,
so
really
appreciate
the
focus
on
democracy
in
our
city,
but
certainly
for
her
leadership
and
the
black
boston
covet
coalition.
B
We
are
joined
by
blackwatson
covert
coalition
today,
a
couple
of
folks
that
are
noteworthy,
I
mean
everybody
here
is
noteworthy,
but
I
want
to
lift
up
some
names.
I
don't
really
see
folks
here,
senator
senator
diane
wilkerson
in
addition
to
cheryl,
and
certainly
dr
atia
martin
from
the
harvard
street
neighborhood
health
center.
We
are
joined
by
cyril
oovium
and
from
new
england,
medical
association,
dr
alana
sensen.
B
B
B
B
This
coalition
began
this
work
in
february
back
when
massachusetts
was
number
42
on
the
list,
and
now
we
are
number
two,
so
we
went
from
42
to
number
two
and
vaccinations
of
black
residents.
That
is
something
to
celebrate
here
and
across
the
city.
We've
got
the
positivity
rates
down
to
one
percent.
That
is
a
historic
low,
and
that
is
because
of
the
work
we're
doing
every
single
day
to
get
people
vaccinated.
There
is
a
direct
correlation
between
communities
that
have
low
vaccination
numbers
and
high
covert
rates.
B
We've
got
to
make
sure
that
the
residents
of
grove
hall,
all
throughout
roxbury,
dorchester
and
matapan
are
getting
the
life-saving
vaccine,
and
so
I
am
just
grateful
to
be
in
partnership
to
be
able
to
stand
here
before
you
as
the
first
black
mayor,
the
first
woman
mayor
who
understands
firsthand
what
this
means
in
our
community
and
to
stand
here
in
partnership
with
the
folks
who
are
doing
work
every
single
day
on
the
ground.
And
I
also
am
proud
to
stand
here
with
my
chief
chief
marty,
martinez,
who
will
be
our
next
speaker.
B
C
I
also
want
to
be
clear
that
none
of
this
work
is
possible
without
our
health
centers.
The
harvard
street
harvard
street
neighborhood
health
center's
done
amazing
work
in
our
community,
as
have
many
of
our
health
centers,
and
so
the
progress
we've
made
has
not
been
possible
without
them.
So
please,
let's
hear
from
harvard
street
health
center
and
the
amazing
work
that
they're
doing
every
day.
C
You
know
right
now
in
the
city
of
boston,
we
have
about
63
percent
of
residents
with
at
least
one
shot
in
their
arm.
We
have
over
52
percent
of
residents
who
are
fully
vaccinated
and
that
is
to
be
celebrated.
However,
in
our
black
and
brown
communities
those
rates
are
lower.
We
don't
have
as
many
folks
vaccinated
as
we
need
to,
and
that's
why
this
mobile
van?
That's
why
the
advertisement,
the
public
awareness
all
incredibly
important,
to
give
visibility
to
this
work
and
make
sure
we
do
the
legwork
that's
necessary.
C
So
let
me
say
to
you
and
to
the
community.
Thank
you
for
all
that.
You
continue
to
do,
but
I
want
to
remind
everyone.
That's
that's
watching!
That's
listening!
That's
learning!
That's
hearing!
If
you
haven't
been
vaccinated,
get
vaccinated,
get
your
shot,
help
us
spread
hope
in
our
community
and
do
everything
we
can
to
make
sure
that
we
protect
ourselves
our
neighbors
and
our
families.
And
so
again
I
want
to
congratulate
the
black
boston,
covid
coalition
and
the
work
they
continue
to
do.
C
A
A
D
Good
morning,
everybody
it's
a
beautiful
day
from
javascript
center,
we're
so
excited
to
partner
with
a
boston,
black
coffee
coalition.
To
do
this
joint,
you
all
know
that
in
the
city
of
boston,
dr
marapan
actually
has
the
lowest
number
of
vaccination
rates.
You
know
in
the
states.
Basically,
you
can
go
to
somewhere,
like
indiana,
you
have
like
almost
like
90
percent
or
so,
but
we're
like
under
95.99
at
35
percent.
D
So
having
this
mobile
van,
going
from
corner
to
corner
trying
to
get
people
vaccinated
is
one
of
the
best
things
that
will
ever
happen
to
this
side
of
the
city.
We
are
happy
to
provide
all
the
clinical
support.
You
know
all
the
nurses,
the
customer
service
tribe,
with
our
coordinator,
making
sure
working
closely
with
bbcc
that
we
get
all
the
residents
vaccinated.
Harvard
city
buddhist
center
is
right
here.
You
know
less
than
half
a
mile
from
here
right
in
the
tick
of
the
black
and
the
blank
community.
D
So
we
are
proud
of
the
work
we're
doing
please,
as
we
go
around
the
city,
go
around
dochester,
raspberry
marathon,
come
out.
When
you
see
this
van,
please
come
out
and
get
your
vaccines
by
the
way,
whether
you
are
documented,
undocumented
id
or
no
id
insurance,
or
no
insurance
you're
going
to
get
your
vaccines
right
on
spots,
it's
going
to
be
a
walk-in,
so
you
don't
even
have
to
register.
A
E
So
I
represent
a
group
of
black
physicians
here
in
the
new
england
area,
and
I
personally
am
really
excited
about
the
work
that
bbcc
is
doing
really
focusing
and
ensuring
that
communities
are
underserved,
are
continuing
to
have
access
to
this
vaccine
and
also
the
testing.
What
we
don't
want
to
happen
is
another
surge,
and
then
we
see
more
devastation
within
these
communities
because
we
want
to
really
avoid
that
at
all
costs.
E
So
we're
really
excited
to
be
a
resource
and
be
partnering
with
bbcc
to
provide
medical
professionals
that
will
be
able
to
administer
the
vaccine
and
continue
the
work
that
has
been
started
by
the
state
of
massachusetts.
So
thank
you
very
much
and
I
really
look
forward
to
working
with
everyone
here.
A
F
You
good
morning,
everybody
good
morning.
I
just
wanted
to
say
that
the
black
boston
covet
coalition
has
been
at
this
from
the
very
beginning
and
when
they
started
many
many
many
months
ago,
they
knew
that
this
was
going
to
be
a
marathon
and
not
a
sprint.
We
knew
that
this
was
going
to
be
difficult.
We
knew
we
had
a
lot
of
challenges,
but
they
have
kept
it
up.
So
the
first
thing
I
want
to
do
is
say
thank
you.
Thank
you
for
all
your
hard
work.
F
I've
been
reading
about
this
since
the
very
beginning,
and
one
of
the
things
that
is
so
exciting
is
that
we
are
making
progress.
But,
as
has
been
said
here,
we
cannot
claim
victory
for
anybody
until
we
claim
victory
for
everybody
and
we're
not
there
yet,
and
we
and
we
gotta
get
there
and
we
are
determined
to
get
there.
So
don't
you
see
all
these
media
people
who
are
here
today?
F
F
F
G
G
G
G
As
reverend
liz
walker
said
to
be
able
to
get
some
of
those
questions
answered
so
that
you
can
make
the
best
decisions
for
yourself
and
your
family
to
be
able
to
get
vaccinated,
to
be
able
to
care
for
each
other,
because
it's
not
just
about
us
as
individuals,
what
we
do
as
individuals
impacts
everyone
around
us,
everyone
in
our
communities,
so
the
goal
here
is
that
we're
leveraging
our
power
number
one
to
take
action
to
learn
and
to
support
each
other
in
being
able
to
get
vaccinated.
And
that's
what
we're
here
to
do.
G
It
is
such
a
pleasure
and
an
honor.
There
are
so
many
people
who
have
worked
really
hard
behind
the
scenes
to
help
us
get
to
today.
Everyone
from
our
funders,
like
the
city
of
boston,
the
bar
clarman,
the
bar
foundation,
the
clarman
family
foundation,
all
the
way
to
amazon
a
number
of
other
partners
who
have
stood
firm
with
us
just
this
week.
Eastern
bank
has
committed
support
to
us,
so
we
are
very
excited
to
be
able
to
hit
the
ground
running
in
this
moment,
and
this
is
long
game.
G
A
Again,
it
gives
me
great
great
pleasure
to
bring
a
former
senator.
I
mean
project
manager.
We
would
not
be
able
to
pull
this
thing
together,
hold
it
together.
This
is
the
person
that's
making
the
phone
calls
and
really
on
the
ground,
doing
the
work.
I'd
like
to
bring
up
our
leader,
our
co-partner,
our
co-pilot,
senator
former
senator
diane
wilkinson.
H
H
So
the
reality
is
the
black
boston
cover
19
coalition
started
on
a
mission
in
march
of
2020
to
be
the
advocate.
Cheryl
said
a
lot
of
things
about
label.
I
call
myself
a
professional
agitator
and
I
happen
to
be
very
good
at
it
all
right.
That's
why?
But
that's
how
we
why
we're
here
today
this
is,
you
know
the
mayor
has
talked
about
some
of
the
realities
and
I
just
want
to
do
two
things.
H
What
it
is
is
just
a
recantation
of
what
we
know
about
how
the
country
works.
We
have
a
problem,
it's
a
crisis,
all
the
energy
is
focused
on
that
crisis
and
when
they
fix
the
crisis
for
white
people,
they
move
on
and
then
we're
left
here,
and
I
don't
want
to
make
that
accusatory,
because
part
of
that
is
on
us
too.
H
Here's
the
other
thing
about
the
black
community
that
we've
always
known,
mamas
and
grandmamas,
are
responsible
for
the
maintenance
of
the
family's
health.
They
make
the
appointments
they
make
the
calls
they
make
sure
that
the
children
get
vaccinated
before
school
starts,
and
so
we
are
going
to
enlist
our
mamas
across
this
community
to
help
us
help
us.
H
We
talk
that
language.
This
ban
is
the
culmination
of
a
lot
of
energy
focus.
We
have
had
to
call
scrape
raise
every
single
dime
to
make
this
happen,
that
billboard
didn't
get
paid
for
by
itself,
and
that's
why
it's
so
important
for
us
to
lift
up
some
of
the
people
that
dr
martin
mentioned
the
bar
climbing
foundation.
We
actually
had
foundations
that
just
saw
our
work
and
called
and
said
what
can
we
do
that
doesn't
happen?
Often
eastern
bank
east,
eastern
bank
amazon,
another
one.
H
We
want
you
to
be
the
first
in
our
community
engagement
recipients,
because
people
are
paying
attention,
lift
lyft,
donated
30
000
worth
of
free
rides
not
only
for
our
community.
Anyone
who
needs
a
ride
to
and
from
but
for
the
workers,
the
volunteers
that
are
standing
behind
me
for
them
to
get
to
work.
Why
is
that
important?
Because
we're
a
community
that
is
disproportionately
reliant
on
public
transportation
and
lyft
said?
Let
us
help
you
get
your
volunteers
to
work.
Let
us
help
you
get
your
volunteers
to
the
office.
H
H
The
city
of
boston
has
been
our
supporter,
our
sponsor,
since
the
boston
resiliency
fund,
won
boss,
boston,
residency
fund,
two
and
guess
what
recently
mayor,
janie's
vaccine
equity
fund.
That's
how
we're
here
we
get
no
money
from
the
state
for
all
those
billions
and
billions
of
dollars.
That
massachusetts
has
been
recipient
of
due
to
the
incredible
work
of
our
congressional
delegation.
H
I
H
Walking
up
and
down
the
street
talking
to
their
friends
in
the
pouring
down
rain,
to
get
them
to
come
into
the
roxbury
y.
That's
because
of
them
the
constant
conversations
that
we've
been
having
with
chief
martinez
at
the
direction
of
mayor
janie
to
make
sure
that
we
have
what
we
need
and
we're
just
getting
started.
H
I
H
Have
not
on
thousands
of
doors
in
roxbury,
dorchester
mattapan
hyde
park
in
roslindale,
that's
our
target,
they
have
dropped
flyers
on
people's
cars,
we've
been
on
facebook,
we
have
a
virtual
phone
bank,
our
phone
bankers
are
here.
We
have
phone
bankers
that
that
are
working
from
home
and
guess
what
we
have.
We
have
a
where
I
don't
know.
Where
are
they?
H
I
want
to
make
sure
I
accommodate
rise
and
shine
cleaning,
because
we
also
said
that
we
wanted
to
make
sure
that
nothing
that
happened
here
resulted
in
a
super
spreader
not
in
this
community,
and
so
we
made
sure
that
all
of
our
places
we
have
cleaners,
you
move
out
of
a
chair
and
they're,
wiping
down
that
chair
and
they're
going
to
be
on
the
bus
with
us
for
the
rest
of
this
summer.
We're
going
to
be
here
till
august
and
god
willing,
with
more
money,
we'll
be
here
until
we
can
say
those
numbers.
H
H
I'm
more
concerned
right
now
than
I
was
a
year
ago,
because
our
numbers
are
higher
right
now
in
terms
of
the
country
and
in
the
state
than
they
were
a
year
ago
in
the
middle
of
lockdown,
so
yeah
yeah
massachusetts
is
doing.
Good
city
of
boston
is
doing
good
if
you
don't
count
black
and
latino
people,
but
that's
not
how
we
roll,
I
told
our
total
focus
is
the
black
and
latino
community.
H
H
We
got
us
which
is
a
group
of
black
and
latino
medical
students
from
bu
and
harvard
they
call
we
wanna
they're
gonna,
be
on
that
van
and
every
time
that
van
moves
we're
gonna
have
food.
We're
gonna
have
some
we're.
Gonna
have
gift
cards,
we're
gonna
have
a
contact
information.
We
hope
we're
gonna
be
signing
people
up
for
health
care.
H
Why
not
we're
going
to
be
doing
testing
and
anything
else
that
we
determine
that
people
need?
We
have
movie
passes
whatever
it
takes
to
get
our
young
people,
because
that's
our
population
that
we're
targeting
and
so
we're
going
to
match
young
people
for
young
people.
We
have
a
whole
group
of
youth
ambassadors
that
were
kicked
off
by
a
hebrew
college
and
bu
school
of
theology.
They
came.
What
can
we
do?
H
H
There's
no
way
you
can
miss
it
and
we're
going
to
be
knocking
on
doors
cheryl.
What
did
I
forget,
knocking
on
doors,
flyering
rest
of
the
steering
committee
members
for
the
black
boston,
culvert
19
coalition?
If
I
forgot
anybody,
I
am
so
sorry,
but
just
wave
your
hand
and
wave.
I
know
we
talked
louis
lisa.
Oh
yeah,
I
talked
about
the
urban
league
and
then
there
was
one
last
thing:
cheryl
clyburn
crawford.
H
She's
introduced
everyone
else.
We
introduced
her
what
better
place
to
go,
get
organizers
and
somebody
who
organizes
for
a
living.
So
she
said
she's
executive
director
of
mass
vote.
They
mobilized
folks
during
election.
That's
what
this
is
to
us.
This
is
a
campaign
and
we,
when
we
recruited
the
chief
and
it
couldn't
have
been
more
incredible
job
she's
done
we
have.
The
last
thing
I
want
to
say
is
that
we
have
about
a
hundred
and
five
workers,
105
people
who
are
employed
for
many
of
them,
the
first
job
since
the
shutdown
in
march.
H
We
put
them
to
work,
we
paid
them
decent,
grown
folks
wages
because
that's
important
because
they'll
say
we
want
to
go
to
work
and
we're
going
to
pay.
You
10.
You
can't
live
like
that,
so
we
pay
people
wages.
They
are
doing
this
job
they're
everywhere
we
want
people
complaining.
This
is
my
10th
call
fine.
I
hope
you
get
an
11th
call
right,
that's
how
that's
what
we're
doing
we're
going
to
be
there
everywhere,
but
I
want
to
bring
the
chief,
our
chief
organizer
back.
Thank
you
press.
H
Thank
you
to
the
reverend
walker,
because
she
is
our
press
expert
for
real.
I
told
her
that
reverend
dr
gloria
whitehammon,
that's
my
that's
our
partner.
She
goes
everywhere.
We
I
go,
she
goes
and
people
have
questions.
I
said
there's
a
doctor
in
the
house
and
I
point
to
her
because
there
are
questions
to
be
answered
and
she's
been
there.
A
Absolutely
so
I'm
so
excited
to
wrap
this
up
and
I'll
be
told.
You
know
you
only
met
a
few
of
the
amazing
staring
committee
that
makes
up
bbcc
and
I'd
be
remiss
if
I
didn't
lift
up
one
of
our
real
soldiers,
and
that
is
in
mr
louis
elisa.
You
know
a
member
of
princess
grand
lodge.
That's
here,
that's
been
doing
food
and
doing
all
of
the
vaccines
and
testing,
and
you
know,
and
right
here
in
the
community
right
over
there
right
like
where
we
have
the
grand
master
standard.
A
You
know,
and
so
I
always
want
to
lift
up
all
of
the
people
that
are
really
really
really
grinding
it
out
every
day.
Behind
the
scenes,
she's
already
gave
plenty
of
accolades
to
this
amazing
team
and
the
black
t-shirts,
but
I
can't
say
thank
you
enough
to
them.
Thank
you
to
everybody
that
is
participating
again
to
make
this
effort
work,
we're
just
beginning
we're
not
done
we're
really
in
it
and
we're
in
it
with
you.
Thank
you
for
being
here.
H
To
join
us,
can
I
just
one
I
want
to
acknowledge
the
presence
of
city
councilor,
julia
mejia,
and
I
do
that
because
we
we
have
been,
we
made
our
process,
we
didn't
tell
you
what
we
did.
You
know
that
the
state's
process
was,
everybody
had
to
go
online
and
I
don't
know
about
you,
but
my
85
year
old
mother.
She
couldn't
manage
that
my
75
year
old.
Could
they
couldn't
manage
that
my
65
plus
year
old
self
couldn't
manage
that?
So
what
we
did?
We
created
a
process
where
we
went
to
people.
H
That's
why
it's
working,
and
one
of
the
things
we
offer
to
all
of
our
elected
officials
is,
if
you
have
any
any
constituents
who
want
to
get
vaccinated,
send
them,
let's
send
them
we'll
take
care
of
them
and
counselor
mejia
took
us
to
our
word
on
that.
She
set
up
a
google
doc
that
to
this
day,
as
of
this
morning,
I
saw
it
was
still
clicking.