At 100, Boston NAACP Confronts City's Mixed Past

The newly elected president of the Boston branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People says the group will mark the chapter's 100th anniversary with forums throughout the year.

Michael Curry, a 42-year-old attorney, says those discussions will start this weekend at events honoring Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.

But black activists say those forums from the nation's oldest chapter must included honest discussions about Boston's troubled racial legacy, from the busing riots of the 1970s to current violence in largely black neighborhoods.

Horace Small, executive director of the Union of Minority Neighborhoods, say many blacks around the country still view Boston as a hostile place for people of color.

Curry says the forums will address Boston's past.