Survivors group to unveil video
Women Survivors of Homicide Movement, a group of Boston families who have lost loved ones to unsolved murders, will unveil a video tonight aimed at battling the “no snitching” culture that blocks justice in the cases.
The video, produced by Herald video director Robert Greim, will premiere at an event at the Strand Theatre.
It is titled “The Circle We Share,” and features a rap song produced and performed by activists and family members, including WSOH founder Mary Franklin, whose husband Melvin’s murder in 1996 remains unsolved.
House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo will serve as master of ceremonies for the event and the Bethel Baptist Church Choir will sing.
The audience is expected to include elected officials and leaders from law enforcement and the community.
The event begins at
6:30 p.m.
The WSOH Movement came together as a group after a 2014 special report by the Herald revealed hundreds of unsolved murder cases in the city in the last 10 years.
Reporters Antonio Planas, O’Ryan Johnson and Matt Stout found that more than two-thirds of the city’s murders were committed in Roxbury, Mattapan and Dorchester, and that black men were slain at 10 times the rate of white men. But police solved only 38 percent of the murders of black males compared to 79 percent for the slayings of white men.