BLACK FAMILY THAT MAY HAVE BEEN RACIALLY PROFILED BY BOSTON HOTEL RECEIVES APOLOGY. On Aug. 15, Marilyn Mathieu, her partner, and their two young boys checked out of their hotel in Boston and headed to Cambridge, where they walked around the Harvard campus. “We want them to dream big,” she said later of the visit with her boys, ages 7 and 3. But two days later, after she returned home to New Jersey, her memory of the family trip began to sour when she noticed the hotel had charged an extra $250 on her credit card, on top of the agreed-upon $103 for the room.