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Everyone 250: Celebrating Union Church’s Pivotal Role in Boston’s Black History and Beyond
Union Church officially unveiled its Everyone 250 Marker, launching Black History and Black Futures Month with a powerful affirmation of Boston’s legacy of resistance, faith, and community leadership. The ceremony honored the church’s founding in 1796, when African-American congregants courageously left a segregated church to form their own spiritual home.
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No matter how hard Trump tries, Boston’s Black history can’t be erased
A plaque near a statue outside King’s Chapel, a staple of the Freedom Trail in the heart of downtown, tells a story as old as Boston itself.
The statue depicts an enslaved woman holding a birdcage. The cage is open, suggesting birds set free.
The plaque deepens that narrative.
The Fine Print: America’s culture war takes center stage
The radical act of remembering Black history
100 years ago on Saturday, Harvard-trained historian Carter G. Woodson, the “Father of Black History,” introduced the concept of Negro History Week after establishing the Association for the Study of Negro Life in Washington, D.C.
Less than a week later, we witnessed another.
The Fine Print: 100 years in, Black History Month’s work continues
The radical act of remembering Black history
100 years ago on Saturday, Harvard-trained historian Carter G. Woodson, the “Father of Black History,” introduced the concept of Negro History Week after establishing the Association for the Study of Negro Life in Washington, D.C.
Less than a week later, we witnessed another.
The Fine Print: Searching for America’s ‘last straw’
Where’s the bottom?
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Embrace’s President and CEO, Imari Paris Jeffries, Ph.D., said the following in an article he penned for USA TODAY about the killing of Renee Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis: “Public lynching will now be televised. And America has learned how to watch.”
Less than a week later, we witnessed another.
The Fine Print: ‘What is history going to say about you?’
Fatherhood, Dr. King and the “fierce urgency of now”
On January 15, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, I took a leap with my daughter, Maya.
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