Embrace Acquires Downtown Crossing Buildings for New Civic and Cultural Hub
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The Downtown I remember, The Downtown we can create
Downtown is the heart of the city. There is a photograph that still circulates across Boston social media of three young men, including Hip-Hop pioneer Rusty Pendleton, standing downtown with a boombox and dressed in the unmistakable uniform of the 1980s Hip-Hop generation. It captures the downtown I remember
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The Fine Print: More than a block party
“The greatest commandment is to love one another, is to love God and to love your neighbor as you love yourself. And if that’s what we preach, then that’s what we have to live.”
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The Fine Print: The Black Church’s radical, loving rebellion
“The greatest commandment is to love one another, is to love God and to love your neighbor as you love yourself. And if that’s what we preach, then that’s what we have to live.”
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The Fine Print: Confronting the racial wealth gap in Massachusetts
Embrace’s Imari Paris Jeffries traces the Federal Reserve Bank’s recently released estimated racial wealth gap back to its source: redlined lending, restrictive covenants, and a century of policy that determined who was allowed to own something long enough to pass it down.
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The Number and the Names Behind It
Eight dollars is almost four rides on the T and barely enough to buy a Happy Meal at McDonald’s. It’s also the number the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston put on paper a decade ago when it measured the median net worth of a U.S.-born Black Bostonian.
Eight dollars, full stop.
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The Fine Print: Ballot Question 3 and the quest for a competitive democracy
“A democracy that has to answer to all of its people, not just the ones already inside the tent, is the strongest one we can build. Parties and candidates accountable only to themselves get weak, get complacent, stop listening. Accountability is what makes us stronger.”
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RITMO Y SONIDO BLOCK PARTY
Saturday, September 12, 2026
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Real stories. Bold voices. Unapologetic truth.
Good Trouble, co-produced with NBC10 Boston, captures the human side of change. Through raw, intimate conversations, we explore the lives, struggles, and triumphs of the people shaping our city’s future — one story at a time.
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Stories you’ll feel. Voices you’ll remember.
Mi Gente invites you into the stories of Boston’s Latinx community. Whether you’re from the block or brand new to the barrio, this is where you’ll meet the people and ideas making our city vibrant.
