Embrace Acquires Downtown Crossing Buildings for New Civic and Cultural Hub
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The Fine Print: The truth-telling power of Black music
While introducing the Obama Presidential Center on the South Side of Chicago last Thursday, Former President Barack Obama didn’t use his time at the podium to call out the current president, address detractors, or stoke anger.
He did what he’s spent much of his career doing: trying to inspire hope.
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The Sounds Of Our Souls
Juneteenth has passed, but our celebration of Black culture doesn’t end there.
June also marks Black Music Month, first recognized [what does that mean?] under President Carter in 1979 to commemorate the multitude of ways Black music has shaped American life—its influence on popular genres like rock and roll and pop, its innovation and expression through hip hop culture, and its raw, radical messaging in the hands of truth-tellers like Billie Holiday.
The Fine Print: The joy and journey of Juneteenth
Nearly 100 years after formerly enslaved people in Galveston, Texas celebrated the first “Jubilee Day”—the holiday that would eventually become Juneteenth—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sat in a Birmingham jail cell waiting for freedom, having been arrested for protesting segregation in Birmingham in April of 1963.
The Fine Print: ‘What Loving, and loving, are all about’
Mildred Loving never wanted to be famous. She never asked to be remembered forever as half of the couple that struck down bans on interracial marriage. And after her husband Richard’s untimely death, she avoided the limelight. But in 2007, on the 40th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court case that bears her name (Loving v. Virginia), she had one more thing she needed to say.
The Fine Print: Honoring the last ‘Mothers’ of Tulsa
Malcolm never appeared in my school history books, and he wasn’t spoken of when the Civil Rights Movement came up. When I read about him on my own, it wasn’t hard to understand why. He didn’t play by the rules.
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Embrace Boston acquires buildings for a ‘vibrant social and cultural hub’ in Downtown Crossing
Embrace Boston, the group behind the landmark monument to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King on Boston Common, says it has acquired two buildings in Downtown Crossing that it plans to transform into a vibrant social and cultural hub for racial justice.
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