Skip to content
  • About
    • Our Team Embrace works to build belonging through art, policy, and community, grounded in love, joy, and collective liberation.
    • Careers Our team reflects the brilliance, resilience, and lived experience of Boston and beyond.
    • Volunteers Volunteers are vital partners in our movement, amplifying joy, justice, and collective power in communities across Boston.
    • Store Our store offers curated goods that represent the spirit of resistance, joy, and cultural excellence in Boston.
    • Connect Reach out to Embrace to connect, collaborate, or learn more about how we’re building a city where everyone belongs.
    • Support
  • Public Art We transform physical and cultural landscapes to reflect truth and cultivate collective belonging.
    • Monuments
  • Research Our research centers community truth and racial equity, using data to inform policy, storytelling, and systems change.
    • Scholar in Residence
  • Culture We believe lasting change is born of collective power—our work mobilizes communities toward shared liberation.
    • Activations
    • Artists In Residence Our Artists in Residence program uplifts creatives whose work reimagines Boston through the lens of love, resistance, and Black cultural brilliance.
  • Our Voice Stay updated on how Embrace Boston is shifting culture, shaping policy, and moving in love and justice across the city.
    • Insights A space for reflection, analysis, and radical imagination, our blog brings forth voices to shape and reflect a more whole and inclusive future.
    • Fine Print Our newsletter, The Fine Print, delivers truth, joy, and updates from the frontlines of racial equity work in Boston and beyond.
    • Good Trouble Inspired by the legacy of John Lewis, Good Trouble is our call to courage—boldly confronting injustice with love, strategy, and action.
    • Mi Gente Mi Gente uplifts Afro-Latinx and Latinx communities in Boston through culturally grounded programming, storytelling, and solidarity.
    • Socials
  • Everyone 250
  • Donations
Donate Here

Embrace Boston celebrates 1st anniversary of unveiling with 1,200 attendees (in sneakers)

NewsBy embracewpJanuary 16, 20242 Comments

A celebration of creativity and culture, the Embrace Friends and Family Sneaker Affair encouraged attendees to wear their flyest formal attire — tuxedos, gowns and sparkles — …

‘More than a monument’: Embrace Boston becomes nonprofit

NewsBy embracewpJanuary 16, 20242 Comments

The Embrace turned one year old this weekend, but the unveiling of the monument in Boston Common honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King was only the beginning for Embrace Boston.

‘A Tribute to the Dream’: Northeastern celebrates the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. through community conversation

NewsBy embracewpJanuary 16, 2024Leave a comment

On the afternoon of Jan. 11, the Northeastern community gathered to reflect and celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. during the university’s annual commemoration of King with an event titled “A Tribute to the Dream.”

  • About
  • Public Art
  • Research
  • Culture
  • Our Voice
  • Everyone250
  • Donations
Donate Here

Working at the intersection of arts, culture, community and research to dismantle structural racism, Embrace Boston sees a radically inclusive and equitable Boston where everyone belongs and Black people prosper, grounded in joy, love and wellbeing.

 

© 2025 Embrace Boston

Designed by Proverb

VISIT OUR DIGITAL STORIES APP HERE
Shop

STAY UP TO DATE WITH OUR NEWSLETTER

Join Our Newsletter
  • About
  • Public Art
  • Research
  • Culture
  • Our Voice
  • Everyone250
  • Donations
Donate Here

Search

Close

Stay in Touch

Form Placeholder