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We turned Downtown Crossing into a dance floor for Embrace Massó ¡Con Salsa!

Blog, InsightsBy EMBRACE NEWSSeptember 16, 2026

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

The Fine Print: Addressing the elephant in the room this Hispanic Heritage Month

Fine Print, NewsBy Melissa@embraceboston.orgSeptember 16, 2026

As we commemorate Hispanic Heritage Month through October 15, Lorna Rivera, Ph.D., of the Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Boston urges us to recognize how othering manifests in the context of racial bias in the Latin community—and what we must do to counter it.

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