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.
On Wednesday, September 3, 2025, Embrace Boston joined forces with the Black Economic Council of Massachusetts (BECMA) and NBC10 Boston to bring the city’s top two mayoral candidates—Mayor Michelle Wu and challenger Josh Kraft—into a live televised conversation about Boston’s future. The Final Word gave each candidate thirty minutes on stage to share their priorities and vision in advance of the election.
The Big Beautiful Bill is drained-pool politics. It doesn’t build. It empties. It takes what was fragile to begin with—programs like SNAP, housing vouchers, and Medicaid—and guts them with the…
In this powerful Fourth of July reflection, Dr. Imari Paris Jeffries examines the holiday’s contradictions, drawing on the words of Frederick Douglass and Dr. King to confront America’s selective memory and enduring racial injustice.
Embrace Boston, in collaboration with Everyone250 and the City of Boston, held a rally Saturday on the Boston Common, with Martin Luther King III speaking on his father’s legacy.
My grandfather, Wayne Lucas, is a proud native Bostonian. He grew up predominantly in foster homes in Roxbury and Dorchester and spent a good chunk of his youth in a house on Pasadena Road, right off of Blue Hill Avenue.
This year marks 60 years since the historic 1965 Freedom Rally led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Embrace Boston’s Dr. Imari Paris Jefferies shares how they’re celebrating the iconic event.
Thank you for standing with us this past Saturday to honor the 1965 Freedom Rally when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led that historic march from Roxbury to the Boston Common 60 years ago.
This week on Boston Public Radio, hosts welcomed two powerhouse voices in the fight for justice and remembrance: Imari Paris Jeffries, Executive Director of Embrace Boston, and Jeneé Osterheldt, Boston Globe culture columnist.
Dr. Imari Paris Jeffries, President and CEO of Embrace Boston , joins The Culture Show to talk about the 60th Anniversary of the 1965 Freedom Rally.
