The Fine Print: Fighting Darkness With Light
We’re living through an overwhelming moment in American history. What are we supposed to do in the face of all that?
Boston Common comes alive with Embrace Massó ¡Con Salsa! International Music Festival
Community artists and activists came together on Sept. 13 for Boston’s Embrace Massó ¡Con Salsa! International Music Festival to showcase the rich diversity of Latin traditions and rhythms. This year marks the 50th anniversary of community leader José Massó III’s bilingual Afro-Latin music program on WBUR, “¡Con Salsa!”. Mayor Michelle Wu honored him at the festival.
Imari Paris Jeffries, Edward Gorey: The Gloomy Gallery, and Baldwin: A Love Story
Imari Paris Jeffries, President and CEO of Embrace Boston, joins The Culture Show to preview this Saturday’s Embrace Massó “¡Con Salsa!” International Music Festival. It’s a celebration of music, culture, and social justice.
Wu and Kraft make pitches to voters at another mayoral candidate forum, less than one week before preliminary election
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and her chief challenger Josh Kraft again made their pitches to voters Wednesday night, as they participated in a second mayoral candidate forum in just two days, less than a week out from the Sept. 9 preliminary election.
Embrace Massó ¡Con Salsa! International Music Festival is coming to Boston Common
The Embrace Massó ¡Con Salsa! International Music Festival, sponsored by Embrace Boston, is less than two weeks away. The free, daylong event celebrates Latin music and culture as well as social justice efforts.
Wu y Kraft hablan sobre ICE, ratas y alquileres en foro de la alcaldía de Boston
Los dos candidatos a la alcaldía de Boston con mayor participación en las encuestas, Michelle Wu y Josh Kraft, participaron en un foro en vivo el miércoles por la noche, organizado por NBC10 Boston y Telemundo Boston, en colaboración con Embrace Boston y el Consejo Económico Afroamericano de Massachusetts.
El festival Embrace Massó “¡Con Salsa!” vuelve para demostrar por qué la celebración en comunidad importa más que nunca
El próximo 13 de septiembre, al mediodía en el Boston Common, se celebrará el Embrace Massó “¡Con Salsa!” International Music Festival, un evento que conmemora el 50 aniversario del programa de radio de WBUR “¡Con Salsa!”.
‘We will not be erased’: Boston leaders defend Black history
Inside the 219-year-old African Meeting House, where Frederick Douglass once thundered against slavery and Black families built their own schools as acts of defiance, community leaders gathered this week to warn against what they call an effort to erase America’s full history.
‘Parks are the new lunch counters’: Boston leaders warn of Black history erasure amid Trump cuts
Ari Zorn remembers a very different Boston, one riven by racial tensions and a historic dispute over busing. It was one where, if you were young and Black, and leaving a Red Sox game, “you didn’t walk, you ran.”
Boston tour highlights fight to preserve African American history amid ‘whitewash’ fears
Massachusetts officials and civic leaders, criticizing what they called the Trump administration’s efforts to “whitewash” the stories the nation tells about itself, celebrated Boston’s rich African American history on Monday with a walking tour of some of the city’s iconic sites.