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 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!”.
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.
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.”
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.
