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King Boston Launches Research Institute Through Center for Economic Justice

BlogBy embracewpSeptember 21, 2021Leave a comment

King Boston today announced its research agenda for the Center for Economic Justice, grounded in community engagement and aimed at generating the data and knowledge needed to inform movements at the grassroots level and beyond.

King Boston presents $1 million to Twelfth Baptist Church, launches 1965 Freedom Plaza nomination effort

BlogBy embracewpSeptember 20, 2021Leave a comment

King Boston today presented the historic Twelfth Baptist Church (TBC) with $1 million, the largest gift the church has ever received.

King Boston names Rev. Carrington Moore as Director of Community Organizing

BlogBy embracewpAugust 10, 2021Leave a comment

King Boston is pleased to announce that Rev. Carrington Moore has joined the nonprofit as the Director of Community Organizing.

King Boston names Dr. April Khadijah Inniss as Director of Community Engaged Research

BlogBy embracewpJuly 26, 2021Leave a comment

King Boston is pleased to announce that April Khadijah Inniss, MD, MSc has joined the team as the Director of Community Engaged Research.

The Promise of Juneteenth

BlogBy embracewpJune 22, 2021Leave a comment

Juneteenth can belatedly serve as that Second Emancipation Proclamation, holding within it the possibility of a post-pandemic start to a future free from the bonds of racism.

Juneteenth should be a national holiday

BlogBy embracewpJune 11, 2021Leave a comment

Holidays, memorials, and symbols have always been part of American history and heritage, and in this time of racial reckoning we have an opportunity to add a new one — Juneteenth, America’s Independence Day — the day slavery came to an end.

This moment today…

BlogBy embracewpMay 25, 2021Leave a comment

James Baldwin reminds us that not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Mass. has an opportunity to lead the way on police reform

BlogBy embracewpOctober 2, 2020Leave a comment

Just as the Commonwealth led in becoming the first state to allow gay marriage, our leaders can make a bold statement about the true meaning of equal protection under the law.

Education as a Pathway to the Beloved Commonwealth

BlogBy embracewpSeptember 16, 2020Leave a comment

In the early days of the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. King described a “Beloved Community” as an anti-racist society committed to social and economic justice.

Minimum guaranteed income = solution to poverty

BlogBy embracewpAugust 16, 2020Leave a comment

In the weeks leading up to his assassination in 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. launched a new chapter of his work, referred to as the “Poor People’s Campaign.” This campaign…

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