The Fine Print: King’s Chapel, Unbound
Embrace spoke with Roeshana Moore-Evans following the first anniversary of Unbound’s unveiling and how the work of remembering Boston’s complete history, including its history of enslavement, continues.
The Fine Print: The school bus that carries Boston’s history
History is something we take with us, not something we leave in the past.
Boston attorney José López got the inspiration to turn that figurative lesson into a literal one thanks to a trip down to New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
The Fine Print: Why the arts are essential to our society
From The Embrace monument to festivals such as Embrace Massó ¡Con Salsa!, our work emphasizes the larger role of culture in public life, one that extends beyond entertainment.
To understand that role, we have to look more closely at the relationship among the arts, our shared stories, and our democratic society in America, which can function only when we all participate together.
The Fine Print: Addressing the elephant in the room this Hispanic Heritage Month
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.
The Fine Print: More than a block party
“The greatest commandment is to love one another, is to love God and to love your neighbor as you love yourself. And if that’s what we preach, then that’s what we have to live.”
The Fine Print: The Black Church’s radical, loving rebellion
“The greatest commandment is to love one another, is to love God and to love your neighbor as you love yourself. And if that’s what we preach, then that’s what we have to live.”
The Fine Print: Confronting the racial wealth gap in Massachusetts
Embrace’s Imari Paris Jeffries traces the Federal Reserve Bank’s recently released estimated racial wealth gap back to its source: redlined lending, restrictive covenants, and a century of policy that determined who was allowed to own something long enough to pass it down.
The Fine Print: Ballot Question 3 and the quest for a competitive democracy
“A democracy that has to answer to all of its people, not just the ones already inside the tent, is the strongest one we can build. Parties and candidates accountable only to themselves get weak, get complacent, stop listening. Accountability is what makes us stronger.”
The Fine Print: How Salsa became a radical tool for resistance
Music has never been just entertainment. For communities pushed to the margins, it has been a way to claim space and survive the constant pressure of othering. The rhythms born on plantations, in barrios, and in public housing projects carried stories that governments tried to erase but could never silence.
The Fine Print: Stopping Stones, slavery, and the radical re-telling of American history
Historic New England, with inspiration from the Stolpersteine memorials in Europe that honor victims of the Nazi regime, has a different mission: immortalize formerly enslaved people, too often voiceless and forgotten, as a way of reminding New England (and America) where we’ve been and how far we have still to go.
It is in its retelling that history becomes part of public memory—public memory is the successful transformation of history from a static record into a dynamic narrative that circulates among people in the present moment.