We Need To Know Wednesday with Java With Jimmy
President & CEO or Embrace Boston Dr. Imari Paris Jeffries talks The Harm Report with Java With Jimmy.
Honoring a trailblazer
City leaders gathered Monday to honor Sarah-Ann Shaw, the trailblazing journalist who was Boston’s first female African-American broadcast reporter, during a wreath-laying ceremony at The Embrace statue on Boston Common.
Let The Work Begin
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” James Baldwin shared these profound words as part of an essay published in 1962 for The New York Times.
City proposal would memorialize ‘first Black Patriot’ of Revolution
A new proposal in the Boston City Council would memorialize Crispus Attucks, a Colonial-era figure embraced as the first martyr of the American Revolution.
How structural racism is hurting Black Bostonians
Boston has a long legacy of racism and discrimination, and a pair of new reports dig into the lasting harms still facing Black people in Boston. Embrace Boston’s “Harm Report” and the National Urban League’s “State of Black America”.
Dr. Paris Jeffries Talks Harm Report On GBH’s Culture Show
A new report from Embrace Boston suggests that repairing generations of inequality and inequity will take more than monetary amends.
Charlotte Mathews-Nelson and Leon Nelson, NAACP leaders, advanced educational and economic equality in Boston
Charlotte Mathews-Nelson, who with her late husband, Leon Nelson, devoted her life’s work to civil rights efforts, said she is humbled to be honored as one of 69 heroes at Embrace Boston’s 1965 Freedom Plaza.
In building a case for local reparations, Embrace Boston report aims to connect past to present
As Boston embarks on a massive undertaking to examine possible reparations for Black residents, a new report detailing the lasting legacy of slavery and systemic racism in the city offers solutions to redress
‘Fighting the good fight for decades’: Retired judge Julian Houston has long pushed to help youth
The caption beneath a now-faded action shot of a young man speaking reads “Julian Houston, New Leader,”