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.
My grandfather, Wayne Lucas, is a proud native Bostonian. He grew up predominantly in foster homes in Roxbury and Dorchester and spent a good chunk of his youth in a house on Pasadena Road, right off of Blue Hill Avenue.
This year marks 60 years since the historic 1965 Freedom Rally led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Embrace Boston’s Dr. Imari Paris Jefferies shares how they’re celebrating the iconic event.
Dr. Imari Paris Jeffries, President and CEO of Embrace Boston , joins The Culture Show to talk about the 60th Anniversary of the 1965 Freedom Rally.
Martin Luther King III is joining community leaders for the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Freedom Rally on Boston Common later this month.
On April 23, 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent civil rights leaders led a defining moment in the civil rights movement, emphasizing the urgent need for systemic change, powered by a rally that drew over 20,000 people to Boston Common.
