our voice: Telling Our Story, Together

From monument unveilings to policy breakthroughs, we spotlight the stories that show Boston becoming a city where equity is more than a buzzword—it’s a blueprint in motion.

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Through storytelling, Embrace Boston amplifies the ideas, people, and movements shaping a more equitable city. Under the banner of Our Voice, the organization produces narrative work that informs, uplifts, and inspires action. The award-winning Good Trouble podcast sparks honest dialogue on race, culture, and democracy; Mi Gente celebrates Boston’s Latinx communities and their global connections; and the monthly newsletter, The Fine Print, offers behind-the-scenes insight into Embrace Boston’s activations, partnerships, and impact. Together, these platforms form a living archive of belonging — centering community voices, challenging misinformation, and weaving a collective story of progress in motion.

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News

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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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The Fine Print: A plea to protect public memory

The 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence has inspired the revisiting of stories from our shared past. ​ 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.
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The Fine Print: Building the map to the ballot and beloved community

Now is not the time to bemoan how our votes don’t matter. It’s time to prove that they do, both by showing up just like we did in 2020 and fighting any attempt to stop us.
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Videos

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Good Trouble – Jacquetta Van Zandt Talks Politics

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Good Trouble – Imari Paris Jeffries

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Good Trouble – Nay $peaks

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Good Trouble – José C. Massó III

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Embrace Boston celebrates Hispanic Heritage with Masso ¡Con Salsa!

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Unveiling Ceremony and Coverage for The Embrace on Boston Common