Fine Print
Each issue offers a mix of updates, reflections, upcoming events, and ways to take action, all told with the clarity, care, and cultural fluency you expect from Embrace.
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The Fine Print: ‘Building space for Belonging’
Each year, Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend asks more of us than remembrance. It asks for reckoning. It asks whether we are willing to move beyond comfort, symbolism, and soundbites—and into the harder, more hopeful work of building a society where everyone truly belongs.
The Fine Print: ‘Radical dreaming’ with Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley
Just as the late Reverend Jesse Jackson believed, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley says our struggle to protect our rights and history is tied to our ability to dream of a better future.
The Fine Print: America’s culture war takes center stage
The radical act of remembering Black history
100 years ago on Saturday, Harvard-trained historian Carter G. Woodson, the “Father of Black History,” introduced the concept of Negro History Week after establishing the Association for the Study of Negro Life in Washington, D.C.
Less than a week later, we witnessed another.
The Fine Print: 100 years in, Black History Month’s work continues
The radical act of remembering Black history
100 years ago on Saturday, Harvard-trained historian Carter G. Woodson, the “Father of Black History,” introduced the concept of Negro History Week after establishing the Association for the Study of Negro Life in Washington, D.C.
Less than a week later, we witnessed another.
The Fine Print: Searching for America’s ‘last straw’
Where’s the bottom?
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Embrace’s President and CEO, Imari Paris Jeffries, Ph.D., said the following in an article he penned for USA TODAY about the killing of Renee Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis: “Public lynching will now be televised. And America has learned how to watch.”
Less than a week later, we witnessed another.
The Fine Print: ‘What is history going to say about you?’
Fatherhood, Dr. King and the “fierce urgency of now”
On January 15, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, I took a leap with my daughter, Maya.