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: ‘What Loving, and loving, are all about’
Mildred Loving never wanted to be famous. She never asked to be remembered forever as half of the couple that struck down bans on interracial marriage. And after her husband Richard’s untimely death, she avoided the limelight. But in 2007, on the 40th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court case that bears her name (Loving v. Virginia), she had one more thing she needed to say.
The Fine Print: Honoring the last ‘Mothers’ of Tulsa
Malcolm never appeared in my school history books, and he wasn’t spoken of when the Civil Rights Movement came up. When I read about him on my own, it wasn’t hard to understand why. He didn’t play by the rules.
The Fine Print: The practice of protecting belonging
This month, Embrace Boston has been highlighting figures like Kivie Kaplan, the Boston businessman and former president of the NAACP whose fierce advocacy for civil rights earned him a place on the 1965 Freedom Plaza.
The Fine Print: Malcolm X’s message for our moment
Malcolm never appeared in my school history books, and he wasn’t spoken of when the Civil Rights Movement came up. When I read about him on my own, it wasn’t hard to understand why. He didn’t play by the rules.
The Fine Print: The enduring battle against Jim Crow
What did you do when Jim Crow came knocking?
That’s the question we’re going to have to answer for our children and grandchildren. Not just one day in the far future. Right now.
The Fine Print: Harry Hom Dow: Breaking barriers at the bar
As Frederick Hom Dow bends down to brush off the flower residue and dust from the 1965 Freedom Plaza plaque that bears his father’s name, he points to the first of three Chinese characters, 譚金源, that sit next to the English words, “Harry Hom Dow.”