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: 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.
The Fine Print: The role of journalism in melting ICE
The price of telling the truth
Even as we celebrate three years since the unveiling of The Embrace and yet another MLK weekend, we can’t ignore our country’s accelerating slide into authoritarianism—and the lives already lost to it.
The Fine Print: The true spirit of Dr. King
Last week, we talked about what we wanted to remember from 2025, and what the memories we cherish as a nation say about us.
In less than a week, January 2026 has already become a month of both memory and moment.
The Fine Print: Keeping the faith—and the fight
2025 has been a trying year for anyone in the business of fostering belonging.
But community leaders across the country, including in Boston, continue to choose persistence over retreat, collaboration over isolation and imagination over fear.
The Fine Print: Quitting the system of cruelty
Every year, tens of millions of Americans struggle with food insecurity, many not knowing where their next meal will come from.