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Our Team
Embrace works to build belonging through art, policy, and community, grounded in love, joy, and collective liberation.
Careers
Our team reflects the brilliance, resilience, and lived experience of Boston and beyond.
Volunteers
Volunteers are vital partners in our movement, amplifying joy, justice, and collective power in communities across Boston.
Store
Our store offers curated goods that represent the spirit of resistance, joy, and cultural excellence in Boston.
Connect
Reach out to Embrace to connect, collaborate, or learn more about how we’re building a city where everyone belongs.
Placemaking
We transform physical and cultural landscapes to reflect truth and cultivate collective belonging.
Monuments
Activations
Truthtelling
We confront Boston’s history head-on, creating space for shared reckoning, repair, and possibility.
Research
Our research centers community truth and racial equity, using data to inform policy, storytelling, and systems change.
Scholar in Residence
Our Scholar in Residence program brings visionary thinkers into direct dialogue with the community to advance reparative knowledge and policy.
Advocacy
Collective Action
We believe lasting change is born of collective power—our work mobilizes communities toward shared liberation.
Coalitions
We build coalitions rooted in trust, purpose, and solidarity to advance racial equity across Boston and beyond.
Artists In Residence
Our Artists in Residence program uplifts creatives whose work reimagines Boston through the lens of love, resistance, and Black cultural brilliance.
News
Stay updated on how Embrace Boston is shifting culture, shaping policy, and moving in love and justice across the city.
Blog
A space for reflection, analysis, and radical imagination, our blog brings forth voices to shape and reflect a more whole and inclusive future.
Fine Print
Our newsletter, The Fine Print, delivers truth, joy, and updates from the frontlines of racial equity work in Boston and beyond.
Good Trouble
Inspired by the legacy of John Lewis, Good Trouble is our call to courage—boldly confronting injustice with love, strategy, and action.
Mi Gente
Mi Gente uplifts Afro-Latinx and Latinx communities in Boston through culturally grounded programming, storytelling, and solidarity.
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In Byron Rushing, Boston has a steward for its Black history
Written by
The Boston Globe
February 1, 2024
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