Jesse Jackson and the arc of Black hope
A population stuck in survival mode cannot organize, cannot protest, and cannot imagine an alternative. When hunger becomes normalized, it becomes far more insidious.
The requirement of memory
A population stuck in survival mode cannot organize, cannot protest, and cannot imagine an alternative. When hunger becomes normalized, it becomes far more insidious.
Hunger Is The Point
A population stuck in survival mode cannot organize, cannot protest, and cannot imagine an alternative. When hunger becomes normalized, it becomes far more insidious.
Who Deserves To Take The Field?: Bad Bunny and the Fear of Representation
The NFL and Roc Nation had just announced that Bad Bunny would headline the Super Bowl LX halftime show at Levi’s Stadium next February, and MAGA world (not known for their measured response) immediately lost it.
What Would Martin See in the Smoke
It is hard to write about Israel and Gaza. Hard because words stumble where pain reigns. Hard because truth, once spoken, too often finds itself drafted into war. Words are weapons. But still, I write. Because silence, too, is a weapon. Sometimes it is the most deadly.
History Doesn’t Whisper — It Warns
We’d watch news reels, Leni Riefenstahl’s propaganda films, then analyze how the Nazis weaponized misinformation and masked discrimination and segregation of immigrants under the guise of nationalism and protecting citizens from a criminal element and a national drain threatening their overall quality of life and the economy. Sound familiar?
Boston Votes 2025: ‘The Final Word’ Mayoral Forum
On Wednesday, September 3, 2025, Embrace Boston joined forces with the Black Economic Council of Massachusetts (BECMA) and NBC10 Boston to bring the city’s top two mayoral candidates—Mayor Michelle Wu and challenger Josh Kraft—into a live televised conversation about Boston’s future. The Final Word gave each candidate thirty minutes on stage to share their priorities and vision in advance of the election.
The “Big Beautiful Bill” and the Empty Cupboard of Democracy
The Big Beautiful Bill is drained-pool politics. It doesn’t build. It empties. It takes what was fragile to begin with—programs like SNAP, housing vouchers, and Medicaid—and guts them with the…
Fourth of July: The Annual Ritual of National Amnesia
In this powerful Fourth of July reflection, Dr. Imari Paris Jeffries examines the holiday’s contradictions, drawing on the words of Frederick Douglass and Dr. King to confront America’s selective memory and enduring racial injustice.
Full video: Boston commemorates 60th anniversary of the 1965 Freedom Rally
Embrace Boston, in collaboration with Everyone250 and the City of Boston, held a rally Saturday on the Boston Common, with Martin Luther King III speaking on his father’s legacy.