Dr. Imari Paris Jeffries makes his Spark FM debut to discuss Embrace Boston’s Harm Report. The extensive report serves as a primer on the areas of harm perpetuated by systematic racism in America. Tune in and watch the lively discussion.
President & CEO or Embrace Boston Dr. Imari Paris Jeffries talks The Harm Report with Java With Jimmy.
City leaders gathered Monday to honor Sarah-Ann Shaw, the trailblazing journalist who was Boston’s first female African-American broadcast reporter, during a wreath-laying ceremony at The Embrace statue on Boston Common.
A new proposal in the Boston City Council would memorialize Crispus Attucks, a Colonial-era figure embraced as the first martyr of the American Revolution.
Boston has a long legacy of racism and discrimination, and a pair of new reports dig into the lasting harms still facing Black people in Boston. Embrace Boston’s “Harm Report” and the National Urban League’s “State of Black America”.
A new report from Embrace Boston suggests that repairing generations of inequality and inequity will take more than monetary amends.
Charlotte Mathews-Nelson, who with her late husband, Leon Nelson, devoted her life’s work to civil rights efforts, said she is humbled to be honored as one of 69 heroes at Embrace Boston’s 1965 Freedom Plaza.
As Boston embarks on a massive undertaking to examine possible reparations for Black residents, a new report detailing the lasting legacy of slavery and systemic racism in the city offers solutions to redress
The caption beneath a now-faded action shot of a young man speaking reads “Julian Houston, New Leader,”
