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CURRENT STREET EDITION

DIG 23.05 – 4/8/21

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MUSIC SPECIAL: ROCK AGAINST RACISM TURNS 40

Written by C. SHARDAE JOBSON Posted November 20, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, Interviews, MUSIC, Non-fiction

Here, five individuals associated with RAR share their memories of Boston back then, what they gained from having RAR in their lives, and how, in 2019, we can continue to honor the groundwork RAR laid for a better Boston.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Interviews, MUSIC, Non-fiction Tagged With: 1980s, 1984, bboys, bgirls, Boston, Boston Hip Hop, Boston History, Boston rap, BPS, breakdancing, breaking, Dorchester, hip hop, HONK!, Madison Park, oral histories, oral history, race, racism, Rapperteers, Reebee Garofalo, Rock Against Racism, Roxbury, Spiun City Rockers, UMass, UMASS-Boston

INCENSED OVER INSENSITIVITY

Written by IRENE MONROE Posted February 20, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Official’s N-word nonapology ignites Cambridge

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Cambridge, Cambridge Public Schools, high school, race, Rindge and Latin, school

FRONT AND CENTER: RACE PLAYS INTO THE BOSTON MAYORAL ELECTION IN MORE WAYS THAN YOU REALIZE

Written by OLIVIA DENG Posted November 1, 2017 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

While both candidates have positioned themselves as the best choice for addressing racism in a city that is 53 percent people of color, their outlooks on related issues and strategies regarding how to fix things differ substantially.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: 2017, 2017 Mayoral Race, ACLU, affordable housing, Boston, Boston Police, Boston Police Camera Action Team, BPD, Brawl for City Hall, cops, Housing, Marty Walsh, Mayor Walsh, mayoral race, naacp, Police, police brutality, policing, race, racial inequity, Roxbury, Tito Jackson, William Evans

GUEST OP-ED: WALSH ADMINISTRATION PLAYS THE SAME OLD RACE CONVERSATION GAME

Written by JAMARHL CRAWFORD Posted December 14, 2016 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

The voice that was missing, and that is also the one that is always shut out of these “open” conversations, is again that of the radical, the revolutionary.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Black Boston, Blackstonian, Boston, Boston City Hall, Boston Resilient Cities, busing, CUTLER MAJESTIC THEATRE, eugenics, Jamarhl Crawford, malcolm x, mayor Marty Walsh, My Brother's Keeper, Police Commissioner William Evans, race, race in Boston, race talks, Rockefeller, Roxbury

HELADO NEGRO: RACE, REPRESENTATION, AND A RISING ROLE MODEL

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted October 30, 2016 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

The indie pop anthems of Helado Negro get their time to shine with tinsel mammals and an unforgettable live show.

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC Tagged With: 2016, Allston, Bear In Heaven, Boston, Buscabulla, Dig, DigBoston, Fred Rogers, Helado Negro, Hispanic, Interview, Julianna Barwick, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Music, Prefuse 73, race, Roberto Carlos Lange, wonder bar

THE UNDERPAID, OVERLY MALE, INCREDIBLY WHITE, AND SLIGHTLY OPTIMISTIC STATE OF INDEPENDENT MEDIA IN BOSTON

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted September 15, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm

We will be using all of the research to guide help guide BINJ forward.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm Tagged With: age, BINJ, Boston, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, data, diversity, Massachusetts, media, media makers. East Coast, nonprofit, race, reporters, survey, Survey Monkey

MISTAKEN IDENTITY: SAMUEL FULLER’S TAKE ON THE PRIMARY CONTRADICTION OF AMERICAN LIFE

Written by JAKE MULLIGAN Posted August 2, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Film

Fuller’s movie recognizes (with astutely visualized clarity) the primary contradiction of American life: Racial identity is a false construct, but one that no individual can ever transcend.

Filed Under: A+E, Film Tagged With: Civil War, Harvard Film Archive, race, racial identity, Rod Steiger, Run of the Arrow, Samuel Fuller, Sioux, union

GIRLS: ANGSTY-WHITE-BOY-GROWS-UP NARRATIVE GETS FLIPPED IN “GIRLHOOD”

Written by JAKE MULLIGAN Posted May 8, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Film

Sciamma’s interests have already been established: She’s made three films, and they all consider the fluidity of sexuality or gender in one way or another.

Filed Under: A+E, Film Tagged With: Boyhood, Cèline Sciamma, coming of age, Francois Truffaut, french, gender, girlhood, Girls, Jean Vigo, Karidja Tourè, race, Rihanna, sexuality

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