A panel on transformative justice and the university
ROYALL HOUSE AND SLAVE QUARTERS HOSTS “ABOLITIONISTS IN ACTION”
racial justice
MLK MEMORIAL BREAKFAST “RE-IMAGINED”
“From Resistance to Representation: Black Women Proving the Dream” is this year's theme
“I’M AT YOUR WINDOW” IS A HIP HOP MUSICAL FOR TODAY
The show is a modern retelling of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"
OPINION: RECENT TRIALS REFLECT WHITE FRAGILITY
One of the classic ways to stoke white fear and justify violence toward Arbery was to dehumanize his Blackness, but it didn’t stop there
WOKE IN PROGRESS V: IMAGINING SOMETHING ELSE
Artists who signed the ‘Boston Arts for Black Lives’ letter last year weigh in on what’s changed—and what hasn’t—in the regional arts scene since then
OPINION: TULSA RACE MASSACRE REPARATIONS WOULD BEGIN THE HEALING
The struggle for Black Tulsan survivors and their descendants to receive reparations has been a century-old controversy, one that is a pox on this country’s unwillingness to redress the human rights violation and generational loss of accumulated wealth.
EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE AND RALLY FOR DAUNTE WRIGHT
While the world has been watching the trial of Derek Chauvin, the Brooklyn Center, MN police shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright Monday, April 12 during a traffic stop.
PARENTS RELEASE AN ANALYSIS OF BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDRAISING INEQUITIES
The group is asking that polices address the disparities the data has revealed.
WALKING THE BOSTON COMMON IN PAUL ROBESON’S FOOTSTEPS
“Robeson put his shoulder to the wheel of many specific liberation movements. He himself felt and acknowledged the unique burden of racism against Blacks in the United States.”
DIG THIS: OUR FAVORITE THINGS TO DO IN GREATER BOSTON (4.8 – 4.22)
Black Boston Reimagined, Reggae Sunday, and an Asian Lantern Spectacular!
INBOX: GROUP CALLS FOR BIDEN TO ABOLISH POLICE MILITARIZATION PROGRAM
“The gratuitous militarization of police forces across the United States facilitated by this program has helped to turn these agencies into brutal weapons of repression.”
STATE WIRE: NEW COALITION URGES COMMONWEALTH TO PRIORITIZE VACCINE EQUITY
A new coalition is urging the Commonwealth to prioritize racial equity in vaccine distribution, by investing in community outreach and engagement and increasing access for communities of color and low-income residents. Comments from state Rep. Liz Miranda, D-Boston.
EDITORIAL: WE STAND FOR DEMOCRACY
DigBoston newspaper will resist any attempt to impose martial law on the US
PUBLIC SQUARE: ALLIED FORCES
Who’s moving the needle on racial justice? Who’s not?
