“We’re going to have local artists talking about graffiti, hip-hop, and the radical history of comics.”
A Bigger, Stronger, Stacked Comics In Color Festival
Roxbury
“LIVE THE MAGIC” EXHIBIT TACKLES GENTRIFICATION AND ROXBURY ERASURE
“The marketing of this particular condo development represents a common tactic: erasure of reality and history.”
MAYOR WU GOING LIVE ON IG TODAY TO SHARE DETAILS OF MASS AND CASS PLAN
Mayor Michelle Wu and senior advisor Dr. Monica Bharel will host an Instagram Live on @MayorWu to share details on yesterday's announcement regarding an updated timeline and key steps to transform the area around Mass. Ave. and Melnea Cass
29TH ANNUAL ROXBURY HOLIDAY & PARADE CELEBRATION
A tree lighting, a Kwanzaa celebration, and a Macy's trolley parade to ring in the season
ROXBURY RESTAURANT WEEK TO TAKE PLACE JUNE 13-19
“This week coincides the Boston Black Restaurant Month in collaboration with the Black Hospitality Coalition and Black Restaurant Week”
MANDELA EFFECT: THE IMPORTANCE OF PRESERVING ART IN BOSTON’S COMMUNITIES OF COLOR
“It was to create a different municipality that was a majority of people of color and working class folks, because we wanted a seat at the table.”
SPECIAL BOSTON THROWBACK: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF HAKIM JAMAL
Friday marks 55 years since the assassination of Malcolm X, and the complexities of his life and his death are increasingly being examined from different angles. A lesser-known but fascinating character in Malcolm X’s life is Hakim Jamal, his “cousin” who, like Malcolm X, transformed from a Roxbury hoodlum to an author and activist.
CHUCK TURNER, 1940-2019
In the long relay race of oppressed communities and the global working class, Chuck Turner picked up the baton in the 1960s as a young activist in the Northern Student Movement (a wing of the civil rights movement). By Christmas Day 2019 when he walked on, that beginning had been eclipsed by a series of powerful base-building projects—many that at once challenged the ruling class while creatively empowering the excluded and the exploited.
STILL SPINNING: HUB VINYL ICON SKIPPY WHITE AND THE TUNES BOSTON HAS HUMMED SINCE THE ’60S
"Skippy’s been around since, what, 1961? Skippy is Boston history."
MUSIC SPECIAL: ROCK AGAINST RACISM TURNS 40
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.
