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A Bigger, Stronger, Stacked Comics In Color Festival

Written by LUKE RUUD Posted April 21, 2022 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

“We’re going to have local artists talking about graffiti, hip-hop, and the radical history of comics.” 

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: arts, Boston, Cagen Luse, Comics in Color, Roxbury

“LIVE THE MAGIC” EXHIBIT TACKLES GENTRIFICATION AND ROXBURY ERASURE

Written by DELANEY BEAUDOIN Posted March 2, 2022 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

“The marketing of this particular condo development represents a common tactic: erasure of reality and history.”

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: arts, gentrification, Housing, Roxbury, visual arts

MAYOR WU GOING LIVE ON IG TODAY TO SHARE DETAILS OF MASS AND CASS PLAN

Written by DIG STAFF Posted December 16, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

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

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: melnea cass, news, news to us, opioids, Roxbury, south end

29TH ANNUAL ROXBURY HOLIDAY & PARADE CELEBRATION

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted December 3, 2021 Filed Under: A+E

A tree lighting, a Kwanzaa celebration, and a Macy's trolley parade to ring in the season

Filed Under: A+E Tagged With: celebration, holidays, Kwanzaa, parade, Roxbury

ROXBURY RESTAURANT WEEK TO TAKE PLACE JUNE 13-19

Written by DIG STAFF Posted June 7, 2021 Filed Under: Eats

“This week coincides the Boston Black Restaurant Month in collaboration with the Black Hospitality Coalition and Black Restaurant Week”

Filed Under: Eats Tagged With: eat, restaurant, Roxbury, Roxbury Restaurant Week

MANDELA EFFECT: THE IMPORTANCE OF PRESERVING ART IN BOSTON’S COMMUNITIES OF COLOR

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted September 9, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

Nelson Mandela mural

“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.”

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: AAMARP, arts, Nelson Mandela mural, Roxbury, visual arts

SPECIAL BOSTON THROWBACK: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF HAKIM JAMAL

Written by GEORGE HASSETT Posted February 18, 2020 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

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.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: Activism, Black History, black panthers, Boston, Boston History, Dead Level, Detroit Red, Hakim Jamal, Heroin, Louis X, Malcolm Little, malcolm x, Michael X, Roxbury, throwback, throwbacks

CHUCK TURNER, 1940-2019

Written by SUREN MOODLIAR Posted December 30, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Obituary

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. 

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Obituary Tagged With: activist, african american, antiracist, black, Boston, Chuck Turner, community, justice, labor, Massachusetts, Obituary, organizer, Roxbury

STILL SPINNING: HUB VINYL ICON SKIPPY WHITE AND THE TUNES BOSTON HAS HUMMED SINCE THE ’60S

Written by BRIAN COLEMAN Posted December 26, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, Interviews, MUSIC, Non-fiction

"Skippy’s been around since, what, 1961? Skippy is Boston history."

Filed Under: FEATURES, Interviews, MUSIC, Non-fiction Tagged With: arts, BINJ Arts, BINJ music, Boston, Boston music history, Brian Coleman, history, Jamaica Plain, LPs, Music, Noah Schaffer, oral history, record stores, records, Roxbury, Skippy White, throwback, throwbacks

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

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