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”

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

“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

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.

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.

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."

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.