How a Roxbury poet-turned-rapper is making a career off of hyper-reflective truth and optimistic perseverance.
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THE THIRSTY GAINS: WITH LATEST MOVE, PRESSLEY MAY FINALLY DENT LIQUOR LICENSE DISPARITY
The vast majority of those 153 licenses will be restricted to seven historically underserved Boston neighborhoods: Roxbury, Mattapan, Dorchester, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Mission Hill and East Boston.
OUT OF COMMISSION: FOR RECREATIONAL CANNABIS IN MASS, IT ALL COMES DOWN TO THIS
"We don’t want the people who were locked up in the first place to be locked out of opportunities in this space."
A PARTIALLY ILLUMINATED RAINBOW AT PRAXIS STAGE
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FAIR AND VALIANT: VOLS DELIVERED $200 MILLION OF AFFORDABLE FOOD OVER 30 YEARS
A lot of folks I spoke with came across the group at random and have returned to help out regularly. Like Habibo, who was just walking by the First Church of Roxbury on a Saturday when she saw people sorting vegetables.
DUDLEY ROOTS: KAI GRANT OF BLACK MARKET IN ROXBURY ON CREATING, SHOPPING, AND SELLING WITH A PURPOSE
"We are trying to eradicate that wealth gap, Boston is number one in wealth inequality in the country. But our second mission is to really lend our platform for arts and culture. There’s a lot of innovation going on here, in particular with black artists who don’t have a lot of platforms to make and create and also showcase and sell."
FLEA SCENE: A NEAR-DEFINITIVE LIST OF HOLIDAY MARKETS
Boston has a great flea market set and, next to the summertime, December is when it especially thrives in the name of holiday shopping and treat yo’ self fever.
THROWBACK: REVISITING ROCK AGAINST RACISM
Mass Hip-Hop Archive breaks critical positive gem out the vault
THE MOST FLATTERING ENDORSEMENT OF ALL
As is emphasized in Dig pieces this week about topics ranging from cannabis, to housing and homelessness, to race, it’s clear that there are stark important differences between Jackson and Walsh.
FRONT AND CENTER: RACE PLAYS INTO THE BOSTON MAYORAL ELECTION IN MORE WAYS THAN YOU REALIZE
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.