
The 1619 Project's creator will give a lecture at the MassArt Art Mueusem
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Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS
The 1619 Project's creator will give a lecture at the MassArt Art Mueusem
Written by IRENE MONROE Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS
Juneteenth can no longer stand in the shadows of America’s celebration of independence
Written by CLAIRE SADAR Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS
“We can never celebrate without remembering the story of the struggle.”
Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS
The Royall House and Slave Quarters in Medford will host a talk on "white lies and Black lives."
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS
"Americans today live in a very real universe where the functional equivalent of Nazis—European colonists—committed genocide against Native American peoples..."
Written by CARINA IMBORNONE Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS
"BU is not designed for us, and this BU does not belong to us just as our bodies and our minds do not and have not belonged to us since our rights as human beings were stripped away in the wake of slavery."
The slave quarters standing at 15 George Street is the only freestanding slave quarters north of the Mason-Dixon Line still existing in the United States.
Written by IRENE MONROE Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed
Uncle Will’s grandmother, my spouse’s great-grandmother, was born into slavery and died as a free woman at the age of 108. Sometime during Reconstruction (1863-1877), the great-grandmother accrued a small plot of farmland that now awaits its fate, as her brood scrape together enough money to keep it.
Written by ZACK HUFFMAN Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston
The guards prepared to fight any slave hunters who entered Boston, and specifically patrolled the streets of the West End and the northern slope of Beacon Hill, which at the time was home to the majority of the city’s black population.
Written by TAK TOYOSHIMA Filed Under: Comics