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IN ATTUCKS COMMEMORATION, NATIVE AMERICANS NOTE INJUSTICE THEN AND NOW

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted March 11, 2020 Filed Under: Dear Reader

Crispus Attucks

“There’s a lot of money being thrown at the Harbor Islands now—they want to put hotels there and all kinds of things, but there were burials all over there, so that’s a battle we’re going to have.”

Filed Under: Dear Reader Tagged With: Boston, headlines, history, news, throwback, throwbacks

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

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

WHY REPARATIONS: AMERICA NEEDS TO PAY UP AND PAY FORWARD

Written by IRENE MONROE Posted August 30, 2019 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. 

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: 1619, America, Boston, history, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK, reparations, slavery, throwback, throwbacks

THE EERILY FAMILIAR TALE OF SHADRACH MINKINS AND THE CENTURIES-OLD FEDERAL THREAT TO THE COMMONWEALTH

Written by ZACK HUFFMAN Posted March 7, 2019 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.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Boston History, Fugitive Slave Act, Journalism, Shadrach Minkins, slavery, throwback, throwbacks

A LOT OF LIGHTBULBS TO CHANGE

Written by Posted January 2, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, DigThis, GTFO, LIFESTYLE

“Water is always going to be important to people ... As our landscapes change over time, our systems have to change to adapt.”

Filed Under: COLUMNS, DigThis, GTFO, LIFESTYLE Tagged With: Chestnut Hill, throwback, throwbacks, Waterworks Museum

DIRTY OLD BOSTON: HEROIN DAZE

Written by PETER ROBERGE Posted February 1, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston

An abridged trudge through Boston’s long, repetitive history of opiate abuse

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dirty Old Boston Tagged With: Boston, Dirty Old Boston, Heroin, history, opiates, throwbacks

THROWBACK: BRICKLAYER BILL AND THE ADVENTURES OF AN AMATEUR

Written by DIG STAFF Posted November 7, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Books, FEATURES, Non-fiction

A glimpse of the days when sports stars shone closer to earth

Filed Under: A+E, Books, FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: books, Boston, Boston Marathon, Bricklayer Bill, history, Jamaica Plain, Patrick Kennedy, running, throwback, throwbacks

REMEMBERING THE HUB’S ADORABLE AND EXPLOITED NEWSIES

Written by SEAN L MALONEY Posted November 29, 2016 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

Through the warts and beauty of it all (but mostly the warts), street photographer, sociologist, and activist Lewis Wickes Hine focused on the seedy underworld of child news distribution

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: Boston Daily Globe, Boston History, Lewis Wickes Hine, Library of Congress, National Child Labor Committee, NCLC, newsies, newspaper history, Photography, throwback, throwbacks

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