EQUITY THROUGH JUSTICE AND OPPORTUNITY

EQUITY THROUGH JUSTICE & OPPORTUNITY

BUILDING A NEW TOWN SQUARE

Many decades of racism and disinvestment have denied Boston’s people of color the opportunity to buy homes and start businesses. The stark results were published in the 2015 Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s report The Color of Wealth—now being updated by a partnership that includes the Boston Foundation—which found that the average net worth of the assets of a Black household in Boston was $8.

Embrace Boston is animating its goal of dismantling structural racism by building a memorial on Boston Common to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King, holding an annual Embrace Ideas Festival, and developing a permanent cultural gathering space in Roxbury. It will be a place to experience performances and exhibits by BIPOC artists—amplifying the next generation of culture creators—as well as a curated exhibit on Boston’s complicated and inspiring civil rights history— all while helping to build a city that fosters equity, justice and opportunity.

NUBIAN SQUARE CELEBRATES JUNETEENTH

NUBIAN SQUARE WAS THE SITE OF OUR CITY’S FIRST JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION SINCE IT BECAME A FEDERAL HOLIDAY IN 2022. IT WAS THE CULMINATION OF EMBRACE BOSTON’S WEEK-LONG EMBRACE IDEAS FESTIVAL, WHICH FOCUSED ON MUSIC, ART, CULTURE, IDEAS, JOY AND COMMUNITY. NOW EMBRACE BOSTON IS PLANNING A NEW TOWN HALL IN ROXBURY (PAGE 14).

Photos by OJ Slaughter