“It’s one thing to see someone’s name, but to see their face, it’s a reminder that the people are people,” says Xerxes Butt, one of the artists behind the portable portraits…Continue Reading →
“Since the pandemic started in early to mid-March, we’ve been the first people that have been cancelled and had to refund tickets, people who lost their jobs first,” says Mark…Continue Reading →
The Fourth of July dawned in Boston’s Nubian Square with artists shutting down two blocks of Washington Street to paint a monumental mural in the roadway spelling out “Black Lives…Continue Reading →
Dozens of people participated in the “Independence Day March” against injustice, a July 4 protest at Gloucester’s waterfront, organized by a group of college and high school students called Demilitarize…Continue Reading →
“Where are the keys? Give us the keys!” protesters chanted outside the African American Master Artists In Residence Program studios building at 76 Atherton St. in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood…Continue Reading →
“A Night of Prayer for Racial Justice” gathered about 80 people outside Malden High School last night. Organizers said on Facebook that it would be “a night of prayer, worship,…Continue Reading →
In less than two weeks, more than 12,000 people have signed an online petition calling for the removal of “Freedmen’s Memorial Monument” or “Emancipation Group” in Boston’s Park Square. And…Continue Reading →
Boston’s Faneuil Hall is named for a slaver. This afternoon, Kevin Peterson, founder of the Boston-based New Democracy Coalition, launched a hunger fast at the landmark across from Boston City…Continue Reading →
A Black Lives Matter mural has been painted at Graffiti Alley in Cambridge. And last weekend a team of artists painted a “Unified” mural there as well. If this is…Continue Reading →
“This statue has to go,” Boston artist Tory Bullock said Thursday of “Freedmen’s Memorial Monument” in Boston’s Park Square. As racist monuments are coming down across the United States in…Continue Reading →