“The unmattering of Black lives starts in childhood,” Wee The People co-founder Francie Latour writes. “…When we intervene in a way that tells kids the truth, that taps into their…Continue Reading →
The murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police promoted thousands to gather in protest at Peters Park in Boston’s South End this evening. “The first police officer was arrested and…Continue Reading →
Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts has pledged $500,000 for diversity and inclusion initiatives in a deal with Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey responding to complaints from students at Boston’s Helen…Continue Reading →
Boston artist Steve Locke says he is abandoning his proposed “Auction Block Memorial” for Boston’s Faneuil Hall due to criticism from the Boston branch of the National Association for the…Continue Reading →
Hoping that “an investigation by an external party could provide greater objectivity and clarity,” Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts has hired former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger to look into…Continue Reading →
Updated with May 31, 2019, statements from MFA. Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts says it has banned two visitors for making racist comments to seventh graders from Boston’s Helen Y.…Continue Reading →
“No food, no drink, and no watermelon,” seventh graders from Boston’s Helen Y. Davis Leadership Academy reported that a staffer at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts told the more than…Continue Reading →
In August 1967, a group of 14 African American artists began painting a 60-foot-wide mural on the side of a run-down tavern at the corner of 43rd Street and Langley…Continue Reading →
Near the start of “Nine Moments for Now,” the riveting exhibition at the Cooper Gallery at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center in Cambridge through Jan. 21, is a hall of black…Continue Reading →
The cardboard pickup truck drives through the audience, blinding people with its headlights, in Tarish “Jeghetto” Pipkins’s puppet show “Just Another Lynching,” which will be performed at Brookline’s Puppet Showplace…Continue Reading →