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Community Conversation: Equity in Education

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Feb 17
1 min

Community Conversation: Equity in Education

Featuring Joseph D. Feaster, Jr. Esq., discussing the history of the NAACP and Urban League in Boston.

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Jan 27
1 min

Support Frugal Bookstore!

Watch our latest community commercial to learn more about local favorite Frugal Bookstore and make them the source of your next literary ...

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Community Conversation: What's Happening to Roxbury? A Conversation on Gentrification & Displacement

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Jan 27
1 min

Community Conversation: What's Happening to Roxbury? A Conversation on Gentrification & Displacement

Featuring Marisa Luse, Rodney Singleton, Tomiqua Williams, Rita Nethersole, Nina LaNegra, Arnesse Brown

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Community Conversation: Toy Burton of DeeDee's Cry

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Dec 24, 2020
1 min

Community Conversation: Toy Burton of DeeDee's Cry

UUUM staff Monique Marshall-Veale and Mary Margaret Earl sit down with speakers from DeeDee's Cry (learn more about their incredible work...

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Dec 21, 2020
1 min

Support Haley House Bakery Cafe

Each month, with our Community Conversations, we feature Nubian Square businesses. Join us!

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Dec 20, 2020
1 min

Support Suya Joint

Each month, during our Community Conversation, we highlight a different Nubian Square business. Join us in supporting these neighborhood ...

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Dec 19, 2020
1 min

Support Soleil Cafe

Each month, during our Community Conversation, we highlight a Nubian Square business. Join us in supporting these neighborhood staples!

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Noël: An Evening with Guitarist John Muratore

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Dec 17, 2020
1 min

Noël: An Evening with Guitarist John Muratore

This year, we were so honored to bring a favorite holiday tradition to living rooms across Greater Boston. Last Saturday, guitarist John ...

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Dec 15, 2020
1 min

2020 Artist Directory

We launched the first edition of our Roxbury Artist Amplification Project's Artist Directory. The directory features 17 Roxbury-based art...

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Imari K. Paris Jeffries on Closing the Racial Wealth Gap

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Nov 25, 2020
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Imari K. Paris Jeffries on Closing the Racial Wealth Gap

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Hon. Byron Rushing and the History of the Meetinghouse

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Oct 22, 2020
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Hon. Byron Rushing and the History of the Meetinghouse

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Oct 20, 2020
1 min

A Musical Interlude with Ashe Gordon

While we are apart, we are bringing you a new music concert series, filmed this summer in the First Church Roxbury Meetinghouse. The firs...

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UUUM

Sep 22, 2020
1 min

Roxbury Youth Programs Youth Voices

In a recent staff meeting, we were asked to reflect on what we love about the changing season -- and what we welcome about fall. So many ...

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Black Lives Still Matter: A Message from our Executive Director and Senior Minister

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Sep 15, 2020
1 min

Black Lives Still Matter: A Message from our Executive Director and Senior Minister

This week, a Boston Globe article highlighted a Pew Research Center survey showing that support among white adults for Black Lives Matter...

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Making Good and Necessary Trouble (RJ Actions, Pt. 2)

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Jul 8, 2020
2 min

Making Good and Necessary Trouble (RJ Actions, Pt. 2)

If you'd like to join the conversation about the removal or preservation of statues and monuments in Boston... One perspective from the B...

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Jun 21, 2020
3 min

We Speak Now

We Speak Now As the United States and Greater Boston confront the painful consequence of systemic racism, ignited by the deaths of innoce...

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Apr 7, 2020
1 min

A Message from Believe in Success

Believe in Success Director Jaquelina Dabo takes us inside our workforce development program in the time of COVID-19. Thanks to you, we h...

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The First Church Clock: A Message of Hope from our Executive Director and Senior Minister

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Mar 31, 2020
1 min

The First Church Clock: A Message of Hope from our Executive Director and Senior Minister

In the early days of the advice to self-isolate, the clock in the First Church in Roxbury steeple stopped chiming. As streets all around ...

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UUUM

Mar 30, 2020
2 min

A Racial Justice Reading List

From our work with folks who have experienced personal and community trauma, we know how important it is for all of us to ground ourselve...

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