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Meditations on Love: A Live Jam Session

Join Boston Ujima Project and Black Cotton Club for Meditations on Love! This event is just one in our series We Be Knowin: A Boston Ujima Project Celebration of Everyday Democracy. PLEASE RSVP. This event will take place on Zoom. A recording will be made available on Youtube after the event. Register: https://meditations2021.eventbrite.com ✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦ Take off […]

We Be Knowin’: A Boston Ujima Project Celebration of Everyday Democracy

Register today: https://tinyurl.com/ujima2021 ——————————————————————– Sunday Feb 14 | Meditations on Love: Live Music with Black Cotton Club Monday Feb 15 | Open House with Ujima Project Staff and Members Tuesday Feb 16 | Neighborhood Needs Workshop Wednesday Feb 17 | Black Brewing Culture Thursday Feb 18 | Citywide Assembly Friday Feb 19 | Other Worlds with […]

Surface Atelier Studio {Black-owned Textile Design Studio}

I am reaching out to the community to vote for my daughter’s business plan to create a black-owned textile design studio. Your votes will increase her chances to win the $500 People’s Choice Award. She’s a senior at an art college and she’s a budding entrepreneur. She’s the only black student majoring in Fiber Arts. […]

Montessori Is for Everyone: Free Virtual Parenting Series

Raising children can be joyful and rewarding. However, responding to changing needs as they grow can be challenging. Add in a global pandemic and . . . time for some new strategies! Have you tried the Montessori approach? This March, Wellan Montessori School is hosting a free, virtual workshop series on ways to promote peace, […]

The Coronavirus Exposes America’s Public Health Crisis: Racism

The Covid-19 pandemic is the most devastating health issue of this century. It has disproportionately impacted African Americans and other marginalized populations, heightening awareness of racism as the root of America’s public health crisis. Dr. Christina M. Greer, Associate Professor of Political Science at Fordham University, moderates a discussion in three parts to examine the […]

Stone Social Impact Forum featuring Catherine Coleman Flowers

Acclaimed environmental activist, MacArthur “genius” grant recipient, and author Catherine Coleman Flowers, founding director of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, will headline the virtual Stone Social Impact Forum, a signature series highlighting civic change agents who advance social change and innovatively address areas of inequality in our society. Catherine Coleman Flowers will […]

Roxbury Unity Parade Annual Spring Fling and 2020 Award Ceremony

Due to Covid-19, the Roxbury Unity Parade 2020 was a caravan and our award ceremony was postponed. Each year the Roxbury Unity Parade celebrates those who uplift our community every day and 2020 was no exception. Join us for our annual Spring Fling Fundraiser and our award celebration for our community champions. You can support […]

Black Economic Justice Institute online community convening conversation

The Black Economic Justice Institute (BEJI) invites the Boston Community to participate in our online Convening Community Conversation, Redefining Community, Convening today to redefine tomorrow .  The purpose of the conversation is to create a space to decompress and debrief on the impacts of 2020 and plan and set goals for 2021. BEJI will also […]

Celebrity Series of Boston Presents: Women of the World: Global Voices United

Women of the World — four vocalists from around the globe who come together in friendship and music-making — return to the Series for a performance that celebrates the beauty in the diverse ways that people from cultures all over the world express themselves through song. Vocalists: Annette Philip Débo Ray Giorgia Renosto Ayumi Ueda

Celebrity Series of Boston Presents: An Evening of Musical Tales with Guy Mendilow

Boston-based Guy Mendilow — whose musical explorations range around the world, from the Ladino music of the Sephardic Jewish Diaspora, to China, South Africa, and beyond — presents an evening of videos that will include a virtual adaptation of “The Forgotten Kingdom” with sand animation, along with new videos and live recordings from his Ensemble.