Martha’s Vineyard

In 2024, funding for startups with Black founders reached a multiyear low, with only 0.4% of all funding going to startups with a Black founder or co-founder. A new docuseries, partially set in Martha’s Vineyard, will follow four founders from historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) as they navigate an increasingly scarce funding landscape.

Live Like a Local Tours founder Collin Knight has been inspired and guided by his community throughout his career. His tours take people out of the typical tourist spots of downtown Boston and into the city’s Black and brown neighborhoods to expose them to food, business and people that make each neighborhood unique.

Richard Lewis Taylor is a longtime summer resident of Martha’s Vineyard. In 1979, he and his family purchased a cottage in Oak Bluffs, one of the island’s six towns, after several Roxbury families introduced the island to him, he said.

Authorities are on high alert after signs bearing the website of the white supremacist group Patriot Front were discovered outside two Black-owned businesses in Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard.

Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard, long a haven for prosperous Black vacationers, this summer hosted a larger number of public events designed to inform and motivate well-educated participants to collaborate in pushing back against the unfolding attack on civil rights.

Pablo Plaza spent three months walking through South and Central America hoping to end up in Utah, where he wants to find work in his field of welding and engineering to support family back home. Instead, he ended up on Martha’s Vineyard.

After news broke last week that a group of 50 Venezuelan migrants arrived unannounced via airplane to Martha’s Vineyard, immigration attorney Julio Henriquez knew he had to do something.