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Roxbury’s NuSquare Life Science Training Center has recently received $50 million to support training Franklin Cummings Tech students, most of them of color, and other college students and adult workers to enter the major growth industry locally.

As we approach the one-and-a-half year mark as the new stewards of the Bay State Banner, we are relocating the newspaper to the Nubian Square area to take over the historic Cruz Company offices at One John Eliot Square.

In Nubian Square, the site of the new campus of Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology has been cleared, with the foundation soon to be laid. Across Eustis Street lies the Blair parking lot, where an office building is to rise, providing lab and classroom space for the college’s biotechnology students.

$50 million in state funding for life sciences training in Nubian Square hangs in the balance of legislative negotiations on an economic development bill.

As we approach the end of formal sessions of the Massachusetts Legislature, state lawmakers have a chance to take a giant step toward addressing the wealth gap afflicting Black and brown communities in Boston.

Community Music Center of Boston, which provides youth music training to about 400 students and is one of the largest external providers of arts education to Boston Public Schools, announced April 4 that it plans to open a new space in Nubian Square on Washington Street, in the old home of the Nubian Gallery.

Stakeholders, supporters and neighbors gathered last Tuesday morning, enjoying refreshments and conversation on an empty lot of land that will soon be home to the new Franklin Cummings Tech campus.

Mmusi Maimane is no ordinary tourist trying to savor an authentic slice of a diverse community in Boston. He is a candidate running for president of South Africa and he got a sampling of the future of economic prosperity in one of the main commercial hubs in Boston’s Black community.

Today, we’re in Nubian Square. We’re standing on the corner of Malcolm X Boulevard and Washington Street, right in front of the “Faces of Dudley” mural on the side of Silver Slipper Cafe, a neighborhood staple.

If you’ve heard the strains of a classical violin or the soulful riffs of a saxophone wafting down the halls of the Roxbury Branch of the Boston Public Library in Nubian Square, you may have been enjoying the Roxbury Concert Series without even realizing it.

On a Tuesday afternoon in Nubian Square, Will Dunn walks his beat. The tall, bearded man in sweats and a T-shirt is greeted like a local mayor, waving at drivers who slow down to honk and say hello, wrapping friends in giant bear hugs and cracking jokes.