- Cambridge
- Recurring daily
This tour provides an opportunity to visit and interact with the spaces that influential Black women in Cambridge inhabited during the 19th century. These historical figures include Harriet Jacobs, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Alberta V. Scott, Pauline Hopkins, Maria Baldwin, Mary…
- Cambridge
- Recurring daily
Biographies of 23 Trailblazers have been published as bookmarks and distributed to all Cambridge public school libraries and to all Cambridge Public Library branches. This project offers young readers free bookmarks featuring images on the front and biographies on the back. The…
- Boston Athenaeum
- Recurring daily
Inspired by the life and work of the Beacon Hill-based abolitionist Harriet Bell Hayden, Framing Freedom: The Harriet Hayden Albums brings together rarely seen works and examines Black abolitionists’ public identities, private lives, visual and material culture, and social…
- Harvard Art Museums
- Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Immerse yourself in a day in the life of a contemporary artist through a tour de force of monumental printmaking. LaToya M. Hobbs: It’s Time presents the series Carving Out Time , a life-size suite of woodcuts by Arkansas-born and Baltimore-based artist LaToya M. Hobbs. Unfolding…
- Museum of African American History
- Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Museum of African American History is committed to providing a safe environment and asks for your help in making this a great experience for everyone. To reduce touchpoints and enable timed visits, all ticketing will be done online. Members must also make reservations online…
- Recurring daily
Take a self-guided tour of Grove Hall and Nubian Square. Download the mobile app by visiting the Google Play or Apple app store · Download the 'Distrix' app · Make sure location is on · Select Roxbury Memory Trail · Have fun!
- Boston Common
- Recurring daily
Visit the Embrace monument near the Boston Common Visitor Center. The abstract bronze sculpture is based on a photo of an embrace between Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King, and celebrates their history in Boston. The Kings met and fell in love here in the 1950s…
- Hub Town Tours
- Recurring weekly on Saturday
Explore hidden history on Beacon Hill's Black Heritage Trail, learning stories from America's "Second Revolution" prior to the U.S. Civil War. Boston's role in the fight to end legalized slavery is linked by the Black Heritage Trail in historic Beacon Hill. This pedestrian path…
- Reggie Lewis Track Center, Roxbury
The Boston Comics in Color Festival is a family-friendly event for all ages focusing on creators of color and stories by and about people of color. This event will take place in person the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center on the campus of Roxbury Community College (RCC) and…
“Roots” explores the origins of inspiration, the anchors from where creativity is born. Castle of our Skins, Boston’s concert and education series dedicated to celebrating Black artistry through music, teams up with critically acclaimed pianist Kyle P. Walker to explore this…
Join us for the 25th anniversary of Welcome Home on Tuesday, May 7, 2024 at SoWa Power Station in Boston. Welcome Home is Boston’s most anticipated event in support of at-risk older adults. Welcome Home will feature Actor and Comedian, Anthony Anderson as Host, best known as the…
- Huntington Theatre
- Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Toni Stone is an ace ballplayer who knows her stats, plus she’s got a great arm. Rejected by the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League because of her race, she becomes the first woman to play professional baseball on a man’s team in the Negro Leagues, shattering…
Truth, passion, bravery and hope. Discover stories of Boston’s Black writers who were laser-focused on the great topic of the era - slavery. Learn about the mark Black thinkers and writers made on literary and political history: David Walker and his sentinel work, Appeal to the…
- Various Locations
- Recurring daily
Boston urban pride weekend celebrates being black and our queerness. During urban pride weekend we curate events and spaces that are for us while providing resources to our community that are not readily accessible. WE PARTY WITH A PURPOSE !!!!
