Embrace Boston
06/04/2026
Last weekend marked 105 years since the Tulsa Race Massacre destroyed Greenwood’s “Black Wall Street” district and killed as many as 300 people. But the trauma to Tulsa’s Black community didn’t stop there.
Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols has committed to a $105 million reparations package for descendants of the massacre’s survivors, and this data from the National Bureau of Economic Research helps explain why. The destruction of the thriving Greenwood community has led to a century of systemic disinvestment and decreased home ownership among Black Tulsans. That includes Lessie Benningfield Randle, the last known survivor of the massacre, whose family lost homes both to the massacre and then later to Tulsa’s racist urban development policies.
These statistics and Randle’s story remind us that we can’t right the wrongs of our past without intentional action.
Between portraits and interviews, history lives in the people telling the story.
We had the chance to sit down and talk with our Harry Hom Dow honorees.
You’ll be able to learn more about their stories at the premier of Living Histories of Color: AANHPI Legacy Series exhibit this Thursday, June 21 at 5 PM at the 1965 Freedom Plaza in The Embrace.
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“Haiti is more than a country. It’s a symbolism.”
As Greater Boston’s Haitian community celebrates Haitian Heritage Month this weekend, Marie St. Fleur says Haiti's diaspora is celebrating more than a flag or a country of origin. It honors a history of Black liberation that has inspired nations across the world to fight for their freedoms.
This Jewish American Heritage Month, get to know Kivie Kaplan, the Jewish businessman from Boston and former NAACP President whose fierce advocacy for civil rights earned him a place in the 1965 Freedom Plaza.
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