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Celebrating 60 years of impact.
Join us for a powerful conversation as The Bay State Banner continues its 60th Anniversary “State of Black America Forums” — in partnership with GBH Amplifies.
Black-Owned Businesses: Building Wealth & Strengthening Economies
A timely discussion on capital, ownership, and the future of Black entrepreneurship.
📍 Hynes Convention Center
📅 Thursday, May 14
⏰ 2:30–5PM
Panel. Q&A. Networking reception.
Plus: join the live studio taping earlier that day at the Boston Public Library.
Featuring leaders shaping the conversation: John Barros, Nicole Obi, Collette Phillips, Marvin Gilmore + more.
This is about access. Ownership. Economic power.
Be in the room.

In a season full of programs celebrating America’s 250th anniversary, the voices of the Boston Children’s Choir ring particularly strong. This weekend, the choir will perform a free community concert with the Boston City Singers and the Handel and Haydn Society Youth Choruses Chamber Choir celebrating Black literary luminaries in American history.

Each choir will present a different musical setting of Langston Hughes’ poem “I Dream A World,” composed by Rollo Dilworth, Mike Block, Andre Thomas, Dan Welcher and others.

✍️Celina Colby

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