Brookline for Racial Justice and Equity

🎉We're thrilled to share that BRJE was awarded $15,000 by the Brookline Community Foundation through their 2026 Youth Development Grant! This funding will sustain our youth fellowship program and bring on a new cohort of fellows this coming year.

The BRJE fellowship gives high schoolers paid opportunities to do real civic engagement work. In just the past few months, our fellows sat on panels, led protest art workshops and film screenings for Brookline youth, met with elected officials and authors, and took on local policy research projects.

We're grateful for BCF's recognition, and so proud of everything this cohort has accomplished.

Learn more at brje.org/high-school-fellowship/

Brookline, early voting starts this Saturday! 🗳️

The deadline to register to vote is also Saturday, April 25, so if you haven’t checked your voter registration yet, now’s the time: brooklinema.gov/139/Voter-Registration

Can’t make it to the polls? You can request a vote-by-mail ballot through Tuesday, April 28 at 5pm.

Infographic art by Ryan Hernandez.

🎉 TONIGHT 🎉 Join us at the Brookline Booksmith at 7:00 PM for an author talk celebrating the paperback release of We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance with Kellie Carter Jackson.

Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‘s nonviolence and Malcolm X’s “by any means necessary.” In We Refuse, historian Kellie Carter Jackson urges us to move past this false choice, offering an examination of the breadth of Black responses to white oppression, particularly those pioneered by Black women.

🏆 Winner of the 2025 Darlene Clark Hines Award
This event is free and open to the community.

Capacity may be limited, so RSVP at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rescheduled-kellie-carter-jackson-we-refuse-tickets-1985075227442?aff=oddtdtcreator