Black Perspectives Now:
Explore Black Perspectives Now for the stories, events, people and voices of black New England. Watch for new entries as our catalogue grows daily! Please visit our About page for information on our Contributors (Team) and to learn about becoming a contributor (FAQs).
Black Perspectives Now
The Food Problem (Eating Green - part 2 of 3)
Basic Black contributor Talia Whyte delves into the mission of the Boston Collaborative on Food and Fitness.
Boston: Election Day 2009
Contributor Talia Whyte with a thoughtful essay on covering election day in Boston, MA.
moreArt For The People
Bridgit Brown talks with sculptor Fern Cunningham.
moreRoxbury Discovered
Tours of Roxbury reveal its front-row seat to history, from the Revolutionary War to Malcolm X.
moreKeith Morris Washington on Lynching
Artist Keith Morris Washington talks about his series of paintings on lynchings.
moreDon West, Boston's Photographer
Don West has documented some of the most signigicant events and people in Boston's black community for over 25 years.
moreBlogging While Brown
Basic Black contributor Talia Whyte reports on the second annual Blogging While Brown conference held in Chicago last June.
moreHill Harper, Actor & Author
Equal Education was the topic when Basic Black contributor Talia Whyte spoke with actor and author Hill Harper at the recent town hall meeting celebrating the Lincoln Centennial.
moreReading Frederick Douglass
Basic Black contributor Bridgit Brown captured the importance of Frederick Douglass during a reading sponsored by Harvard's Charles Hamilton Houston Institute outside the Massachusetts state house.
moreRosalyn Elder, On Bookstores in the Age of the Internet
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Villages Without Walls
Basic Black contributor Alesha Gunn sat down with Talia Rivera, Executive Director of Villages Without Walls, for a very candid conversation about intervening in the lives of Boston's at-risk youth.
moreAfrican Liberation Day, 2009
Basic Black contributor Uchenna Ikonne took in the sights and sounds of African Liberation Day 2009, the first time the organizers have held the event in Boston since the conception of the celebration in 1963.
moreDenise Simmons, Mayor of Cambridge, MA
Before the controversial arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Basic Black contributor Talia Whyte sat down for a conversation with Mayor E. Denise Simmons about her thoughts on the gay rights movement. The former city council member is the first openly lesbian African American to serve as mayor of Cambridge. She recently married her long-time partner Mattie Hayes.
moreClose To Home
Basic Black contributor Sheena Quintyne sat down with Priscilla Rorie to talk about empowering young people to combat domestic violence.
moreKhalid Kodi - Artist
Khalid Kodi is an adjunct professor at Boston College. His art chronicles the people and culture of the Sudan; his work is on exhibit at the African American Master Artists-in-Residence Program at Northeastern University.
moreBarbara Lewis, Dir. of the William Monroe Trotter Institute on the 100th Anniversary of the NAACP
Barbara Lewis, the director of the William Monroe Trotter Institute at UMass Boston, talks about the 100th anniversary of the founding of the NAACP.
moreKeith Morris Washington on Iraq
In 2005, landscape painter Keith Morris Washington was inspired to paint flowers in a war zone as a metaphor for peace.
moreKaren B. McLean Dade
Author and educator Karen B. McLean Dade led a "call & response" during her book signing at Frugal's Bookstore in Roxbury (Massachusetts).
moreThe 11th Annual Roxbury Film Festival
Basic Black contributor Bridgit Brown attended the Roxbury Film festival, now in its 11th year.
moreA Conversation with Nelson George
An interview with author Nelson George.
moreRuggles Rising
In April of 2007, the Boston Redevelopment Authority approved a proposed plan to develop the space into a project that would house the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, a theater, a school, office space, shops, restaurants, a parking garage, and housing.
moreChez Vous
Basic Black contributor Alesha Gunn visits a neighborhood institution, the skating rink Chez Vous.
moreLou Jones: The Eye of the Photographer
Boston-based photographer Lou Jones has captured incredible images and historic events from all over the world.
moreBlack and Meatless - sort of... (Eating Green - part 3 of 3)
Basic Black contributor Talia Whyte breaks down the differences between carnivores, and everyone else. This is the final installment of the three-part series, Eating Green: Food and Environmental Justice in Boston.
moreThe Food Problem (Eating Green - part 2 of 3)
Basic Black contributor Talia Whyte delves into the mission of the Boston Collaborative on Food and Fitness.
moreFood Justice (Eating Green - part 1 of 3)
Eating Green: Food and Environmental Justice in Boston (part 1 of a 3-part series)
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