Massachusetts
Boston’s black medical community thrived in the mid-19th century
Boston’s remarkable black medical community dates back to before the Civil War. During the 1850s, two black doctors of note resided in the city. The first, Dr. John V. DeGrasse, earned his medical degree with honors from Bowdoin College in 1849. In 1854, he became the first African American to be admitted to the Massachusetts [...]
Pastor embraces hip-hop to reach Mass. youth
Would Jesus invite Tupac Shakur and Queen Latifah into his house to save “those who hunger and thirst for right-eousness?” As a pastor and professor, Emmett G. Price III already has. The Framingham resident who is chairman of the African-American Studies Department at Northeastern University and serves as founding pastor of the just-opened Community of [...]
Mass. anti-slavery hub to reopen after restoration
Step into the sanctuary of the African Meeting House and you will walk on the same ancient floorboards where Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison and other prominent abolitionists railed against slavery in the 19th century, and where free black men gathered to shape the famed 54th Massachusetts Civil War regiment. Following a painstaking, $9 million [...]
Political activism is part of black Boston’s DNA
Bay State Banner – The idea of public service is nothing new among Boston African Americans. In 1867, Edwin Walker and Charles Mitchell were elected to the state legislature and became the first black state legislators in the United States. From then until 1902, 13 different black men served at various times in the general [...]
Nightclub settlement in Harvard black alum case goes to scholarships Read more: Nightclub settlement in Harvard black alum case goes to scholarships
Boston Business Journal – Applying a settlement obtained from a Theater District nightclub that allegedly discriminated against African Americans, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office donated $28,500 in grants Tuesday to four organizations that help black students obtain higher education. The money came from the February settlement in the case against the Cure Lounge nightclub in [...]
