Ujima Boston

August 11, 2022 — Earlier this summer, we announced in our Investor Report that CommonWealth Kitchen (CWK) has joined the Ujima Good Business Alliance, joining seven other mission aligned enterprises in the group. CommonWealth Kitchen’s mission is to “transform the local food economy by strengthening capacity, creating connections, and unleashing…

Introduction From Marvel’s “Black Panther” to the critically acclaimed show “Lovecraft Country” and Beyonce’s world-stopping “Black is King” visual album, Afrofuturist stories are having a moment. N.K. Jemisin and Nnedi Okorafor continue to cultivate a growing audience for their speculative work, and emerging African science fiction writers are finally gaining…

On April 1, President Biden unveiled a $2 trillion investment in the nation’s infrastructure. The plan would support research, roads, bridges, public transit and trains, broadband internet, and water infrastructure, with the promise that no child would be forced to drink from lead pipes. “It is not a plan that…