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July 18, 2010 update
The Roxbury International Film Festival comes up July 29 thru August 2nd and ticket prices are very reasonable. Two black newspaper sources cover Boston well.
The Boston Banner newspaper covers African American community news and is published once a week for 35,000 subscribers. Its read by over 100,000 due to free street box distro and pass-along friends. Also known as the Bay State Banner, their diverse reporting style and smart editorial writing is complimented by long lists of community events. Free posting of your event will be approved when yours cost less than $10 at the bostonbanner.com web site.
BASIC BLACK is a television program produced at WBGH PBS studios each week. Its on WGBH Channel 2 at 7:30 p.m. Thursday nights while episodes stream online every day at basicblack.org.
On our desktop screen-sized web site aboutBlackBoston.com we punch out to Black Boston TV Personalities and Show broadcasts in Boston, while streaming videos via smallwall.net, our #1 GOOGLE listed playback site in Boston for search string "boston indie video."
The desktop screen sized web site at BlackPagesOnline.com, the Black Pages of New England offers an online search directory of black churches and black businesses.
With a laptop or desktop computer watch Boston LatinoTV at BostonLatinoTV.com and read Color Magazine at colormagazineusa.com for more information about diverse people, culture and industry in Greater Boston. Janine Fontaine publishes a wonderful resource named UNITY FIRST NEWS from Springfield, MA.
In 2003 a tourism survey reported there were 400,000 African Americans visiting Massachusetts that year. Boston has an estimated 125,000 African American residents when counted by CENSUS 2000.
NEIGHBORHOODS: The City of Boston is a commonwealth of neighorhood names. Some are Dorchester, Mattapan and Roxbury with perhaps more African American and Latino residents than any other area, except East Boston which has a large Costa Rican and Italian populaton.
The birthplace of Malcom X is in Roxbury. In 2008, the Boston Muslim Society opened its mosque on land provided at low cost by the Boston Redevelopment Authority. The mosque stands beside Roxbury Community College on Columbus avenue, bordering the South End and Mission Hill neighborhoods.
Roxbury is inside the "EMPOWERMENT ZONE" which is a 5.8 square mile city area of black and racially diverse neighborhoods totalling 57,640 people.
When last counted there were: Asian 3,200; White 13,050; Black 28,335 and Hispanic 13,652. Other races in the EZ include Alaskan Natives,American Indians,Native Hawaiians,Pacific Islanders and households with two or more races.
Unity First is a black owned bank founded in Boston. In addition to a branch office in Roxbury's Grove Hall, and a main Boston branch in Dudley Square, Unity First Bank has locations in Los Angeles, Miami and other cities in the United States. more»