nubian square

This year’s change in federal leadership has created new barriers to attempts to further environmental justice efforts across the country.

For Nashira Baril, her proposed project to redevelop four parcels in a residential area near Nubian Square would mean the next step toward the completion of a dream to bring a birth center into Boston, plus the creation of a permanent home for five other nonprofit organizations.

Hosted by the Roxbury Cultural District, “A Winter NubianLand” will feature live performances, food and refreshments from local vendors, arts and crafts from local merchants, a Children’s Art Room, and “Live Like a Local” tours of the district.

Local leaders in life sciences, climate technology, health care and workforce development advocated for close collaboration as organizations seek to close employment gaps in growing science and technology fields for Black and Brown communities in the city.

Roxbury’s NuSquare Life Science Training Center has recently received $50 million to support training Franklin Cummings Tech students, most of them of color, and other college students and adult workers to enter the major growth industry locally.

As we approach the one-and-a-half year mark as the new stewards of the Bay State Banner, we are relocating the newspaper to the Nubian Square area to take over the historic Cruz Company offices at One John Eliot Square.

In Nubian Square, the site of the new campus of Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology has been cleared, with the foundation soon to be laid. Across Eustis Street lies the Blair parking lot, where an office building is to rise, providing lab and classroom space for the college’s biotechnology students.

$50 million in state funding for life sciences training in Nubian Square hangs in the balance of legislative negotiations on an economic development bill.

As we approach the end of formal sessions of the Massachusetts Legislature, state lawmakers have a chance to take a giant step toward addressing the wealth gap afflicting Black and brown communities in Boston.

Community Music Center of Boston, which provides youth music training to about 400 students and is one of the largest external providers of arts education to Boston Public Schools, announced April 4 that it plans to open a new space in Nubian Square on Washington Street, in the old home of the Nubian Gallery.

Stakeholders, supporters and neighbors gathered last Tuesday morning, enjoying refreshments and conversation on an empty lot of land that will soon be home to the new Franklin Cummings Tech campus.