Black Boston Highlights’ blog

..and not just the Red Sox.  Here's a picture from the Cambridge Carribean Festival which is held usually on the next day after the Boston Carnival

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Ever rode this one?

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I am so happy to I've got a neat way to listen to 20 classic Motown tracks.

add to my page at http://music.blacksoftware.com

The track list has Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, Michael Jackson, Gladys Knight and the Pips and Marvin Gaye.

But, I do want to hear from you if you think your music should be featured on my Black Boston Music Development site.

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He  won a $250,000 Gorder Bell prize for inventing parallel processing computers. So, here's a note for this genius which we received just as 2007 came to a close. He offers a message which begins by saying

.."the people of Africa must take note that the Internet is our [download full story]
MODERN-DAY COMPASS, and within it resides our own clay of wisdom. As we prepare for our great journey into the cyberspace of the future, with its technological promise — its clay of wisdom — we must understand the strategic value and potential of this all-important tool. Our image of the future inspires the present and the present serves to create the future... "

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On your left is a photo of Dr. Philip Emeawali, "one of the great minds of the Information Age and the Bill Gates of Africa." This is not my byline..it was stated by Microsoft's Bill Gates and the former US President Bill Clinton.

Over the years, I have enjoyed exchanges with Dr. Emeagwali and I wanted to take this opportunity to thank him publicly for sharing of views, counterpoints and opinions. Indeed, he is a great communication!

- William

When did we get to Boston?
the african american migration

Today, 400,000 African Americans visit Massachusetts and the Boston area each year.

Before now -- Unwilling West Indian blacks migrated to Boston in 1638 aboard the ship "Desire." Later, 200 "colored people" were counted in 1676. By the year 1720, two thousand black "colored" Boston area residents were counted by authorities. (Source: Black Bostonians, author James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, published by Holmes and Meir (ISBN 0-8419-1379-X) in 1979.1999.)

Today there are 138,000 African Americans residents of Boston in 2007

Today, the state of Massachusetts governor is an African American GOVERNOR  who was born in  Chicago, IL. He came to Massachusetts to attend Milton Academy and was later hired by the Clinton Administration, after graduating from Harvard.  His name is Deval Patrick and he lives in Milton, Massachusetts.

One picture I posted shows the view -- looking away from Milton, Ma., down Blue Hill Avenue, to downtown Boston, as commuters go there everyday to work and play.

So, African-Americans have been in Boston for over 400 years! 

5.4% of 6 Million residents of  Massachusetts represents a black African-American, Afro-American, African ancestral population of about 300,000 state wide, whereas most live throughout the Greater Boston area.