Brandon Hill

A new creative hub for Boston youth has opened its doors in the Fenway. ARCK Boston, the Art Resource Collaborative for Kids, has moved into a space at 109 Brookline Avenue designed to give young people hands-on opportunities to explore art,…

As his sister describes their grandmother’s “Pinton Burger,” you can see Asha Imuno’s eyes flood with memory. It’s a similar sparkle behind his sister’s smile as Imuno reminisces on car rides home from church that gradually shift from gospel to…

Read this story at the Boston Guardian as a PDF. Two Beacon Hill museums expect to lose federal grants that, combined, total over $400,000, due to the impact of an executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” The executive…

Sean "Diddy" Combs' high-profile federal criminal case began with opening statements on Monday. R&B singer and child rapist Robert Kelly’s downfall didn’t come from his late ‘90s and early ‘00s civil lawsuits for child sexual abuse that he settled…

Podcast Episode · Diggin' In The Digits · 11/05/2024 · 1h 18m

Read this story at the Boston Guardian as a PDF. Every day in Boston, more than 100,000 vehicles drive under the Bowker Overpass, which stretches across the Interstate 90 turnpike and Commonwealth Avenue from Fenway to Storrow Drive. A Department of…

Read this story at the Boston Guardian as a PDF. On an August 25 Sunday afternoon, the discarded bright orange safety caps of hypodermic needles littered a tucked away corner between the Frances Appleton and Longfellow Bridges. There are no needles…

Read this story at the Boston Guardian as a PDF. A new interactive sculpture coming to The Rose Kennedy Greenway in August will echo the absence of Zipporah Potter Atkins’ late 17 th century home, the first to be owned by a Black woman in Boston.…

No Label Academy is a music business program at Harvard University led by DMV rapper IDK. For this year's iteration, we spent a week in the program, which featured appearances from Saba, Ab-Soul, Benny the Butcher, and more. Zion Utsey sat poised at…

Chicago emcee Mick Jenkins has renewed vigor on his latest album, 'The Patience'; it signifies a long-coming new phase of the artist’s career. Though he’s a spiritually in tune emcee, Mick Jenkins’ patience didn’t come from piety. There was no humble…

Boston was once a refugee for Black musicians fleeing or protesting New York’s racist cabaret card laws. From the early ‘40s to the late ‘60s, if liquor was served alongside danceable grooves in integrated rooms, the New York police would have their…

The tale of man versus machine is older than the first minimum wage law. A century before American folk hero John Henry beat the first steam drill in a contest to tunnel through a mountain and collapsed on the spot, tales circulated of an English…

When the earliest humans searched for answers about the less-than physical world evidenced by their dreams, they turned to hallucinogens and music. Psychedelics are so closely linked to dreaming that the simplest scientific terms for explaining the…

The game has long been enjoyed in school classrooms, church basements, and charity drives, but this new version offers entirely different experiences.

As college students prepare to graduate into an uncertain future, we wanted to know: What are they worrying about? And what makes them optimistic?

The industry is changing, and change means new opportunities. To find out how those opportunities and pitfalls might play out in the new year, we gathered some expert predictions for the music industry in 2023. The consumer is changing. Despite the…

Terrorism related to online misogyny is on the rise in recent years. Radicalization begins young, targeting adolescent boys when and where they’re most vulnerable. TRIGGER WARNING: SEXUAL VIOLENCE, SUICIDE, MASS KILLING, ANTISEMITISM THE PARENTS &…

Meet Otis Mensah, the Sheffield Poet Laurette and abstract emcee whose music and insight helped me see the ways that music helps us to process shared crisis. Plague did not descend on the back of a white horse, announcing the end times with arrows of…

Meechy Darko believes in the law of attraction. On his debut solo album, Gothic Luxury, he summons Basquiats and brimstone with a gravelly rasp that’s become synonymous with psychedelic hip-hop. As one-third of Flatbush Zombies, he’s spent the better…

With Ireland passing the first federal guaranteed income program for artists, could the U.S. potentially do the same? As the decay of a global pandemic closed in around us, paint brushes dashed, keyboards clacked, and microphones captured the living…