Boston Ujima Project

10/18/2026

🎉 We are excited to welcome the Nuba Cafe to the Ujima Good Business Alliance (UGBA).

Nuba is a gathering place where the community comes together to celebrate connection and the flavors of the African diaspora, inspired by the love and flavors of our umis and aunties. They are led by a team of Black muslim entrepreneurs, connected deeply to other BIPOC-owned food businesses in Boston, and fighting for spatial and food justice in our City. Expanding from Nubian Markets flagship location in Roxbury, Nuba by Nubian Markets holds strong to the core of Community Connection, Cultural Celebration, Food as Medicine, and Economic Justice.

🧡 Join us in welcoming Nuba Cafe to the UGBA!

The Boston Ujima Project Inc. is excited to welcome the Nuba Cafe to the Ujima Good Business Alliance (UGBA).Nuba is a gathering place where the community comes together to celebrate connection and the flavors of the African diaspora, inspired by the love and flavors of our umis and aunties.They are...

10/17/2026

🎉 We are excited to welcome the Black Owned Bos. to the Ujima Good Business Alliance (UGBA).

Black Owned Bos. is a mission-driven business creating pathways to sales, visibility, and opportunity for Black-owned businesses in Greater Boston and beyond. Founded in 2019, Black Owned Bos. has grown from a community resource into a recognized platform connecting Black-owned businesses with consumers, companies, institutions, and opportunities across the region.

💙 Join us in welcoming Black Owned Bos. to the UGBA!

The Boston Ujima Project Inc. is excited to welcome the Black Owned Bos. to the Ujima Good Business Alliance (UGBA).Black Owned Bos. is a mission-driven business creating pathways to sales, visibility, and opportunity for Black-owned businesses in Greater Boston and beyond. Founded in 2019, Black Ow...

10/16/2026

💭 What are some hard truths around money? Join us at next week for a talkback with Dr. Erika Brown and Dr. Jared Ball on what hard currencies are and how we live, interact and navigate the world today.

Referencing Dr. Jared Ball's The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power, and his two part Mythbusting march workshop series, Dr. Ball will revisit the myths we've picked up along the way, and why. Join us as we transition from holy currencies, and practices of bartering to hard currencies.

📆 Wednesday 10.21
📍 | 98A Green St, Jamaica Plain, MA
⏰ 6 - 7:15PM EST
🌏 Hybrid
📋 Register at ujimaboston.com/events

💡 Learn more at https://www.ujimaboston.com/post/in-us-we-trust

10/16/2026

🍎 Ujima's School for Uncommon Practice (S4UP) returns with a new season of hands-on workshops led by artists, educators, and makers from across our community. From mending and printmaking to natural dyes, comics, collage, and poetry, this year's workshops invite us to learn practical creative skills together while exploring how making can connect us to ourselves, one another, and the worlds we want to build

🗓️ First Wednesday of each month from 7:15–8:30 PM
🌟 All workshops are free and open to the public.
😊 No prior experience is necessary, and participants of all skill levels are welcome.

Our first classes begin in 2026! Join us for Mending & Repair as a Radical Practice, the first workshop of the season. Registration is now open!

💡Learn more and register:

Ujima’s School for Uncommon Practice (S4UP) returns with a new season of hands-on workshops led by artists, educators, and makers from across our community. From mending and printmaking to natural dyes, comics, collage, and poetry, this year’s workshops invite us to learn practical creative skil...

10/16/2026

🥘 Restaurants are often viewed as risky investments because of thin margins, but they are important to our communities. They are not only businesses, but gathering spaces, employers, and cultural anchors. - Biplaw Rai

Over the summer, Boston Ujima Project and Restaurant Fellow Biplaw Rai worked with small and independent food and beverage businesses to build the Ujima Restaurant Coalition. The coalition builds relationships, shares resources and knowledge, and advocates for policies that enable a prosperous, inclusive and sustainable industry.

The coalition has met twice to get to know each other and discuss common issues and challenges facing restaurant businesses. Together, members explored potential solutions, and ways to support one another.

Learn more: https://www.ujimaboston.com/post/introducing-ujima-s-restaurant-coalition

👨🏽‍🍳 Learn more about restaurant industry at Biplaw Mondays this month! In these sessions Rai will provide advice and insights into the realities of operating food businesses.

💡 Learn more at www.ujimaboston.com/post/biplaw-mondays

Restaurants are often viewed as risky investments because of thin margins, but they are important to our communities. They are not only businesses, but gathering spaces, employers, and cultural anchors. - Biplaw RaiOver the summer, Boston Ujima Project and Restaurant Fellow Biplaw Rai worked with sm...

10/15/2026

🗳️ We are pleased to share beginning October 27, Ujima members will have the opportunity to vote on Ujima Fund's next opportunities for investment: Boston While Black and Boston Neighborhood Community Land Trust (BNCLT).

🌟 Boston While Black (BWB) is a dynamic network of professionals, creatives, community and business leaders, and some of the city's largest employers—all united by a shared vision: where everyone can find connection, grow their network, explore what the city has to offer, and have fun doing it.

🌟 Boston Neighborhood Community Land Trust (BNCLT) works to combat displacement and racial injustice by creating permanently affordable, community-controlled housing in the Boston area, with a specific geographic focus on Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan

The Ujima Fund Management Team is proposing an equity investment of $300,000 in Boston While Black and a $150,000 follow-on investment in BNCLT.

🗳️ Voting Dates 10. 27. 2026 - 11. 17. 2026
📩 Voting members will receive detailed information about each proposed investment, along with instructions on how to cast their votes, via email. Stay tuned!

https://www.ujimaboston.com/post/voting-members-to-cast-ballot-for-boston-while-black-and-boston-neighborhood-community-land-trust

10/14/2026

🎙️ Mic check 1, 2...

Meet the production team behind the amazing relaunch of Yours, Mine!

🎙️ Roxbury, Massachusetts rapper and entrepreneur. HAAWWS makes Hip-Hop as true art that balances bravado with vulnerability. Outside of the studio HAAWWS has advised a number of organizations across New England, supporting the growth and development of cultural infrastructure for the next generation of creative entrepreneurs. HAAWWS is also one of the amazing 2025–26 Member Arts Committee members!

📩 Mark Hernandez Motaghy, our Publications Fellow, is an artist, researcher, and community organizer. Mark is the author and compiler of Rehearsing Solidarity, published by Thick Press, which archives how mutual aid groups fought back against state failings and experimented with social and digital infrastructures to meet community needs.

📸 Ledoux Ipanga is a photographer, videographer, IT professional, and founder of , who believes in capturing moments with purpose, care, and authenticity. In the summer of 2016, Ipanga picked up his first camera. What started as a passion for photography has grown into nearly 10 years of professional photography and videography experience and the founding of African Treasure, LLC, a creative media company dedicated to visual storytelling.

🌟 We're grateful to have HAAWWS, Mark, and Ledoux not only behind the scenes, but in the room, in the community, and in our work!

Stay tuned for more information. Listen and watch our previous episodes on our youtube channel!
📩 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJthnj8fOHn9tg9Lu5DsHVd11axdjgfAx&si=tlYUXP1UX-Y46iV2

10/14/2026

Join us tonight at next week for Truth and Wellness with Renée Boynton-Jarrett, MD, ScD

Join us in a discussion on wellness as a currency. Reflecting on what people are going through right now. The day to day attacks on people's physical wellness (environmental factors). Disaster relief that's often withheld (or misplaced), which are tax payer funded. Who actually ends up on the scene? The holistic healers.

📆 Tonight
📍Coop Social Club | 98A Green St, Jamaica Plain, MA
⏰ 6 - 7:15PM EST
🌏 Hybrid
📋 Register at ujimaboston.com/events

💡 Learn more at https://www.ujimaboston.com/post/in-us-we-trust

We’ve been taught to count our wealth in dollars while forgetting the currencies that first made us human. Perhaps democracy is not only lost through stolen votes, but through forgotten values. Join us for our fall Ujima Wednesday Workshop series, In Us We Trust, to remember and rediscover the har...

10/13/2026

🍎 What does it mean to understand wellness as a currency?

Located in Nubian Square, The Family Van is a trusted mobile clinic delivering free, compassionate care in Boston. Since 1992, The Family Van has improved healthcare access by partnering with underserved Boston communities, bringing free health screenings, education, and more to communities.

Learn more about The Family Van and the work they're doing across Boston at www.familyvan.org

🌟 And join us for Truth & Wellness with Renée Boynton-Jarrett, as we consider wellness as both a personal practice and a collective resource.

📆 Wednesday 10.14
📍Coop Social Club | 98A Green St, Jamaica Plain, MA
⏰ 6 - 7:15PM EST
🌏 Hybrid
📋 Register at ujimaboston.com/events

💡 Learn more at https://www.ujimaboston.com/post/in-us-we-trust

10/13/2026

Are you an aspiring or current restauranteur? Do you have dreams of starting a food truck, food business or just want feedback on your business plan?

Join us at Biplaw Mondays next week! In this sessions Biplaw Rai will provide advice and insights into the realities of operating food businesses. As Ujima's Restaurant Fellow, Rai brings a wealth of experience as both a restaurateur and community organizer.

💡 Learn more at www.ujimaboston.com/post/biplaw-mondays

🗓️ Monday October 19, 2026 (Please register by Thursday 5 PM EST.)
🕚 12 - 1 PM EST.
🌐 Virtual
📋 Register at www.ujimaboston.com/events

The Boston Ujima Project is excited to introduce Biplaw Mondays: Weekly Open Restaurant Office Hours. These sessions will take place virtually on Mondays from 12 - 1 PM.Biplaw Mondays is a weekly open office hours series offering current and aspiring food business owners the opportunity to meet dire...