Boston Ujima Project

06/17/2026

☕️ Join us for Ujima Penny University, cohosted with the Coalition, Policy, and Grassroots Organizing member team in the tradition of conversation over coffee!

Penny University first launched at our May 28 Ujima Café, at Nubian Markets. Designed to be a space where people come together to build our collective understanding of political, social, and community issues through respectful discussion in a caring environment.

Join us at our next Ujima Cafe: Penny University where we will continue these discussions and discuss tangible and achievable goals for us as a community.

⭐️ See you at the cafe ⭐️

🗓️ Thursday June 25, 2026
🕚 5 - 7 PM EST.
📍 Fresh Food Generation | 185 Talbot Ave, Dorchester, MA 02124
📋 Register at https://bit.ly/3tAmyPP

💡 Learn more at https://bit.ly/4vcZill

06/14/2026

🥳 Ujima is excited to re-introduce Joshua Croom as our 2026 Fund Management Fellow!

Joshua Croom has a background in city, state, and non-profit (CDFI) sectors, with a strong track record in community planning, stakeholder engagement, and comprehensive research and analysis. His expertise spans feasibility assessments, workforce development, and more.

Originally hailing from North Carolina, Joshua has made Greater Boston one of his homes for several years. He is a dedicated advocate for inclusion, aging in place, housing, and community ownership. Joshua holds a Master of Arts in City and Regional Planning from the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning at Rutgers University.

Josh became a fellow in 2023, since then contributing to our UGBA and fund team at events, and programs like Homeschooling, UGBA gatherings, and much more!

💫 Join us in congratulating Josh!

06/13/2026

☀️ We hope to work with you this season!

The Boston Ujima Project is looking for volunteers to support our events and those of our community partners. Join us in making a positive impact this season at these events:

➡ 6.18 Juneteenth Community Fair
➡ 6.19 Juneteenth We Create The World Celebration

💙 Sign up at https://bit.ly/3SpgGky

06/12/2026

🚨 WE CREATE THE WORLD IS BACKKKKKKK 🚨

This year, the Boston Ujima Project, ICA/Boston, Museum of African American History | Boston & Nantucket, and
City of Boston | Equity and Inclusion Cabinet have partnered to bring you We Create the World: A Juneteenth Celebration, a day packed with excitement, including films, music, and activities that highlight the Black experience.

Outdoor programming is free to all and appropriate for all ages; tickets not required. Free tickets are required for museum admission.

🔗 juneteenth.ujimaboston.com
📆 Friday, June 19
⏰ ICA Boston - 12-9PM | MAAH 10-5PM
🌍 Free & open to the public.

LOCATIONS:
📍 MAAH | 10–4PM | 46 Joy Street
📍 ICA/Boston | 10–9PM | 25 Harbor Shore Dr

MUSIC
KIEH
Nay Speaks
ToriTori
Blessing Nwogu

FILMS
Ja’tovia Gary ❤️‍🔥JA’TAAAAVIA❤️‍🔥 Ja’Tovia Gary
Ryan DeForeest Ryan DeForeest
Bex bexnoell
Namir Fearce Namir Fearce
Thuthuka Sibisi Thuthuka Sibisi
Evan Goodchild Evan Goodchild

VENDORS
CLOTHESBYTOMO
The Dark Healer
Emerald City fashionhouse
Midas B.K.S 🦅

Taina Vargas blessings
The Jewelry Bar | Permanent Jewelry MA

ZINE FAIR
AJ’s Print & Photo Studio
Bithiah
CHNL.
Claudio Eshun (aka Don Claude)
Design Studio for Social Intervention
Gabriel
GUERRILLA MAGAZINE ⭐️


SEE. LOVE
Sojourners for Justice Press

FOOD
Clarke's Cakes & Cookies
Gebeta 🇪🇹🇨🇦 (Gebeta.catering)



Our programs across both sites features:
- Local Black artisan vendors
- Art Workshops
- Free admission to exhibitions on view, including Derrick Adams: Viewmaster and Say it Loud: AAMARP, 1977 to Now
- Free tours of the Underground Rail Road trail

06/12/2026

🥳 Join us in welcoming Z Shekoni to the Ujima team as our new Operations Associate!

Z Shekoni's work lives at the intersection of operations, infrastructure, and people. With experience in youth development, staffing, and the logistics that keep organizations running, she enjoys building systems that support communities and teams in doing their best work.

At Boston Ujima Project, Z is excited to support and strengthen the work already happening across the Ujima ecosystem, helping ensure the people, spaces, and systems behind the work are cared for and able to thrive. In her free time, Z can usually be found solving puzzles, spending time outside, or searching for a good sweet treat.

🧡 Welcoming Z to the Ujima team 💙

06/11/2026

🌟 Join us this month at Fields Corner Business Lab for Ujima Wednesdays!

Last night we kicked off June's theme, Framing the Future: Mutual Aid & Institution-Building, with an intimate talkback conversation featuring Donna Bivens and Teddy White.

Together, we reflected on the long history of mutual aid and how those traditions continue to shape how we care for one another today. Through stories of shame, grief, and joy, participants shared moments when community showed up, and support helped them.

Thank you to Donna and Teddy for guiding the conversation, to our members for sharing so openly, to Fields Corner Business Lab for hosting us, and to Fresh Food Generation for the delicious food.

Join us throughout June as we continue exploring community based tools like mutual credit, rotating savings circles, and shared resource networks, while imagining what it takes to build the futures our communities deserve.

📆 Wednesday at 6PM EST
📍Fields Corner Business Lab | 1452 Dorchester Ave 4th fl, Dorchester, MA 02122, USA
🌏 Hybrid
📋 Register at https://bit.ly/3tAmyPP

06/04/2026

☀️ We invite people from different faith traditions (or any spirituality!) who are motivated by social justice to deepen our vision of economic justice, and learn about each others social justice work. Join us to build new and deepen existing individual/ communal relationships as a means of building power and connection.

Organized by the Anchor Institutions Organizing Member Team, the Interfaith Network has three principal aims:

- Promote collective work and responsibility (Ujima) for the common good.
- Expand Boston Ujima Project's own network of support.
- Advance an economy that supports Black-owned businesses in Boston and that is rooted in values of solidarity.

Gather with us next week for a rich dialogue, catered in-house by Nubian Markets!

💡 Learn more at

We invite people from different faith traditions (or any spirituality!) who are motivated by social justice to deepen our vision of economic justice, and learn about each other's social justice work. Join us on June 11, from 6 to 7:30 pm, to gather at Nubian Markets to build new and deepen existing....

06/03/2026

🌎 Last month, Ujima had the opportunity to table at Wake Up the Earth in Jamaica Plain!

The first Wake Up the Earth took place in 1979. It was a celebration of the land and community that fought for the South-West Corridor to not turn into a highway, but be used for community. The festival continues to bring together neighbors, community members, grassroots organizations, cultural workers and many more to remind us that another Boston can always be made possible!

We are so grateful to continue to table and see our members, supporters, and those curious about the work we do! And special thanks to the volunteers that held it down!

06/02/2026

Boston Neighborhood Network (BNN) is Boston's community media center, operating a full-service website, two cable television channels, three video production facilities, a mobile production van and a multimedia center. Recently Ujima and BNN co-hosted Making My First Demo, led by Dominic "Diggity Dom" Glaude, a hands-on workshop series where musicians learn the basics of recording and producing their first demo.

Boston Neighborhood Network is a nationally recognized, award-winning community media center and 501(c)(3) nonprofit that acts as a forum for all Boston residents, nonprofit and community-based organizations, governmental and educational institutions, providing them with affordable media training, access to emerging media technologies and distribution. BNN is a landmark institution built by and for the community. Their members, partners, supporters, guests, and our channels' programming represent the diversity of our city.

06/01/2026

👨🏽‍🍳 Join Ujima Project for Biplaw Mondays, our virtual open restaurant office hours!

Biplaw Mondays is a weekly open office hours series offering current and aspiring food business owners the opportunity to meet directly with Ujima's Restaurant Fellow Biplaw Rai.

In these sessions Biplaw will provide advice and insight into the realities of operating food businesses. Come with your questions and curiosities about anything from navigating startup challenges, logistics and staffing to community engagement, branding, and growth.

In order for Biplaw to craft thoughtful responses, please register in advance. Bring your curiosity and questions to this drop in space!

🗓️ Monday, June 8, 2026 | Register by Thursday June 4th at 5PM EST.
🕚 12 - 1 PM EST.
🌐 Virtual
📋 Register at https://bit.ly/3OasHK1

Facilitator Bio:
Biplaw Rai is Co-Founder of UGBA Business, and James Beard-nominated Comfort Kitchen, and newly opened Ama at the Atlas Restaurant. A Nepali-born culinary entrepreneur, restaurant owner, and CEO, Rai is dedicated to building community through food. With a deep passion for culture and connection, he creates intentional, collaborative spaces that bring people together.

💡Learn more at https://bit.ly/4fhjjlE

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...