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Three The Farm Way: Urban Agriculture Increasingly Cultivates Community, Culture In Boston

In neighborhoods long affected by redlining and food scarcity, local farming initiatives are cultivating culturally relevant produce, restoring connection to the land, and building neighborhood power

Tucked into the maze of Mattapan and its concrete and blacktop urban infrastructure lies an unexpected block, brimming with plants and vegetation like green-oblong bitter melon, or the leafy, hearty callaloo. Among the power lines and tightly quartered…

A Great Day In Boston With The People’s A&R

Photographer and congregator Yazi Ferrufino transforms transience into a superpower for local artists

Yazi Ferrufino sensed that there was a creative soul around every corner in Boston. In 2024, they even started walking along Newbury and Boylston, asking passersby, Do you have a friend who makes music? A simple video of…

This Week In BINJ.News: Nov. 6, 2026

Introducing this weekly letter/The World Cup post-mortem only we’re doing

For some time, Linda Pinkow, the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism’s excellent development director, has been encouraging our editorial staff to start including a letter at the top of our BINJ.News Weekly Newsletter where we can let readers…

Editor’s Note: That Big Op-Ed I Promised BINJ Readers … Ran In Truthout

Learn why 60 publishers joined the independent publishers' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft and what's at stake for American journalism.

A few weeks ago, I promised BINJ.News readers that I would be writing a more in-depth article on why the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism joined 59 other independent news publishers to file a mass-action lawsuit against tech…

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