Boston Ujima Project

🌟 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

☀️ 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!

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Gotta Have Faith 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....

🌎 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!

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.

👨🏽‍🍳 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

Introducing Biplaw Mondays: Weekly Open Restaurant Office Hours 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...

🚨 One more day to apply: School for Uncommon Practice

🎨 The School for Uncommon Practice is a member-focused art space, facilitated by Ujima community members to extend their artistic skills and practices back into our communities.

Were looking for facilitators who are excited about engaging participants in hands-on artistic practices that offer collective learning opportunities that are free and accessible to our BIPOC and working class communities.

We are looking for facilitators who are:
✅ Organized and available to lead up to 2 consecutive sessions
✅ Interested in teaching hands on artmaking practices
✅ Excited about creating a space for deep engagement and collective study

🗓️ Deadline to apply: Monday, June 1st, 2026
➡️ Learn more at https://bit.ly/48Qs3LF

Recently, Ujima Press headed down to New York City to table at the 3rd annual Black Zine Fair!
Many thanks to Soujourners for Justice Press and the Black Zine Fair for hosting us!

📝 The Ujima Press WIRE is currently accepting pitches for written pieces, under a new vertical: Best of Mandela. The WIRE is a Boston-based, monthly, digital publication that runs on our newsletter and website. We welcome reported profiles, features, interviews, essays, and poetry.

➡️ Learn more at https://bit.ly/4a07wVn

📣 Final Days to Apply: School for Uncommon Practice

🎨 The School for Uncommon Practice is a member-focused art space, facilitated by Ujima community members to extend their artistic skills and practices back into our communities.

Were looking for facilitators who are excited about engaging participants in hands-on artistic practices that offer collective learning opportunities that are free and accessible to our BIPOC and working class communities.

We are looking for facilitators who are:
✅ Organized and available to lead up to 2 consecutive sessions
✅ Interested in teaching hands on artmaking practices
✅ Excited about creating a space for deep engagement and collective study

🗓️ Deadline to apply: Monday, June 1st, 2026
➡️ Learn more at https://bit.ly/48Qs3LF

New releases from Ujima Press. Earlier this month, we launched two new publications. Available next month at the We Create the World Zine Fair and coming soon to our online store.

Rooted in our belief that economic democracy is both a material and cultural project, these publications document conversations, ideas, and practices emerging from the people we work alongside.

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Black Utopias: Aaron Robertson in Conversation with Stacey Sutton

The inaugural title in Black Trust, a book series based on recent and archival events organized through the Boston Ujima Project’s : Chuck Turner Arts & Lecture Series.

Introduction by series editor and organizer Nia K. Evans
Conversation with Aaron Robertson and Stacey Sutton
Edited by and Arielle Gray
Designed by .new.ronin

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Plenty

Plenty, this year’s Ujima Day gift, is a cookbook featuring interviews and essays from and , , and more.

Edited by
Interviews by & Jard Lerebours
Additional support by
Design by