Dart Adams

Historian, journalist and author

Malcolm-Jamal Warner acts with Bill Cosby in a scene from &quot;The Cosby Show.&quot; (Jacques M. Chenet/Corbis via Getty Images)

Malcolm Jamal-Warner directs rapper Barsha in the &quot;Who's The Master?&quot; music video, filmed in the Brooklyn Navy Yard in September 1990 in New York City. (Al Pereira/Getty Images/Michael Ochs Archives)

Remembering Malcolm-Jamal Warner — and Theo Huxtable

Malcolm-Jamal Warner is seen on the red carpet at the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, honoring Bill Cosby, on Oct. 26, 2009. (Jacquelyn Martin, File/AP)

Essay

Life

Opinion

Before busing, civil rights thinkers devised a solution for bad education: freedom schools. 

The beautiful vision of Boston’s Freedom Schools

Dart Adams, The Emancipator

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Students checking-in at the Tremont St. Methodist Church Freedom School that was hosted to support students participating in the boycott on Freedom Stay-Out Day, February 26, 1964. (Northeastern University Library)

While we saw school boycotts and stay-out days also occur in other cities for similar reasons, only Boston aimed to improve the education, environments and curriculums for the entire public school population.

Multi-racial picket line outside the Boston School Committee headquarters in the summer of 1963. (Northeastern University Library)

As a lifelong Black Bostonian and resident of the South End/Lower Roxbury, it fills my heart with pride knowing my neighborhood served as a hotbed of activism and was the central location for racial progress, self-determination and inclusion.

(Sophie Morse for The Emancipator)

BUSING'S LEGACY IN BOSTON, 50 YEARS LATER

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Coverage of the 50th anniversary of a federal judge’s ruling that led to mandatory busing in Boston to desegregate schools is produced through an editorial partnership between WBUR and The Emancipator.

Busing's legacy in Boston, 50 years later

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The author (in blue tie) with his mom, sister and brothers at his older brother's graduation from Boston Latin School. (Courtesy Dart Adams)

A collection of hip-hop cassette tapes from the 1980s is displayed at the Boston campus of the University of Massachusetts. The University is home to the Massachusetts Hip-Hop Archive. (Charles Krupa/AP)

Fab 5 Freddy (Fred Brathwaite) and Lady Pink (Sandra Fabara) at MIT’s WMBR to promote a screening of “Wild Style,” widely considered the first hip-hop film, in 1983. (Justin Freed/Massachusetts Hip-Hop Archive)

Dana Scott, who hosted MUSENOMIX, in the studio at MIT's WMBR at. (Courtesy Dart Adams)

My hip-hop education began in the ’80s, turning the dial to Boston college radio stations

The author in his bedroom in 1990, scanning the radio to make a mixtape of music from local college radio rap shows. (Courtesy Dart Adams)

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A collection of stories from our ongoing series, Field Guide to Boston. The series at wbur.org/fieldguide offers guides and public service journalism focused on how residents can better connect with each other while exploring the city's neighborhoods and rich culture. 