Roxbury
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Sep 12, 2026
speaker_5NARRATOR
The pastor of Chebacco Parish was the leader of this movement, and he was one of the great men of the times.
speaker_5NARRATOR
The Encyclopedia Britannica has this to say: John Wise (1652-1725), a Puritan author deserving better remembrance than he has had, was born at Roxbury, Massachusetts; graduated at Harvard in 1673; began in 1680 to preach in Ipswich, Massachusetts; and passed his life in that charge.
speaker_5NARRATOR
Here I find sound authority for my attempt to keep this truly great man in remembrance, and we may well thank this good British publication for its sturdy commendation of our early genuine American patriot.
speaker_5NARRATOR
Chebacco Parish contained a collection of rich farms, occupied by prosperous farmers who had, with great difficulty, succeeded in organizing a new parish and building a church but a few years prior to 1687.
Fred JohnsonGUEST
the executive director, an amazing artist herself.
Fred JohnsonGUEST
And she had the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Fred JohnsonGUEST
And I was a student for a period of time at the National Center of African-American Artists in Roxbury.
Fred JohnsonGUEST
And I taught at the Elma Lewis School.
Fred JohnsonGUEST
And Ms. Lewis used to say, don't get it twisted.
Andrew BrancaHOST
It was amazing.
Andrew BrancaHOST
If you lived in the Boston community, Virtually all the black people lived in two communities, Dorchester and Roxbury.
Andrew BrancaHOST
That was it.
Andrew BrancaHOST
And the rest of the city of Boston seemed to be almost completely free of black people entirely.
Andrew BrancaHOST
The fact that there was a black person on the jury at all is frankly rather astonishing.
Andrew BrancaHOST
Rather astonishing.
Andrew BrancaHOST
I'll also note that when I lived there, Boston, if you stayed out of Southie and you stayed out of out of Dorchester and Roxbury, Boston, in my experience, just walking around at night, you know, one o'clock in the morning, leaving bars, all that kind of stuff.
Andrew BrancaHOST
Perfectly safe.
Joe VassakHOST
They would be happily married for 55 years, and they had six children.
Joe VassakHOST
John became a pastor in Roxbury, Massachusetts, where he would serve for nearly six decades.
Joe VassakHOST
And he had a great burden to improve the quality and availability of education.
Joe VassakHOST
John Elliott helped establish the Roxbury Grammar School, which is still in operation.
Joe VassakHOST
It's the oldest existing school in North America.
Joe VassakHOST
By the mid-1640s, John had become greatly burdened for the plight of the Indians.
Joe VassakHOST
The Elliott Indian Bible, as it became known, was the first Bible printed on American soil, and it was responsible for countless American Indians putting their faith in Jesus Christ.
Joe VassakHOST
John Elliott died on May 21, 1690, at 86 years of age.
LernerHOST
And outside that green line.
speaker_1HOST
Outside the green line in places like Roxbury, South Boston, Jamaica Plain, it's lawless gang turf.
LernerHOST
The government just abandoned these sectors after the disastrous Soweto Order of 1968.
LernerHOST
Right.
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speaker_1HOST
And they launch a massive, coordinated, full-scale assault across the entire perimeter of the Green Line.
LernerHOST
This brings us to one of the most harrowing segments of the intelligence report, the Holocaust of Boston.
speaker_1HOST
The gangs pour out of Roxbury in South Boston.
speaker_1HOST
They have TOW missiles.
Robert Patton-SpruillGUEST
Well, again, people look at statistics and they can interpret them to suit whatever argument that they're trying to make.
Robert Patton-SpruillGUEST
So one of the arguments is, is that if you look at the black population of Roxbury and Dorchester, it has gone down over the past 20 or 30 years.
Robert Patton-SpruillGUEST
And yeah, it has.
Robert Patton-SpruillGUEST
There's no question about that.
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Robert Patton-SpruillGUEST
I had my little savings book where we would go to this little bank.
Robert Patton-SpruillGUEST
But it was in our neighborhood.
Robert Patton-SpruillGUEST
It was called the Roxbury Highlands Savings Bank.
Robert Patton-SpruillGUEST
And that's where we had our accounts.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
Some of the tales first appeared in English in the Boston Evening Transcript and the Stratford Journal, Boston, to which organs I am indebted for permission to reprint them.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
Isaac Goldberg, Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
End of Preface The Attendant's Confession by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, First President of the Brazilian Academy of Letters So it really seems to you that what happened to me in 1860 is worthwhile writing down? Very well.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
I'll tell you the story,
Jim BraudeHOST
You
Margery EaganHOST
know, I get why people were upset, you know, a few years ago under the Biden administration where people were coming in and they had to close the center in Roxbury where a lot of kids went after school for their after-school program and stuff like that, saying, for housing because we have an obligation to house people that come in, women and children particularly that come in.
Margery EaganHOST
But this is a whole different thing.
Margery EaganHOST
This isn't going after those bad hombres you mentioned.
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Jim BraudeHOST
Give her the home rule language.
Jim BraudeHOST
We're waiting, Mayor.
Jim BraudeHOST
Bruce in Roxbury.
Bruce BiggerstaffAUDIENCE
Thank
Dave O'DonnellHOST
... food openings that you're, you're looking at that, that have you excited.
Keonte HensonGUEST
To the point I was talking about with the food scene, I think, again, it's just important to kinda do your reconnaissance, right? Like, don't just go to the first three people or three places someone recommends you to in the North End, right? Like, go to Dorchester, uh, go to Roxbury.
Keonte HensonGUEST
You know, experience the different cuisines.
Keonte HensonGUEST
There's a huge Caribbean scene, Dorchester, Roxbury area.
Dave O'DonnellHOST
Yeah.
Keonte HensonGUEST
Um, a ton of, uh, Vietnamese food you can find in Dorchester, so that's just my quick preview into that.
Lee StabertHOST
I'm gonna learn a little bit about the pro side.
Lee StabertHOST
It's interesting also because then in that conversation on my Instagram, Dart Adams, who is gonna be on another upcoming episode, he's been on the show before, he's gonna talk about Bill Russell, he piped in with a little bit of the perspective from Roxbury and the Black neighborhoods around and some of those people who are against the project.
Lee StabertHOST
So it just, my takeaway was just like, this is really complicated and incredibly emotional.
Lee StabertHOST
So we're gonna do what we do here, and we're gonna learn more.
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