{"id":85,"date":"2025-06-27T03:02:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T03:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/dandelion\/?p=85"},"modified":"2025-06-27T03:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T03:02:25","slug":"uncovering-the-north-ends-hidden-black-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/dandelion\/uncovering-the-north-ends-hidden-black-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncovering the North End\u2019s Hidden Black History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The North End is home to Italian restaurants and historic architecture. However, its Black history has long stayed in the shadows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roberto Mighty, a local award-winning filmmaker and multimedia artist, is working to change that narrative. His recent multimedia creation, \u201cWe Were Here Too,\u201d depicts a forgotten Black community in the North End \u2014 New Guinea, who were the first Africans to make the neighborhood home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full story below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script id=\"asp-embed-script\" data-zindex=\"1000000\" type=\"module\" type=\"text\/javascript\"  charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/new.express.adobe.com\/webpage\/static\/embed\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n            <a class=\"asp-embed-link\" href=\"https:\/\/new.express.adobe.com\/webpage\/aU1M0vdrCPFDI\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.express.adobe.com\/webpage\/aU1M0vdrCPFDI\/resources?asset_id=rendition&#038;buster=1750993230965\" alt=\"Uncovering the North End\u2019s Hidden Black History\" style=\"width:100%\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North End is home to Italian restaurants and historic architecture. However, its Black history has long stayed in the shadows. Roberto Mighty, a local award-winning filmmaker and multimedia artist,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":86,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/dandelion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/dandelion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/dandelion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/dandelion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/dandelion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/dandelion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/dandelion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/dandelion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/dandelion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/dandelion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehsjc.org\/dandelion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}