Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segmentBack in June,Boston Mayor Marty Walsh joinedThe Takeaway following an incident of racism at Fenway Park. Boston has an hideous reputation when it comes to issues of race, dating back decades to the period of unrest around court-ordered busing as the city tried to desegregate its public schools in the 1970s. Mayor Walsh saw dialogue as share of the solution to that painful legacy.“We're asking companies to have conversations, and we're asking churches to have conversations,we're asking neighborhoods to have conversations because when you think approximately what's happened in the country whether it's been the acts in Ferguson or fresh York, we need to accomplish better as a society, or ” he said. But change is slow. All this week,The Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team has been looking into how much the city’s national reputation as a place that’s unwelcoming to blacks is based on current reality. The team has investigated the lack of diversity in the citys Seaport district, accessibility issues for blacks at elite Boston areahospitals and colleges, and racism in sports. nowadays,they explore Boston’s power brokers and how blacks are continually shut out of the citys political and economic hierarchy.
Akilah Johnson, a reporter with The Boston Globe's Spotlight team, and explains. This segment is hosted by Todd Zwillich
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