Like most cities across the United States, Boston has been coming to terms with the roles its ancestor residents played in the enslavement and trafficking of Black African and Indigenous peoples in the Northeast and the greater Atlantic world. Sites along the Freedom Trail have been incorporating stories about Black and Indigenous Bostonians, free and unfree, into their
If there is any consolation to be had in Teju Cole s slippery and sinuous Tremor, it s not found in art or literature but in the music that permeates its pages.