In this episode, the new podcast of the Trotter institute Black in Boston and Beyond is introduced. Black in Boston and Beyond is the podcast of the Trotter Institute out of the University of Massachusetts at Boston hosted by Dr. Hettie V. Williams. Williams is the current Director of the Trotter Institute. The Trotter Institute was founded in 1984 to address the concerns of Black communities in Boston and Massachusetts through research, social advocacy, and public service. It is named for William Monroe Trotter, whose political advocacy, radical journalism, and Black internationalism placed Diasporic communities across the United States, the Caribbean, and Africa in critical conversation. Black in Boston and Beyond will include conversations with members of the faculty, authors, community activists, and students about the Black experience in the history and culture of Boston.