By Mia McCarthy, Reporter Correspondent
April 8, 2021
Mia McCarthy, Reporter Correspondent
Boston’s acting Mayor Kim Janey announced the All-Inclusive Boston campaign during a press conference at Hiberian Hall in Roxbury on Monday. Mayor s Office Photo by Jeremiah Robinson
All-Inclusive Boston, a $2 million marketing campaign aimed at promoting Boston as a multicultural tourism destination to boost the city s hobbled hospitality industry, launched on Monday after months of planning that started under the Walsh administration. Mayor Janey unveiled the push during a press event at Hibernian Hall in Roxbury in which she praised the campaign. For the first time I see our city promoting itself in a way that I feel seen,” Janey said in reference to a video which features local artists and entrepreneurs, many of them people of color.
“Boston does have a reputation as being a racist city,” Janey said. “We all know that here. We all have a lot of work to do. I think we have come very far. I am standing here before you as the first black mayor of our city and first woman mayor and that symbolizes how far we’ve come.”
Travel and hospitality, Boston’s third-largest industry, has been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic, Janey said, and has a workforce that is 70 percent people of color. The campaign, “All Inclusive Boston,” is designed to provide an equitable recovery for the industry.
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Colette Phillips has launched a nonprofit aimed at helping small businesses owned by people of color.
Colette Phillips, Andre Porter, and Michael Benezra got the idea to launch a fund for small businesses owned by people of color in 2019, before the pandemic and the George Floyd protests threw the issue of racial equity into stark relief.
Now, after the most tumultuous year in recent memory, their idea seems even more timely.