Blacks in Boston and the Utter Shame at Fenway Park — Paul McCartney Should Not Perform There June 7

The<a href="https://www.vividseats.com/fenway-park-tickets/venue/551?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=13433076475&utm_term=fenway+park+concerts+2022&adgroup=128864099688&target=kwd-1265824998445&device=c&wbraid=CjkKCQjwnNyUBhDnARIoAKAAryIXVgZFpvetu_2V-o2XLGbo2eLwHJmi2xWxK94FblAU9CZFBRoCfqE&gclid=CjwKCAjwv-GUBhAzEiwASUMm4kfU2ADMs4T0NV_YZeqpKRPKdLjSw2NmECdYa0OnQ8vi63keRGazBRoCFiAQAvD_BwE" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"> Fenway Park Summer Concert Series</a> approaches its 20th season of bringing live music to Fenway Park, home of the iconic Boston Red Sox. As it approaches its 20th season of live music at Fenway Park, a troubling and continuing stain on the City of Boston remains. Remarkably, in those 20 years of Summer Concerts at Fenway — and now, nearly 100 concerts later — not one concert has been headlined by a Black person in a city that has a racial make-up of 55% residents who identify themselves as either Black or as a person of color. Not one. In fact, the closest a Black artist has come to headlining a Fenway Park Summer concert was in 2013 when Jay-Z “co-headlined” with Justin Timberlake for two nights. Given that Black people essentially created American music — with its roots engendered in the slave chants of the plantations, the Spirituals, the Blues, Jazz and Rock and Roll — it would seem natural that Black artists would be given deference and appreciation by giving them performing access to Fenway Park. But such has not been the case. <a href="https://medium.com/@thenewdemocracycoalition/blacks-in-boston-and-the-utter-shame-of-fenway-park-paul-mccartney-should-note-perform-there-25836ed8392b">Visit Now</a>