Emily Judem

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Senior Digital Video Producer at GBH News (Boston, MA)

Multimedia journalist, idealist, and world traveler. Digital producer @gbhnews

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Articles

Why Rep. Ayanna Pressley is pushing for reparations now

2 months ago | wgbh.org | Emily Judem

February 20, 2025 As President Donald Trump and his administration focus on dismantling DEI programs, U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley says now is the time to push for reparations. “I think at a time of, quite frankly, anti-Black racism on steroids coming out of this hostile Trump-Musk White House ... this is the right time,” the Massachusetts congresswoman said in a conversation with GBH News’ Paris Alston.
50 years later, sisters confront the pain of Boston’s busing crisis

Sep 10, 2024 | wgbh.org | Emily Judem

September 10, 2024 Two days after her 14th birthday, Leola Hampton boarded a school bus that would launch her into the heart of one of the most divisive and defining moments in Boston history: court-ordered school desegregation. On Sept. 12, 1974, she and her older sister, Linda Starks-Walker, boarded a bus from their home in the predominantly Black neighborhood of Roxbury into the white, working-class neighborhood of South Boston.
When home is a hotel

Sep 27, 2023 | baystatebanner.com | Stephanie Leydon |Emily Judem

James Berger checked into the Sonesta Simply Suites Hotel in Braintree last November during a moment of desperation. He and his 9-year-old daughter had lost their housing in Roxbury when the relative with whom they were living was evicted. “I was told I was not eligible for any type of shelter or anything of that nature because I make above $1,700 a month,” he recalled. If he had been alone, he says, he likely would have found a rooming house.
When home is a hotel: A single dad’s desperate search for housing

Sep 18, 2023 | wgbh.org | Stephanie Leydon |Emily Judem

James Berger checked in to the Sonesta Simply Suites hotel in Braintree last November during a moment of desperation. He and his nine-year-old daughter had lost their housing in Roxbury when the relative with whom they were living was evicted. “I was told I was not eligible for any type of shelter or anything of that nature because I make above $1700 a month,” he recalled. If he had been alone, he says, he likely would have found a rooming house.