James Bennett II
Digital Producer and Announcer at GBH News (Boston, MA)
@jamesbennettii.bsky.social. James Beard award nominee. now: who knows//then: arts/culture @gbh, fellow @thisamerlife, @wqxr. fellas, its too rough to feed ya
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4 weeks ago |
wgbh.org | James Bennett II
May 30, 2025 Regie Gibson, an assistant professor at Berklee College of Music and instructor at Clark University, has been selected as Massachusetts’ first Poet Laureate. Governor Maura Healey made the announcement during a ceremony at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem Friday. “[Gibson] will work in our schools, our public spaces [and] our community spaces to amplify poetry and creative expression in Massachusetts,” she said.
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1 month ago |
wgbh.org | James Bennett II
May 22, 2025 Wander into the Institute of Contemporary Art’s Watershed outpost and you’ll be greeted with a brilliant sea of crimson rope hanging from the ceiling and what looks like an explosion in a paper factory. This is “Home Less Home” by Chiharu Shiota, one of over 20 public artworks on display for the Boston Public Art Triennial.
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2 months ago |
wgbh.org | James Bennett II
April 22, 2025 The Museum of Fine Arts will close its Benin Kingdom Gallery on April 28, the museum announced Monday. The gallery opened in 2013 after the MFA accepted works lended from the collection of Robert Owen Lehman. As part of their agreement, the museum would eventually acquire the pieces. But now, Lehman has requested these artworks be returned to him.
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2 months ago |
wgbh.org | James Bennett II
April 18, 2025 A rare recording has resurfaced from the repository of GBH Archives. It’s the voice of the late Dr. Alfred Worcester of Waltham, who at age 95, shared an eyewitness account of the first Patriots’ Day, April 18, 1775, as told to him by his great-grandmother. She had witnessed the dramatic events firsthand as a child growing up in Waltham.
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2 months ago |
wgbh.org | James Bennett II
In the common room of a modest, brownhouse in Concord, Massachusetts, lies the story of Caesar Robbins. He was born enslaved in 1745 in nearby Chelmsford, Massachusetts. And when the Revolutionary War broke out a few decades later, he became one of the area’s Black soldiers fighting for the American cause. The scant records of the time indicate he may have fought at the Old North Bridge during the Battle of Concord, just a quarter mile from where this small home was later built.
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