Mayor Wu Honors 50th Anniversary Of Cape Verde Independence Day

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
A rendition of the Cape Verdian National anthem, a company
the raising of the Cape Verdian flag over City Hall
Plaza as Boston's Cape Verdian community celebrated the fiftieth anniversary
of their homelands Independence Day.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
We don't run away from diversity or equity or inclusion.
We lean into making sure that our identities are the
leading part of how we connect, how we build community,
and how we make Boston the city that we will
continue to be.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Mayor Michelle will encourage the city's Cape Verdians to be
proud of their heritage. Cape Verdians make up eight percent
of Boston's population, more than fifteen thousand strong. The Mayor's
Cape Verdian Liaison, Elicio Depta, offered his encouragement.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Learn your culture, remember who you are, Know who your
people are, Know where you come from, know your culture,
learn how to do all those things like that. We
don't lose our culture, we don't lose our tradition, so
then it continues.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Senate in Roxbury and Dorchester. Boston's Cape Verdian community has
grown by forty eight percent over the past twenty five years.
On City Hall Plaza, Mike maclum WBZ, Boston's news radio