This study updates the phonological profile of Black Bostonians, a group historically underrepresented in New England dialectology. We join others in demonstrating how speakers of underserved communities negotiate their regional and racial/ethnic identities (e.g. King 2016, 2018, Blake and Shousterman 2010, Blake 2014). Using data from the Eastern Massachusetts Life and Language Project (Nesbitt and Watts 2022), we analyze vowel patterns and rhoticity in sociolinguistic interviews with 23 African American and Caribbean American women born between 1982 and 2000 and raised in Boston’s historically Black neighborhoods. Results show a shift away from some traditional Eastern New England (ENE) English features and stability for others. Though BAT-BAN distinction and LOT-THOUGHT merger remain in the community, MARY-MARRY-MERRY distinctions are fading, PALM/START are retracted, and rhoticity is common. Style influences several variables, with speakers diverging from ENE features in formal speech. No significant differences were found between ethnic groups (African American and Carribean American). Future work will explore how these changes relate to other large-scale changes in progress in North American English.