Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday, advocated for the LGBTQ+ community – especially Black LGBTQ+ people – at a time we had no one.
Jesse Jackson, a defender for LGBTQ+ rights
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Kate Brown reads from ‘Tiny Gardens Everywhere: A History of Urban Resilience’
MIT historian Kate Brown reads from “Tiny Gardens Everywhere” to explore the surprising and often radical history of urban gardening.
Valentine’s, Galentine’s, as long as it’s chocolate: An anthropologist’s quick history of a holiday
Anthropologists love to say “Bet you didn’t know this!” about cultural history and the origins of things in human use – including for Valentine’s Day.
Black Cantabrigians may be a dwindling tribe, but will not be forgotten
The resiliency of a tribe and its complicated relationship with Cambridge was on display at “Lift Every Voice: Saving Our Stories, Sharing Our History.”
Black History Month celebrates a century, and so does its backlash
On the eve of America’s 250th anniversary, Black History Month is a necessary corrective to revisionist history, selective memory and deliberate attempts at erasure.