Cambridge Carnival, the annual celebration of Caribbean culture, returned Sunday with a smaller, in-person version of the festival after live events were canceled the previous two years.

The City of Somerville moved forward with a plan to acquire the Armory building at and “preserve the facility for arts uses” with a unanimous vote of approval from the City Council.

Portable portraits of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Philando Castile, Tamir Rice, Mubarak Soulemane and Fred Hampton have appeared at recent Black Lives Matter protests in Cambridge and Boston – all but ubiquitous at a moment of local activism and unrest.