Black trailblazers who sprang from Cambridge and became award winners on and off the field
In a final installment of Black Cambridge trailblazers for 2024, meet men who excelled as athletes and went on to work with youth and in expanding college multiculturalism and as an award-winning producer and director in documentary television.
These Black Cambridge trailblazers were first ladies of nursing and song
Meet two extraordinary women born and raised in Cambridge who broke barriers and extended the boundaries of their respective careers.
Entrepreneurial spirit of two Black trailblazers provided medicine, ice cream and bank services
We continue Black History Month with Emory Clark, who dreamed of owning his own pharmacy and made it come true (with a sideline in ice cream), and Charles Lenox, whose quiet work helped build Cambridge business community in the early 1800s.
Sorority sisters in service to their Cambridge, blazing the trail in law and dental medicine
We begin Black History Month with Rowena Taylor, a midcentury Cambridge assistant city solicitor and a lawyer in private practice with an office in the Abbot Building in Harvard Square; and Dr. Mary Crutchfield Wright Thompson, a 1930 Tufts Dental School grad known as “Dr. Mary” to generations of Cambridge students.
Remembering the sacrifices: Veterans Day stories from Cambridge’s African American community
We are indebted to the sacrifices made by our veterans to ensure the freedoms of all Americans. We honor them and thank them for their service.
Suzanne Revaleon Green has tales of May Parties, Magazine Beach and ‘pungs.’ Meet her here first.
Brilliant, eloquent, strict, caring, dignified, dedicated, revolutionary – some of the words often expressed to describe Suzanne Revaleon Green by those who knew her. Meet her here before reading her stories of Cambridge over the past 90 years.
