Black Friday and its trek to Covid-clogged big-box stores is a hassle, but Small Business Saturday will be unmasked and easy in Central Square, where the square’s business improvement district organization plans to gather some 50 small, local sellers of holiday gifts from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

As Americans, we should focus on creating this nation as a solid rock that rests on a multicultural and democratic foundation. This way, we’d recognize marginalized groups, especially our Native American brothers’ and sisters’ ongoing struggle every day, particularly on Thanksgiving.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Niki Luparelli’s David Boobie burlesque returns for its 10th year, there’s gift buying at an East Somerville Holiday Market and Cambridge Arts’ Holiday Art Market, music, film and dance.

When early European colonists settled in Massachusetts, there were an estimated 11 million wild turkeys roaming North America. Now there are at least enough that you might be tempted to feed one a Somerville doughnut (but shouldn’t) or welcome one into your backyard.

Thanksgiving meal deliveries have begun in Cambridge Housing Authority buildings. On Friday, Manning Apartment residents got food dropped off from The Port’s Cafe Luna.

This sophisticated Black man lived in the United States at a time most people who looked like him were enslaved and considered subhuman. Even those who were free were usually limited to a small set of occupations. Aaron Hewlett, however, managed to find a way to prosper here in Cambridge.

Juneteenth can no longer stand in the shadows of America’s celebration of independence, but highlights how it is inextricably linked to America’s core values of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all.

In his own recounting of his historic April 18, 1775 ride, Paul Revere uses the body of an enslaved person as a landmark. To today’s reader, the reference is likely shocking.

This Memorial Day, people will observe or not observe the holiday as they see fit. The Black veterans of Cambridge’s Isaac Wilson Taylor Post should be remembered and thanked for their courageous service.

This potentially final take on pandemic-era cinema includes a look at theater reopenings in Cambridge and Somerville, Memorial Day viewing and a couple of new streaming options: George Romero’s long-missing “The Amusement Park” and the mysterious drama “My True Fairytale.”