Black Cantabrigians are elevated over the important but already familiar national figures that usually get highlighted during Black History Month.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, the Nightingale Vocal Ensemble performs its “Photoplay,” there’s art such as “Poems of Electronic Air,” academic talks on “The Rhetoric of Black Populism: From Malcolm X to the ‘Manosphere’” and the comedy duo Britanik takes the stage.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, from “Underground Magic,” poetry with Tracy K. Smith and an Oompa concert to the return of the Harvard Plaza WinterFest, a farewell to ImprovBoston and examination of the darker sides of politics and social media.

The story of eight Black students on Arizona State University’s girl’s track team and their revolutionary 1960s Olympic medals is told by Cambridge’s Aime Alley Card.

Advocates for an expanded green space around a North Cambridge pond by affordable housing projects say their proposal is not defeated. They urge residents to speak up as a developer’s more modest plan makes its way through permitting.

A stark contrast between Fresh Pond and Jerry’s Pond demands attention, raising questions about who and what we prioritize in our city.

The King Open School saw math success in the 1990s for students – especially Black, brown and poor – after discussions among and organizing by its community. 

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Bim Skala Bim has a 40-year reunion, you can perform yoga to music from plant biodata, fold origami or dumplings at the MIT Museum, see a Dance/works show and take in four days of Celtic Music Festival at Club Passim.

Cambridge public notices about an American Freedmen Commission and leaf blowers.

Residents and activists from across the country called Cambridge’s new reparations department the first of its kind since the Reconstruction era.