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3 ways to celebrate Black August

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By Arielle Gray Verified
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Editor's note: This story is an excerpt from WBUR's weekly arts and culture newsletter, The ARTery. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. While February is Black History Month, this month is Black August, a time designed to learn more about Black revolutionary and liberation history. The month was created in 1979 to commemorate the 1971 death of George Jackson, a former member of the Black Panther Party.
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My grandmother still reaches for us, even if she can’t remember why

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By Arielle Gray Verified
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It finally hit me that I was losing my grandmother, Ena, in May 2025. I called her that Mother’s Day. She picked up, greeting me in her Jamaican-British accent, the edges softened by decades in the United States. “Hey, darling. How are you?” We slipped into conversation the way we always had, it was effortless and familiar. At that point, she’d already been hospitalized for complications related to her dementia. The word floated around her in hushed tones, clinical and distant.
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Archival photos highlight Black and brown Cambridge

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By Arielle Gray Verified
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A red door once marked the entrance to a Cambridge art center. Though painted over years ago, the door's bright red is preserved in an archival photograph now on view at Street Theory Collective through Aug. 28. The door is a potent memory for many who attended the Community Art Center at Newtowne Court. Built in 1938, Newtowne Court is one of the country’s first public housing developments. The Community Art Center, started in 1937 by local parents, made its home in Newtowne Court’s basement.
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