Cambridge Community Center

Stills from our first annual Black History Celebration Day — it was beautiful to see our gym space filled with Pan-African flag colors!

Special thanks to:

🖤 Our entire team for collectively planning this event!

❤️ Dr Kwame Dance for putting together a slideshow of Black history at CCC starting with founding leader Rev. E.K. Nichols, one of the earliest Black graduates from Yale Divinity School, and ending with THHT director Flash Firmin a proud Morris Brown grad and HBCU tour leader

💚Our OST staff and students for jumping into deep discussions, designing their own signs, and advocating for the causes that are most important to each of them today

💛 CCTV for providing us with a last minute free camera rental to help make sure this day was properly documented 📸

Can’t wait to do this again next year!

Thank you to Rep. Ayanna Pressley for recognizing CCC’s current work as well as for investing in our future. Ayanna’s office recently helped us secure $1 million in funding for the Center’s Resilience Hub project. This money will now allow us to purchase and install rooftop solar panels as well as an emergency generator and batteries — all critically important components in establishing a clean, resilient energy system at CCC.

We hope that this project will not only become a model for other Resilience Hub across the country, but also for what true collaboration between the federal government and local grassroots organizations can look like.

We were honored to have Rep. Pressley visit CCC this past Wednesday to talk about this partnership as well as her broad vision of a better future for our community and our country as a whole. Thank you also to Mayor Denise Simmons for discussing CCC’s historic role in Cambridge and for moderating the Q&A with community members. We’re incredibly grateful to have these women as leaders in troubled times, and will continue to turn to them for guidance, courage, and hope in the years to come.