Celebrate Black History Month and show your love for Black-Owned Businesses. Hosted by the Cambridge-Somerville Black Business Network, in partnership with the Sustainable Business Network of Massachusetts, Cambridge Local First, Eastern Bank, and the Harvard Square Business Association, we invite you to the Show Your Love for Black-Owned Business Marketplace!

It may be cold outside, but First Fridays are getting red hot. Sip a spicy signature cocktail, be dazzled by contemporary art, catch performances and lessons from Salsa y Control, and show off your finest red attire on the dance floor. Are you red-y?

Jazz, poetry, and performance come together for a thoughtful conversation exploring Black arts in Nantucket. This program highlights the creative traditions, cultural impact, and lived experiences that have shaped Black artistic expression on the island. Taking place at 12:00 PM, the discussion invites reflection, dialogue, and community connection through the arts. Be part of the conversation and experience the power of Black arts in community.

On a dark chilly evening friends gather for good food, fun games, and supporting grassroots movements in Boston! That’s right: Liberation Games is BACK! Fight facism and winter woes with the power of community by putting the FUN into FUNding our movements.

Join the Co-op for a welcoming, hands-on cooking event led by Antonio from HELP by AMG (Helping Everyone Live Prosperously). Drawing from lived experience, Antonio shares practical tips and adaptive strategies that make cooking more accessible and empowering. Let’s cook a dish, learn, connect, reimagine what’s possible in the kitchen – and have a taste!

Join during Boston Family Days to share your story in a pop-up conversation with Everyday Boston, a nonprofit dedicated to bridging social, racial, and economic divides through the sharing of life stories. Everyday Boston hosts conversations around the city to ease loneliness and build community between people who might not otherwise meet. We bring the storytelling prompts; you bring your stories!

Centering Palestine is a four-part conversation series curated by Khury Petersen-Smith. This particular session will feature the co-author of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New Commune, Eman Abdelhadi.


Eman Abdelhadi is an Palestinian-Egyptian American public intellectual and community organizer. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. Her academic work focuses on American Muslim communities and specifically women’s participation and exclusion in these communities. She focuses on intersections of gender, sexuality, politics and religion. Eman was born in Columbia, Missouri. Her mother is from Egypt and her father is from Palestine, and they met in the United States. Eman spent her early childhood in Egypt while also living shortly in Saudi Arabia. She is the co-author of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New Commune 2052 - 2072

Join the Africana Studies Program for a panel discussing the state of Black Studies today with panelists Kabria Baumgartner, Richard Harris, Adrianna Crossing, Caleb Gayle, and Régine Jean-Charles.

Join the Mayor's Office of Women’s Advancement LGBTQIA2S+ Advancement and our amazing community partenrs for Culture Class: A Seat at the table, a mixer that blends academic insight with community celebration. The program features a lecture series designed to be accessible and engaging. To bridge the gap between the academy and the community, the space will be transformed into a vibrant marketplace, DJ Troy Frost, and curated food and beverage pairings The event will take place on Wednesday, February 11th, from 7:00PM to 9:30PM, at The Substation in Roslindale.

Join for a collage workshop that centers a book cover of your choice. No materials or experience required.


Ayana Mack is a multidisciplinary artist and creative storyteller dedicated to using art

as a catalyst for change. She recently completed “Closer To My Dreams”, a 45-foot

mural celebrating transformation and joy. Her work has been exhibited at Artists For

Humanity and the Multicultural Arts Center, earning honors such as the Black

Excellence on the Hill award and the Ashe Ashe grant, which supported her art and

If you’re short on plans this V-Day, JustBook-ish invites you to our inaugural Sapphic Speed Dating. Low-stakes, flirty vibes exclusively, where you might leave with the potential love of your life—or, at the very least, an experience and/or a friend you may or may not sometimes smooch. Here are the deets, should you need them: 8 rounds, 5 minutes per round, a few games, mayhaps a choreographed dance or two, and a lot of laughs.

A virtual writing circle honoring Black Love Day & Toni Morrison — exploring love, intimacy, and passion as resistance.
Sacred Ink: Black Love as Resistance is a virtual, stay-at-home writing circle created for witnessing, nurturing, loving, liberating, reflecting, and expressing in community.

Held in honor of Black Love Day (February 13) and the birthday of Toni Morrison (February 18, 1931), this gathering celebrates love, intimacy, and passion as acts of resistance. We honor Toni Morrison as an ancestor whose work fiercely upheld Black love in its fullness — tender, complex, sacred, and liberatory.

Sacred Ink is not a workshop focused on polish or performance. It is a communal space for truth-telling and presence. Through guided writing prompts, reflection, and optional sharing, participants are invited to write from where they are — whether arriving energized, needing rest, or winding down for the day.

This virtual format allows participants to join from wherever you are, making space for those navigating time zones, caregiving, illness, disability, or limited access. Cameras on or off, sharing or listening, writing or resting — all ways of being are welcome.

Come as you are.

Bring your notebook, your breath, your tea or coffee, your quiet, your questions. This is a space to be witnessed and to witness others — rooted in Black love, memory, and care.

SOUL FOOD • CARD GAMES • OPEN SKATING & CHALLENGES BOARD GAMES • DANCING. Plus raffles. All ages (minors must be accompanied by an adult.

A Conversation with Dr. Nedra Lee & MAAH Chief Curator & Director of Collections Angela Tate
Hear the stories that history often leaves out. MAAH’s Chief Curator and Director of Collections and UMass Boston Professor Dr. Nedra Lee will discuss the process of assembling and curating our Black Voices of the Revolution exhibit. From rare found cowrie shells to interactive exhibits that allow visitors to dive deeper into the perspectives of key figures like Lucy Terry Prince, Phillis Wheatley Peters, Chloe Spear, among other important women in Boston & Nantucket's history.

Experience the conversation, honor these voices, and engage with history in a new way.

Let us come together as a diverse LGBTQ+ community across generations to share our stories, support each other, and stand strong in the face of today’s political challenges.