American History
Ahead of Independence Day, taking stock in Somerville
“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” was the question about 40 Somerville residents posed for themselves for the city’s eighth annual “Reading Frederick Douglass Together” event, which took place at Premiere on Broadway. Read more Cambridge Athletic Hall of Fame announces new class of honorees The public reading of Douglass’s famous 1852 […]
Immersive play at City Hall revives 1976 recombination debate
Coming to a city hall near us: the theater of today’s politics is pausing for the theater of the past. The new play “No Recombination Without Representation” will bring to life the 1976 public hearing that debated the safety of DNA recombination research at Harvard University. Throughout June, six performances will take place in Sullivan […]