Hidden History of Black Cambridge Charter Van Tour
The story of Cambridge is incomplete without the world of Afro-Cantibridgians. African lives and anti-blackness are woven into important events from colonial times, through the abolitionist movement to civil rights and black lives matters. Learn how Black folks experience here connected to the wider world as Cambridge took its being these last four centuries.
Saturday October 28th 11am to 1pm:
Afro-Cantibrigians: 400 years of Black History
About Your Guides
Bro. Joel Mackall is an award winning Educator & Project Developer with the ReIdren Business Group based in Roxbury MA. He was the co-founder of the SOS Living Museum, the Hidden History of Black Boston Tours, the Nubian Writer's Group and is a self-published author. He has also served as secretary of the Cameroonians of Lowell Association, as an officer on the Warren Gardens Housing Cooperative board, on the advisory council of the Network of Immigrant and African American Solidarity and as a technology chairperson with the Black Community Information Center.
Bro. Joel presented "Excellence AND Culture: Operating Your Cooperative Better, Simpler and Truer" at the National Association of Housing Cooperatives Annual Conference in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands and "Why Do We Black Folks Hate On Each Other?" at the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations' Ancient Egyptian Studies Conference in Newark, NJ. He has led/facilitated numerous professional workshops in Greater Boston on topics including genealogy, African & world history , business design and technology at the Freedom House, Mother Caroline Academy, Warren Gardens, Roxbury Multi-Service Center, Roxbury Community College, Emerson College, Lesley College, South Bay House of Correction, almost all of the BPL neighborhood branches and Walden Square Technology Center (north Cambridge), in both English and Spanish. To learn more/contact Joel at cell# below or drop a message in the form.
Sis. Re Lei [bio in a box: Walking Tour Guide, Bohemian Arts Boston and works at Cocoa Lady Wellness]
“There has never been a Cambridge without Black folks. And there were, of course, Black folks before there ever was a bridge over the river Cam in OLD england. So. Where is our missing, erased & falsified history (Ourstory)? And how do we fetch it & rebuild it?”