This month, Fig City News profiles two particularly generous members of our community – Josephine McNeil and Lionel Porter – in celebration of Black History Month. Josephine McNeil Josephine McNeil is the founder and executive director of the Citizens for Affordable Housing in Newton Development Organization (CAN-DO), a community-based, nonprofit…
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Sharon Stout, President MA Electors and Chair of the Newton Democratic City Committee and Emerge MA, will speak in Cabot Park Village’s Black History Lecture Series on Friday, February 27 at 3PM in the Community Room of Cabot Park Village (280 Newtonville Avenue, Newtonville). Cabot Park Village’s Black History Lecture…
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Kimberly S. Budd will speak in Cabot Park Village’s Black History Lecture Series on Wednesday, March 1 at 4PM in the Community Room of Cabot Park Village (280 Newtonville Avenue, Newtonville). Chief Justice Budd will speak on the topic of “Behind the Curtain of the Supreme…
Allison Pagliaro, Education Director of Historic Newton, will speak in Cabot Park Village’s Black History Lecture Series on Wednesday, March 4 at 2:45PM in the Community Room of Cabot Park Village (280 Newtonville Avenue, Newtonville). Black History has always been an integral part of Newton History. Learn from a historic…
Join the Harmony Foundation, its event partners and sponsors, and other community members, Monday, January 19 at 9AM at First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton (1326 Washington Street, West Newton) for reflection, music, student voices, children’s programming with Story Starters, followed by a reception and community resource fair. This year’s program theme…
An interfaith gathering for the Transgender Day of Remembrance will be held at the First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton (1326 Washington Street, West Newton) on Thursday, November 20 at 7PM. It will be an opportunity to come together in love, resilience, and solidarity — to remember, resist, and rise. …
Midway through its first year of renovations, the West Newton Cinema completed the installation of a variety of accessibility features – audio enhancement, descriptive audio, and closed captioning devices – so more people can enjoy the theatre. Jesse Cerrotti, theater manager at the West Newton Cinema, said these features are available upon…
The Cooper Center for Active Living in Newton in collaboration with the Newton Free Library hosts monthly LGBTQIA+ socials. The next will be on Monday, August 11, 6PM-7:30PM in Conference Room A on the first floor of the Newton Free Library. It will be an LGBT-themed Story Slam! Come prepared…
Older Adult Services and the Newton Free Library are jointly sponsoring this month’s LGBTQIA+ Social event — Wheel of Fortune – LGBT Edition! — on Monday, September 8, 6PM-7:30PM in Meeting Room A (first floor) of the Newton Free Library (330 Homer Street). Spin the wheel to play a version of the…
There is still much to be learned about the true meaning of liberty even after this year’s Fourth of July festivities concluded. On July 13, Historic Newton, in collaboration with Newton Cultural Development, will explore Independence Day through the eyes of Frederick Douglass, who escaped slavery and was a famed…