Black History in Action works to bring Cambridge church back to life amid gentrification - The Boston Globe
However, when Kris Manjapra first entered the church in 2012, its siding was gray wooden shingles, and daylight peeked through the wooden ceiling slats. It served a small congregation of 20. Manjapra said he could sense the church’s grandeur, but even then he could see it beginning to crumble. In 2019, when Manjapra, Stearns Trustee professor of history at Northeastern University, finally became a member of the church, he worked with the Cambridgeport Neighborhood Association as a grant writer o...
