In the coming months, the City of Boston and the Boston Housing Authority (BHA), along with a group of developers (Urban Edge, JPNDC, and TCB), are planning to demolish the Anna Mae Cole Center at the Mildred C. Hailey/Bromley-Heath public housing development in Jamaica Plain. The Cole Center is not just an ordinary community center. In addition to serving as a vital resource for residents, it has been a beating heart of working class struggle and Black resistance, including as a focal point of the Black Panther Party’s organizing in Boston. The demolition plans will erase that legacy and privatize a vital community resource. Moreover, they will pave the way for an enormous project of gentrification in Jamaica Plain, with the removal of public housing and the construction of hundreds of expensive apartments.  
Please sign this petition to demand that Anna Mae Cole Center be preserved and designated a historic landmark by the City of Boston. We must show city officials know that we as a community resolutely oppose the planned destruction of Boston’s Black history and the gentrification that will ensue.

Read our full statement here: https://theunitedfrontagainstdisplacement.org/2022/09/21/the-anna-mae-cole-center-must-be-preserved/