The city of Cambridge made history this month when it elected the nation's first African-American, openly lesbian mayor.

E. Denise Simmons took the reins from Kenneth Reeves, an African-American who was also openly gay.

Simmons, a Cambridge native, has been a community activist for close to three decades, serving on the school committee for nine years and the city council since 2002. The city council elects the mayor.

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