NAACP
Berkshire County Branch
Unit #2044
“One Nation Working Together, For Justice and Equality Everywhere”
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REv. Martin Luther King Jr. Virtual Day of Service
Monday, January 18, 20219:00am The MLK National Day of Service celebrates and honors the Civil Rights leader’s life and legacy and encourages volunteering and improving the lives of all members of our community. It is a powerful opportunity to come together as a...
Anti-racist work in museums – a program from MassMOCA and the Berkshire Cultural Resource Center of MCLA
Thursday, January 21, 6pm ESTTune in to our next In Session—the second of four-panel discussions focused on anti-racist work in museums—with museum leaders Lisa Dent, Executive Director, Artspace New Haven; Tracy Moore, Interim Director, MASS MoCA; Cameron Shaw,...
Paycheck Protection Program applications being processed by Greylock now; getting an application in asap is important
Gloria Escobar, Financial Wellness Latinx Outreach Coach at Greylock Federal Credit Union, writes: "We are excited about another round of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans being made available. Our community needs this. The Small Business Administration (SBA),...
Ralph J. Bunche
Ralph Bunche was born in 1904 in Detroit Michigan. Ralph Bunche was a scholar, a diplomat, and an American statesman best remembered as the United Nations mediator who negotiated new armistice agreements with the Arab states following the establishment of the state...
Leontyne Price
Leontyne Price was born in 1927 in Laurel, Mississippi. She learned to play the piano when she was very young. In high school she became known as a powerful vocal talent. After college she studied voice at Juilliard School in New York City on a full scholarship...
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was an innovator of Jazz poetry, a prolific writer and one of the principal voices of the Harlem Renaissance. In 1921, his poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” was published in The Crisis. In 1924 Hughes received an Opportunity award for first prize in...
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Founded Feb. 12. 1909, the NAACP is the nation’s oldest, largest and most widely recognized grassroots-based civil rights organization. Its more than half-million members and supporters throughout the United States and the world are the premier advocates for civil rights in their communities, campaigning for equal opportunity and conducting voter mobilization.