NAACP
Berkshire County Branch
Unit #2044
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Jacob’s Pillow hosts free dance workshop and performance featuring Versa-Style Dance Company on February 18th as part of the 10×10 Festival
Join Los Angeles-based Versa-Style Dance Company for an exciting workshop exploring the fundamentals of street dance forms and a high-energy performance of ORIGINS of Hip Hop. Lee en Español Hip Hop Workshop | 12pm - 1pm Performance of Origins of Hip Hop | 5 - 6:30pm...
Our Branch Education Committee requests your participation in a survey
The Education Committee of NAACP has released a survey to gather information from residents of Berkshire County about issues regarding education in the county. To learn more about the survey and to particpate, use this link Education Survey
Standout Against the Culture of Policing in America – Park Square, Pittsfield – Sunday January 29 – 2:00-3:00 PM
Community members, allies, and friends, We demand police reform. We are asking you to stand in solidarity this Sunday, January 29, 2-3 pm at Park Square in Pittsfield with the NAACP, Berkshire County Branch, and our community partners to protest the...
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.