NAACP
Berkshire County Branch
Unit #2044
“One Nation Working Together, For Justice and Equality Everywhere”
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Show YOur Pride Rally – Saturday June 26th, 12:30, Park Square, Pittsfield
The NAACP, Berkshire County Branch is a proud partner of Berkshire Pride and encourages our friends and community to attend the Show Your Pride Rally in Pittsfield this year. Bring your flags and your signs and stay tuned for more information. Sign up for Berkshire...
JUneteenth, its history and meaning – Taconic student Ciany Conyers interviews Shirely Edgerton and Dennis Powell
Watch the intereview here https://youtu.be/YVh1B0tIYKU
For Us, By Us – a Juneteenth message from Dennis Powell, President, NAACP Berkshire County
Black-eyed peas. Red velvet cake. Strawberry soda. If you’re still following, then you already know what I’m talking about. That is to say — you understand without translation; there is no need for me to code switch. And that is very much the point. In 2021, the Black...
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.