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Berkshire County Branch
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New Federal Help with Rent or mortgage
New federal funding is now available to help individuals struggling with rent or mortgage payments due to COVID-19. Here's what you should know: - Expanded assistance is available for back rent and utilities.- Renters and landlords may received up to 12 months of...
Closing the Gap on Herd Immunity – MCLA Program on Thurs. April 8th 5-6:30 PM
Join a conversation with a panel of experts. Topics will include vaccine misinformation, how toincrease access to vaccination, what’s next on our way to herd immunity, and more! Register here for Event: https://tinyurl.com/ejx62yv4...
Employment Opportunity – Mill Town Capital seeks a head chef
Mill Town is a private impact investment company based in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Mill Town owns and operates a growing number of restaurants and hospitality sites in the Berkshires including : Mission Bar + Restaurant in Pittsfield; Gateways Inn’s on-site bar and...
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.