NAACP
Berkshire County Branch
Unit #2044
“One Nation Working Together, For Justice and Equality Everywhere”
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The Foundry in West Stockbridge offers complimentary tickets to NAACP members to concert featuring African American composers – Saturday June 25th
Pianist Chelsea Randall will be launching “American Mavericks,” a performance, commissioning, and research project celebrating seldom performed and new solo piano repertoire by 20th and 21st century Black American composers. For more information about The Foundry...
Jacob’s Pillow hosts free community workshop: EVIDENCE, A DANCE COMPANY WORKSHOP WITH RONALD K. BROWN AND ARCELL CABUAG Sunday June 26th, 2-3 PM, Zion Lutheran Church, Pittsfield
In partnership with the NAACP Berkshire County Branch and Common Room at Zion Lutheran ChurchEVIDENCE’s community workshop invites movers of all ages and backgrounds to participate in a class blending contemporary, African, and Caribbean dance styles. Participants...
Jacob’s Pillow hosts a free community workshop with film creator and Diversity of Dance, Inc. founder Earl Mosley, Thu. June 23 at Berkshire Athenaeum 6-8 PM
Thursday, June 23 | 6-8pm Join us for this special workshop and film screening. Movement workshop 6-7pm Film screening and Q&A 7-8pm Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield’s Public Library Auditorium 1 Wendell Ave, Pittsfield, MA 01201 In partnership with NAACP Berkshire...
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.