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Berkshire County Branch
Unit #2044
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Employment Opportunity: Park Square Financial Advisors (Pittsfield) is hiring administrative support staff
Park Square Financial Advisors is a Raymond James Affiliate. Use the link below for more information about the company. https://www.raymondjames.com/parksquarefinancialadvisors Use the link below for details about the position....
Employment Opportunities: Berkshire Hills Regional School District in Great Barrington is hiring for many positions
A message from District Superintendant Peter Dillon COVID-19 has had a big impact on our economy and our ability to hire for both full and part-time positions. In addition, because we are all carefully monitoring our health and potential symptoms, we have a greater...
Employment opportunities: Barrington Stage Company is looking for local people of all ages to fill a variety of positions
The Barrington Stage Company, a Pittsfield-based theater, has a variety of positions to fill and wants to hire local people. They will provide paid training. To learn more about these positions see the flier below. To obtain an application please email...
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.