NAACP
Berkshire County Branch
Unit #2044
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Our YOuth Speak: Voting rights, reparation and more -August 9, 6 PM park Square, Pittsfield
Pittsfield Gray to Green needs walk auditors
Pittsfield Gray to Green is working with residents of the Morningside and Westside to conduct “neighborhood audits” to map the Morningside and Westside through the eyes of the community members. Residents who sign up to conduct a walk audit will take a 1-hour virtual...
A Celebration of Black Voices – August 4-8 in Pittsfield – Barrington Stage features local Black artists at free events
A Festival that celebrates and showcases local Black artists. Free and open to the public. Reservations recommended. Wednesday, August 46:00PMKick Off — Opening the Festival will be the Brownskin Band performing their own high energy version of their favorite...
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.