NAACP
Berkshire County Branch
Unit #2044
“One Nation Working Together, For Justice and Equality Everywhere”
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Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr. to Speak at MCLA Public Policy Lecture Nov. 17 at 7 PM – Free and open to the public
Race & Democracy: America is Always Changing, But America Never Changes Chair of Princeton University's Department of African Studies and one of the nation’s most prominent scholars, Dr. Eddie Glaude, Jr. is an author, political commentator, public intellectual...
Calling In Not Calling Out: A Conversation for Divided Times with Loretta Ross -Nov. 17, 5-6:30 PM – Zoom
Associate ProfessorProgram for the Study of Women and GenderSmith College Loretta Ross is an award-winning, nationally recognized expert on racism and racial justice, women's rights and human rights. Funded by the Berkshire Tobacco Free Community Partnership Use the...
Pull Up to the Polls!
Have Your Voice Heard! The NAACP, Berkshire County Branch will be offering free, county-wide rides to get voters to the polls all over Berkshire County on election day Tuesday, November 8 from 8 am to 8 pm. To get a ride call, Dennis, at 617.501.5159 from 8 am-noon...
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.