The residents of rural Maya village Copal AA la Esperanza in Guatemala have founded a community-run middle school that focuses on indigenous culture, human rights and sustainable forestry.
Gwendolyn Hampton VanSant, who directs Multicultural BRIDGE and co-chairs the Du Bois 150th Committee, was in Town Hall Monday night with Randy Weinstein, founder and director of the Du Bois Center at Great Barrington, to gain approval to mount banners on utility poles in town and to report on the progress the committee had made on celebrating the birthday of iconic scholar and civil rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois.
Originally performed on an outdoor basketball court with its five acts structured as the four quarters and overtime of a basketball game, 'The Bitter Game' explores the experience of being Black in America.
NAACP leader and author James Weldon Johnson wrote “God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse,” in a little cabin off Alford Road on the Alford Brook and at the Mason Library.
Rep. William “Smitty” Pignatelli, D–Lenox, worked with the Department of Children and Families' central office to secure a truck and company to deliver toys from Boston to the departments Pittsfield office on Thursday.
At the Oct. 26 W.E.B. Du Bois lecture Smith College Professor and author Paula J. Giddings will discuss early civil rights leader and anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells.
Elizabeth Kolbert's book "The Sixth Extinction" investigates the future of Earth and the possibility of human extinction, based on natural history and Kolbert’s own reporting in the field.
