A Mighty Mission | Berkshire Magazine

Written by Kendra Taira Field W.E.B. DU BOIS AND THE BLACK BERKSHIRES, THEN AND NOW I FIRST CAME TO KNOW W.E.B. Du Bois as a young person. Driving through western Massachusetts in the 1980s, my dad would pull off in Great Barrington, and point out its significance to me as Du Bois’s homeplace. David Levering […]

Black History Trail Makes 200 Stops Across Massachusetts | The New York Times

Written by Katharine Q. Seelye MEDFORD, Mass. — During Black History Month, Massachusetts likes to point out its reputation as the enlightened 19th-century hub of the abolition movement. The state was one of the first to end slavery, long before the 13th Amendment formally banned it nationwide in 1865. Less well known is that Massachusetts […]