Du Bois Forum celebrates teachings and legacy of author David Levering Lewis
This year’s Du Bois Forum, at Jacob’s Pillow on Friday, July 7, honored two-time Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian David Levering Lewis. Becket — Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian David Levering Lewis was honored at this year’s Du Bois Forum panel discussion, held at Jacob’s Pillow on Friday, July 7. The Du Bois […]
A Mighty Mission
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 Lewis’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of […]
Heritage and history found along the journey with the African American Trail Project
Walls are divisive. There’s this side and there’s that side. We’ve exhausted an awful lot of energy in recent years on the need for walls: debating which people are free to cross the line between one place and another, and which are not. Sometimes, however, a wall can be a bridge. There’s a section of […]
Black History Trail Makes 200 Stops Across Massachusetts
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 was the first to legalize slavery, in […]
