Max Roach is celebrated as one of the most influential drummers in jazz history, a pioneer of Bebop who led groundbreaking ensembles in every...
In the United States, the early 20th century has often been portrayed as a time of hope and excitement, in which the nation’s growing industrial...
HOLYOKE — For the Rev. Theresa Temple, a pastor at the First Baptist Church in Holyoke, growing up as an African American in the segregated South...
SPRINGFIELD — “I have never been treated poorly because I’m a Black man,” said Deacon Arthur Miller to a few surprised gasps at St. Michael’s...
NORTHAMPTON — Mareatha Wallace, a paraeducator at JFK Middle School, has won the Louise Gaskins Lifetime Civil Rights Award from the Massachusetts...
Moving from the late days of segregation in the Deep South to the new wave of activism inspired by Black Lives Matter constitutes a long...
EASTHAMPTON — Two former Easthampton students have reached a settlement with city and school officials after a lawsuit was filed over the school’s...
AMHERST — Martha Faison’s passion for multiculturalism gave a generation of kindergartners at Fort River School an immersion in cultural diversity...
NORTHAMPTON — Nov. 3, 1979, is the day that neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members shot Marty Nathan’s husband dead in North Carolina. Michael Nathan...
U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern will never forget the time he was arrested alongside civil rights icon and Congressman John Lewis while they protested the...
NORTHAMPTON — At a Martin Luther King Day event in Worcester on Monday, U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern noticed someone wanted a word with him. “This guy...
NORTHAMPTON — On Nov. 3, 1979, neo-Nazis and members of the Ku Klux Klan in Greensboro, North Carolina, shot and killed five labor organizers in...