Du Bois Center Celebrates Five Years with Awards, Music
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Six years ago, the town was embroiled in debate over whether its most famous son, W.E.B. Du Bois, should be honored with a school or street. It wasn’t pretty: there were charges and countercharges over racism and patriotism, communism and activism. In the end, the NAACP’s founder and first leader got […]
Du Bois Center in Great Barrington shows black history is getting its due
Just 10 years ago, the name W.E.B. Du Bois did not ring many bells in the area. Despite being a Harvard graduate and leading philosopher on education and equality of the races, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois’ legacy was largely ignored, mostly because of his radical politics later in life. Today, the man whom Martin Luther King Jr. called […]
A day to honor black power
Du Bois Center to praise Ed Bullins, Bernard Drew GREAT BARRINGTON – Every region has its history, its stories that tie it together, connect it to the rest of the world, give each generation a place in time. Honoring that history and telling those stories are important for cultural development and preservation because, as filmmaker […]
The Du Bois Center 4th Anniversary Celebration
Du Bois Center to host panel discussion and awards ceremony It may be that controversy will always surround W.E.B. Du Bois, philosopher, writer and the Berkshires’ native son. But alongside the controversy marches celebration – celebration for who he was, what he thought, who he influenced and where he came from. It is in the […]
Come and Go with Me
GREAT BARINGTON—Earl Robinson wrote folk songs—protest songs and freedom songs. He lamented Lincoln’s death and celebrated the end of segregation. And stars sang his music. Robinson’s ‘Ballad for Americans’ became Paul Robeson’s signature song. Actor, writer, singer, lawyer and activist, Robeson played ‘Othello’ on Broadway and made spirituals familiar music in the United States before the Civil Rights movement. Joan […]
Great Barrington’s Du Bois Center is a great resource
I just want to comment briefly on a letter, “Ignore Du Bois rumor mill,” which appeared on March 11. I know the economic times these days are brutal for nonprofits. I am greatly relieved to know that the Du Bois Center at Great Barrington is not closing. Over the past four years, I have attended educational programs at […]
Du Bois papers to go digital
BOSTON — The University of Massachusetts in Amherst said Friday it would scan, catalog, digitize and put online papers of civil rights movement pioneer W.E.B. Du Bois. The university’s W.E.B. Du Bois Library has an estimated 100,000 diaries, letters, photographs and other items related to Du Bois, who helped found the National Association for the Advancement of […]
Du Bois birthday party and Pioneer Awards Ceremony
Today, the Du Bois Center and BRIDGE, an organization promoting the development of a truly multicultural community, will host a special program in honor of W.E.B. Du Bois’ birthday. This year’s Du Bois Center Pioneer Awards, which recognize individuals “who open the way for others to follow,” will be presented to Michael Farmer and John […]
