A Tank Away: Great Barrington MA
We road trip our way west, to a town nestled in the valley of the Housatonic River. Click here to watch the video.
Du Bois 150th Festival
Links to more Du Bois 150th Festival events: OLLI Lectures – Du Bois Birthday – Educational Series – Historical Series – Resources
School- and street-renaming efforts underway to honor Du Bois in Great Barrington
A street, a statue, an annual festival, a school — and this is just the beginning. These are some projects underway to solidify the legacy of African-American scholar and civil rights architect W.E.B. Du Bois. First, a school’s name might be changed. A committee is forming to rename Monument Valley Regional Middle School for Du […]
W.E.B. Du Bois Birthday Celebration
These six videos of performances and talks from the Du Bois 150th Birthday Celebration are available to watch on YouTube: – Du Bois 150th Birthday Celebration Welcome – Give Your Hands to Struggle performed by Paloma McGregor – Sounding The Trumpet: A performance by trombonist Craig Harris – Prologue to Greatness: David Levering Lewis on […]
‘Let’s celebrate Du Bois’: Community gathers for 150th birthday celebration
Native son W.E.B. Du Bois, or Willy as he was known locally, finally came home Friday after a long time away. The day’s events marked the culmination of months of community celebrations, film screenings, educational lectures, and art marking W.E.B. Du Bois’ 150th birthday, which would have fallen on Feb. 23. Click here to read […]
From humble beginnings, Du Bois changed world
On Friday, the town of Great Barrington will celebrate the 150th birthday of one of its most important and influential residents, William Edward Burghardt “W. E. B.” Du Bois. Friday evening, at an event I’m looking forward to attending, the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center will host an evening honoring this man and his legacy. An […]
A well-earned celebration of Great Barrington’s Du Bois
President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and the Reverend Martin Luther King’s “I have a Dream Speech” in 1963 were in a sense bookends to a tumultuous century for African-Americans, one marked by great progress and terrible disappointments. W.E.B. Du Bois, born in Great Barrington, was alive for all but five years of that […]
Our Opinion: A chance to revisit naming school for W.E.B. Du Bois
As Great Barrington celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of W.E.B. Du Bois, it is apparent that a town that was slow to embrace the remarkable legacy of its native son has now done so. That process would perhaps be complete if Great Barrington and the Berkshire Hills School District undid a wrong from […]
