ARTS & CULTURE

Tiyo Attallah Salah-El was also an author, scholar and activist who died in a Pennsylvania prison in June 2018, at age 85. He’d served nearly 50 years of a life sentence for a murder he always insisted he did not commit.

It’s hard to appreciate her entire career without being aware of the ways in which the studios chewed up and spat out workers like Judy Garland.

Musicians who perform live have had to reconsider how to make a living now that the COVID-19 pandemic has rewritten the rules of how people gather in public. Three performers based in western Massachusetts talk about what's changed and where to go from here.

Springfield es una de las únicas ciudades principales deMassachusetts que tuvo una parada de Pride, ya que Northampton y Boston cancelaron sus eventos ese año.

The city's first Pride parade kicked off from the grounds of Springfield Technical Community College, featuring marchers, dance performances and a downtown celebration.

Springfield's event is one of the only Pride parades happening in a major Massachusetts city.

For some artists, the murder of George Floyd by a police officer two years ago, and the ensuing protests, have been sources for paintings and writing. But racial injustice in the U.S. has long provided unwanted artistic inspiration.

The Springfield Puerto Rican Parade will march down Main Street in September after two years of virtual parades.

A photo can tell quite a story, and for the photographer, it's a way to talk about something without words. As a form of community development, a college student recently set out to get a photo project going in western Massachusetts, in a city she was surprised she didn't know much about.

The event, which was designed to celebrate "the yearning for peace," would have featured Karim Wasfi, known as the cellist of Baghdad, and Jehann El-Bisi, a western Massachusetts poet and painter.