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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The city's first Pride parade kicked off from the grounds of Springfield Technical Community College, featuring marchers, dance performances and a downtown celebration.
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Springfield's event is one of the only Pride parades happening in a major Massachusetts city.
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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.
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The Springfield Puerto Rican Parade will march down Main Street in September after two years of virtual parades.
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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.
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Northampton concert to promote peace canceled after concerning text message and a burst heating pipeThe 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.