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Springfield has been celebrating Black History Month with a flag raising on Feb. 1 for the past 38 years.
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Hundreds of people turned out Monday at the Mass Mutual Center in Springfield for an annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Racial justice leaders spoke about the dangers and fears that people of color face in New Hampshire.
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It's been 25 years since Rhonda Anderson, a Iñupiaq - Athabascan Native American, began advocating to remove Ingenuous people as mascots from Massachusetts public schools.
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Aiming to buck trend among college presidents, Willie-LeBreton hopes to lead Smith 'for a long time'A recent study found college president terms are shrinking. Sarah Willie-LeBreton recently became the 12th president of Smith College in Northampton.
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The Media Lab is interviewing western Massachusetts authors of books for young readers. Next up: Kaliis Smith, co-author of "Sir Morien: The Legend of a Knight of the Round Table."
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The MLK Community Presbyterian Church located in the Springfield’s Mason Square neighborhood is currently trying to rebuild after what prosecutors call a hate-crime related arson in 2020.
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Edward Wright has been in prison for four decades. In his sixth petition for a new trial, his lawyers claim new DNA evidence and signs of official misconduct.
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Following the murder of George Floyd, residents of the town of Amherst passed a resolution calling for an end to structural racism and to achieving racial equity for Black residents. The work of the town's reparations committee has just concluded.
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The Trustees of Reservations has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize record books of a family that enslaved Black people, including Elizabeth Freeman. Freeman sued for her freedom and won in 1781.