by Mass Humaities | Jul 6, 2023 | The Kiosk, The Profession
By Aprell May Munford | AMunford@repub.com Maliah Matthews reads a segment of the Frederick Douglass address. (Ed Cohen Photo) SPRINGFIELD – More than three dozen people came out this week in Springfield to reflect on the deeper meaning behind abolitionist...
by Mass Humaities | Jun 29, 2023 | The Kiosk, The Profession
By Nicole Kagan Globe Correspondent, Updated June 27, 2023, 1:50 p.m. Kyera Singleton reads from Frederick Douglass’s famous Fourth of July speech at the 2022 recitation in Somerville. JEN ATWOOD/MASS HUMANITIES In 1852, Frederick Douglass gave his speech “What...
by Mass Humaities | Jun 27, 2023 | The Kiosk, The Profession
By Meg Trogolo, Worcester Magazine Every year, on the eve of Worcester’s July 4 celebrations, city residents ranging from artists to elected officials to line cooks come together outside City Hall to recite “What to the Slave is the Fourth of...
by Mass Humaities | Jun 20, 2023 | The Kiosk, The Profession
NEWBURYPORT — The Museum of Old Newbury and the First Religious Society, Unitarian Universalist Church, in partnership with Mass Humanities, will gather in Brown Square on Sunday, June 25, at 10 a.m. for the sixth annual public, interactive reading of Frederick...
by Mass Humaities | Jun 7, 2023 | The Kiosk, The Profession
Andrew Elder, Board Chair for The History Project, accepts the Mass History Commendation from Katherine Stevens, Mass Humanities Director of Grants and Programs Each year, Mass Humanities awards a Mass History Commendation to a grantee whose work represents the very...