by Mass Humaities | Jul 12, 2024 | News, The Kiosk, The Profession
Frederick Douglass and African American Uses of Communal Celebration and Truth-telling as Modes of Resisting Oppression and Creating Public Memory By Desiree Taylor2023 Reading Frederick Douglass Together Research Fellow Lessons from the past can teach new things and...
by Mass Humaities | Jul 11, 2024 | News, The Kiosk, The Profession
On June 28, we gathered in Holyoke at Mill 1 Events for “The Future of Storytelling,” a two-part workshop and reception that celebrated our 50th anniversary while also affirming the centrality of storytelling in the cultural nonprofit sector. Please enjoy these...
by Mass Humaities | Jul 3, 2024 | News, The Kiosk, The Profession
“Frederick Douglass is my hero,” says Boston resident Nancy Ahmadifar. The first time she attended a reading of “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” in Jamaica Plain, she hadn’t intended to read part of the speech. She planned on simply observing, she said. But...
by Mass Humaities | Jun 29, 2024 | News, The Kiosk, The Profession
The move marks a new chapter in the organization’s 50 years of supporting the humanities in Massachusetts. Mass Humanities, the state’s leading funder of public humanities programs, is relocating its headquarters from Northampton to Holyoke in August. The foundation...
by Mass Humaities | Jun 26, 2024 | News, The Kiosk, The Profession
By Anne MattinaReading Frederick Douglass Together Research Fellow Last spring I was the proud recipient of a Reading Frederick Douglass Together Fellowship from Mass Humanities and it has been a joy tracing his legacy across the Commonwealth. It is well-known that...
by Mass Humaities | Jun 20, 2024 | News, The Kiosk, The Profession
Upwards of 80 community members, families, ROTC cadets, volunteers, and legislators gathered in Fitchburg’s Abolitionist Park on June 19 to read Frederick Douglass’ influential address, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” The reading marks the first Reading...
