Scenes from the 16th annual Douglass reading on the Boston Common
The 16th annual reading of “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” took place on the Boston Common on Friday, June 27. Everyone from city residents and National Park Service rangers to elected officials and poets gathered to read the famous speech by Frederick Douglass. As in years past, the reading took place […]
Watch: Honoring the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe
On June 11, we were proud to host our first Story Summit event in New Bedford at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. “All Hands On Deck” focused on the intersection of storytelling and climate change. Mass Humanities honored the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe with the first Massachusetts Storyteller Award, recognizing the Tribe’s legacies of storytelling and […]
