New documentary series highlights the Black experience in western Massachusetts
“Legacies: Stories of Black History in the 413” premieres Dec. 12 on NEPM TV. Black art, history, faith, and culture converge in a new three-part documentary series exploring the Black experience in western Massachusetts. “Legacies: Stories of Black History in the 413” offers three stories of Black resilience, including one woman’s journey to find her […]
Watch: The Speech is the Star
To commemorate our 50th anniversary in 2024, we produced a series of short films that revisit the Mass Humanities archive. The Speech is the Star examines the explosion in popularity of the Reading Frederick Douglass Together program, from its first public reading in 2009 to the 60+ readings that took place in 2024. Douglass readings have become […]
