The state Senate is planning to commission what Dennis Powell, the president of the NAACP Berkshires, considers “the most significant bust in its history.” The bust will honor Elizabeth Freeman, whose ...

The Massachusetts Senate’s decision to commission a bust of Elizabeth Freeman for installation in the Senate Chamber in the Statehouse is more than a symbolic gesture. It’s a long-overdue act of ...

Part of a series of profiles during Black History Month highlighting unsung African American figures from New England. As American colonists put pen to paper to determine the freedoms of the new ...

The story of an enslaved woman who went to court to win her freedom more than 80 years before the Emancipation Proclamation had been pushed to the fringes of history. A group of civic leaders, ...

Mumbet, later known as Elizabeth Freeman, would help bring an end to slavery in Massachusetts. When Mumbet, an enslaved woman in Massachusetts, gets struck by her mistress with a shovel, she leaves ...