Lois Prew News Today

On Sunday, January 22, 50 years after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, the Berkshire Democratic Brigades organized a commemoration of the Court's original decision at Park Square in Pittsfield. The event, according to Berkshire County NAACP President Dennis Powell, was all about mobilizing democracy.

"We were living like middle class people — and we felt like royalty, because it was so novel for us," said one pandemic unemployment check recipient.