TURNERS FALLS The fifth annual Música Fun Fest, to be held this Saturday, will bring “world-class music” from various corners of the globe to Unity Park.Música Franklin, a youth development organization focused on music and social justice, will host.
MONTAGUE Music will fill the summer air on Saturday as two annual music festivals return to town.The sixth annual Good Music Makes Good Neighbors festival will kick off at 10:30 a.m., taking place in various locations around Montague Center, and.
Musica Franklin Fun Fest seeks to empower local youths >Vicki Citron, Musica Franklin’s founding director, leads children in the program in a song at the Episcopal Church of Saints James and Andrew in Greenfield in 2016. Citron says Musica Franklin’s upcoming Fun Fest on Saturday is “all about youth voice.” Staff File Photo/Matt Burkhartt >The Gaslight Tinkers will perform at Musica Franklin’s third annual Fun Fest on Saturday in Peskeomskut Park in Turners Falls. Contributed photo >Viva Quetzal will perform at Musica Franklin’s third annual Fun Fest on Saturday in Peskeomskut Park in Turners Falls. Contributed photo
‘Hangman’ at Middle School
Published: 2/19/2021 4:30:32 PM
As children, many of us played the spelling game hangman. It seemed innocent enough then, but a clearer look at this seemingly innocuous sketch of a lynching reveals how racism is buried so deeply in our consciousness.
Recently, a teacher at the Greenfield Middle School led a classroom in the game of hangman. The words to be spelled, under the image of a lynching, were Black Lives Matter. The teacher called on a child of color to read the words. The shaming, humiliation and threatening of children of color in their classroom is unacceptable.