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Berkshire Community College, Berkshire NAACP co-sponsoring Monday’s MLK Day of Service in Pittsfield

The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964.
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The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964.

For the first time since 2020, Berkshire Community College and the Berkshire Chapter of the NAACP will hold an in-person Martin Luther King Day of Service in Pittsfield, Massachusetts Monday.

The day starts off at the First United Methodist Church with breakfast followed by a keynote address from Berkshire Health Systems' Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer Charles Redd.

“After that, people who have signed up as volunteers have the choice of going to a few different service sites to support either painting with Habitat for Humanity, they can play bingo with Soldier On, play with children at the Boys & Girls Club, or, which I'm going to do with my little son, craft some Valentine's Day cards for residents at Hillcrest Commons right there at the United Methodist Church,” said BCC DEI Director Toni Buckley.

Pittsfield’s MLK Day of Service begins at 8 and ends with lunch back at the church.

Josh Landes has been WAMC's Berkshire Bureau Chief since February 2018, following stints at WBGO Newark and WFMU East Orange. A passionate advocate for Western Massachusetts, Landes was raised in Pittsfield and attended Hampshire College in Amherst, receiving his bachelor's in Ethnomusicology and Radio Production. His free time is spent with his cat Harry, experimental electronic music, and exploring the woods.
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