Technical industries tend to be populated by people who notice details immediately. A missing piece of safety equipment, outdated imagery, or an inaccurate representation of a worksite can undermine ...

In 1781, Elizabeth Freeman (also known as Mum Bett), an enslaved woman in Massachusetts, sued her enslavers in court and won, using the new Massachusetts state constitution’s declaration that “all ...

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 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, ...