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Speaking Up, Out & Often

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Speaking Up, Out & Often

9/22/26, Co-Host Amilcar Shabazz

Old Farmers’ Almanac Editor-in-Chief Carol Connare: 2 ½ million copies of 2027 edition just printed, 235 continuous years of publication, the content in the Almanac, why millions buy it, her 20 years at UMass.

Valley and Hilltown theatre icon and Founder of Stonesthrow Theater Court Dorsey w/ Rene Pfister, from the Berklee College of Music: “What I Learned from Years of Therapy, If Anything,” a musical cabaret at the Wendell Meeting House—this Saturday at 7:00, Sunday at 4:00.

Massachusetts Review Ex Ed Britt Rusert on her new book, The Afric -American Gallery,” her local book launch at Amherst Books on October 8 at 7:00; and the new edition of MR that just dropped.

Author and activist Howard Bryant w/ Duke Goldman on the tenth anniversary of Colin Kaepernick taking a knee—what happens and what has happened to professional athletes who want to speak out.

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