Amanda J. Collins performs as Angelina Grimké in “A Light Under the Dome” at the Massachusetts State House in August 2024. The play will have a staged reading at the Unitarian Society of Northampton ...

Men, brethren and fathers -- mothers, daughters and sisters, what came ye out for to see? A reed shaken with the wind? Is it curiosity merely, or a deep sympathy with the perishing slave, that has ...

BOSTON - The Massachusetts State House may not be the first place you would think of to see theater, but that's what makes a new play so special. Performances of "A Light Under the Dome" are now ...

National Parks of Boston and Plays in Place collaborated on the project, which explores the city’s intersections with women’s suffrage and the early antislavery movement. From Paul Revere’s legendary ...

What do Helen Keller, Angelina Grimke, Theodore Roosevelt and an Abe Lincoln impersonator have in common? They all had memorable moments on Beacon Street, at the Massachusetts State House. Those are ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Hellen Drinan is a President for the Simmons College with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2013 Forum. Simmons College held a forum honoring ...

Speaking as a southern woman who had seen firsthand the "demoralizing influence" of slavery and its "destructiveness to human happiness," Angelina Grimké Weld gave an inspiring speech at Pennsylvania ...