Seven high school seniors receive Sojourner Truth Social Justice Awards

NORTHAMPTON — For years now, activists have gathered annually in Florence under the spreading arms of the Sojourner Truth statue many of them saw get built, to raise their voices in song and award a handful of high school seniors scholarships in the great abolitionist’s name. You’d expect there’d be something missing in the Zoom version of all this, but led by Sojourner Truth Memorial Committee co-chairs Marcus Ware and Carol Rinehart, what one got was a pretty excellent show, with a lot of personality and youth of all ages, colors and creeds in full expression.

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