Last year, Barrington Stage received $10,000 from Mass Humanities to host a two-day symposium about race and bias, centered around the play “American Son,” about an interracial couple confronting the country’s racial divide.
The Northampton-based Mass Humanities is a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities — one of the arts agencies that President Donald Trump has proposed defunding in his 2018 budget. Read more about Trump’s proposed funding cuts to the arts >>