Free speech advocates are slamming a police officer going to a Massachusetts middle school to search for a single book.On December 8, an anonymous caller contacted the police department in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, to complain that an obscene book was available to eighth grade students at the W.E.B. Du Bois Regional Middle School. An officer was sent to investigate.The book in question is Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe. The memoir does contain sexually explicit illustrations and language, bu
Journalist and educator R. Gustav Niebuhr, who began his career at The Berkshire Eagle in 1980 and later reshaped how religion is covered in America, has died.