“Music and Math,” by Boston artist Ekua Holmes, takes viewers inside the mind of a young boy who wants to do well in school, yet remain free to roam. Other works by Holmes and collaborator Kim Nielssen are on display in a free exhibit entitled “Something Borrowed, Something New,” running through Oct. 28 at the Gallery at the Piano Factory, 791 Tremont Street. (Image courtesy of Ekua Holmes)

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The Niagara Movement
One hundred years ago, the civil rights organization held its largest gathering in Boston to help fight for racial equality in America

(top left, above) Group photographs of the men and women of the Niagara Movement. More than half of the delegates at the Boston meeting were women. (Photos courtesy of University of Massachusetts at Amherst) (bottom left) Participants in the 1907 annual meeting of the Niagara Movement in Boston at Faneuil Hall posed for this portrait. Attracting more than 800 people, the Boston meeting was the largest gathering of the Niagara Movement and the first to allow women to vote as delegates. W.E.B. Du Bois, seated in the front row wearing a dark suit next to Harvard classmate Clement G. Morgan, used the momentum of the Niagara Movement to help start the NAACP. A symposium on the Niagara Movement is scheduled to be held at UMass-Boston on Oct. 17 between noon and 2 p.m., followed by a roundtable discussion on Oct. 20 at Faneuil Hall at 11 a.m. (Photo courtesy of University of Massachusetts at Amherst W.E.B. Du Bois Library)