Poet Martha Collins reads from Blue Front, her book-length poem based on the lynching her father witnessed as a child in 1909, and from White […]
Imani Perry – “Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop” – Amherst College
Professor Imani Perry will introduce her research on hip-hop culture and analyze the intersections between women, gender, and hip hop culture on Friday, Nov. 2, […]
Soledad O’Brien – Q&A after her keynote speech at Mount Holyoke College
Soledad O’Brien, the anchor of CNN’s morning news program Starting Point, will deliver a keynote address on Friday, November 9. Members of the campus community and […]
Doron Goldman – “Effa Manley, the First Woman Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame” – UMass-Amherst
Doron Goldman is a former lecturer in the Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management at UMass Amherst. Doron “Duke” Goldman is currently a baseball […]
Michelle Alexander: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Civil rights lawyer and activist Michelle Alexander—author of The New Jim Crow—delivers the 15th Annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture on November 1 at Hampshire College. Alexander’s 2010 […]
The $3 Billion Election – Money, Speech and the Future of Campaign Finance – Johnson Chapel, Amherst College, October 26th, 2012
The 3 Billion Dollar Election – Money, Speech & The Future of Campaign Finance Friday, October 26th, 2012 Johnson Chapel Amherst College, Amherst MA Over […]