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Patrisse Cullors, a social activist, best-selling author of “When They Call You A Terrorist,” co-creator of the viral Twitter hashtag and movement #BlackLivesMatter, was recently named to Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2020.
For Mount Holyoke’s annual Hortense Parker day, Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, spoke about revolutionary healing.
Tent city built after 2010 earthquake in Haiti destroyed by a tropical storm. Photo: REUTERS/Swoan Parker
This summer, Davis Projects for Peace award winner Catheleen Heyliger FP’16 will start an ambitious project aimed at improving women's lives in Léogâne.
Image of Gail Hornstein.
Psychology professor Gail Hornstein will speak about her ground-breaking book, “Agnes’s Jacket: A Psychologist’s Search for the Meanings of Madness,” newly