Ilyasah Shabazz calls for optimism and hope
As the keynote speaker for the tenth annual Trailblazers of Color Leadership Conference at Mount Holyoke College, Shabazz discussed enlarging people’s capacity for care.
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As the keynote speaker for the tenth annual Trailblazers of Color Leadership Conference at Mount Holyoke College, Shabazz discussed enlarging people’s capacity for care.
Barbara Smith ’69 kicked off the inaugural lecture series bearing her namesake on her time shaping the Combahee River Collective and discussed the skills she developed at Mount Holyoke that helped her contribute to building Black feminism.
Brown, an award-winning, nationally recognized “go-to” expert in Black voting rights and voter suppression, will speak at Mount Holyoke College.
Wilson spoke on campus for Mount Holyoke College’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King Commemorative Keynote as part of its yearly Racial Justice and Reconciliation series.
Mount Holyoke College has received the 2024 Library Excellence in Access and Diversity (LEAD) Award from Insight Into Diversity magazine.
Mount Holyoke professor of sociology Patricia A. Banks makes a connection between declining support for the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States and fewer race-related corporate philanthropy commitments.
In honor of Interim President Tatum’s distinguished service to Mount Holyoke College, the Board of Trustees dedicated the Unity Center in Blanchard Hall to Dr. Tatum during a special celebration on May 5, 2023.
Nearly 150 students participated in the Stoling Ceremony, an important Commencement weekend tradition celebrating the achievements of students of color and their Mount Holyoke mentors.
Mount Holyoke student Naomy Poot Ibarra is working to center their family’s Indigenous Maya heritage.
Three prominent Black feminist scholars came together at Mount Holyoke in April to discuss gender-based violence, sexual violence and racial violence. The forum took place during the twenty-second annual national Sexual Assault Awareness Month.