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“The price of batteries and renewable generation has fallen so much that batteries and solar and wind, when put together, are so cost-competitive,” says environmental studies professor Jay Turner.

Keynote speaker Kellie Carter Jackson: “I contend that the opposite of violence is not nonviolence, the opposite of violence is the fullness of Black humanity bound together with joy.”

More than 150 people gathered at the annual World of Wellesley MLK Day lunch, where Africana studies professor Kellie Carter Jackson spoke on Black resistance and attendees discussed related topics.

Bad Bunny Syllabus co-founder Petra Rivera-Rideau was featured in Brazil’s major newspaper about Bad Bunny’s 'Debí tirar más fotos' and the album's political importance.

American studies professor Petra Rivera-Rideau writes that Bad Bunny’s new album is more than a love letter to Puerto Rico: it’s “a rallying cry to address the myriad crises facing [his] homeland.”

Economics professor Phillip Levine on how Trump could devastate our top colleges' finances: “A 35-percent endowment tax would hurt students—and society.”

Patrick McEwan, a professor of Latin American studies and economics, said the indigenous scholarship is a “successful” policy and “unique in Latin America.” Beneficiaries have increased their salaries by 22% and their job placement by 10%.

Professor emerita Selwyn Cudjoe writes for the Trinidad Daily Express: “Trinidad and Tobago has entered into a state of madness. We may well descend into a Haiti-like form of lawlessness unless we remove our irresponsible Government from office.”

President Biden recognized an expansive cast of public figures, celebrities and cultural luminaries on Saturday with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Hillary Clinton ’69 was one of the 18 honorees, along with famous figures in sports, entertainment, fashion, film, science, social justice, and activism.