• 2024.11.08 Moon 4b movement New York Times

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    4B is a radical feminist movement that started in South Korea and encourages the rejection of heterosexual dating, marriage and sex, as well as childbirth. According to Katharine Moon, a political science professor emerita at Wellesley College, the biggest difference between budding ideas for what the 4B movement could look like in the United States and what has already existed in South Korea is the centrality of marriage.

  • 2024.11.07 HRCC college presidents democracy Insight Into Diversity

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    At the intersection of education and democracy, college presidents are leading efforts to empower the next generation of engaged citizens... This fall, Wellesley College will offer all sophomores a yearlong program focused on active citizenship and global challenges through the College’s new Hillary Rodham Clinton Center for Citizenship, Leadership, and Democracy.

  • 2024.11.07 Mfoniso Udofia 06 review of Sojourners Boston Globe

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    The Boston Globe gives an outstanding review of the first play in The Ufot Family Cycle by Mfoniso Udofia '06: "It‘s impossible to watch 'Sojourners' without thinking of the late August Wilson, who had a strong working relationship with the Huntington... Wilson’s goal was to capture the complexity and variety of the Black experience. I think he’d find a lot to admire in 'Sojourners,' and in Udofia."

  • 2024.11.07 Mfoniso Udofia 06 profile Worcester Telegram & Gazette

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    The Ufot Family Cycle is a story of family, spanning generations, cultures and continents, and a production bringing together many partners, including greater Boston theater companies and the Prior Performance Arts Center at the College of the Holy Cross. And it begins with the pen and life experience of Mfoniso Udofia ’06, award-winning playwright, first-generation Nigerian-American raised in the Worcester area.

  • Corinne Gartner, associate professor of philosophy, and Adele Watkins, assistant professor of philosophy pose in front of their bookshelves filled with philosophy books. They each hold a book.
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    Wellesley professors and students contribute to a first-of-its-kind digital repository for annotated philosophical works.

  • 2024.11.06 Carter Jackson new book The Huntington News

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    Africana studies professor Kellie Carter Jackson visited Northeastern on October 30 to talk about her newly published book titled “We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance.”

  • 2024.11.06 Emily Randall 08 first LGBTQ latina Congress The Hill

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    Democrat Emily Randall ’08 won her bid for Washington’s 6th Congressional District, making history as the first woman and openly LGBTQ person elected to represent the district in Congress.

  • 2024.11.06 Davis Museum by Mfoniso Udofia ’06 Boston Globe

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    This week’s Boston Globe write up of things to do in and around Boston includes both the new exhibit at Wellesley College’s Davis Museum, RORY MCEWEN: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON NATURE, and the play SOJOURNERS by Mfoniso Udofia ’06, which is now running at the Huntington Theatre.

  • 2024.11.06 Chinaza Aham-neze '26 election watch party WBUR

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    Chinaza Aham-neze '26 said the goal of Tuesday's event was to show community support, regardless of the outcome of the election. "We understand that during the election, whether it's highly anticipated, highly stressful..." said Aham-neze. "This is a time for you to really be with your community."