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Africana studies professor Kellie Carter Jackson, author of We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance, was on the podcast “You’re Wrong About” discussing American history through the lens of revolutions, change, and joy not from a few white men, but from generations of Black women.

“If we want our economy to grow and thrive, then you have to have childcare," says Wellesley Centers for Women senior research scientist Wendy Wagner Robeson.

Journalists Heather Long (Wellesley ’04) and Sergio Peçanha’s editorial series on urban revival won the Loeb Award for Commentary. Their entry, "How to Revive America's Comatose Downtowns," explored how cities can make the best of a once-in-a-generation chance to rebuild, revive and repopulate post-Covid.

“Dongducheon was the storied camp town in Korea,” said Katharine H.S. Moon, an emerita professor at Wellesley College, in Massachusetts, who wrote “Sex Among Allies,” a book on the country’s camp towns. “It was ‘shantytown Las Vegas.’ ”

Harlem became home to Black artists, musicians, authors and socialites of all sexual stripes... Novelist Nella Larsen was known to socialize with women who love women, said Octavio Gonzalez, assistant professor of English at Wellesley College. “If she wasn't purely queer, she was, I think, very open sexually or romantically to both men and women.”

Actors From The London Stage visit Wellesley.

Lessons in leadership and citizenship at Civic Action Lab.

Geneva Overholser ’70 and Melissa Ludtke ’73 share stories from their careers

English professor Kathryn Lynch on how single-sex colleges provide women students extraordinary opportunities to spread their intellectual wings and fly in ways they just can’t in co-ed environments.