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Oscar-winning director Roger Ross Williams brings Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s New York Times bestseller to the screen with Stamped From the Beginning. Published in 2016, Dr. Kendi’s National Book Award winner chronicles the entire story of anti-Black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. Africana studies professor Kellie Carter Jackson joins other leading female academics and activists such as Dr. Angela Davis, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, and Brittany Packnett Cunningham to guide viewers through a searing account of how racist tropes and imagery were developed and enshrined in American culture.

Last month, Kyiv’s troops finally made modest but meaningful gains, piercing Russia’s first line of defense in the southeast. Ukraine’s military in recent days says it has retaken two more villages in the east. “Offenses are not linear affairs,” said Stacie Goddard, professor of political science and associate provost for Wellesley in the World.

About a quarter of the people attempting to complete the Appalachian Trail actually finish it. Diana Jackosn '18 walked all 2,192 miles of it. 

NPR's 'Wait Wait' for September 16th is joined by Hillary Rodham Clinton '69 to talk about the Clinton Global Initiative and Pete Davidson. Her segment begins at 18:30. Professor Kelsey Miller '07, visiting lecturer in art, competes in the first quiz, at the very beginning of the show!

At The Presidents Dinner in Washington, D.C., last week, 13 college presidents gathered with national media outlets to engage in organic conversation about higher education and some of today’s most pressing issues. “The undertone I get is that higher ed should fix the inequality that is devastating this country, and we do have an important role,” Wellesley College President Paula A. Johnson said. “The question is, what is that role, what is the organization that we actually create, and what is the momentum and power that we might have that we don’t yet quite recognize today?”

Bad Bunny is already a subject of academic study.... At Wellesley College, he's a 300-level American Studies class: "Bad Bunny: Race, Gender and Empire in Reggaeton" taught by professor Petra Rivera-Rideau.

Between 2012 and 2021, both Geneva and Allegheny lost around a quarter of their undergraduate enrollments, according to Department of Education data. Free tuition policies can attract students and help them understand that they will pay less than the sticker price for their education, said Phillip Levine, a Wellesley College economics professor who studies higher education pricing.

“We cannot talk about reparations and healing of any kind without addressing and redressing the worldwide desecration and dishonor of African sacred cosmologies — our eco-centered, eco-conscious, and cosmic way of life — our right to live — to be and breathe,” Dr. Liseli Fitzpatrick said to delegates and members of the Permanent Forum. Fitzpatrick is a Trinidadian professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Mass., who attended the second session of the Permanent Forum due to her ongoing commitment to the healing, empowerment and liberation of African peoples. “Any exercise in reparations is futile if we do not recognize and respect the spirituality of African peoples and the inflicted injuries and injustices caused by centuries of spiritual and physical violence,” Fitzpatrick said in her remarks. 

Knowing that objections to freedom of thought and inquiry can have detrimental implications, the Institute for Citizens & Scholars launched The Campus Call. Wellesley College is a member.