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Recent AfroAm Graduate Students to Discuss Career Pathways and Issues in BIPOC Mental Health and Wellness

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Recent graduates from the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies Sofia Meadows-Muriel '22; Charles Pisaturo '22; Chayanne Chataigne '21; and Carlea Dolcine '23 will join...
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UMass Dance to Present Innovative Convergence Performance Gallery

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

The UMass Amherst Dance Program will premiere Convergence, an innovative and exciting performance gallery and film project, on Feb. 2-4 at 7:30 p.m. each evening in the Totman Performance Lab ...
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B.R. AMBEDKAR

AfroAm’s Amilcar Shabazz and UMass Libraries Commemorate B.R. Ambedkar and Accept Gift of Books

Tuesday, January 24, 2023

The University of Massachusetts Amherst and Boston Study Group (BSG), an organization dedicated to working towards a just and equitable society, commemorated the 66th anniversary of B.R. Ambedkar’s...
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Toys R Us

AfroAm's Traci Parker Explores Nostalgia, the Pandemic, and Toys R Us in The Washington Post

Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Traci Parker, associate professor of Afro-American studies and author of “Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s,"...
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Swamy, Ellsberg, and Patricia

Renowned Activist and Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg Awarded Honorary Degree By UMass Amherst in Special Ceremony Conducted in San Francisco

Monday, January 23, 2023

Daniel Ellsberg, one of the nation’s foremost political activists and whistleblowers, was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Massachusetts Amherst in a special ceremony held Saturday...
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