Judas and the Black Messiah, a historical drama about the betrayal of Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party in the late 1960s in Chicago at the hands of FBI informant William O’Neal, has a University of Massachusetts Amherst connection. Rosa Clemente, doctoral student in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, helped produce the film, earning an associate producer credit.

Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy recently announced the establishment of an endowed graduate fellowship in honor of John H. Bracey, Jr., professor of Afro-American studies at UMass Amherst since 1972, in conjunction with the campus’s Black Presence Initiative.

This month, a collaboration between UMass Amherst's auxiliary enterprises and faculty and students in the languages, literatures, and cultures department (LLC) launched a new food safety training...

Zoe Stinson '21, a music performance and music education double major, is among eight outstanding undergraduates who recently received fall 2020 Rising Researcher awards. The Rising Researcher...

The College of Humanities and Fine Arts stands in solidarity and grief with the Asian and Asian American community in the aftermath of the devastating killings of six Asian women in the Atlanta...

The following message was shared with the UMass Amherst community following the events of March 16, 2021. The College of Humanities and Fine Arts shares the Chancellor’s condemnation of racism and...