Afro-American Studies

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Overhead photo of UMass basketball team shooting a basket.

Capturing the ‘rock stars and gods’ of ’90s UMass basketball

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Black Mass Communications Project members at the Du Bois Homesite 20th anniversary celebration

UMass archivists shine a light on the past

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Black and white headshots of interviewees are shown surrounded by small images of objects from their individual stories.

Change. How do we make it happen—or cope with it when it happens to us?

An Egyptian intellectual. Hundreds of naked students. UMass in 1974.

A century and a half after the birth of W.E.B. Du Bois, a pillar of Afro-American studies at UMass Amherst ponders what the renowned scholar might have to tell us now