UMass Professor Leads Successful Campaign To Make Juneteenth A State Holiday
Source: UMass News and Media Growing up in Beaumont, TX, UMass Professor of Afro-American Studies...
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OPINION: HERE’S WHY REOPENING SCHOOLS BEFORE NEXT SPRING WILL BE A DISASTER
Editor’s note: this article appeared previously in AlterNet. We are sprinting toward a large-scale, real-time...
OPINION: IS THIS THE MOMENT?
I take seriously the admonition of Black Lives Matter leaders to White people that we...
AMHERST RESIDENTS DISCUSS POLICING POLICIES WITH TOWN OFFICIALS
A webinar for Amherst area residents entitled “Racial Equity and Public Safety in the Town...
LARGE TURNOUT ON AMHERST COMMON IN SUPPORT OF BLACK LIVES
by Marla Goldberg-Jamate and Art Keene For the second consecutive Sunday, more than 1,000 people...
COMMUNITY JUNEENTH CELEBRATION GOES VIRTUAL
The Five College Area’s 10 th Annual Juneteenth Celebration will be held mostly virtually this...
WHAT JUNETEENTH MEANS TO ME
Ten years ago I met Ed and Vira Cage at a Juneteenth Family Fun Day...
OPINION: THREE THINGS WE CAN DO ABOUT RACIAL INJUSTICE
Things have changed – again – as racial justice protests sweep through cities large and...
APRIL SYMPOSIUM RACE AND THE AMERICAN STORY NOW OPEN TO THE PUBLIC ONLINE
SOURCE: UMass Office of News and Media Relations As campuses nationwide responded to the global...
OPINION: WHAT’S RACE GOT TO DO WITH IT?
Last May I went back to a reunion at the college I attended many years...
FROM OTHER SOURCES (#11): NEWS AND FEATURES FOR AND ABOUT AMHERST.
Editor’s Note: “From Other Sources” offers links to articles that may be of interest to Amherst readers. We...
AMHERST CELEBRATES RACE AMITY DAY
By Jenifer McKenna with Ash Hartwell and Juan Caban On May 20, 2015, Amherst Town...