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    Being that Hampshire College does not offer a grad school, faculty sometimes turn to recent alumni to help them with their work. A new book of poetry coming out on Ugly Duckling press edited by a Hampshire Professor showcases some of her former students.

Nick Hurwitz-Goodman is an artist living in Florence, MA, working with sculpture and drawing. Hurwitz-Goodman’s interest in art began while drawing in High School and engaging with the community his hometown, Detroit, MI.

Ken Burns will be on campus to screen his new film The Central Park Five. In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of raping a white woman in Central Park. They spent between six and 13 years in prison before a serial rapist confessed

Civil rights lawyer and activist Michelle Alexander—author of The New Jim Crow—delivers the 15th Annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture on November 1 at Hampshire College. Alexander’s 2010 book The New Jim Crow received the NAACP Image Award for outstanding literary work of nonfiction.