THE COLLEGE CONNECTION

Mark Anthony Neal is Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African-American Studies at Duke University. He has written and lectured extensively on Black popular culture and music, Black masculinity, sexism and homophobia in Black communities, and...

As part of a year-long series on gender issues and new media at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center, this panel of distinguished speakers from the fields of journalism, security, and leadership development explores the multiple ways in which questions of physical and...

An Architectural Trajectory Thursday, November 15, 2012 5:00 p.m. Bernie Dallas Room, Goodell Building, UMass Amherst Acclaimed architect Patrick Tighe ’89 discusses the role of innovation and inquiry in his work and award-winning firm, Patrick Tighe Architecture of Santa Monica,...

Poet Martha Collins reads from Blue Front, her book-length poem based on the lynching her father witnessed as a child in 1909, and from White Papers, the subsequent volume that explores what it means to be “white” in a multi-racial society, at Smith College’s Stoddard Hall...

Professor Imani Perry will introduce her research on hip-hop culture and analyze the intersections between women, gender, and hip hop culture on Friday, Nov. 2, at 4 p.m. in Stirn Auditorium. Perry is a professor at Princeton University’s Center for African American Studies...

Soledad O’Brien, the anchor of CNN’s morning news program Starting Point, will deliver a keynote address on Friday, November 9. Members of the campus community and the public are invited to this free event. O’Brien’s talk launches MHC’s 2012 Black Alumnae...

Doron Goldman is a former lecturer in the Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management at UMass Amherst. Doron “Duke” Goldman is currently a baseball historian and presenter as well as an elder care researcher. At UMass Amherst, Doron taught a course called “Baseball: Myths...

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....