“The Care and Keeping of You” was an ever-present beacon of light in the confusing days of my adolescence...
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Located past Elm Street tucked behind Cutter-Ziskind House, a warm white and canary yellow building known as the Davis Center houses Smith College’s Mwangi Cultural Center. This small space on campus is the primary hub hosting and running programming for students who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC).
Discussing the commodification of pride is not a novelty at Smith. As students, we are all well acquainted with the story...
On Monday, Feb. 6, Core Lecturer of Music in Voice Kate Saik DeLugan and collaborative pianist Lemuel Gurtowsky performed song cycles by composer Benjamin Britten,…
If you ever did want to imagine your mother as a 1980s indie-folk artist whom you only see on old VHS tapes, Odie Leigh’s “How…
On December 8, WAMH 89.3, Amherst College’s radio station, hosted indie rock singer-songwriter Sidney Gish at the Powerhouse for a show open to all Five…
She haunts the screen like she’s just emerged from a crypt: twin raven braids, ghostly complexion, shadowed undereyes and a tell-tale flat expression. Yet, Wednesday…
“Does anyone have any questions?” My professor’s words reverberate through the lecture hall. Truthfully, the last thirty minutes went in one ear and out the other...
Content Warning: Anti-Indigenous Racism, disrespect of human remains
All across Smith’s campus, buildings bear the names of people who have, in some way or another, contributed to the college. While the type of namesake ranges from former professors to famous alums to donors, these names — and especially the names of residential buildings — are instrumental to building the sense of community Smith prides itself on. But when examining some of these namesakes more closely, a darker undertone begins to emerge.
It’s February 2016 at a music center in the Bronx, and Pablo José López Oro, who is currently a Smith professor of Africana Studies, attentively gazes at a group of Garifuna folks rhythmically swaying across the stage. The beat of militant drums echoes across the room as the dancers, dressed in a traditional attire that predates their existence, swing their hips and fervently chant in their native Garifuna language rooted in Carib-Arawak syntax — Carib-Arawak Indians, they claim, are their ancestral origins.