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The student newspaper of Wellesley College since 1901

The Wellesley News

The student newspaper of Wellesley College since 1901

The Wellesley News

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Atlanta Shooting Sparks New Conversations About Racism Against Asian-Americans

Jennifer Duan | April 27, 2021

“If you think about what this man did to these people, he literally reduced them to objects; he took away their humanity.” Eight people were killed in a series of targeted attacks against three Asian-owned...

Photo Courtesy of Lorraine Palmer '20

Wildfires Concern Wellesley Students and Alumnae in California

Jennifer Duan | September 30, 2020

This is the first year that Megan Gürer ’22 and her family have had to evacuate their home. Gürer, who lives in Scotts Valley, was forced to flee an hour north to Half Moon Bay as the CZU Lightning...

The video referencing slavery in the context of sugar addiction was on Wellesley's orientation website for several days. Photos used with permission of Dani Pergola '21

Wellesley Nurse Practitioner Compares Sugar Addiction to Slavery in Orientation Video

Jennifer Duan | August 20, 2020
“Wellesley, I and a lot of other Black students believe, needs to have a cultural reckoning and that means that administrators and professors and our classmates need to dig deep and commit to wanting to not be racist.” Nevills explained. “And we haven't really seen that on a large scale.”
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