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Dr. Sarah Willie-LeBreton will become president of Smith College, effective July 1, 2023.

/PRNewswire/ -- The Smith College Board of Trustees today announced that Sarah Willie-LeBreton has been named the 12th president of Smith College....

Save this story for later. In the past five years, three movies of great distinction have challenged, in subtle and profound ways, our notions of who gets to speak for whom, especially when it comes to race, gender, and sexuality. In 2016, Barry Jenkins, a straight Black filmmaker, directed “Moonlight,” a landmark movie about Black gay life. Three years later, Trey Edward Shults, a white director, wrote and directed “Waves,” an extraordinary study of the dissolution of one middle-class ...