“I really see my job as explaining stuff,” Rachel Maddow, host of “The Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC and author of “Drift” and “Blowout,” said in an interview with the Mount Holyoke News before her campus book event on Sunday, Nov. 17. The event, run by The Odyssey Bookshop in collaboration with Mount Holyoke College, was the last stop on Maddow’s tour to promote her newest book.
“I hope that you never stop fighting to give every student in this country a chance to succeed,” Elizabeth Warren said in a statement read by her State Presidential Campaign Director and Holyoke City Councilor Jossie Valentin at the premiere of a new documentary about Frances Perkins screened at Chapin Auditorium on Nov. 7.
“I originally thought of myself as a writer. But history gripped me,” said speaker Annette Gordon-Reed, a Charles Warren professor of American legal history at Harvard Law School and professor of history in the faculty of arts and sciences at Harvard University. She was addressing the crowd gathered in Gamble Auditorium on Oct. 31.
