Will Biden Free Leonard Peltier? Indigenous Leaders Urge Not to Let Him Die in Prison After commuting the sentences of over 2,500 people imprisoned for nonviolent drug offenses, Joe Biden has set a record for most pardons and commutations by a U.S. president. But Indigenous political p...

Free Leonard Peltier now! President Biden, grant him clemency now!

A ‘trailblazer’ honored: One of the first African Americans hired to faculty at UMass bestowed with study, gathering space in his name AMHERST — On the cusp of celebrating his 100th birthday in January, Edwin D. Driver, emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts and one of the first two African Americans ever ...

UMass emeritus professor Edwin Driver will be 100 years old in a week. He was the first person of African descent to be hired to the faculty on my campus in 1948.