On April 17 and 18, the 5C Prison Abolition Collective hosted an abolitionist poetry reading and concert featuring the work of Keith LaMar, an incarcerated man on death row who called in to the concert to perform his spoken-word poetry.
Author: Noa Polish
Harvard & Yale brings the ‘retail coffee experience’ to Claremont
Harvard & Yale, which opened its pop-up location on February 16th in the Claremont Village, has grand aspirations for the future. The newest addition to the Village combines the retail and coffee shop experiences.
Centering Black technoscientific aesthetics in science and beyond
Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein spoke at CMC’s Pickford Auditorium on March 7 for the 37th annual Sojourner Truth Lecture, which has brought outstanding African American women to campus since 1983. Prescod-Weinstein, a theoretical physicist and theorist of Black feminist science studies, discussed Black cosmological storytelling.
‘The Lobster’ claws its way onto the 5C publishing scene
In the fall of 2024, a group of Pomona students established The Lobster: The Claremont Journal of the Humanities, in hopes of creating space for a diverse breadth of work from across the Claremont Colleges.



