Black Alumni Weekend will take place concurrently with Homecoming Weekend, November 10 - 12, 2023. This three-day event will have all of the things you love about Black Alumni Weekend alongside the fun of Homecoming programming. 

Black Alumni Weekend programming is being planned in partnership with the Amherst Society of Black Alumni and will include open classes, a career panel, Black Church, conversations with students, networking opportunities, celebrations of Black scholarship and culture and much more. This year the College will also observe the 50th anniversary of Gerald Penny’s tragic death in 1973.