Nation & World

A 4th of July community reading to explore the resonance of Frederick Douglass’ famous speech, reflect on the past, and what comes next.

The metaLAB(at)Harvard project gathers the names and stories of 28,000 people who died during police encounters, highlighting racial disparities.

Harvard’s Sociology Department and UNESCO look at rise in various aspects of racism.

House Majority Whip James Clyburn, the highest-ranking African American in Congress, brought a unique perspective to Harvard for Juneteenth.

“A Conversation on Tulsa and the Long History of Dispossession of African Americans: What We Don’t Know” focused on the race issues dividing the United States — and the possibility that open discussion could move us forward.

Historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed explores the controversy surrounding the removal of Confederate statues.

Harvard’s president, recipients, and professors hope the Supreme Court’s narrow rejection of Donald Trump’s move to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program will lead to more comprehensive immigration reform.

Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery across the nation, when the Union Army took official control of Texas on June 19, 1865, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

Harvard faculty members in law and gender issues declared Monday’s Supreme Court ruling protecting gay and transgender workers a landmark for LGBT rights.

As protests condemning police brutality against African Americans and systemic racism in the U.S. continue, Harvard faculty share their views on what they’d like to see happen next.

The intellectual questions Durba Mitra asks are formed both from her research and from her conversations with women on their experiences of social judgment.

An Ash Center panel probes the history of entrenched violent racism in America from its roots to its current manifestation.

Francesca Gino at Harvard Business School discusses how toxic cultures can flourish within police departments and other organizations.

Harvard panel discusses long-festering wounds of racial inequities and steps forward.

Interview with Orlando Patterson, a historical and cultural sociologist, about the killing of George Floyd and how it exposed the deep roots of racism in American society.

New research from Harvard economists finds partisan politics isn’t just shaping policy opinions, it’s distorting our understanding of reality.

As protests continue over the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, Lawrence D. Bobo, dean of social science and the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, discusses the underlying social and cognitive factors at work in police violence against Black people.

Hannah Stohler is executive director of Marguerite’s Place, a transitional living program for women & children in crisis in Nashua, New Hampshire. Previously, she held roles in leadership and programming at nonprofit organizations serving survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.

As a leading architect and urbanist, Charles Waldheim is helping Miami adapt to a changing climate.

In a deeply competitive business not known for magnanimity, top editors, publishers, and media critics explain why The Washington Post’s Martin Baron is such an admired newsroom leader.

In a question-and-answer session, Martin Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post and this year’s graduation speaker, talks about his life and times.

Hundreds of social scientists, business executives, Nobel laureates, state attorneys general, colleges rebut group appealing judgment in favor of Harvard admissions policies.

Anthony Fauci told mayors and city leaders at a seminar hosted at Harvard Kennedy School that they should “expect” to see new “blips of infections” as communities begin to reopen, but not to be “discouraged.”

Q&A with Olga Jonas, an expert in managing the risks of pandemics, on the lessons governments can learn from the coronavirus pandemic.

The battlefronts of World War II and COVID-19 may look very different, but long term consequences remain the constant

A new book by historian Walter Johnson sees the history of St. Louis as emblematic of the racial, economic, and legal schisms in America.

Experts at the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development look at COVID-19’s economic impact on Native American communities across the U.S.

Harvard political scientists traveled to four swing states in the past three years to take the political temperature in conservative counties.

In the second episode of Education Now, a new initiative by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, host Richard Weissbourd talks to Sonja Santelises, CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools, and Anu Ebbe, principal of Shorewood Hills Elementary School in Madison, Wis.

Lead newsroom attorney details changes since 9/11, dangers facing reporters, and rise in hostility against media led by White House.