The Quest for Racial Justice

The Gazette spoke with new Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Sherri Charleston to learn more about her first two months on the job.

“The Enduring Legacy of Slavery and Racism in the North” examined the role of slavery in the North through the 19th century and the influence of Agassiz and scientific racism.

We ask members of the Harvard community: “Is this the end of Columbus Day and how can America best replace it?”

A Harvard Kennedy School research initiative that studies racial bias in the private sector will consider why diversity and inclusion efforts fail.

On Oct. 2, the Theater of War will mount a digital performance of “Antigone in Ferguson,” sponsored by Harvard’s departments of Theater, Dance & Media and the Classics.

Holmes academic society renamed in honor of physician-scientist William Augustus Hinton.

Brook Hopkins and Felix Owusu are two of the authors on a report on racial disparities in Massachusetts state prisons

We interview historian Donald Yacovone, an associate at The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, who is writing the book “Teaching White Supremacy: The Textbook Battle Over Race in American History.”

Interview with Sarah Fiarman and Tracey Benson, former school principals and HGSE graduates, who co-wrote “Unconscious Bias in Schools: A Developmental Approach to Exploring Race and Racism” to help teachers and school leaders start conversations about race in schools.

Tiya Miles, a professor of history and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, spoke to the Gazette about the vital role of public history in shaping American cultural understanding.

Sheree Ohen has been named the inaugural associate dean of diversity, inclusion, and belonging for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Claudine Gay, Edgerley Family Dean of FAS, announced today. Ohen will begin her tenure Sept. 28.

The dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced an anti-racism agenda prioritizing six areas of action.

Harvard AV technician Rudy Hypolite spent two years following five young Boston men around with digital cameras to make his documentary “This Ain’t Normal.”

Experts assess the state of the nation amid a pandemic and a national reckoning with race during a talk sponsored by the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research and PBS.

Harvard ornithologist Scott V. Edwards bicycles across the nation, raising awareness of Black Birders Week and Black Lives Matter.

For the 2020‒21 academic year, Houghton will pause all digital projects to focus solely on building a digital collection related to Black American history, building a collection called “Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom.”

Ibram X. Kendi discusses his new book, how to start conversations about racism with children and with adults, and how to dismantle racist policies.

Decades before cellphone video and social media demanded Americans witness police brutality, hip-hop turned a bright light on all of it, and more.

Harvard students talk about why they have demonstrated, their experience at protests, and their take on the moment.

The W.E.B. Du Bois Graduate Society is a student organization of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences that aims to foster community and kinship among minority doctoral students.

A panel of experts explores the history of policing in the U.S., and meaningful reform.

Princeton’s Eddie Glaude and Harvard Professor Cornel West discuss Glaude’s “Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own,” and the hope Baldwin saw for change.

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.

Boston mayor discusses $12 million antiracism public health initiative at Harvard Chan School series.

Students activate, donate in movement to fight inequity, promote police reform.

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.

Experts look at the long-term financial fallout from a 1921 riot that left an affluent Black community, known as Black Wall Street, destroyed by a white mob numbering in the thousands.