Tag: activism

  • Nation & World

    How music powers protest

    The struggle for racial justice has always had a soundtrack. Charrise Barron explores its evolution from gospel to hip-hop.

    5 minutes
    Charrise Barron.
  • Nation & World

    ‘Funny … frivolous … serious’

    Music and comedy meet queer and Jewish radicalism in Morgan Bassichis exhibit at the Carpenter Center.

    4 minutes
    Pamphlets with titles like "Before going to someone's house for dinner" and "Before joining an organization," from the "More Little Ditties" exhibit.
  • Nation & World

    Harvard students head for Supreme Court rally

    They will join groups from other schools, activists, lawyers in support of campus diversity as justices hear admissions challenge.

    5 minutes
    Chelsea Wang, David Lewis, Soleei Guasp, Kylan Tatum, Muskaan Arshad.
  • Nation & World

    Link between Ukraine fighting, fossil fuels

    German activists say shifting to renewable energy sources could produce environmental, peace dividends.

    5 minutes
    climate activists and co-founders of Germany’s Fridays for Future Helena Marschall and Luisa Neubauer
  • Nation & World

    Building a more just society

    “The Architecture of Democracy” examined how buildings, and their designers, contribute to the shape of our society.

    6 minutes
    Architecture.
  • Nation & World

    Battle for LGBTQ rights amid the pandemic

    As part of Worldwide Week at Harvard, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs hosted “Rethinking Resistance Politics in Troubling Times: Transnational Queer Solidarity During COVID-19,” an online panel discussing recent work examining the international situation.

    7 minutes
    Sarah Hegazi during protests in Canada.
  • Nation & World

    Striking lessons from the 1960s

    The occupation of University Hall in April 1969 and the strike that followed it left its mark on Harvard’s psyche. A daylong event Friday commemorates the 50th anniversary and brings today’s student activists into the conversation.

    8 minutes
    Closeup of a fist raised during 1969 strike.
  • Nation & World

    Climate made scary

    Journalist David Wallace-Wells and others debated the most effective way to communicate climate urgency in a Harvard discussion.

    4 minutes
    Nikhil Advani, (from left) University of Alaska, Nancy Knowlton, World Wildlife Fund, and Cam Webb talk about the best ways to understand and communicate about the environment's future inside the Harvard University Center for the Environment before the evening event at the Geo Lecture Hall.
  • Nation & World

    A bleak, troubling history

    Laurence Ralph, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Departments of Anthropology and African and African American Studies, will give a talk on the history of police violence in the United States.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Freedom in motion

    Burmese activist Aung San Suu Kyi delivered the Godkin Lecture and took questions from students last night at Harvard Kennedy School.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A Nobel cause in the Arab world

    The West must do more to support the ongoing, peaceful democratic revolutions in long-suppressed Arab nations, Yemeni activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman said during an address at the Harvard Kennedy School

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Guthrie in the outdoors

    Harvard will host a live outdoor simulcast of the American Repertory Theater’s production of “Woody Sez: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie” on May 17. Tickets are available May 3.

    2 minutes