Featured series 
Tag: Black
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Nation & World
Their assignment? Design a more equitable future
As Biden pledges funds to undo harms caused by interstate highway system, GSD students imagine what that might look like in a dozen U.S. cities.
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Health
How unjust police killings damage the mental health of Black Americans
Harvard Chan’s David Williams, whose research looks at how discrimination affects Black people’s health, talks about his pioneering work to assess the toll that police killings are having on Black mental health.
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Nation & World
Racism, far before slavery
At a Harvard Lecture, Wellesley College Professor Cord J. Whitaker discusses Black history beyond beyond chattel slavery in the Americas.
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Work & Economy
Racial and economic disparities intertwined, study finds
While African-Americans have moved to higher ranks on the income distribution scale in the decades since the Civil Rights Movement, those improvements have largely been blunted by rapid income growth for the richest members of society and income stagnation among lower- and middle-income families.
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Arts & Culture
The everyday response to racism
When someone makes a racially charged comment or joke, how would you respond? Research led by Harvard sociologist Michèle Lamont says your answer may very well depend on the group to which you belong.
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Campus & Community
Style by degrees: Harvard Graduate School of Design
For the students, staff, and faculty at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, wearing black is an announcement of their craft. But increasingly, color has found its way back into vogue.
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Nation & World
Pushing back
Deborah Bial, Ed.M.’96, Ed.D.’04, founder of the Posse Foundation, spoke to a Harvard audience about her organization’s efforts to help economically disadvantaged kids prepare for and then succeed in college.
