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Tag: Hutchins Center
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Solving a mystery of 19th-century literary history
Scholar’s new biography nails down identity of earliest known Black American woman novelist, first theorized by Gates
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‘We had to create something new — and we did’
Ahead of Harvard visit, two legends of hip-hop recall New York beginnings
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COVID prison releases expose key driver of racial inequity
As the incarcerated population dropped overall, the proportion of Black prisoners rose. Researchers point to unequal sentencing.
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How Lucy, Betsey, and Anarcha became foremothers of gynecology
Hutchins exhibit, “A Narrative of Reverence to Our Foremothers in Gynecology,” centers around lives of three enslaved women who underwent unspeakable experiments without anesthesia for J. Marion Sims.
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New day for Afro-Latin American Studies
The University Consortium for Afro-Latin American Studies will bring together researchers from Global North and Global South, something that has never been done before.
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Bringing art to the people it depicts
The rapper and record producer Kasseem Dean, also known as Swizz Beatz, and his wife, Alicia Keys, own the largest private collection of Gordon Parks’ photographs in the world. They’re sharing it at Harvard’s Ethelbert Cooper Gallery, and that’s just the beginning.
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‘Nine Moments for Now’ offers timely inspiration
“Nine Moments for Now,” an exhibit at the Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art in the Hutchins Center, explores social engagement, civic discourse, and the fragility of democracy.
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A minority turns on the light
In an interview, Alejandro de la Fuente, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, professor of African and African American studies, and director of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute, talks about his organization and the emerging Afro-Latin American social movement.
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Losing King: Shock, sorrow, anger, and a voice time hasn’t silenced
Harvard scholars reflect on the life, death, and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., 50 years after his assassination in Memphis, Tenn.
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Remembering a jazz great
Some of the biggest names in jazz will convene for this weekend’s festival in honor of the pianist and composer.
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Plenty to see here
Whether you’re interested in science, history, politics, art, technology, comedy, cooking, or sports, there’s something happening at Harvard this fall for you.
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Tef Poe and friends ‘break bread’ at Ed Portal
More than 100 people attended a free performance by 10 hip-hop and soul artists, featuring a full rendition of Warren Center Fellow Tef Poe’s latest album, “Black Julian.”
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When words spell danger
Six writers at risk discussed their work during an event at Harvard.
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Jazz made visible
“The Art of Jazz: Form/Performance/Notes” explores the interaction between jazz and the visual arts.
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A panoply of achievement
Seven African-American leaders receive Du Bois Medals from the Hutchins Center.
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Life behind the pose
“Black Chronicles II,” at the Cooper Gallery, explores issues of race and identity through archival photographs from Victorian England.
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Cooper Gallery makes an entrance
Architect and curator David Adjaye, co-curator Mariane Ibrahim-Lenhardt, art collector Jean Pigozzi, and Director Vera Grant led an open house and tour of the new Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, which will open this week.
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Powerful voices
The W.E.B. Du Bois Medal was awarded to seven recipients, who were recognized for their outstanding contributions to African-American culture. The special ceremony concluded with a ribbon-cutting for the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.
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Memories of Mandela
Scholars, others gathered Tuesday to reflect on the life and legacy of the late Nelson Mandela.
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Spotlight on black identity
A new take on Black History Month at Harvard initiates a conversation about evolving black identity, through the lenses of Africa and art history.
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Art, turned on its ear
Photographer and arts historian Deborah Willis launches the Hutchins Center’s spring series of noontime lectures with a look at modern artists and their radical, racial alterations of iconic art.
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Black like we
A panel discussion introduced an exhibit of photos from the Paris World’s Fair of 1900 that shows African-Americans as they wished to be depicted, not as a discriminatory American society would have had them be.
