Featured series 
Tag: Inequality
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Campus & Community
Take a stand, Abdul-Jabbar tells graduating seniors
Writer and basketball legend speaks to the moment in Class Day address
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Nation & World
Let’s not send low-income students back to the ’80s
Financial aid red tape nearly derailed Susan Dynarski’s undergrad dreams. Now she sees decades of progress under threat.
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Nation & World
‘If you’re boring, you’re not going to educate.’
Randall Kennedy has blazed a path as an open-minded, nuanced, and independent thinker
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Health
Mortality rates between Black, white Americans narrow — except in case of infants
70-year study finds widening gap despite longer life expectancy for both racial groups
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Work & Economy
You, too, can never, ever relax
In ‘Make Your Own Job,’ Erik Baker explores how entrepreneurialism has altered Americans’ relationship with work
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Nation & World
How World War I veterans shaped the Civil Rights Movement
Study traces surge in activism among Black men who faced discrimination while defending country
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Arts & Culture
Showing that Black lives matter — everywhere
In a new book, music professor considers race in all its facets
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Nation & World
Think top 1% benefit most from U.S. inequity? Maybe not.
Book by Musa al-Gharbi argues left-leaning knowledge workers in education, law, media voice support of social justice but have conflicts of interest
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Nation & World
Class surges as factor in who gets sent to prison
Incarceration rates fall for Black Americans, soar for white Americans without college education, finds study
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Campus & Community
Harvard partners with national nonprofit to recruit high-achieving low-income students
First QuestBridge Scholars will matriculate in fall 2026
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Nation & World
U.S. seems impossibly riven. What if we could start from scratch?
Key would be focusing on social, political, economic fairness, according to new book on ideas of political philosopher John Rawls
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Campus & Community
Her gift launched four centuries of Harvard financial aid
As a woman, Anne Radcliffe wouldn’t have been able to attend the University when she donated its first scholarship in 1643
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Campus & Community
How a few Facebook posts brought heat on Ugandan professor
Sylvester Danson Kahyana, Congo activist Amani Matabaro Tom finish terms as Scholars at Risk
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Work & Economy
Economic prospects brighten for children of low-income Black Americans, study finds
Opportunity Insights also finds gap widening between whites at top, bottom
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Work & Economy
More money, empowerment — and less chance of domestic abuse
Study examines benefits for working women who help produce Rwandan specialty coffee
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Nation & World
How dating sites automate racism
Sociologist’s new book finds algorithms that suggest partners often reflect stereotypes, biases
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Science & Tech
Why AI fairness conversations must include disabled people
Tech offers promise to help yet too often perpetuates ableism, say researchers. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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Campus & Community
Navigating Harvard with a non-apparent disability
Students with conditions ranging from dyslexia to narcolepsy describe daily challenges that may not be obvious to their classmates and professors
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Campus & Community
Pushing back on DEI ‘orthodoxy’
Panelists support diversity efforts but worry that current model is too narrow, denying institutions the benefit of other voices, ideas
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Nation & World
Are top-ranked colleges really the best? Depends. At what?
Sociologist urges ratings focused on real-life outcomes, particularly in those from underrepresented groups
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Campus & Community
Need for moral revolution
Social scientist, former Biden official Alondra Nelson says work of new Center for Race, Inequality and Social Equity can help shape policy, progress
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Nation
New study finds wide gap in SAT/ACT test scores between wealthy, lower-income kids
Opportunity Insights researcher notes how opportunity, preparation differences begin early, play major role in success, suggests possible solutions
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Campus & Community
This woman’s work
Faculty and friends of trailblazing Harvard economist Claudia Goldin react to her historic Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences win.
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Nation
Let’s not be strangers
Harvard sociologist says her new book, “Seeing Others: How Recognition Works — And How It Can Heal a Divided World,” is a call to “recenter our understanding of inequality.”
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Work & Economy
Tracking ‘nepo baby’ effect on young Americans’ earnings
Matthew Staiger, an economist and research scientist at Harvard’s Opportunity Insights, finds nearly 1 in 3 latch on with parent’s employer and earn more because of it — but there is race gap.
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Work & Economy
Want more diversity in corporate America? Get rid of some programs
New book by Frank Dobbin suggests getting managers actively involved instead of feeling defensive, resentful is the best way to create a more diverse corporate America.
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Health
Willing but unable to get COVID shot
Mistrust of vaccine is high among people of color in U.S. and U.K., but unequal access appears to be greater barrier in U.S., researchers say.
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Nation & World
Political spark that ignited firestorm across dry, divided land
In his new book, “Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury,” Evan Osnos ’98 writes about the transformation in U.S. between 9/11 and the attack on the Capitol.
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Nation & World
Power can be abused, scholars say, or harnessed for the greater good
In a new book, “Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It’s Everyone’s Business,” Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro argue that power is available to everyone and is a necessary force for change.
