Featured series 
Tag: Protests
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Nation & World
What would be signs protests in Russia are making a difference?
Kennedy School expert counts them off: large-scale rallies, staying power of opposition, shift in views of key individuals.
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Nation & World
Protests, inequality, and brutal crackdowns in Latin America
David Rockefeller Center panel details state of democracies in various nations across Latin America.
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Nation & World
Ensuring the Floyd trial becomes a turning point
Harvard Kennedy School Professor Cornell Brooks reacts to the jury’s verdict in the trial of white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of killing George Floyd, a Black man.
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Nation & World
Is this a tipping point for Putin?
Igniting growing demonstrations of outrage across Russia, the prosecution of anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny could pose a rare challenge to President Vladimir Putin’s iron grip on power.
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Nation & World
Thinking through unforeseeable election fallout
An online gathering of university officials took place last week to exchange ideas on how to prepare for Election Day.
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Nation & World
Jailing practices appear to fuel coronavirus spread, study says
Quantitative study shows jailing practices in U.S. pose public health risks during the pandemic.
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Arts & Culture
Protesting police violence, a playlist
Decades before cellphone video and social media demanded Americans witness police brutality, hip-hop turned a bright light on all of it, and more.
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Campus & Community
Why they protest
Harvard students talk about why they have demonstrated, their experience at protests, and their take on the moment.
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Campus & Community
Art for justice’s sake
Students activate, donate in movement to fight inequity, promote police reform.
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Nation & World
After the protest … what next?
As protests condemning police brutality against African Americans and systemic racism in the U.S. continue, Harvard faculty share their views on what they’d like to see happen next.
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Nation & World
Waiting for someone else to speak out
Francesca Gino at Harvard Business School discusses how toxic cultures can flourish within police departments and other organizations.
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Campus & Community
Facing the denial of American racism
Radcliffe Institute panel explores the social roots of the denial of racism in America, and ways to raise awareness.
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Nation & World
The fire this time
As protests continue over the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, Lawrence D. Bobo, dean of social science and the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, discusses the underlying social and cognitive factors at work in police violence against Black people.
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Arts & Culture
A year that changed students, and students changed the world
“Harvard, 1968,” a new exhibition at Pusey Library, explores student and faculty experiences from a time of turbulence.
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Arts & Culture
The leadership of Cesar
Mexican actor Diego Luna came to town to premiere his latest film, “Cesar Chavez,” to the Harvard community before its nationwide release. The film marks Luna’s directorial debut.
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Nation & World
Confrontation in Ukraine
Serhii Plokhii, an authority on Ukrainian history and director of Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute, explains what’s behind the violence and what’s at stake for a country that’s caught in a tug-of-war between Europe and Russia.
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Nation & World
The tipping point
Seemingly overnight, people in the Mideast and North Africa have risen in anger to demand more freedom. Is this the beginning of democracy in the Arab world, or a new era of political chaos? Harvard analysts offer insights on what is likely to come next.
