Tag: Race
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Arts & Culture
‘Still caught in a system that makes us smaller than we could be’
Tracy K. Smith explores America’s past, present challenges, hopes in new book
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Nation
Harvard united in resolve in face of Supreme Court’s admissions ruling
University “remains steadfast” in commitment to campus that reflects wide range of backgrounds and experiences.
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Nation & World
How birth year predicts exposure to gun violence
Long-term study examines risk of getting shot or witnessing a shooting by race, sex, and birth year.
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Nation & World
Saying their names
Scholars involved in Legacy of Slavery Initiative discuss findings, remind that each of enslaved was “real person … with dreams, with pain.”
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Nation & World
Michigan, California speak from experience in briefs supporting Harvard
Schools have struggled to maintain campus diversity since bans on race-conscious admissions, say officials in briefs supporting Harvard.
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Nation & World
How Black thinkers wrestled with founding U.S. values amid slavery
Brown University political scientist says Frederick Douglass, others found racial domination at odds with ideals of republicanism.
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Arts & Culture
Buffeted by unending tides of grief
Namwali Serpell’s novel explores reality, memory, and race, class of broken family after the death of a child.
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Nation & World
Were Jan. 6 attackers extremists? Protesters? Patriots?
How race, gun ownership, and feelings about Black Lives Matter shape Americans’ views of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
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Arts & Culture
Turning spotlight on Broadway’s representation problem
This class closely examines who is cast for what role in film and theater, as well as how cultural identity is portrayed.
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Nation & World
Black progress, white anger
Eddie S. Glaude Jr. spoke at the latest virtual JFK Jr. Forum, which is part of the “Reckoning with the Past, Rebuilding the Future” speaker.
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Work & Economy
Examining Brian Flores’ suit against NFL
Class action lawsuit filed against the National Football League by Brian Flores seeks to break “old boy network” hiring and retention practices of team owners that he says discriminate against Black head coach candidates and coaches.
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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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Campus & Community
Does race have a sound?
History and literature seminar explores how certain qualities of voice, music, language, and other sounds have become signifiers of race.
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Nation & World
Where are we now, 16 months after George Floyd?
As part of the Truth and Transformation conference at Harvard Kennedy School, Ibram X. Kendi and Heather McGhee spoke about the challenges the movement faces.
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Nation & World
2020 census racial data lacks nuance, sociology professor says
Harvard associate professor of sociology Ellis Monk says wording of questions, presentation, various changes probably affected census count.
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Nation & World
Why do we need critical race theory? Here is my family’s story
As part of the Gazette’s Unequal series, Tauheedah Baker-Jones, Ed.L.D. ’21, explains why we need critical race theory in K-12 curriculum.
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Nation & World
How COVID taught America about inequity in education
This installment of the Unequal series looks at the how the pandemic called attention to issues surrounding the racial achievement gap in America.
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Nation & World
Can knowing someone of a different race early in life make you more liberal?
A new study finds links between white men having Black neighbors in their youth and later party affiliation.
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Nation & World
Racial wealth gap may be a key to other inequities
The wealth gap between Black and white Americans is examined in this installment of the “Unequal” series.
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Campus & Community
Teaching caregivers the language of anti-racism
The pilot run of the “GCP Family Book Club: Exploring Race and Identity” won kudos from participants.
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Nation & World
The fight for environmental justice
The Environmental and Energy Law Program and C-Change, two Harvard groups focused on climate change, are crafting solutions to support communities of color whose members have experienced the impacts of climate change at a higher rate than others.
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Nation & World
Democrats and Republicans do live in different worlds
New research by Harvard team finds that most Americans live in partisan bubbles, largely isolated from and rarely interacting with those from another party.
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Nation & World
How the Black Church saved Black America
Henry Louis Gates’ new book on the Black Church traces the institution’s role in history, politics, and culture.
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Nation & World
Two mayors talk pandemic, civic unrest, and the value of a network of peers
The Gazette recently spoke to Kathy Sheehan, mayor of Albany, N.Y., and Randall Woodfin, mayor of Birmingham, Ala., and asked them to share how their experience at Harvard as part of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative prepared them to face the toughest year of their careers.
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Nation & World
Young, athletically gifted, and Black — at Harvard
An all-star panel of former University athletes came together in a Black Varsity Association Zoom event to discuss the impact of race on the college and professional sports worlds.
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Campus & Community
4 win Marshall, International Rhodes scholarships
Three Harvard College students have won Marshall Scholarships, and an alumnus has won an International Rhodes.
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Health
Closing the gap
Mortality rate after cancer surgery drops during 10-year period, but gap persists between Black and white patients.
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Nation & World
Appeals court finds for Harvard in admissions case
The First Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed Harvard’s use of race as one factor among many in its application process. The decision, issued by a two-judge panel in Boston, upheld a district court ruling last year that found Harvard’s admission practices do not discriminate against Asian American applicants and comply with prior Supreme Court…
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Nation & World
Dust is starting to settle after election, yet the way forward is unclear
The Gazette turns once again to scholars and analysts across in the University to get their views of what happened and what comes next.