Tag: Racism

  • Campus & Community

    Not black and white

    During a trip to the Museum of Science, Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds and students from her freshman seminar revisited many of the issues they explored in her fall class.

  • Arts & Culture

    Andrew Johnson

    Professor of Law Annette Gordon-Reed tackles one of the worst presidents in American history, claiming that his own racism was to blame for his shoddy performance during the Reconstruction era.

  • Arts & Culture

    Identity issues

    In what many participants called a “historic moment,” scholars from around the world gathered for three days at Harvard to explore issues of race, racial identity, and racism in Latin America.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘Outstanding Women’ honored

    Harvard College Dean Evelynn Hammonds and Swanee Hunt, Eleanor Roosevelt Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), received the Outstanding Women Award from the YWCA Cambridge on Oct. 29.

  • Arts & Culture

    An explosion of creativity

    The American Repertory Theater concludes its inventive first year under Diane Paulus with the premiere of the musical “Johnny Baseball.”

  • Campus & Community

    In the footsteps of Du Bois

    Eight receive W.E.B. Du Bois Medals for aiding African-American culture, including Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Hugh M. “Brother Blue” Hill, Vernon Jordan, Daniel and Joanna S. Rose, Shirley M. Tilghman, Bob Herbert, and Frank H. Pearl.

  • Campus & Community

    Gates receives European Culture of Peace Award

    Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. has been awarded the European Science and Culture Award from the City for the Cultures of Peace in Berlin. The award is given in recognition of his fight against the abuse of human rights, racism, and discrimination, and efforts on behalf of the victims of oppression. Gates, the Alphonse…

  • Campus & Community

    Looking at politics through a racial lens

    As a 15-year-old who had spent half her life in Saudi Arabia’s expatriate community, Claudine Gay got a rude awakening when, in the 1980s, she returned “home” to a private New Hampshire boarding school.

  • Arts & Culture

    Albert Einstein, Civil Rights activist

    Einstein’s response to the racism and segregation he found in Princeton was to cultivate relationships in the town’s African-American community. Jerome and Taylor interviewed members of that community who still remember the white-haired, disheveled figure of Einstein strolling through their streets, stopping to chat with the inhabitants, and handing out candy to local children.