Tag: Social Justice

  • Campus & Community

    Transforming breath to activism

    Theater, Dance & Media course, rooting in issues surrounding death of Eric Garner, blends ritual, meditation, reading, “radical dialogue.”

    3–5 minutes
    Max Booker ‘22 takes part in an exercise during Prof. Shamell Bell's class.
  • Campus & Community

    No stranger to improvisation

    Bass player, composer, vocalist Devon Gates merges anthropology, music in Harvard-Berklee program.

    3–5 minutes
    Devon Gates playing bass in trio.
  • Arts & Culture

    Laverne Cox, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar among Du Bois winners

    Hutchins Center for African and African American Research returned after three years to award the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal to seven luminaries.

    3–4 minutes
    Betye Saar (from left), Laverne Cox, Deval Patrick, and Agnes Gund onstage at Sanders.
  • Arts & Culture

    Art for a cause

    Graduate School of Design students auction works to advance social justice.

    2–3 minutes
    Design Yard Sale logo.
  • 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.

    10–14 minutes
    Protestors in D.C.
  • Campus & Community

    Unlimited resolve

    Doaa Abu Elyounes is a blind Arab-Israeli student who is graduating from HLS with an LL.M. degree.

    3–4 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    For Ana Tijoux, hip-hop is home

    Growing up, Ana Tijoux didn’t know where to call home. As the France-born-and-bred daughter of Chilean parents living in political exile, she felt conflicted about her identity — until she found hip-hop. Tijoux first heard the music in the inner neighborhoods of Paris while accompanying her mother on her social-work rounds to immigrant families from…

    3–5 minutes
  • Health

    Of medicine and ethics

    Shifts in the medical care field can allow health care providers both to prosper and to serve patients better, speaker tells Harvard Medical School conference.

    3–4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Gateway to inclusion

    St. Louis planners and activists converge on Harvard to talk with one another and ponder the future of a troubled area.

    5–7 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Teaching on campus and off

    Harvard lecturer Tim McCarthy teaches a free American history course to low-income adult students as part of the Clemente Course in the Humanities, for which he now holds the first endowed chair.

    5–8 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Family values, in an orphanage

    Sonya Soni always felt called to serve the Indian orphanage that her family has run for four generations. Two years at Harvard Divinity School challenged her to rethink what the struggling community needs most.

    3–5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    In their words

    Harvard students and alums share thoughts on service while doing community service work in the South.

    2–4 minutes