Tag: Social Justice
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Nation & World
Transforming breath to activism
Theater, Dance & Media course, rooting in issues surrounding death of Eric Garner, blends ritual, meditation, reading, “radical dialogue.”
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No stranger to improvisation
Bass player, composer, vocalist Devon Gates merges anthropology, music in Harvard-Berklee program.
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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.
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Art for a cause
Graduate School of Design students auction works to advance social justice.
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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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Unlimited resolve
Doaa Abu Elyounes is a blind Arab-Israeli student who is graduating from HLS with an LL.M. degree.
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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…
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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.
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Gateway to inclusion
St. Louis planners and activists converge on Harvard to talk with one another and ponder the future of a troubled area.
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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.
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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.
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In their words
Harvard students and alums share thoughts on service while doing community service work in the South.
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