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Ta-Nehisi Coates

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A visitor takes a photo of a painting on the wall at the Harvard Art Museum.

Summer in the city

Movies, plays, music, and exhibitions to keep you entertained

Arts|

DateJune 14, 2019June 18, 2019

Universities and Slavery: Bound by History is a daylong conference stage with speaker.

Probing how colleges benefited from slavery

Radcliffe conference draws historians, scholars to shed light on troubling past while pondering future

Campus|

DateMarch 3, 2017November 22, 2019

“Jorie Graham’s poetry — inspired, idiosyncratic, ever-changing, beautiful — has been with us for almost 30 years," said Harvard's Helen Vendler. "This selection, a comprehensive sampling, will remind readers of some poems already familiar, and will bring new readers to this poet of depth, empathy, and arresting music.”

Time to turn the page

Acclaimed Harvard authors share highlights from year in reading

Arts|

DateDecember 22, 2015March 8, 2019

Addressing a Harvard Kennedy School audience, MacArthur Fellow and best-selling author Ta-Nehisi Coates (center) argued that America’s practice of disproportionately criminalizing and incarcerating African-American men is a direct extension of our history of using the criminal justice system to address social problems. Coates was joined by Kathryn Edin, a former HKS professor, and Harvard Professor William Julius Wilson.

What’s past is prologue

During Harvard appearance, Coates probes ongoing problems in criminal justice system

World|

DateNovember 12, 2015April 2, 2019