Tag: Toni Morrison

  • Nation & World

    The quote machine

    Powered by Harvard conversations, an ever-expanding collection of arguments, insights, reactions, and reflections.

    23 minutes
    Toni Morrison, Amanda Gorman, Paul Farmer, Jill Lepore, Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr., Annette Gordon Reed, Drew Faust, Gish Jen.
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    How white supremacy became part of nation’s fabric

    Historian Donald Yacovone chronicles racist values, historical falsehoods woven through textbooks in his new book.

    14 minutes
    Donald Yacovone
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    Enduring memories of Toni Morrison

    Divinity School Professor Davíd Carrasco shared stories from his 32-year friendship with late writer Toni Morrison.

    5 minutes
    Toni Morrison.
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    An unflinching look at racism as America’s caste system

    Kicking off a monthly series designed to harness “the power of storytelling,” was Pulitzer Prize-winner Isabel Wilkerson, author of “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.”

    4 minutes
    Isabel Wilkerson and othes on Zoom screen.
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    Judge upholds Harvard’s admissions policy

    Federal Judge Allison D. Burroughs found in favor of Harvard in a ruling that upheld its practice of considering race as one among many factors when reviewing applications to the College.

    5 minutes
    A Harvard Yard Veritas Gate
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    Five lessons from Toni Morrison

    Harvard Divinity School pays tribute to the late Toni Morrison during its convocation.

    4 minutes
    Toni Morrison on the big screen
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    The arts in review

    A look at the arts scene at Harvard during the 2015-16 academic year.

    4 minutes
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    Slavery’s chilling shadow

    Toni Morrison delivered the first of six Charles Eliot Norton Lectures to an adoring crowd at Sanders Theatre on Wednesday. Morrison is the 58th scholar given the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry.

    4 minutes
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    Morrison’s first Norton Lecture set for March 2

    Toni Morrison will deliver the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, which will be held throughout March and April at Sanders Theatre. Hosted by the Mahindra Humanities Center, Morrison is the 58th scholar to be given the arts and humanities honor, officially named the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry.

    3 minutes
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    Spring events preview: What to experience this season

    Get out your calendars — here are the must-see events at Harvard this spring.

    6 minutes
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    Plotting her return

    Author ZZ Packer is spending her Radcliffe year working on her newest effort, a novel titled “The Thousands” that tracks the lives of several families following the Civil War through the American Indian campaigns in the Southwest.

    6 minutes
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    Literary devotion

    Author Russell Banks talks about the search for spiritual meaning, in life and fiction, ahead of delivering the Divinity School’s 2014 Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality. The lecture will be held Nov. 5 at Sanders Theatre.

    12 minutes
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    A year of change, month by month

    2012-13 was a year of inventions and ascensions, elections and projections, digitizing and prioritizing. The University also launched HarvardX, the wildly popular web learning platform.

    22 minutes
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    Good, but never simple

    Delivering Harvard Divinity School’s Ingersoll Lecture at Sanders Theatre, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison discussed concepts of good and evil in her work and that of her contemporaries.

    5 minutes
    Toni Morrison.
  • Nation & World

    The sacred Toni Morrison

    The Harvard Divinity School has organized a series of working groups to explore the religious dimensions of the work of author Toni Morrison in the lead-up to her Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality.

    4 minutes
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    Steinem to receive Radcliffe Medal

    The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has announced that Gloria Steinem, a pioneering feminist, award-winning journalist, and best-selling author, will be awarded the 2010 Radcliffe Institute Medal at the Radcliffe Day luncheon on May 28.

    3 minutes
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    Morrison reads at the Memorial Church

    The historical two-day celebration of Drew Faust’s inauguration as the president of Harvard began Thursday (Oct. 11) on a literary note. Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison read from a work-in-progress…

    3 minutes
    Toni Morrison.
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    From the borderline

    Under a big tent set for lunch in breezy Radcliffe Yard on Friday (June 8), Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison offered a gathering of 950 graduates, fellows, and friends a brief meditation on the oblique efficacy of the humanities. She said these “creative, imaginative arts” counsel, goad, and interrogate American culture from its own borders.

    4 minutes
    Toni Morrison.
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    Toni Morrison named Radcliffe Medalist

    The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study announced that author and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison will be awarded the 2007 Radcliffe Institute Medal at the annual Radcliffe Day luncheon on Friday (June 8) at 12:45 p.m. Drew G. Faust, president-elect of Harvard University and dean of the Radcliffe Institute, will provide opening remarks and present the…

    2 minutes
    Toni Morrison.