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Tag: W.E.B. Du Bois
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Nation & World
‘These are all just young people like us, figuring themselves out’
High-schoolers get taste of everyday campus life through archival materials, some featuring Harvard’s most famous alumni.
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City of poets
Eight student poets pick a corner of the city with historical, personal meaning and read an original work.
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Heading South in search of the real heart of America
Imani Perry returns to Alabama to interview Angela Davis, another daughter of Birmingham, in excerpt from new book
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Revealing webs of inequities rooted in slavery, woven over centuries
Harvard vows long-term commitment to improve lives, futures of descendant communities through research, education, service.
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‘I was in Harvard but not of it’
The W.E.B. Du Bois Graduate Society is a student organization of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences that aims to foster community and kinship among minority doctoral students.
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Glee Club to honor W.E.B. Du Bois
More than a century after W.E.B. Du Bois was denied entry to the Harvard Glee Club, the chorus celebrates his life and words.
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Du Bois as eminent sociologist
As a sociologist, W.E.B. Du Bois expanded his field in major ways, often without credit or recognition, a researcher says in address.
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Giving Du Bois his due
Dean Lawrence Bobo, W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences, discusses the vast intellectual legacy of Du Bois and how the field of sociology has finally begun to reconsider his rightful place in the discipline’s history books.
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Eight to be honored as W.E.B. Du Bois medalists
Athlete and activist Colin Kaepernick and comedian Dave Chappelle are among the eight people who will receive the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal at Harvard University on Oct. 11.
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A Harvard to make Du Bois nod yes
The Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging has issued its final report. The Gazette spoke with John Silvanus Wilson, former president of Morehouse College and new senior adviser and strategist to the president charged with implementing its recommendations.
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Retracing Du Bois’ missteps
Radcliffe fellow Chad Williams is working on a book about what he considers one of W.E.B. Du Bois’ greatest missteps: “The Black Man and the Wounded World,” an unfinished history of the African-American experience during World War I.
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Calls for hope and action
With words of hope and rousing calls to action, the fifth annual W.E.B. Du Bois Medals ceremony brought the stars out at Sanders Theatre.
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Pam Grier’s presence
Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. looks ahead to welcoming actor-activist Pam Grier to Harvard as a Du Bois medalist.
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A panoply of achievement
Seven African-American leaders receive Du Bois Medals from the Hutchins Center.
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Undermining intelligence
Social psychologist and author Claude Steele talks about how negative stereotypes about a social group’s intellectual abilities can trigger anxiety and cognitive difficulties in those who identify with that group, leading to chronic underperformance.
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Nation & World
Digitizing a movement
A team of Harvard scholars is cataloging, and transcribing, and digitizing thousands of 18th- and 19th-century anti-slavery petitions held in the Massachusetts State Archives.
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A fireside chat with the dean
Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds hosted a fireside chat at her home with Professor Henry Louis Gates and about 25 student participants who had been selected through a lottery system. The chat was part of a series of events designed to foster interaction between undergraduates and faculty outside the classroom.
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Midyear graduates recognized
More than 100 Harvard students, along with their families and friends, gathered in the Radcliffe Gymnasium on Dec. 6 to celebrate the 2012-13 Midyear Graduates Recognition Ceremony. The event recognized students who graduate in November or March, off the usual Commencement cycle.
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The ‘diversity problem’ in science
Opportunities for women and people of color to pursue careers in science have improved in recent years, but still lag behind those of white men, Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds told a crowd at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in her keynote address at the Institute Diversity Summit.
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Voices from the trees
To celebrate the University’s 375th anniversary, excerpts of famous speeches will play on loop from trees in Harvard Yard.
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In search of Captain Nemo
In this Student Voice column, a senior talks about how he learned to chart his own course while at Harvard.
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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.
