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Tag: William Julius Wilson
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Nation & World
Harvard to award seven honorary degrees
During today’s Commencement ceremony in Tercentenary Theatre, Harvard will recognize seven with an honorary degree.
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A reading list on issues of race
Harvard faculty offer recommendations of books on race everyone should read.
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Flying high, then returning home
Blythe George is the first member of the Yurok Tribe of Northern California to earn a doctoral degree from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
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Advice to students: Don’t be afraid to ask for help
Anthony A. Jack urges students not to be afraid of asking for help.
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Nation & World
African and African American Studies at 50
Influential, groundbreaking African and African American Studies Department at Harvard turns 50.
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Urgent message on ghetto life
Harvard philosopher Tommie Shelby talks about his new book, “Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform.”
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The costs of inequality: Faster lives, quicker deaths
For African Americans and Hispanics, damaged neighborhoods undercut education, health, jobs — the keys to overcoming inequality and succeeding.
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What’s past is prologue
Celebrated author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates discussed how U.S. policy on criminal justice today is still deeply enmeshed with the nation’s fraught racial legacy.
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Powerful voices
The W.E.B. Du Bois Medal was awarded to seven recipients, who were recognized for their outstanding contributions to African-American culture. The special ceremony concluded with a ribbon-cutting for the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.
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At Du Bois awards, the stars aligned
The six medalists at the W.E.B. Du Bois awards included a White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, playwright Tony Kushner, U.S. Rep. John Lewis, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor, the commissioner of the NBA David Stern, and Hollywood director Steven Spielberg.
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Nation & World
Poverty in America, 2012
Scholars from across the nation gathered at Harvard on Friday to examine the persistent problems of race, poverty, and economic inequality in the United States. The conference was focused around the 25th anniversary of the publication of “The Truly Disadvantaged” by University Professor William Julius Wilson.
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Nation & World
Dealing with inequality
A panel discusses “The Growing Challenge of Inequality,” an issue easily described and summarized, but difficult to solve, the speakers said, given the political and economic climate that currently dominates the United States.
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Nation & World
Ten faculty named Cabot Fellows
Ten professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have been named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows