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Reparations How?

Reparations How?

Event: February 2, 2023 | The William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice and the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School will discuss. | From the Harvard Kennedy School / Join the William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice and the Institute of Politics for a discussion on the legacy of

Being Blunt

Event: January 27, 2023 | From Harvard Book Store / Harvard Book Store welcomes KRISTIN HASS—Professor in the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan and Associate Director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life—for a discussion of her new book Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural

The Spirit of Struggle

The Spirit of Struggle

Cornel West and Panashe Chigumadzi contemplate how Desmond Tutu worked to reconcile "African" and "Black" theology. | Via Boston Review / "While many across the world remember postapartheid Tutu as the purple-robed presider of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, who tried to reconcile Black and white South

Harvard's New President

Harvard's New President

Claudine Gay has been elected to become the 30th president of Harvard University, starting on July 1, 2023. | From Harvard University / Claudine Gay has led Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences as the Edgerley Family Dean since August 2018, having served previously as dean of social science from 2015

Martha Jones Speaks

Martha Jones Speaks

From Harvard Law School / Professor Martha S. Jones delivered the inaugural Belinda Sutton Distinguished Lecture at Harvard Law School, titled “What’s So Hard About Hard Histories?” Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, Professor of History, Professor at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. | WATCH.

The Black Experience at MIT

The Black Experience at MIT

Heritage is recognized at the MIT Museum. | I went to the @MITMuseum opening. They had a section on the Black Experience at MIT and the Roxbury Photographers Training Program. pic.twitter.com/lcRZmLGTCb — Reighan Gillam (@Reighangillam) October 2, 2022

Who We Are. What We do.

Who We Are. What We do.

EVENT: October 28, 2022 | Mark Your Calendar Black Media: Reflecting on the Past and Reimagining the Future Friday, October 28th at the Howard Thurman Center More information on the symposium & register https://t.co/DwdWnSDsiU pic.twitter.com/kOLZcBb3D6 — BU AFAM Studies (@BU_AFAM) October 1, 2022

Claim/Reclaim

Boston's free Black community alongside the recognition of Harvard's legacy of slavery. | Have you checked out our virtual exhibition w/ The Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative at @RadInstitute? We Claim/Reclaim Space is dedicated to Darby Vassall, who played an important role in Boston’