Ten faculty named Cabot Fellows
Ten professors in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have been named Walter Channing Cabot Fellows. The annual awards recognize tenured faculty members for distinguished accomplishments in...
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Dealing with inequality
Asking the simplest question amid a sea of statistics about income gaps and metaphors about rising tides and economic ladders, Harvard Kennedy School Dean David T. Ellwood stumped a session that was...
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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...
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At Du Bois awards, the stars aligned
When the stars come out, it is not always nighttime. Take, for instance, the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal ceremony on Wednesday afternoon at Sanders Theatre. The six medalists included a White House adviser...
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Powerful voices
When Oprah Winfrey came to Harvard last year, the talk show host and philanthropist received not only an honorary degree of laws, but also served as Commencement speaker. Winfrey added a W.E.B. Du...
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What’s past is prologue
Ongoing racial discrimination and institutional failures to dampen such abuses are roiling many college campuses, amid the larger national conversation spurred by the Black Lives Matter movement. In...
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The costs of inequality: Faster lives, quicker deaths
Seventh in a series on what Harvard scholars are doing to identify and understand inequality, in seeking solutions to one of America’s most vexing problems. Sixteen years into the new millennium, many...
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Tommie Shelby, the Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy, recently published “Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform,” a bold work that gives...
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African and African American Studies at five decades
In 1968, a black student group placed an advertisement in the Harvard Crimson calling for the College to give black students, faculty, and scholarship more support and greater representation on campus....
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This is part of a series called Focal Point, in which we ask a range of Harvard faculty members to answer the same question. Focal Point Anthony Jack Question: If you were to write a letter to your...
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Blythe George’s ambitions are to help her community, her tribe
This is one in a series of profiles showcasing some of Harvard’s stellar graduates. For Blythe George, the road to becoming a scholar who studies the effects of poverty, unemployment, and crime among...
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A reading list on issues of race
The wave of anger in reaction to George Floyd’s killing has prompted an outpouring of interest on race and race relations across the U.S. Books on these subjects top The New York Times Best Sellers...
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Harvard awards seven honorary degrees
Seven will receive honorary degrees from Harvard during today’s Commencement ceremony in Tercentenary Theatre. Courtesy photo José Ramón Andrés Puerta Doctor of Humane Letters Modern gastronomy master...
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