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Initiative to Digitize Records of Slave Trade Will Move to Harvard
A nearly six-decades old initiative to digitize records of the trans-Atlantic and intra-American slave trades is moving to Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, the University announced earlier this month.
American Ancestors Takes Over Harvard Descendant Research After Layoffs
Since January, the genealogical nonprofit American Ancestors has led the effort to identify the descendants of people enslaved by Harvard faculty, staff, and leadership — taking over the project entirely after the University laid off its internal research team.
Harvard Outsourced Its Slavery Research. Then a Former Employee Began Notifying Descendants — Without Its Knowledge.
After Harvard outsourced efforts to identify the people enslaved by University affiliates and their descendants, the work has continued elsewhere, led by nonprofits, universities — and a rogue researcher.
‘Dream Count’ Review: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Latest Characters Grapple with Shades of the Unknown
“Dream Count” brings its women’s struggle with the unknown to a poignant head, resulting in a complex exploration of identity and belonging.
Artist Pulls Out Of Carpenter Center Talk Citing ‘Capitulatory’ Stance from Harvard on Trump’s Demands
Two artists abruptly backed out from their scheduled talk at Harvard in protest of what they saw as a willingness to capitulate by Harvard leadership to the demands of the Trump administration.
New Director Sarah Ganz Blythe on Reenvisioning Harvard Art Museums
For Director of Harvard Art Museums Sarah Ganz Blythe, museums have always been a place that gave her “a way to understand the world.”
Tamara Lanier Decries University’s Refusal To Turn Over Daguerreotypes in Book Talk
Tamara K. Lanier, who is suing Harvard for emotional distress over its possession of daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors, repeated her demand for Harvard to return the photographs and admonished the University for allegedly failing to reckon with its legacy of slavery at a Tuesday talk.
‘No Limit on the Research’: Bleich Defends Legacy of Slavery Initiative After Resignations, Layoffs
Vice Provost for Special Projects Sara N. Bleich forcefully defended Harvard’s Legacy of Slavery Initiative in a Friday interview following departures from the initiative and criticism of the University’s decision to outsource the research of its Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program.
‘Squid Game’ Season 2 Review: A Terrifying Critique of Modern Materialism
The show's social critique is more terrifying than the games themselves.
Antiguan Ambassador Condemns Slavery Remembrance Program Layoffs, Demands Reparations in Letter to Garber
Antigua and Barbuda’s ambassador to the United States, Ronald M. Sanders, condemned Harvard’s decision to lay off the staff of the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program, urging the University to step up its reparative efforts in a Tuesday letter to University President Alan M. Garber ’76.