Join Martha Whitehead, Vice President for Harvard Library, University Librarian, and Roy E. Larsen Librarian for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Jerome Offord Jr., Associate University Librarian for Antiracism, as Harvard Library re-introduces the West Stacks Reading Room of Widener Library, a space now devoted to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Antiracism values and scholarship. Drawn from our extensive collections, featured materials and artwork in the room center marginalized voices.
oin Harvard Education Press authors Terah Venzant Chambers, Jeffrey M. R. Duncan-Andrade, Nicole M. Joseph, and Lawrence Torry Winn as they discuss ways to bring equity into the classroom and improve the learning experience for students of color at this webinar celebrating Black History Month. The panel discussion will be moderated by HEP's executive director, Jessica Fiorillo.
L-145, JFK Jr Forum 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge
Join the HKS Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging and the Institute of Politics for a discussion with Jessica Stern, the U.S. Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI+) Persons. Timothy Patrick McCarthy, lecturer on education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and faculty affiliate at the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School, will moderate the conversation.
The film shares the journey and life of a civil rights trailblazer, activist and strategist who was excluded based on his decision to live authentically as an openly gay man. Organizing the first “freedom rides” in the 40s, the charismatic Rustin had a significant influence on Martin Luther King, Jr. He was the force behind Dr. King’s nonviolence movement and the pioneering catalyst behind the 1963 March on Washington, yet no one has heard of him. In his own time, he was arrested, threatened and denied his rightful position as a leader in the civil rights community....
In this tour, associate curator Horace D. Ballard will explore the complicated history of 19th-century portraits of Indigenous delegates to Washington, D.C., by painter Henry Inman, and the recurring display of a selection of the paintings at the Harvard Art Museums.
Led by: Horace D. Ballard, Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Associate Curator of American Art
Join us as we explore our self-awareness during communications. This is part of our continued practice to incorporate more inclusive language and gain awareness of the biases that inform our language.
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