‘That was his dream’
According to S. Allen Counter, it was a scene that would have made civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. proud. The pews at the Memorial Church were crammed with members of the Harvard community...
View ArticleThe Radcliffe Institute celebrates Black History Month
The late great Zora Neale Hurston belted out a juke joint song called “Halimufack”: You may leave and go to Halimufack, but my slow drag will bring you back. Hurston’s singing was just one of many...
View Article‘That was his dream’
According to S. Allen Counter, it was a scene that would have made civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. proud. The pews at the Memorial Church were crammed with members of the Harvard community...
View ArticleThe Radcliffe Institute celebrates Black History Month
The late great Zora Neale Hurston belted out a juke joint song called “Halimufack”: You may leave and go to Halimufack, but my slow drag will bring you back. Hurston’s singing was just one of many...
View ArticleCelebrating Black History Month’s founder
In his book “Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching,” Jarvis R. Givens, assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Suzanne Young Murray...
View ArticleAs U.S. reacts to another police killing, MLK III laments the strides we...
The civil rights activist Martin Luther King III amplified and celebrated the lives and legacies of his parents, Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, in remarks at Harvard that connected the...
View ArticlePoet Clarke on LGBTQ inclusion in ‘beloved community’
In a recent lecture capping off a two-day residency honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, Black queer poet and scholar Cheryl Clarke explored the concept of “beloved...
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