Cambridge, MA Today, Rev. Devon Jerome Crawford announced he will step down as Staff Director of the William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice within the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School. Rev. Crawford will depart from the role in the spring of 2023 after nearly four years of leading the organization. During …
Dear Mr. President: In 1916 Callie Guy House was convicted and sentenced to a prison term for obtaining money by “false and fraudulent pretenses”—a sentence not supported by one scintilla of evidence. Callie House had been targeted and harassed by federal officials for years because of her legitimate political activities encouraging the formerly enslaved to …
The William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice at Harvard Kennedy School, the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School, the National Congress of Black Women Inc., and the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs Inc. will host a joint press conference on Wednesday, September 21, 2022, to announce a presidential posthumous pardon petition on …
Since the end of Reconstruction, following the end of the Civil War, white resistance to democracy and African American freedom resulted in lynchings. This period of white supremacist violence largely took place in the American south as a form of domestic terrorism. From 1882-1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States. 3,446 of those who …
After decades of sexual abuse inflicted upon women incarcerated at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility (EMCF), New Jersey’s sole state prison for women, the Governor’s decision to close the facility presents an opportunity for the state to reimagine justice and change the narrative around incarceration from cycles of harm to cycles of opportunity. Through interviews with …
The William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice as a think and do tank at the Harvard Kennedy School has worked tirelessly to address racial injustice through teaching, research, and community engagement. As a collaborative inspired by the legacy of William Monroe Trotter–who bravely fought against the propagation of racist ideologies by preventing the production …
Harvard faculty, Cornell William Brooks and Linda J. Bilmes explain how benefits of legislation meant to help all veterans were routinely denied to Black veterans.
Cornell William Brooks and Linda J. Bilmes explore why reparations to Black Americans for slavery-related and racial harms are still considered so controversial.
Cornell William Brooks and Linda Bilmes explore why the extensive U.S. system of restorative justice is so disconnected from the multi-faceted, intergenerational harms suffered by Black Americans.
A Conversation with Cornell William Brooks Cornell William Brooks is the Hauser Professor of the Practice of Nonprofit Organizations and Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership and Social Justice at the Harvard Kennedy School and Visiting Professor of the Practice of Prophetic Religion and Public Leadership at Harvard Divinity School. As well as teaching at Harvard, …
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