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Statement Condemning Police Violence in the United States
The following is a joint statement from the William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School, the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice at Harvard Law School, …
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Conversation on Reparations: JKF Jr. Forum
Join us for a conversation addressing the call for reparations with Professor Randall L. Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and Professor Cornell Brooks, Professor of Practice of Public Leadership and Social Justice at Harvard Kennedy School. The discussion will be moderated by David Harris, Managing Director of the Charles …
Democracy Behind Bars
NEARLY 6 MILLION AMERICANS WITH CRIMINAL RECORDS including incarceration are denied the opportunity to vote. Not only are these citizens legally prevented from voting, but the right to vote and democracy itself are incarcerated—behind bars of racially motivated, antebellum, and morally antiquated laws that affect voters across race, class, and gender today. Campaigns to re-enfranchise …
The Avant Guardian Podcast Launch
David Wark Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation “was sold as a sensation and became one.” It was the first American blockbuster. It was the first film screened at the White House. President Woodrow Wilson said it was “like writing history with lightning.” It struck, then the crosses began to burn. It made a killing, …
When Discrimination and a Pandemic Collide
From the Harvard Kennedy School PolicyCast Hosted byThoko Moyo Produced byRalph RanalliSusan Hughes First there was the shock of realizing that the COVID-19 pandemic would be widespread and lengthy. Now issues of race, equity, and the coronavirus are quickly coming to the fore, as data pours in showing how the virus is hitting minority communities …
Social Justice Hackathon
inaugural Social justice hackathon Nov. 15, 2019 The William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice will host the inaugural SOCIAL JUSTICE HACKATHON on November 15, 2019. Students from across Harvard University and the Greater Boston area will work in teams, and DEVELOP ADVOCACY STRATEGIES and solutions for pre-determined issues with partner organizations based across the …
