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Two mayors share lessons learned through Bloomberg initiative
In the past year, the spotlight has been trained on the nation’s mayors. American towns and cities faced unprecedented challenges brought by the medical, financial, and educational fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, a national reckoning on equity and race...

COVID-19’s long-term impact on our emotional landscape
With more than 500,000 dead, the COVID-19 pandemic has created a nation touched by grief, compounded by the trauma of job loss, financial trouble, and everyday confusion, a mix that a Harvard psychologist said creates a complex and troubling picture of...

Report lays groundwork for recommitment to civics education
State standards for civics education in the U.S. usually require that K-12 students learn hard dates and facts, like the events of Shays’ Rebellion or the details of the Stamp Act. A group of scholars and educators wants to change that approach by...

The challenge of troubling images in education
The great room depicted in the image from 1864 will be instantly recognizable to many: a vaulted 9,000-square-foot space of elaborately carved wood topped by a stenciled ceiling. In the photograph, the interior of the banquet room in Harvard’s Memorial...

"Unequal" Harvard Gazette Series
“Unequal” is a multi-part Harvard Gazette series highlighting the work of Harvard faculty, staff, students, alumni, and researchers on issues of race and inequality across the United States. The first part explores the experience of people of color with...

Solving racial disparities in policing
“Unequal” is a multipart series highlighting the work of Harvard faculty, staff, students, alumni, and researchers on issues of race and inequality across the U.S. The first part explores the experience of people of color with the criminal justice legal...

Bringing equity to the justice system is possible
In my view Ana Billingsley To anyone reading the headlines, it’s clear there are serious problems with our criminal justice system, but to people trapped within it, the harms run deeper than the headlines can convey. I saw this every day when I worked for...

Social psychologist offers key to ending racism
Social psychologist Robert Livingston has spent decades studying racism and advising businesses and nonprofits how to confront it in their workplaces. In a new book, “The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically...

Record turnout of Black voters comes after decades of activism
Suppression of Black voter participation has been a problem in America since Reconstruction ended in the late 1870s, but rarely have attempts been so blatant or backfired so spectacularly as they did during the November presidential election and again...

Taking a scholarly look at race and romance
Romance is never just romance for Marya T. Mtshali. The lecturer on studies of women, gender, and sexuality teaches the undergraduate course “Interracial Intimacy: Sex, Race, and Romance in the U.S.,” and her current research uses an intersectional lens...