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AAAS Professor Jarvis Givens Receives Mellon Foundation Grant

June 18, 2020

On June 18, 2020, The Harvard Crimson published an article entitled "Graduate School of Education Begins Black Teacher Archives Project" announcing that AAAS Professor Jarvis Givens was awarded a $610,000 Mellon Foundation grant to archive and digitize...

AAAS Professor Cornel West Interviewed re Op-Ed

June 23, 2020

On June 23, 2020, The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC interviewed AAAS Professor Cornel West about the latest news surrounding the protests against racism and police brutality and his recent New York Times Op-Ed piece co-authored with William Barber II, Liz...

AAAS Professor Brandon Terry discusses: How Does Integrity Meet Oppression?

June 12, 2020

On June 2, 2020, The Berggruen Institute reposted a clip from a particularly relevant 2018 Berggruen salon session of AAAS Professor Brandon Terry discussingDr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s (MLK) reflections on protest. A link to the clip is below. https:/...

AAAS Professors read Frederick Douglass's Memoir

June 12, 2020

AAAS Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and AAAS Professor John Stauffer participated in a reading of Frederick Douglass's 1845 Memoir, " Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" as part of the American Writers Museum's exhibit...

AAAS Professor Walter Johnson Quoted in Washington Post Article

June 11, 2020

AAAS Professor Walter Johnson was quoted in an article published in The Washington Post on June 11, 2020 entitled: Trump pushes fights over racist legacy while much of America moves in a different direction. A link to the article is below. https://www...

AAAS Professor Evelynn Hammonds was member of event panel re Harvard's Secret Court of 1920

June 09, 2020

AAAS Professor Evelynn Hammonds participated in an event panel at the end of May entitled "Secret Court 100: Harvard's Queer Century." The panels discussed the centennial of the Secret Court of 1920, a star chamber organized to identify and punish gay...

AAAS Professor David Williams on MSNBC discussing how Racism Drives Health Disparities Among Black Americans

June 10, 2020

AAAS Professor David Williams was interviewed on MSNBC to discuss the ways in which racism has negative effects on the overall health of African-Americans and other people of color, including how the coronavirus further compounds these effects. View the...

The Hiphop Archive & Research Institute post a Statement in Support of Protests

June 10, 2020

On June 10, 2020, Professor Marcyliena Morgan, Executive Director of The Hiphop Archive and Research Institute (HARI), posted a Statement in Support of Protests on HARI's website. HARI's mission is to facilitate and encourage the pursuit of knowledge, art...

AAAS Lecturer Linda Chavers in the Boston Globe

June 09, 2020

On June 9, 2020, the Boston Globe printed an article written by AAAS Lecturer and Linda Chavers entitled, " What too many white people still don’t understand about racism: Seeing racism as a relic of the past is a problem — a deadly problem. And it is a...

AAAS Professor Cornel West speaks with Anderson Cooper

June 01, 2020

On June 1, 2020, AAAS Professor Cornel West spoke with CNN's Anderson Cooper regarding the death of George Floyd and the protests occurring across the country. Access to the video of Professor West is below....

Dean Lawrence Bobo Discusses Police Killings of Black Men

June 04, 2020

On June 2, 2020, The Harvard Gazette published an article titled "The Fire This Time" in which AAAS Professor and Dean of Social Science Lawrence D. Bobo discusses in a Q&A the killing of George Floyd, the forces underlying racism, the long history of...

AAAS Professor David Williams Elected to the Board of Trustees of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

May 12, 2020

AAAS Professor David Williams has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nation’s largest philanthropy for health and health care. To read the press release visit the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation website at this...