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With his recent research, Anthony Abraham Jack paints a bigger picture of the doubly disadvantaged—students who are low income and from schools in underserved communities. Photo by Tony Rinaldo

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An Expanded Historical Narrative

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Harvard’s Tour App Highlights Overlooked History

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Some of Boston’s Legacy of Slavery is Hidden in Plain Sight

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Busola Banjoh Redefines What It Means to Be Black at Harvard

Ofa Handls Student Public Art Rendering 2022 By Luke Reeve

Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery to Present Findings and Hold Events This Spring

Alexandria Russell: Recovering Untold Histories

The Tangle of Enslavement, in Brazil and at Harvard

Committing to Good, for Good

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Giving Voice to Slavery’s Voiceless

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Harvard Appoints Richard Cellini to Lead Legacy of Slavery Remembrance Program

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Here Lies Darby Vassall

Portrait of Anthony Abraham Jack

COVID and Campus Closures: The Legacies of Slavery Persist in Higher Ed

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Legacies of Slavery: From the Institutional to the Personal

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HBCU Library Alliance and Harvard Team Up to Expand Access to Black History

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How Student Led Protests to Open College Dorms to Black Freshmen

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Greeting Juneteenth with Remembrance, Resolve, and Hope

Richard Cellini in Harvard Yard

"Working … to Give People Back Their Stories"

In Dark Chapter of Harvard’s History, Family Subplots

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The North, Then and Now

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Annette Gordon-Reed on Thomas Jefferson

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The Halls of History: A Personal Course in the Legacies of Slavery

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Celebrating the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Equal Justice Requires Lawmakers Reform Qualified Immunity for Police