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Please enjoy this wonderful profile on Hutchins Center advisory board member Demond Martin.

Why Hedge Funder Demond Martin Quit His Job to Start an Energy Drink Martin’s company WellWithAll sells supplements and energy drinks—but its bigger goal is raising $300 million to close health gaps for Black and Brown communities.

Hutchins Center advisory board member James Manyika on 'AI, Science & the Future of Discovery'

https://www.amacad.org/publication/daedalus/introductory-notes-ai-science-future-of-discovery

Unlocking Harvard's Ties to Slavery Through Descendant Research On his PBS series, Finding Your Roots, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. shows how we’re shaped by the ancestors on our family trees — ancestors known and unknown. In h...

A great interview with one of the 2025-2026 W E B Du Bois Research Institute Fellows, Hollis Robbins.

Why the Future of College Could Look Like OnlyFans Universities have become generic, one professor and former dean argues. In the A.I. era, students may demand something they can’t get elsewhere.

‘Distinguished’ trio celebrated with highest honors of UVA and Monticello In the Rotunda, the 2026 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal winners cited Jefferson’s continuing influence in architecture, citizenship and law.

Join us Thursday for a screening of 'The Dutchman' followed by a conversation with the film's director, Andre Gaines.

The Dutchman: Screening and Conversation | The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research Please join us, in partnership with ArtsThursdays, and the Film Study Center, for a special screening of The Dutchman with Andre Gaines, director, producer, and co-writer of The Dutchman.

Namwali Serpell celebrates Toni Morrison's literary genius in 'On Morrison' In her new book, award-winning novelist Namwali Serpell takes on Toni Morrison, one of the towering figures in American literature. Serpell guides readers through Morrison’s extraordinary body of work, offering close readings that illuminate the depth of Morrison’s imagination, innovation and cr...

The Evolution of Tech in Hip Hop | LL COOL J & Google’s James Manyika In this dialogue, LL COOL J reflects on his 40-year career with James Manyika, Google’s Senior Vice President of Research, Labs, Technology & Society. An art...

National Constitution Center content fellow Trey Sullivan takes a look at the complicated relationship between William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass, and their acutely different perspectives on the place of the Constitution in our society.

Douglass, Du Bois, and Garrison and the Search for a More Plural Constitution | Constitution Center

Join us on December 4 at 4 PM as we commemorate the 125th anniversary of the Cuban Teachers Expedition of 1900, when more than 1,200 Cuban educators traveled to Harvard for the Cuban Summer School.

Organized after the Spanish-American War, the program offered Cuban teachers a rare opportunity to engage with U.S. educational practices at a moment when the United States was emerging as a global power.

This event brings together Alejandro de la Fuente, Lillian Guerra, and Marial Iglesias Utset, with welcoming remarks by Virginia Hunt and moderated by Erin Goodman, to reflect on the historical significance of this extraordinary expedition.

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