The W.E.B. Du Bois Graduate Society of GSAS is an organization for underrepresented minority students at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
05/21/2020
Written by Dr. Garcia Pena.
Non-essential Knowledge: Latinx Studies in Times of Covid-19 - Aster(ix) Journal Writing at the turn of the twentieth century, Arthur Schomburg, the black Puerto Rican scholar and bibliophile, advocated for the creation of departments of Black History, and for the formation of Black historians as a way to contrast the lies, the silences and the outright violence produced about b...
"Using diverse people to recruit other diverse people & then discarding them because they actually expect diversity, equity, & inclusion to be a real focus in an organization is a form of academic prostitution. Don’t use diverse bodies for optics, checklists, & convenience."—Dr. Monica F. Cox, March 6, 2020
02/23/2020
Happy Birthday, W.E.B. Du Bois!
"Glory" Performed by the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra | SphinxConnect 2017 "Glory" Performed by the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra ft. Karen Clark Sheard, Jessica Care Moore, and the University of Michigan Men's Glee Club.
01/02/2020
A new exhibit, curated from Angela Davis’ personal archive A new exhibit at Radcliffe, curated from Angela Davis' personal archive, chronicles the life of a complicated activist and scholar
12/17/2019
How a denial of tenure at Harvard became a national controversy The decision is a blow to ethnic studies departments everywhere.
12/04/2019
Graduate students strike and news that Lorgia Garcia Pena was denied tenure in the same week. Harvard's Office of Diversity and Minority Affairs (ODMA) response: Cookies.
10/30/2019
An Open Letter to Address Ongoing Racist Incidents Against Harvard Students of Color By The GSAS Latinx Student Association Dear Members of the Harvard community, On Thursday, October 24th, a white Houghton Building manager called the Harvard police on a group of three young women of color setting up an art installation for SPANSH 126: Performing Latinidad. The installation was loca...
10/03/2019
Black in Design 2019: Black Futurism: Creating a More Equitable Future - Harvard Graduate School of Design The Black in Design Conference, organized by the Harvard University Graduate School of Design African American Student Union (GSD AASU) recognizes the contributions of the African diaspora to the design fields and promotes discourse around the agency of the design profession to address and dismantle...
06/12/2019
Hearing for this Bill: June 25, 2019.
Native Mascots – MA Indigenous Legislative Agenda The Joint Committee on Education will decide whether Bill S.247/H.443 continues through the legislative process. The hearing for the bill will be on June 25, 2019, and the Committee will accept public input in person or in writing.
05/24/2019
MFA apologizes for racist comments, treatment of Dorchester students on field trip The Museum of Fine Arts is apologizing after students at a local charter school say they were profiled and harassed during a field trip.
05/22/2019
Extensive Data Shows Punishing Reach of Racism for Black Boys A study of 20 million children shows the fragility of the American Dream.
05/05/2019
Plenty of food for our Cinco de Mayo festivites! Come to William James, 15th floor at 1pm TODAY ✨