WEB Du Bois Graduate Society of GSAS

05/21/2020

Written by Dr. Garcia Pena.

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...

03/31/2020

"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 ft. Karen Clark Sheard, Jessica Care Moore, and the University of Michigan Men's Glee Club.

01/02/2020

A new exhibit at Radcliffe, curated from Angela Davis' personal archive, chronicles the life of a complicated activist and scholar

12/17/2019

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

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

https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/event/black-in-design-2019-black-futurism-creating-a-more-equitable-future/

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.

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

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

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 ✨