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Report Details History of Slavery in Roxbury

February 7, 2023
A report about the First Church of Roxbury, released Monday, brings new historical perspective about the presence of people of color and enslaved people in colonial Massachusetts. The report largely relied on the First Church of Roxbury records, which are currently located in the Harvard Divinity School library.
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Crowds Choose Love over Hate at the U during MLK Week

January 17, 2023
Associate Dean for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging at Harvard Divinity School (HDS), Melissa Wood Bartholomew. Dr. Bartholomew’s keynote focused on racial justice and healing practices aimed at restoration, an experiential presentation that centered on Dr. King’s notion of The Beloved Community and invited the audience to participate and feel their way through the experience. 
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Keynote Speaker for MLK Week Announced

December 13, 2022
This year’s Martin Luther King Week planning committee is pleased to announce its keynote speaker for 2023: Melissa Wood Bartholomew. Dr. Bartholomew is the Associate Dean for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging at Harvard Divinity School where she also teaches. A Christ-centered minister and a racial justice and healing practitioner, she is a dynamic and inspiring speaker and was the planning committee’s top choice for keynote this year.
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'Blacks and Jews' Authors on Chappelle, Kanye Getting Caught in The 'Black Antisemitism' Loop

November 15, 2022

HDS Professor of African American Religious Studies Terrence L. Johnson and Georgetown University Professor Jacques Berlinerblau have spent years studying, teaching and writing together about the fascinating, weirdly framed, and widely misunderstood subject of "Blacks and Jews" (even that term, they point out in their research, is a misnomer) all of which culminated in their recent book, Blacks and Jews in America: An Invitation to Dialogue.

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Video: HDS 2022 Convocation: 'Legacies of Slavery: Bondage and Resistance'

September 29, 2022

Harvard Divinity School marked the opening of the 2022-23 academic year with its 207th Convocation. Harvard Radcliffe Institute Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin delivered the address, titled "Legacies of Slavery: Bondage and Resistance." Brown-Nagin chaired the Presidential Initiative on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery, which issued its report earlier this year.... Read more about Video: HDS 2022 Convocation: 'Legacies of Slavery: Bondage and Resistance'

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