On Monday, February 13, 2023, Harvard Divinity School hosted an event, featuring HDS Professor Dan McKanan, on legacies of slavery at HDS as seen through stories of the School’s founders and early students. Following the event, Morgan Curtis and Emily Chaudhari, MTS candidates, sat down together to talk about it.

The Rev. Cornell William Brooks, a former president of the NAACP, a professor at Harvard Kennedy School and a visiting professor at HDS, and Harvard students are joining forces with prominent Christian and Jewish organizations to develop a faith-based blueprint to advance the possibility of reparations for African Americans.... Read more about Harvard, National Council of Churches, Reform Jews Seeking Reparations Blueprint

“In the Divinity School, we’re so often in the spiritual, philosophical, moral realm. And for me, as a scholar practitioner, it’s really important … to have a deeper connection with my body to ground me through the learning experience,” said MTS candidate Shir Lovett-Graff, who was one of a dozen Harvard students building a 22-foot Japanese boat (wasen) using traditional techniques and tools in a Wintersession workshop.