Harvard Kennedy School turns inquiry into action
From research to teaching to creating student opportunities and strengthening our culture, we engage in an array of activities related to race and public policy and leadership.
Addressing Race
Climate change a multiplier for racial inequities warns panel
Listening to and learning from people of color and Indigenous people is critical to tackling climate and racial injustice.
Sandra Susan Smith aims to eradicate disparities in criminal courts
The Roundtable, a working group created by Smith’s Program in Criminal Justice and Management, wants to address the sources of racial inequity and disparity in Massachusetts’s courts.
Q&A with Professor Cornell William Brooks: Spotlight on the William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice
The Trotter Collaborative gives students hands-on opportunities to combine public policy and social justice advocacy to create justice in real time.
The United States pays reparations every day—just not to Black America
Cornell William Brooks and Linda Bilmes explore the issue of restorative justice for the multifaceted, intergenerational harms Black Americans have suffered.
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