Harvard Du Bois Institute Lectures

Cambridge, MA

US Supreme Court and Race
Randall Kennedy
March 10, 2010
01:07:00
Two Harvard legal scholars discuss the complex and often misunderstood history of how decisions by the United States Supreme Court have affected the legal status of racial minorities in America, and ask if the Supreme Court has been a friend or a foe to African Americans.
John Callahan and Adam Bradley on Ralph Ellison
John Callahan
February 8, 2010
00:49:33
Editors John Callahan and Adam Bradley discuss Ralph Ellison's posthumously-published second novel Three Days Before the Shooting. At his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind roughly two thousand pages of his unfinished second novel, which he had spent nearly four decades writing.
Looking for Lincoln: In His Time and Ours
Adam Gopnik
February 9, 2009
01:58:22
A panel moderated by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University Professor and Director of the W.E.B.
Audio-only
Mental Health Awareness in the Black Community II
Terrie Williams
March 22, 2006
00:31:30
Terrie Williams leads a panel discussion about mental health awareness in the black community. Panelists include Dr. Alvin F.
Audio-only
Mental Health Awareness in the Black Community I
Terrie Williams
March 22, 2006
01:59:35
Inform Your Mind, Fuel Your Spirit is a panel discussion about mental health awareness in the black community moderated by Terrie Williams author of A Plentiful Harvest: Creating Balance and Harmony Through the Seven Living Virtues.
Re-Membering Africa: Memory, Restoration and African Renaissance
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
March 16, 2006
01:55:05
Ngugi wa Thiong'o explores the resistance of African memory to European capitalist modernity's attempts to bury it under Europhonism.

The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University is the nation's oldest research center dedicated to the study of the history, culture, and social institutions of Africans and African Americans. Founded in 1975, the Institute serves as the site for research projects, fellowships for emerging and established scholars, publications, conferences, and working groups. Named after the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard (1895), the Du Bois Institute also sponsors four major lecture series each year and serves as the co-sponsor for numerous public conferences, lectures, readings, and forums.
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