race

Damon Tweedy delivered a lecture as part of the Park Street Corporation Speaker Series, which brings speakers to campus to discuss the theme of the common good. […]

“If students, faculty, and the University actually wish to combat racism, we must remember the event in December and be careful not to push the issue of racism aside.” […]

Adam Foss, a former assistant district attorney in the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, and Jessica Simes, a sociology professor at Boston University hosted the second Rise3 Symposium. […]

“As a black woman, I am beautiful, I am intelligent, but I am not magic because I am also flawed.” […]

“It was just that my obsession with this idea of a ‘white friend’ was turning this innocent motivation into something twisted. […]

Members of the FACES Council gave a presentation on Tuesday about the importance of having challenging conversation on race and racism on campus, as well as the strategies and practices the organization uses as it goes about facilitating these conversations. […]

I’ve never examined the real disparities in opportunity that exist between races in America. I was never compelled to challenge what I knew or thought I knew. That all changed when I went to see a play. […]

“More than anything else, black underclass needs human capital, the values, the habits, the attitudes, the behaviors, that facilitate economic advancement, regardless of who gets elected,” said Jason Riley, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal. […]