Confronting allegations of racial profiling in Massachusetts
Reading Frederick Douglass together
‘Juneteenth is a day of reflection of how we as a country and as individuals continue to reckon with slavery’
The man who killed Jim Crow: The legacy of Charles Hamilton Houston
Charles Hamilton Houston was an inspiring figure in American legal history, and a sometimes controversial one as well. Both sides of his legacy were examined in a lively lecture and Q&A discussion at Harvard Law School this week, to coincide with the 124th anniversary of his birth on September 3, 1895.
Frederick Douglass’ Fourth of July speech, then and now: A Q&A with David Harris
Video: Unexampled Courage
David Harris receives 2018 Governor’s Award in the Humanities
In October, David J. Harris, managing director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice at Harvard Law School, received the Massachusetts Governor’s Award in the Humanities. Harris was one of four leaders recognized for their “public actions, grounded in an appreciation of the humanities, to enhance civic life in the Commonwealth.”
‘I go way back with Professor Ogletree’
Tomiko Brown-Nagin on the Civil Rights lawyer who paved the path
On the anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the Harvard Gazette sat down with Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School and faculty director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice, to discuss Houston’s role and influence in the Civil Rights Movement.