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Reframing the conversation on racial justice and equity.

A collaboration with The Boston Globe and Boston University's Center for Antiracist Research

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Education | Carissa Chen
How elite views cultivated in Harvard’s early days fed ideas about school segregation
University profited from enslaved family of Darby Vassall, who helped transform public education for Black Boston students.

THROUGHLINE | Ibram X. Kendi, Bina Venkataraman, Peniel Joseph, Sewell Chan, and S. Mitra Kalita
The Emancipator reimagines
Selections from abolitionist papers on their first day of publishing.

THROUGHLINE | Paul Lewis
Poetry and the struggle for justice
During the antebellum period, newspapers and magazines featured poems that advanced a wide range of causes, including women’s rights, peace, and temperance.

throughline | Deborah D. Douglas
Q&A: You know we’re at war, right?
The Jan. 6 insurrection was the first volley in an act of civil war. It has been playing out, policy-wise and politically, ever since, says Harvard’s Cornell William Brooks.