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NEW PODCAST ON 50 YEARS OF HIP HOP
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Yara Shahidi Talks About Studying Hip Hop At Harvard, Growing Up Around Prince & Taking A Time-Out From Social Media Grammy Award winning artist Nas and radio personality Minya “Miss Info” Oh sit down with accomplished actor from Black-ish, activist and Nas’s cousin, Yara Shahidi. Mass Appeal/Spotify Original podcast The Bridge: 50 Years of Hip […]
Black Girl Duo Wins International Debate Competition at Harvard
For the first time in the history of the Harvard Debate Council, two Black girls from Atlanta have made history as the first Black female duo to win the annual summer debate competition at Harvard University. Each summer, the Harvard Debate Council, one of the oldest campus organizations at Harvard University, hosts a summer residential program for […]
Finding Peace With MantraBand
By Payton Saso Finding peace of mind in today’s world seems almost impossible. With an election looming, a pandemic still happening and many uncertainties in everyday life, creating a positive outlook can be hard. One company is working hard to impact peoples everyday lives in order to lead a lifestyle of optimism, positivity, and mindfulness. […]
Schools Debate Fall Opening
By Eamonn Burke As the Coronavirus spreads at its fastest pace yet in the United States, schools and colleges are facing the tough question of how to face the fall semester. Education facilities from kindergarten to graduate school have to rethink how classes will be run in person, and if they will be run in […]
Danielle Allen Kluge Prize
By Brett Zongker Website: John W. Kluge Center Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today that Danielle Allen, director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, will receive the 2020 John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity. Allen will collaborate […]
Minority Report
A comprehensive report of the continuation and influx of unjustified treatment towards minorities during the COVID-19 pandemic. February 23: 25-year-old Georgia resident Ahmaud Arbery was fatally shot while running unarmed. No arrests were made immediately, but Gregory and Travis McMichael, who claim to have been making a citizen’s arrest, have since been apprehended more than 2 […]
Harvard & Texas A&M
I write to inform you of my dismay over recent actions by Harvard faculty Dr. Walter Willett and Dr. Frank Hu and their associates, Dr. David Katz and the True Health Initiative (THI). Their actions, as described in a recent JAMA article here are unethical, distort the results of important scientific research, and, in our […]
Gwen Stefani’s Cool gets a synth cover by Strath
STRATH COVERS GWEN STEFANI’S COOL Most use the California poppies for pretty instagrams. Fewer use them to film music videos. Strath falls into the latter. The 24-year-old Australian artist took full advantage of the super bloom in his debut music video for his latest release “Cool”. The track is a cover of the 2004 Gwen […]
Professor Marston & The Wonder Women
PROFESSOR MARSTON & THE WONDER WOMEN Release Date: October 13, 2017 Genre: Drama Director: Angela Robinson Writer: Angela Robinson Producers: Amy Redford, Terry Leonard Cast: Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall, Bella Heathcote, Connie Britton SYNOPSIS In a superhero origin tale unlike any other, the film is the incredible true story of what inspired Harvard psychologist Dr. […]
