PRESS RELEASE Harvard University Honors Brazilian Activist Marielle Franco with the 2025 W.E.B. Du Bois Medal Cambridge, MA – October 31, 2025 On Tuesday, November 4, 2025, the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal, Harvard University’s highest honor in the field of African and African American Studies, will be awarded to seven distinguished honorees. Among them, for…
The Afro-Latin American Research Institute (ALARI) at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University, has received renewed support from the Ford Foundation to sustain the University Consortium on Afro-Latin American Studies. The $1.3 million grant is the second installment of a total $3 million grant to promote Afro-Latin American Studies globally….
A Cuban-born Harvard professor who fled the authoritarian island government warns against the Trump’s administration efforts to impose ideological oversight on American universities – just like they do in Cuba. I have been trying to make sense of the administration’s demands on Harvard, where I have taught for over ten years. The university described by…
