The EJI’s Community Remembrance Project is a profound act of reclaiming history. In gathering soil from lynching sites across the South, the memorial uses ground, to honor lives lost, confronting the nation’s legacy of racial terror. It also makes clear how groundless each of these fatal acts were.

We put four Harvard students and one Harvard professor in a room to discuss real-world issues in real time. Stay tuned for the series.

Do you know that in the 1940s, the Boy Scouts of America created interracial children's camps? It was a moral stance well before it was fully accepted in the United States, and well before segregation was deemed unlawful.

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Monuments shape narratives- and America's racial divide rests on myths they uphold. In 1916, Freeman Henry Morris Murray exposed this, challenging Confederate memorials. Today, groups like Monument Lab continue his work, revealing that more U.S. monuments honor mermaids than congresswomen.

bell hooks claimed that liberation movements are as much a struggle over images as it has been a struggle for rights, for equal access. What we surround ourselves with gives us strength. How do we work with these tactics today? How do we live out this idea now?

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The way to make policy work is through controlling the NARRATIVE.

You believe what you see. And you act on what you believe.

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Belonging. What determines who belongs and who counts. One of the things that really makes America great is what we've overcome to build it.

It’s not time to be silent. It is time to stand & ask: When are we going to give up the lie?
 
This was my main question at the keynote I was honored to be asked to speak at the UN for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The work continues.

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History isn’t just in textbooks; it’s in the images we uncover. Today, we’re looking at a formerly unpublished photo from Japanese American Internment, a stark reminder of a past too often left in the shadows. #Education #Culture #AlienEnemiesAct #Internment #WWII

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Here is one of the terms I’m both challenged by and thinking about a lot today: allyship. I don’t love that it affirms the seeming differences between us, but without allyship in practice today, we’re lost. www.instagram.com/reel/DFc8hFx...

It’s time to unearth the truth behind the words we hear and use every day. If you’re ready to redefine what must be reexamined to navigate the cultural complexities of tomorrow, you’re in the right place.

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