Through Facebook, Understanding How Friendships Form

Your friends may be determined by whom you see, where you live, and what you do more so than race, Harvard and UCLA researchers say.

Dean Condemns Racist Graffiti

Four days after police discovered what they described as graffiti that was “biased in nature” in Boylston Hall, Dean of College Evelynn M. Hammonds confirmed that the writing contained racial slurs.

Fall Institute Fellows Selected

Harvard’s W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research announced the selection of fourteen new Institute Fellows.

The Iconography of Freedom

Senior Vice President of External Affairs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Harold Holzer, spoke yesterday about "The Iconography of Freedom Reconsidered" during the era of Abraham Lincoln. Holzer's lecture was the last of a three part series sponsored by the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African-American Research.

Student Letter Criticizes Marty Peretz

In response to what student groups considered “racist” and “disturbing” anti-Muslim remarks made by former Harvard professor Martin “Marty” H. Peretz, five student support groups joined to send an open letter to senior administrators in the Committee of Degrees in Social Studies, encouraging the committee not to honor Peretz at its fiftieth-year anniversary celebration.

Christopher Wheat, an assistant professor at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spoke yesterday alongside Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds and Brandon M. Terry ’05 at a panel on diversity in higher education at the Office of Career Services.

Hammonds Speaks on Diversity Panel

During a talk on diversity in higher education yesterday, Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds advised graduate students to establish a wide range of mentors who can support them in their academic endeavors.

Today in Photos (04/09/10)

Photos published in the Friday, April 9, 2010 edition of the Harvard Crimson.

Professors Predict Census Outcomes

The 2010 Census will reveal more about the country’s diversity in terms of ethnicity and sexual orientation than any previous count.

Photography, Diaspora, Okwui Enwezor

Okwui Enwezor speaking about African photography being used in different contexts at the Tsai Auditorium at CGIS south

Young Discusses Race, War, Culture

American black men in post 9/11 popular culture are being portrayed as “heroic terror warriors,” according to Boston College professor Cynthia Young.

Festival Celebrates Diversity

For college students, issues of identity, origins, and the future are, admittedly, sensitive subjects.

Pixel Perfect? (Re)Drawing the Lines of Beauty

Harvard Women's Center hosted a seminar and discussion on the portrayal of the "ideal woman" in advertisements and its implications for the average person moderated by R.J. Jenkins thursday, February 25.

Harvard Considers Putting Out Admissions Materials in Spanish

In an effort to assist applicants from Spanish-speaking families during the admissions process, Harvard has recently begun offering informational materials in Spanish and may expand these offerings in the future.

Gates Donates Handcuffs To Smithsonian

The handcuffs that will remain linked to the controversial arrest of Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr. are now part of the new National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian.

Skip Gates Traces Ancestry of the Famous

Television personality Stephen Colbert is distantly related to Elizabeth Alexander, the African-American poet who read at President Barack Obama’s inauguration, Oscar-award winning actress Meryl Streep, and Queen Noor, the queen consort of Jordan.

Code Switch 7 Takes On Race

Race needs to be talked about openly and immediately. That’s the straightforward message of Code Switch 7, a brand-new theater company founded by the American Repertory Theater’s (A.R.T.) seven African American students: Renee-Marie Brewster, Anthony Gaskins, Kelley Green, Faith O. Imafedon ’07, Richard Scott, Charles Settles, and Lindsay Strachan. Under the mentorship of Professor Robert Scanlan, they will be performing their debut show at 2pm on Sunday, February 7 at Club Oberon.

Harvard Professor Alleges Abuse By Cambridge Police

Cambridge city officials filed a motion earlier this month to dismiss charges by Harvard neurologist S. Allen Counter alleging that he had been unfairly arrested three years ago.

Kaiser’s Class All About Sex

Red dominates his office. Red plush carpet, red pillows, red picture frame.

The Arts Poll 2009

The Harvard Crimson polled the student body about their thoughts on the year. Nearly three hundred responses later, here’s what we got.

Latina Leaders Offer Motivation

Latina women from Harvard, local universities, and the surrounding community, in addition to others interested in issues facing Latinas, convened ...

Speaker Pushes For Arab Reform

Rima Khalaf, a former United Nations assistant secretary-general, called for reform in the Arab world.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. reads from his memoir, "Colored People", at an event in Sanders Theater presented by the Cambridge Public Library.

SEXY CAN I?

Former student Vivien Wu ’08 and Lena Chen ’09 lead a panel discussion on Asian Female Sexuality in Ticknor Lounge last night.

Members of the True Story Theater, a nonprofit theater company, reach toward each other as they act out a Harvard student's encounter with racism. The performers depicted students' stories last night as part of "Life Unscripted," an event sponsored by the company and the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations.