Jem K. Williams

Wedding Bells Class of 2025

Hear from eight couples in the Class of 2025 who are married or engaged to be married soon.

Best Dressed: Primo Lagaso-Goldberg

Last year, Primo says, their style was more edgy. They used to wear eyeliner every day, and their wardrobe had (well, technically, still has) an abundance of black clothing. Nowadays, you might not see them sporting black eyeliner everyday, but they always stay true to what they “feel good wearing, no matter what aesthetic that borrows from.”

Fifteen Questions: Theda Skocpol on The Election, The Ivory Tower, and The New England Patriots

The sociologist sat down with FM to discuss U.S. authoritarianism, campus protest, and her favorite football team.

How Cambridge Is Reimagining Reparations

The radical ideas behind Cambridge’s American Freedmen Commission Ordinance have the potential to reshape reparations and racial justice initiatives around the country.

Advice to Josh: How to Connect to Crimson Print

Back to school means back to the perennial problem of trying to figure out Crimson Print. Back to frantically swiping your card at a printer minutes before class, to no avail. Back to trying to figure out which mysteriously named printer on the list of many mysteriously named printers you’re supposed to choose. So we’re here to give Josh some advice: How do you connect to Crimson Print?

Fifteen Questions: Spencer Weinreich on Solitary Confinement, Religious Violence, and Quizbowl Grooming

Junior Fellow Spencer Weinreich sat down with FM to discuss the history of solitary confinement, the meaning of his tattoos, and being a “textual omnivore.”

The Academic Policing of Academics on Policing

In 2022, professors Christopher Lewis and Adaner Usmani argued that to reduce violent crime, the U.S. needs to drastically shorten its prison sentences — and increase its police force by half a million officers. Their ideas soon become a flashpoint of online discourse.

Do We Have the Right To Read?

“Do we, as a society, have an ethical obligation to create safe spaces and boundaries for particular groups of people?” asks Jocelyn Kennedy, one of the curators of the Harvard Law School library exhibit, “Challenging Our Right to Read.”

‘Ideological Authors’: Harvard’s Hidden Ties to Dirty Wars in Latin America

In the 1960s and 70s, U.S. Cold War involvement in Latin America and the violent regimes it supported were hardly discussed at Harvard. Yet these two worlds — political upheaval in Latin America and the rarefied academic spaces of the University — were far less separate than one might think.

Good Grief

Some people honor their deceased loved ones with beautiful poetry, speeches of somber remembrance, or quiet moments of reflection. I honored my grandmother with a three minute stand up set.

III: One Person's Revolutionary

IV: Picking Up the Pieces

II: Catch and Release

The Stories We Tell

I: The ‘Unknowable’

Cabot Ghost 2

Cabot Ghost 1

Quad Shuttle, Absent Father Venn Diagram

Black Legacy Ball 3

Though a fairly new event, the ball has already proved extremely successful, with tickets selling out in seconds.

Black Legacy Ball 2

Attendees pose for a picture at the Black Legacy Ball, an event hosted by the Black Students Assocation to celebrate Black history, culture, and resilience.