HKS Equity Coalition
@equityhks
A group of student organizers committed to building a movement for equity and justice @Kennedy_School. Demanding #HKSRacialEquityNow.
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We love to see our former Coordinating Team member carry our #antiracist mission beyond Harvard Kennedy School! Go Erica πͺπΌ
This Spring, Prof. Rev. & Prof. Cornell William Brooks is teaching Harvard University Harvard Kennedy School's #MLD375: #CreatingJusticeInRealTime: Vision, Strategies & Campaigns, M&W 3-4:15pm EST. Apply now: bit.ly/MLD375. Find us on Instagram as well: instagram.com/p/CYt5Us1FRgP/
You donβt want to miss this talk by Arizona State University Law Professor Angela Banks on civic education in the age of mass migration. We are kicking off our speaker series for the spring of 2022 at Immigration Initiative at Harvard (IIH) February 16th at 12 pm. Register!! All events are Free & Open to the public
When folks ask, "Why are we learning about #racism in America? That doesn't apply to my country..." "There is not a corner of the world that has not been touched by the globalization of casteism, racism, & anti-Blackness." β Dr. Josephine Kim of Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE)
"Creating solutions around Black people make everybody's lives better." ππ½ππ½ππ½ @itsafronomics, author of #TheBlackAgendaBook & founder of The Sadie Collective in conversation with our coordinating committee member @Raie_G
"We're suffering from an empathy crisis. We're suffering from, 'I can't empathize or relate to you because I don't see your life as valuable.'" β @itsafronomics, author of #TheBlackAgendaBook & founder of The Sadie Collective
Increasing resources for Harvard Kennedy Schoolβs required Race & Racism course requires hiring additional faculty who study the intersection of race, gender, & class so the burden does not fall on one Professor, @KhalilGMuhammad. via The Harvard Crimson thecrimson.com/article/2022/3β¦
"For #ClimateChange, much like with other issues...until it happens to somebody else, it doesn't seem to matter. When it's Black and brown communities being hit, it doesn't seem to matter." β @karendiver of University of Minnesota via Institute of Politics
HAPPENING NOW Harvard community, stop by the Science Center now to make a sign to #DefendDiversity! We cannot go back on affirmative action or other civil rights. Phillips Brooks House Association Harvard BSA Harvard Fuerza Harvard Ethnic Studies Coalition Kuumba Singers Harvard Native Harvard Inequality | HKS Stone Program Muskaan Arshad
"My general understanding of abolition is a commitment to eradicating capitalist, carceral, community-based, colonial violence at the same time, over time, until we get to a place" where we don't need police & jails anymore. β derecka andreaFreeHerjames Eliza(beth) Whalley, anti-rape abolitionist
Unlike Harvard University, "70 schools across the nationβincluding Columbia, UChicago & Stanfordβhave already devoted their resources to entire ethnic studies departments." #EthnicStudiesNow #50YearsAndWaiting Harvard Latino Alumni Alliance NAAHU Harvard Asian American Alumni Alliance (H4A) Harvard Ethnic Studies Coalition thecrimson.com/article/2022/5β¦
"If I were a student at a university right now, I'd establish a truth commission." β Rep. Barbara Lee (Archived) via Institute of Politics #TruthAndTransformation pic.x.com/ZiTsKl7O2w