Social and Racial Justice

In a conversation on religion in Black protest movements, Terrence L. Johnson, Charles G. Adams Professor of African American Religious Studies, reflects on the state of discourse about race, politics, and religion—in the academy but also in the world.

“I remember after a busy day of DivEx programming, I sat on the steps of Swartz Hall, feeling the sun on skin and just hearing this whisper from the Divine saying, ‘You belong here; here is a place that you will grow and get to know me better.’ And so I...

2023 Black Religion, Spirituality, and Culture Conference focused on storytelling as a vehicle for racial collective healing and restorative justice. This past February marked the seventh annual Harvard Divinity School Black Religion, Spirituality, and...

A panel of Harvard Divinity School faculty reflected on the School’s ties to slavery and its responsibility to educate the next generation of religious scholars and leaders during the sixth and final installment of the School's Religion and the Legacies...

HDS Professor Terrence Johnson is teaching a class this semester that explores race and racism through a spiritual lens. He joins WBUR's Radio Boston to share why he's drawn to the subject matter, and what it means for Black identity in America and beyond...

During the fifth installment of the Divinity School’s “Religion and Legacies of Slavery” series moderated by Tracey Hucks, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Africana Religious Studies at HDS, Dain Perry, a descendant of the largest slave-trading family in U.S...

On Monday, February 13, 2023, Harvard Divinity School hosted an event, featuring HDS Professor Dan McKanan, on legacies of slavery at HDS as seen through stories of the School’s founders and early students. Following the event, Morgan Curtis and Emily...

HDS Associate Dean for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Melissa Wood Bartholomew, and HDS Associate Dean of Ministry Studies Theodore N. Hickman-Maynard joined members of the Harvard community for a vigil in Memorial Church to mark the end of Black...

During her senior year at Fisk University, a historically Black university in Nashville, Tennessee, Aliyah Collins, MDiv ’23, witnessed the aftermath of climate disaster firsthand. A storm in March 2020 brought a series of tornadoes to the Nashville area...

Sara Bleich, vice provost for special projects, stressed more localized efforts taking place within individual schools at Harvard to incorporate the Legacy of Slavery report and its recommendations. Harvard Divinity School has been holding a series of...