Slavery

The Rev. Cornell William Brooks, a former president of the NAACP, a professor at Harvard Kennedy School and a visiting professor at HDS, and Harvard students are joining forces with prominent Christian and Jewish organizations to develop a faith-based...

Harvard Divinity School senior lecturer Dan P. McKanan discussed the role slavery played in the school’s founding in a lecture Monday evening. The talk is the third event in the “Religion and the Legacies of Slavery” series, which aims to host...

HDS writer-in-residence Terry Tempest Williams was named to a committee that will lead an effort to memorialize enslaved individuals whose labor was instrumental in the establishment and development of Harvard.

On Monday, January 30, 2023, Harvard Divinity School hosted an event on the presence of enslavement in early Christian stories. The event was the first in a series of six public online conversations titled Religion and the Legacies of Slavery, which aims...

A report about the First Church of Roxbury, released Monday, brings new historical perspective about the presence of people of color and enslaved people in colonial Massachusetts. The report largely relied on the First Church of Roxbury records, which are...

Harvard Divinity School hosted a discussion on the presence of enslavement and enslaved people in early Christian stories at a virtual forum Monday night

Harvard Divinity School marked the opening of the 2022-23 academic year with its 207th Convocation. Harvard Radcliffe Institute Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin delivered the address, titled "Legacies of Slavery: Bondage and Resistance." Brown-Nagin chaired the...

“Our capacity to understand and dismantle contemporary injustice depends on our ability and our willingness to reckon with our past,” said Harvard Radcliffe Institute Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin, during HDS's 207th Convocation ceremony.

When Harvard Radcliffe Institute Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin delivers Harvard Divinity School’s 2022 Convocation address on September 1, she will encourage students to “take up the mantle of their predecessors who fought for equity and justice.” Brown-Nagin...

Melissa Wood Bartholomew, HDS's Associate Dean of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, and Erica Williams, a graduate student in divinity, led the group in a libation ceremony—a ritual practiced by cultures and religions around the world.