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Interpreting Stories of Enslavement in the New Testament

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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...

Report Details History of Slavery in Roxbury

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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...

Because Past Is Not Even Past

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“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.

After Slavery Report, What Next?

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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.