Slavery

That has been a large part of HDS Associate Dean for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Melissa Bartholomew’s work: facilitating constructive discomfort. Last year the Divinity School hosted a series of discussions focused on Harvard’s report and on the...

“If there is no form of acknowledging apology for this global harm, psychologically, spiritually, we're not going to move forward,” said Melissa Bartholomew, Associate Dean for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging.

In the summer of 1820, Rev. Samuel Joseph May, a recent Harvard Divinity School graduate, was invited by Nahant summer residents to provide the town’s first Christian worship services. Ten years later, May made a name for himself as a preacher and joined...

Joy Fallon, MDiv '11, and David Waters, MDiv '18, discuss the effort by King’s Chapel in Boston to acknowledge and commemorate the history of slavery cemented into the very foundation of the building.

On a fall afternoon in November inside Harvard Divinity School’s Swartz Hall, the School’s Associate Dean for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Melissa Wood Bartholomew along with Assistant Dean for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Steph Gauchel 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...

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...

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...

The fourth installment of the Divinity School’s “Religion and Legacies of Slavery” series, the lecture by Terrence L. Johnson, Professor of African American Religious Studies at HDS, focused on the malleability of historical memory, creativity in...