Harvard - KOLUMN Magazine

Celebrating The Lives of People of Color

Painting of College’s First African-American Graduate

May 1, 2016May 1, 2016Education

A portrait of Richard Theodore Greener, the first African-American graduate of Harvard, has been unveiled and added to the Harvard Foundation’s portraiture collection.

Kristin A. Turner: Harvard Black Law Students Association Elected

April 22, 2016April 30, 2016Bay State Banner, Education

The membership of the Harvard Black Law Students Association has elected Kristin A. Turner, ’17, as its president. As the organization nears its 50th anniversary, Turner says she is committed to ushering the organization into a new age by “shaping its future while honoring its past.”

Harvard Leadership Acknowledge University’s Slave History

April 13, 2016April 22, 2016Bay State Banner, Massachusetts

For more than 200 years Titus, Venus, Juba and Bilhah were forgotten to history, their names and the very fact of their existence effectively stricken from the historical record.