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‘Mourning into a Movement’: Family Members of George Floyd, Eric Garner Discuss Grief and Activism at IOP Forum | News | The Harvard Crimson

HKS Professors Discuss Academic Freedom, Issues Facing Black Americans at IOP | News | The Harvard Crimson

‘The Eye of Every Storm’: Finding the Next Harvard Kennedy School Dean Amid Global Crisis | News | The Harvard Crimson

‘We Simply Have to Do It’: How Racial Justice Joined the Harvard Kennedy School Curriculum | News | The Harvard Crimson

Founders of the Black Visions Collective — a nonprofit based in Minnesota that advocates for Black empowerment — spoke about their local organizing work and the defund the police movement at a Harvard Kennedy School event Wednesday. Moderated by Kennedy School criminal justice professor Sandra S. Smith and sociology professor Christopher Winship, the event was the latest in the ongoing “Reimaging Community Safety” speaker series, which the Kennedy School’s Program in Cr...