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Screenshots and collages by Harvard Magazine And now the pandemic has forced another tradition, nearly sacrosanct, to yield, at least slightly. Harvard has always insisted that honorary-degree recipients be present on campus to receive their accolades (none were conferred last year). But given this second consecutive online ceremony, those recognitions and conferrals will proceed—remotely—too. During the May 27 proceedings, “Honoring the Harvard Class of 2021” (as the graduation is being called, since the classes of 2020 and 2021 have been promised a future in-person  Commencement),...

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The actress and playwright Anna Deavere Smith has been thinking and writing on what it takes to bring about change. One thing that probably won't get you far - being well-behaved or nice. It's a conclusion Smith came to when she was a student in the late '60s at Beaver College in Pennsylvania. ANNA DEAVERE SMITH: That was a period of time when some schools, as they do now, but in a different way - probably more low-key way - were really making an effort to - I don't even think they used the word diversity - but to bring, you know, Negroes to their school. And the scho...

The Atlantic introduces “Inheritance”: A project about American history, Black life, and the resilience of memory © Provided by The Atlantic Too much knowledge has been lost, too many stories distorted, too many people forgotten. We mourn for all we do not know. Yet the vision and resilience of Black America are shaping this nation. Our future demands that we unbury the past. Beginning today, The Atlantic is launching “Inheritance,” a multiyear journalism and tech project that will endeavor to fill the blank pages of Black history: to piece together, through reporting and data, the...

An unusual production with riveting dialogue.