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Vivekae M. Kim
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Augusta C. Uwamanzu-Nna
Augusta C. Uwamanzu-Nna’s ’20 orange and gold ankara skirt flutters as she dances, smiling at the camera lens as it records her.
Abraham Rebollo
Rebollo’s family’s immigration story has shaped their experience at Harvard just as profoundly as it did their childhood.
Eyes and Ears in Cambridge
While ShotSpotter is used nationally — in cities as large as New York and Chicago, but also as small as Somerville and Revere — its efficacy is still in question.
No More Sixteen Candles
These comedians and I are having a conversation, and we don’t need a big wooden table in a Harvard seminar to talk about diaspora, our parents, and Asianness in America. We don’t have to explain unbelonging to each other.
The Loop Lab Asks Why
Malikowski is the program manager at the Loop Lab, the 11-month-old nonprofit focused on providing professional audio-video training for underrepresented young people in The Port, a neighborhood of Cambridge. Its ultimate goal is to provide them with the tools they need to enter into the digital and creative economy.
Pod Save… the World?
"This is the silver bullet. This is the silver bullet for not just transportation, but for happiness. This is the happiness pill."
Transit Pod
Mike D. Stanley, CEO of Transit X, shows off the pod he hopes will revolutionize public transit.
Left Out of the System
At Harvard and at elite Boston public schools, so-called “objective” metrics used in admissions may not deserve the name. The game of who gets in where is undergirded — and, to a certain extent, predetermined — by a complex ecosystem of devoted parents, well-paid tutors, and driven students.
Harvard's 'Bloody Monday'
Harvard sophomores used to beat up freshmen in one violent annual tradition.
Like and Subscribe
The vloggers’ videos, class years, and backgrounds may vary, but their viewers do not. Watchers’ comments seem to idolize Harvard with words like “hope,” “dream,” and “wish,” along with countless heart-eyes emojis. The vloggers cater to an audience that requests all Harvard coverage, all the time.
Remembering Rosa Parks on Boston's Buses
To Ornell, honoring Rosa Parks isn’t just about celebrating Parks’ brave actions that ignited the Montgomery Bus Boycott. She says it’s about what Rosa Parks, as an American civil rights leader, represents to Boston and to continuing struggles for justice.
