Williams Has No Qualms About Giving a Damn

In Giving a Damn: Racism, Romance and Gone with the Wind (Harper Collins, 2021), Professor Patricia Williams finds that when you begin to unpick current debates around immigration, freedom of speech, the culture wars and wall-building, beneath them lies the unexamined history of laws by which human beings were rendered property.

Outdoor Festival

This Juneteenth event will showcase music, food, African dance, and exhibits from local Boston businesses and Northeastern’s Cultural Centers will be held. Highlights include a rendition of “Lift Every Voice

Adler and Swanson Selected for “Reckoning” Fellowships

The Humanities Center at Northeastern University College of Social Sciences and Humanities has selected professors Libby Adler and Kara Swanson as 2021-2022 “Reckoning” Fellows — a multidisciplinary group of Northeastern faculty and PhD candidates who are exploring “reckonings” that involve an intersectional, multidimensional process of truth-telling and accountability around all forms of systemic oppression, from the intimate and familial, to the social and political, to the planetary and cosmic.