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Each February, we celebrate Black History Month—a significant time to draw attention to the many ways in which African Americans have helped weave the fabric of American society…
In her essay for the Carr Center's latest publication, Making a Movement: The History and Future of Human Rights, Sandra Susan Smith discusses the challenges that the…
In 2023, the international community celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The creation of such a document—its mere existence—must…
On September 21, the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy hosted German foreign policy thinker Kristina Lunz in an event jointly hosted with the McCloy Scholarship program and the…
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Wub-e-ke-niew’s enormously unsettling book We Have the Right to Exist presents a version of indigenous philosophical thought as an alternative way of being human in the world that…
Vol. 113, Issue 6, Pages 1424-1460
This paper documents the impact of popular media on racial hate by examining the first American blockbuster: 1915's The Birth of a Nation, a fictional portrayal of the KKK's…
The first International LGBTQI+ Activism Summit took place at Harvard on April 28th, 2023, hosted by the Harvard Kennedy School. This groundbreaking event brought together nine…
Over the past two years, and in collaboration with Dr. Erica Chenoweth and Dr. Zoe Marks of Harvard University, USIP has been collecting cross-national data on the frequency and…
Nonviolent action (NVA) campaigns are more frequent now than ever before, yet we know comparatively little about how the demographic composition of nonviolent movements shapes…
Last week’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade, ending the right to an abortion in the US, allowed many Red states to adopt some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world.…