IARA News

Professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad announces the IARA Project will move to Princeton University at the beginning of 2025, in this reflective year-end letter.

Five insights on race, class, and gender in the 2024 presidential election from Professors Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Leah Wright Rigueur

Professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Professor Leah Wright Rigueur examined how Black and Latino voters in the 2024 presidential election shifted rightward because of their broader dissatisfaction with the Democratic […]

Six seasoned speakers offered practical strategies for confronting the anti-DEI movement at the sixth annual conference of the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability (IARA) Project.

15 noteworthy recent releases handpicked by the IARA team, including including historical deep-dives, lyrical memoirs, a children’s picture book, and a dark fiction anthology.

Published in QS Insights Magazine, this cover story explores legislation against DEI programmes are rattling US’ higher education landscape, featuring an interview with IARA Research Projects Director Erica Jacqueline Licht.

Three researchers offered journalists tips and insights to help strengthen news coverage of college DEI efforts and legislators’ push to restrict or ban them.

This reading list by Alison Pasquariello from the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project explores the intersection of sports and racial justice, in the lead-up to their panel on March 19.

During a searching discussion at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) on the “State of Black America,” historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad opened with a trenchant warning: “We are facing uncharted waters.” 

In her latest op-ed in CNN, IARA Research Projects Director Erica Jacqueline Licht responds to current challenges of campus initiatives on racial equity. She reaffirms that her Jewish identity is not in conflict […]