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Announcing Research Project Examining AMA Archives
June 14, 2024
To facilitate a landmark research project, the American Medical Association (AMA) is opening its archival collections to researchers from the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability (IARA) Project beginning in the summer […]
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Representative Barbara Lee on the United States’ need for a “truth-telling moment” on race
As the IARA Truth and Transformation Conference keynote speaker, Lee asks if the US is ready for a national racial reckoning.
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It’s not a moment of racial justice backlash—it’s an era—and a crisis of democracy
Speaking in the JFK Jr. Forum, civil rights leader Maya Wiley underscored the entwined fate of democracy and racial justice
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Acknowledging and Reckoning with History
Historical reckoning, truth-telling, and new traditions of memorialization acknowledging the legacy of slavery are all critical to moving towards restorative and reparative change says Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project Director […]
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Reckoning with past injustices with respect and responsibility
Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development’s Megan Minoka Hill delivers land acknowledgment at a Kennedy School diploma ceremony.
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The Looking Back, Paying it Forward Speaker series
Join us for this year-long collaborative speaker series between IARA and the Institute of Politics (IOP) examining how reparative practices, truth commissions, and institutional reckoning with structural oppression provide ways forward for equitable change. What can be learned from national and international examples? How are leading racial justice experts addressing the current climate of attacks…
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Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project to Evaluate Interventions in Healthcare
Cambridge, MA — There is a large body of research on how systemic racism drives the social determinants of health in communities of color, but much less on how to […]