“Soul Witness” Coming to BU on October 7!

The Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground, Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies and Boston University Hillel are proud to bring “Soul Witness: The Brookline Holocaust Witness Project” to campus on Monday, October 7 at 5:30 pm in the Tsai Performance Center. Following the film, there will be a Q&A with Soul Witness director / […]

Our Year So Far

It’s been an exciting, event-filled year at the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground (HTC) with plenty more to come! Here are some ways we’ve nurtured common ground with our students

A Penguin’s Tale

Howard Thurman could identify with life in its numerous manifestations. A favorite interest of his was in the companionship of Emperor penguins. The tale he most delighted in telling was about the emperor penguin and its species’ mutual sharing of responsibility, by both male and female, in the birth and nurturing process. Howard, with eyes […]

An Act of Kindness

Howard Thurman was only fourteen years old when he left the comforts of home in pursuit of knowledge at boarding school (there was no high school for black children in Daytona Beach, Florida then). When he arrived at the train station to make his trek north to Jacksonville, Florida, he was shocked to learn that […]

Satisfy Hub Units through Cocurriculars at the HTC!

Beginning January 2019, undergraduate students will be able to register for Cocurricular Learning Experiences through the Howard Thurman Center, starting with the Common Thread Podcast! Known as Hub CC 160 in the Student Link, this experience challenges students to collaborate as a team to conceptualize, research, and create episodes for the Common Thread Podcast. Through […]

BU Professor Emeritus Andrew Bacevich Joins the Common Thread Podcast!

BU Professor Emeritus Andrew Bacevich, a veteran of the Vietnam and Gulf wars, has spent his academic career writing about American imperialism. He gave a well-regarded university lecture in 2007 about the “illusions of managing history,” arguing for the contemporary relevance of 20th c. theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. In this episode, Kobe Yank-Jacobs (CAS’18) speaks with […]

Common Thread Podcast Interviews Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O’Donnell is the host of MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell and the author of the new book Playing With Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics. Kobe Yank-Jacobs (CAS ’18) interviewed him about his book, the enduring relevance of that election and its effect upon modern day journalism. Take […]

Soul Food – Living Moment By Moment

“Life does not stop being life because we are experiencing reverses or because we are young or because we are preparing ourselves vocationally or because certain important decisions that are in the hands of others have not been made. All of this is to give a purely quantitative character to life, to measure it exclusively […]