VIDEO: Common Ground with Eshita Rahman (CAS’22)
Howard Thurman Center Ambassador Eshita Rahman (CAS’22) joins Associate Provost and Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore for a Common Ground conversation during Winter Orientation 2021. Watch their full conversation below or on our YouTube channel.
VIDEO: Common Ground with Faisal Halabeya (CAS’22)
Howard Thurman Center Ambassador Faisal Halabeya (CAS’22) joins Associate Provost and Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore for a Common Ground conversation during Winter Orientation 2021. Watch their full conversation below or on our YouTube channel.
VIDEO: Student-Faculty Forum: Regenerating from Racism and Ethnocentrism
After a year filled with pain, hardship, and suffering due to the pandemics of COVID-19 and systemic racism, the last Student-Faculty Forum of 2020 looked to regeneration. Specifically, how to bring health, repair, recovery, growth, and new life to where there was once damage, disease, and destruction. Featuring: Katherine Kennedy, Director of the Howard Thurman […]
VIDEO: A Conversation with Dr. Kendi (12/2)
In December, the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground was proud to host the first in a series of conversations with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, founder and director of Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research. Dr. Kendi joined the HTC’s Assistant Director Nick Bates, Student Ambassador Archelle Thelemaque (COM’21), and Mikajah Hayes (QST’21) in conversation […]
VIDEO: Real Talk, Episode 3
Assistant Directors Laura Rose Montorio, Nick Bates, and Shari Tumandao recently hosted the third installment of Real Talk, the HTC’s monthly virtual advice show. In this episode, they tackle student-submitted questions about renting and buying homes, where to live after graduation, what they learned about themselves in quarantine, and where to find the best pizza […]
VIDEO: 12th Night Wassail (A Thurman Family Recipe)
The Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground kicked off this holiday season with a Thurman family tradition: 12th Night Wassail. We recreated this special seasonal drink with the help of Boston University’s Gastronomy and Food & Wine programs. The recipe is featured in Recipes and Remembrances of Fair Dillard, recently published by Zella Palmer, chair and […]
VIDEO: Post-Election Reflections: A Student-Faculty Forum
The HTC’s Student-Faculty Forum program returned in November with “Post-Election Reflections,” a conversation about the most consequential presidential election in US history. Watch the full video from the event below or on our YouTube channel.
VIDEO: The Muddy Waters Effect
In October, the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground launched Lift Every Voice and Sing, a new series dedicated to exploring the influence of American music on popular culture and social movements. “The Muddy Waters Effect,” the first conversation in this series, explored the profound impact Black American blues artists had on predominantly white bands […]
VIDEO: What Does Being a Black Coach Mean?
In October, the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground’s conversation series Give Me the Listening Ear asked “What Does Being A Black Coach Mean?” Moderated by Assistant Director Nick Bates, our esteemed guests shared their career journeys through the world of athletics as well as reflections on the intersection of blackness and sports and how […]
VIDEO: Conscious-Raising vs. Conscious-Acting
In September, the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground launched its new conversation series: Give Me the Listening Ear. The first conversation centered around conscious-raising vs. conscious acting, and featured Drs. Ibram Kendi, Saida Grundy, Louis Chude-Sokei, and Paula Austin, as well as Associate Provost and Dean of Students Kenn Elmore as our moderator. Watch […]