#  News & Events 

 



Hutchins Center events and exhibitions are [accessible](/reasonable-accommodation-statement), free, and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.



 



 

 

 

 

##  Latest News 

 



  [### The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research Announces its Fourteenth Class of W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellows

 ](https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/fourteenth-class-du-bois-fellows) June 15, 2026 

 

   ![Exterior photo of the Hutchins Center in Harvard Square](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/facade_full-size_06.jpg?itok=bhw063XP) 

 



 

 

   [### Brandon Terry Chosen as Fellow of National Fellowship on the Future of Liberal Education

 ](https://nffle.org/) April 24, 2026 

 

   ![Brandon Terry](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/cf6e2d1f-c939-915e-7303-5845709764a2.jpg?itok=Os7lok7j) 

 



 

 

   [### FAS Current, 'Henry Louis Gates Jr. accepts medal named for Thomas Jefferson'

 ](https://current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/henry-louis-gates-jr-accepts-medal-named-thomas-jefferson) April 21, 2026 

 

   ![Henry Louis Gates, Jr. speaking at a podium with an American flag behind him](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/20260414_Founders_Day_LNG_C1_9209-1.jpg?h=920929c4&itok=PRmduL-W) 

 



 

 

   [### UVA Today, '‘Distinguished’ trio celebrated with highest honors of UVA and Monticello'

 ](https://news.virginia.edu/content/distinguished-trio-celebrated-highest-honors-uva-and-monticello) April 15, 2026 

 

   ![Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., architect Jeanne Gang and scholar and author Henry Louis Gates Jr. standing next to each other](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/Header-SF-Founders-LNG.jpg?h=030e8501&itok=GpxwIPHJ) 

 



 

 

   [### Harvard Gazette, 'Harvard’s Hutchins Center names Ben Vinson III fellow at Afro-Latin American Research Institute'

 ](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/newsplus/harvards-hutchins-center-names-ben-vinson-iii-fellow-at-afro-latin-american-research-institute/) February 20, 2026 

 

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   [### Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in the Wall Street Journal, 'Black and Jewish Americans Can Find Unity Again'

 ](https://www.wsj.com/opinion/black-and-jewish-americans-can-find-unity-again-b1512b9b) February 10, 2026 

 

   ![Professor Gates in a chair with the title of the documentary above him](/sites/g/files/omnuum10831/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/bja.jpg?h=56d1174f&itok=_7cPTeEQ) 

 



 

 

  

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##  Recent Events 

 



  [### Curator Tours of The Alain Locke Gallery

 ](/event/curator-tours-alain-locke-gallery-3?occ_id=0)June 4, 2026

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 3:00PM - 4:00PM EDT 

 

 

   [### Curator Tours of The Alain Locke Gallery

 ](/event/curator-tours-alain-locke-gallery-2?occ_id=0)May 14, 2026

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 3:00PM - 4:00PM EDT 

 

 

   [### Exhibiting Art from the French- and Creole/Kreyol-Speaking Caribbean and Amazonia: Sociological, Historical, Art Historical, and Museological Perspectives

 ](/event/exhibiting-art-french-and-creolekreyol-speaking-caribbean-and-amazonia-sociological-0?occ_id=0)May 1, 2026

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 8:45AM - 3:30PM EDT 

 

 

   [### Exhibiting Art from the French- and Creole/Kreyol-Speaking Caribbean and Amazonia: Sociological, Historical, Art Historical, and Museological Perspectives

 ](/event/exhibiting-art-french-and-creolekreyol-speaking-caribbean-and-amazonia-sociological?occ_id=0)April 30, 2026

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 1:00PM - 5:45PM EDT 

 

 

   [### Dr. Claude Steele, 'Churn: The Tension That Divides Us and How To Overcome It.'

 ](/event/dr-claude-steele-churn-tension-divides-us-and-how-overcome-it?occ_id=0)April 30, 2026

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 12:00PM EDT 

 

 

   [### Screening of 'I Love Boosters' with Director Boots Riley

 ](/event/screening-i-love-boosters-director-boots-riley?occ_id=0)April 23, 2026

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 3:30PM - 5:30PM EDT 

 

 

  

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