The views expressed below are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights or Harvard…
The Carr-Ryan Center’s Human Rights in Film series aims to explore the human rights challenges faced by individuals around the world…
Beginning in 2021, state legislators introduced or passed numerous bills intended to shape appropriate content in K–12 social studies…
This paper documents the impact of popular media on racial hate by examining the first American blockbuster: 1915's The Birth of a Nation,…
What are the downstream political consequences of state activity explicitly targeting an ethnic minority group? This question is well…
How do high-profile acts of police brutality affect public trust and cooperation with law enforcement? To investigate this question, we…
The First Amendment guarantees some of the most fundamental rights provided to Americans under the Constitution. The right to free…
The Department of Justice began prosecuting federal hate crimes cases after the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1968. Thus, the…
The complicated relationship of religion and government predates the founding of the United States. The Founders grappled with this dilemma…
In March 2018, hundreds of thousands of young people walked out of school and marched on their local statehouses and on the U.S. Capitol in…