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Film and Discussion: A Reckoning in Boston
Barnum 104, Tufts University 163 Packard Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesTufts University invites the community to a screening and discussion of the film "A Reckoning in Boston," a documentary by James Rutenbeck about racial and economic inequalities in cities. In the film, a 65-year-old grandfather and a 44-year-old woman both have different reasons for enrolling in a humanities course at a Boston community center. Five years …
Tufts MLK Celebration: Quest for the Bread of Love
Virtual MATufts University invites the community to its annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration, being presented virtually due to COVID-19. This year's theme, "Quest for the Bread of Love: Radical Community Care," is based on the 1967 sermon, “A Knock at Midnight," wherein King proclaims: “When you stop hoping, you’re dying. ... In the …
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Leading While Black: 50 Years of Transformational Black Leadership at Tufts
Virtual MA"Leading While Black: 50 Years of Transformational Black Leadership at Tufts University," illuminates the long-standing presence and contributions of Black university leaders at Tufts to governance, institutional decision-making, community leadership, and the “good trouble” of disrupting norms. The program honors eight leaders who served Tufts over the past half century, reflecting on how they worked …
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Tufts Community Day
Tufts University Medford, MATufts University invites you to join neighbors, families, and friends at the return of Tufts Community Day, co-sponsored with the cities of Medford and Somerville. This year's theme is “Arts, Innovation, and Celebration!” and the event will include: Live performances: song, dance, music, and theater Children’s activities including, face painting, crafts, STEM, and story time …
Baseball: American as Apple Pie—for Better or Worse
Joyce Cummings Center, Tufts University 177 College Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesTufts University presents professor emeritus Sol Gittleman delivering the program "Baseball: American as Apple Pie—for Better or Worse." Baseball has been a mirror of American values, good and bad, for the past 160 years, through the post-Civil War business boom all the way to the coming of Jackie Robinson and Roberto Clemente. Their arrival ended …
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Tufts MLK Celebration: We Don’t Have Much Time
Breed Memorial Hall, Tufts University 51 Winthrop St., MedfordTufts University invites the community to its annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration, presented in person and also available via livestream. This year's theme, " 'We Don't Have Much Time:' Raising Consciousness and Building the Future Now," is inspired by a series of lectures King offered in 1968 that were published as a …