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The Boston Globe

MIT Press and Brown University Library have announced a new book series called “On Seeing," reports Nina MacLaughlin for The Boston Globe. The series is “'committed to centering underrepresented perspectives in visual culture,’ exploring places where visual culture intersects with questions of race, care, decolonization, privilege, and precarity,” writes MacLaughlin.

The Boston Globe

Ahead of Juneteenth, Malia Lazu, a Lecturer in the Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management Group at Sloan, speaks with Jeneé Osterheldt of The Boston Globe about what Black freedom looks like. “For myself, Black liberation can be defined as the self determination of Black people,” says Lazu. “Liberation is a culmination of honoring the past, being healthy in the present and curious about the future.”

WGBH

Alyce Johnson, Interim Institute Community Equity Officer, and Sharon Bridburg, Director of HR for the Office of the Vice Chancellor, speak with Callie Crossley on WGBH’s "Under the Radar with Callie Crossley" about the importance of cross-racial friendships and their participation in The Club, a “diverse group of friends in the MIT and Harvard human resources community.”

CBS News

CBS Evening News correspondent Jim Axelrod spoke with Dean Melissa Nobles about the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice law clinic at Northeastern. Nobles is a faculty collaborator with the clinic, which investigates lynching deaths in the U.S. "We are now beginning to change the narrative such that the families who have had that violence visited upon them now can talk about it and it be understood,” said Nobles.

HuffPost

Prof. Junot Díaz spoke to students at the University of Missouri about how sexual violence and slavery is responsible for the mixing of races. “My work, among many of the things that it wrestles with, wrestles with the kind of, the often invisible and vigorously disavowed, long shadow of enslavement,” Díaz explains to Carolina Moren of Huffington Post.