This year's forum, titled The Rise and Fall of Affirmative Action, comes less than two months after the U.S. Supreme Court released decisions declaring the consideration of race in college admissions unconstitutional.

The 2022 Hutchins Forum brought a discussion of race and the American culture wars to the Old Whaling Church on August 18.

Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. opened this year’s Hutchins Forum by speaking about the past in order to draw parallels with the present state of division in American.

The discussion at this year's Hutchins Forum ranged from the state of race relations in America to the role of the media in politics.

This year's forum presented by the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University was the largest in its 23-year history.

The Republican party, Donald Trump and the media all came under fire in this year’s Hutchins Forum, in the midst of what will surely be remembered as one of the most consequential presidential elections in modern time.

Editor’s Note: What follows is an edited version of opening remarks delivered by the author at the annual Hutchins Forum at the Old Whaling Church.

Panelists participating in the annual Hutchins Forum last week at the Old Whaling Church took on the broad-ranging topic of whether black millennials are ready to carry the mantle for civil rights.

A sense of excitement filled the Old Whaling Church on Friday evening as visitors from around the country filtered in for the 14th annual Hutchins Forum, sponsored by the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

Politics are poisoned by bitter partisanship, economic disparities between whites and minorities are widening and trust between these groups seems to be eroding, complicating efforts to bridge America’s divisions. These were among the many observations by panelists at the annual Hutchins Forum Thursday evening in Edgartown.