Summer 2006

Editor-in-chief Bria Gillum speaks with the Bulletin, the Kennedy School alumni magazine, about the topic of the 2006 journal. Read the article.

June 2006

Volume XII (2006) is Published

The 2006 volume, A Nation Exposed: Rebuilding African American Communities, is published. Place your order today.

March 2006

The theme of the upcoming volume--the myriad effects of  Hurricanes Rita and Katrina--is discussed in a feature article in Eclips, the monthly newsletter of the Kennedy School Alumni Programs.  Read the article.

August 2005

Volume XI (2005) is  Published

The 2005 volume, INVISIBLE: HIV/AIDS in the African American Community, is released. Place your order today.

Spring 2005

Volume XI (2005) mentioned in the KSG Bulletin

The spring 2005 issue of the Kennedy School Bulletin features an article on the forthcoming volume. Read the article.

November - December 2004

"Leadership in Action: HIV/AIDS at Home and Abroad"

World AIDS Day Film Screening & Panel Discussion

    The Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy is co-sponsoring a film screening and panel discussion on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the U.S. and abroad.  The evening will begin with clips from the film "A Closer Walk" produced and directed by Academy Award nominee Robert Bilheimer.  Narrated by Will Smith and Glenn Close, the film explores the human story behind the statistics. 

    The panel discussion features community activists, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization, and a international development organization.   Refreshments will be provided. 

November 2003 

Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy publishes Volume 9.

October 26, 2000 
Harvard Gazette  "Journal of African American Public Policy pays tribute to Higginbotham." Read the article

October 23, 2000

PRESS RELEASE

The Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy’s 10th Anniversary Issue Pays Tribute to the Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.

    The Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy celebrates its 10th anniversary this year with a new issue that pays tribute to the Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.. The Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy, published twice a year, was founded at Harvard University's, John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1989. It is committed to an interdisciplinary examination of the interaction between public policy and the African American experience. The Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy was founded and continues to be managed by graduate students from the Kennedy School of Government. It is the only journal published through Harvard University that focuses exclusively on African American policy issues and only one of two published in the entire United States.

    The new issue of the journal features a tribute to the Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., an influential African American U.S. Court of Appeals Judge, activist, and scholar who passed away in 1998. Higginbotham’s 30 years of public service championed integration and civil rights, culminating in 1995, when he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the U.S. The heartfelt tributes in the new issue, celebrating Higginbotham’s life and achievements were written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., noted African American scholar and Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Dean of the Kennedy School of Government, among others.