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An internal investigation into the history of slavery associated with Harvard University reported Tuesday that several people associated with the institution owned a total of 70 slaves, and that Harvard benefited from money donated by slave owners.

Devin Buckley, a feminist who was to speak at Harvard, was blocked because she is against biological men competing against women.

The East Turkistan Government in Exile, which represents the majority Uyghur population of the region occupied by China, condemned Harvard University on Thursday for hosting a Chinese official who has openly called China’s genocide of the Uyghur people a “lie.”

Senior diplomats of the Chinese communist regime recently spoke at a Harvard conference, where they urged the audience of woke elites to not pay attention to “narrow-minded” Americans and said that U.S. lawmakers should focus on improving China-U.S. relations.

The Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) is closing a police substation following student and faculty complaints claiming that the mere presence of police officers is a “violent, visual intimidation tactic,” and “implies that we’re being watched.”

Harvard professor Laurence Tribe advised Harvard to be more “subtle” in race-based admissions if affirmative action fails at the Supreme Court.

WASHINGTON, DC – The Supreme Court will decide whether colleges can use racial preferences when deciding which students to admit for both public and private schools, reconsidering a half-century of legal precedent in a pair of cases the justices will hear this fall.

Former Harvard professor Charles Lieber was found guilty of lying about his ties to China, and was convicted on six counts related to payments from the communist country. Lieber reportedly told federal agents that: “Money is a big temptation, that’s one of the things that China uses to seduce people.”

The Biden administration is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to abandon a Trump-era legal challenge alleging that Harvard College’s admission policies discriminate against Asian-American applicants.

Two Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials reportedly received an education through Harvard University fellowships before overseeing what U.S. State Department labeled a genocide of Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang.

Harvard Business School is moving all first-year and some second-year MBA students to online learning amid a “steady rise” in breakthrough cases of the Chinese coronavirus, despite a high vaccination rate and frequent testing on campus, according to a report by Bloomberg.

Harvard University appears to be distancing itself from an upcoming music program exclusively for “BIPOC” students, as the program’s website — which initially said the course would be held on Harvard’s campus — has been scrubbed of any mention of it taking place at the Ivy League institution.

Philosopher and prominent civil rights activist Cornel West announced Monday that he is resigning from Harvard University’s Divinity School, which he says is in a state of “decline and decay,” adding that he had been working in “the shadow of Jim Crow,” which “was cast in its new glittering form expressed in the language of superficial diversity.”

A professor at the University of Michigan-Flint says that Harvard University hosting a music program open to “all BIPOC students” is a Title VI violation.

A high school graduated headed to Harvard University is asking for her $40,000 college scholarship to be donated to another student attending a community college that the Harvard-bound student’s mother attended in her late 30’s. The student credited her Christian faith and her mother for the decision to help classmates achieve their education goals.

The U.S. Supreme Court is considering a challenge to Harvard University’s racial preferences during college admissions, in a case with profound implications for the woke culture in academia and even corporate America.

GOP-controlled state legislatures drafting and passing election integrity laws are a threat to American democracy, academics claim.

More than 70 Harvard faculty members have signed a letter decrying the U.S. and Israel’s “criminalization” of the Palestinians’ “right to resist,” and called on the Biden administration to end support for “Israel’s apartheid regime, condemn Israeli state aggression, and affirm our support for the Palestinian liberation struggle.”

Over 246 years ago, an invisible enemy descended on the town of Marblehead, Massachusetts. A virus divided the town politically and had a profound impact on the Revolutionary War that followed shortly after.

Students at Harvard University have accused Israel of “systematic oppression and ethnic cleansing,” and are demanding the university condemn Israel’s so-called “excessive use of force,” and divest from companies that do business with Israel.

Following the guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial, Harvard Divinity School philosophy professor Cornel West appeared Tuesday evening on The Mehdi Hasan Show.

Hundreds of professors have launched a nonprofit called the “Academic Freedom Alliance” (AFA) to promote the First Amendment on college campuses. Members of the group range ideologically from conservative to left-wing.

The Massachusetts city of Cambridge has put in place a measure that recognizes domestic partnerships of more than two people.

Harvard University is developing a new app for “Gender Inclusive Restroom Mapping,” which the school says will help ease “anxiety” for “gender nonbinary and gender nonconforming” students when it comes to finding “gender inclusive” restrooms on campus.

A Harvard CAPS-Harris poll released Monday suggests the next thing Americans want to “cancel” is the trend itself.

Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), a group seeking to fight racial discrimination in academia, has filed a lawsuit against Yale University challenging the school’s discriminatory admissions policy. The group has also filed an appeal to the Supreme Court of its lawsuit against Harvard alleging discrimination agianst Asian-American applicants.

The Harvard Business School Club of New York (HBSCNY) has canceled an event about cancel culture. The lecture was canceled after someone complained about the topic, according to one of the event speakers, James Lindsay.

More than one million migrants will try to push through the southern border this year, warns a former senior official in former President Barack Obama’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Harvard has apologized to victims nearly 40 years after they were harassed by a professor at the university. The women are now calling on the school to change how it investigates sexual misconduct.

The Harvard Business Review has called Facebook’s campaign against fellow tech giant Apple “misleading” in a recent article. Facebook has ratcheted up its war of words with Apple over new iPhone privacy settings that will impact Facebook’s advertising model. Mark Zuckerberg and his company claim to be the champions of small business against Apple.

Harvard students are calling on the university to revoke the degrees of anyone who is affiliated with President Donald Trump. Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), and White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany are all targets of the student’s petition.

Harvard University removed Rep. Elise Stefanik, an alumnus of the Ivy League school, from an advisory committee of its public policy school.

A Harvard Medical School department Twitter account referred to women as “birthing people” in a tweet, and claimed that “not all who give birth” are women.

A Harvard researcher from China pled guilty in federal court last week to lying to federal investigators over his role in an attempt to smuggle cancer research from Harvard University to the Chinese government. Over the past several years, dozens of researchers at institutions around the nation have failed to disclose their financial relationships with the Chinese government.

Multiple academic studies and critical analyses of Wikipedia have pointed towards the site’s left-wing bias. The findings include its content being more left-leaning than Encyclopedia Britannica and left-leaning editors being more active and partisan than right-leaning editors. Left-wing outlets have been found to be the top-cited sources and represent most citations on articles about American politicians, and right-leaning editors have at the same time been found to be six times more likely to face sanctions.

A recent report from the Harvard student newspaper claimed that 90 percent of the freshman class preferred Joe Biden to Donald Trump in November’s presidential election. As one conservative student explains, “I was well aware that I was going to be in the extreme minority, and that I just have to learn to live with that.”