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Tufts’ connection to slavery, Part 4: How community stakeholders are addressing the legacy of slavery

By Guillem Colom | April 20

The initiatives to address Tufts’ connections to slavery are broad and growing in strength. As previous and current Tufts students contribute to conversations and scholarship surrounding Tufts’ connections to slavery, community stakeholders outside of Tufts are not only continuing to address this history but seeking ways to improve public knowledge of it.

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Tufts’ connection to slavery, Part 3: How previous and current students are impacting the scholarship on Tufts’ connections to slavery

By Guillem Colom | April 11

Editor’s note: Nina Joung is a former executive features editor of the Daily. Joung was not involved in the writing or editing of this article.

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Tufts’ connection to slavery, Part 2: The Royall Slave Quarters and the Tufts family

By Guillem Colom | March 9

Located less than a half-mile from the Joyce Cummings Center, the Royall House and Slave Quarters was an integral part of the Ten Hills Farm that functioned as a slave plantation and encompassed current land now a part of the Tufts campus. The Slave Quarters serve as a painful reminder of the impacts of slavery on systemic social and economic conditions that disproportionately harm communities of color.

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Tufts’ connection to slavery, Part 1: The Ten Hills Farm

By Guillem Colom | February 6

The founding of Tufts has been a tale told far and wide. When a friend of Charles Tufts, one of the founders of Tufts, asked him what he intended to do with land including Walnut Hill, the iconic centerpiece of campus, Charles proclaimed that “I will put a light on it.”

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Perils, pessimism and panic: American democracy in 2022

By Guillem Colom | November 8

Disclaimer: Hannah Cox is a contributing writer at the Daily. Cox was not involved in the writing or editing of this article.

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Breaking the dichotomy, part 2: The meaning of bipartisanship in a fragmenting America

By Guillem Colom | October 6

Being uncomfortable is never easy. It requires us to propel ourselves outside our personal boundaries, the echo chambers we constructed from the moment we felt empowered to be on one side of the political aisle. Unfortunately, we often fail to branch out and rely instead on our emotional investment in political issues without fundamentally making an actionable plan for political change. Such a practice is called political hobbyism, and Associate Professor of Political Science Eitan Hersh is all too familiar with it.

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Breaking the dichotomy, Part 1: Nuance in an unnuanced and volatile politics

By Guillem Colom | October 5

Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-part series on the Tufts community members’ discussion on the Biden administration’s domestic policies and political polarization in the United States.

Tufts’ connection to slavery, Part 4: How community stakeholders are addressing the legacy of slavery

Tufts’ connection to slavery, Part 3: How previous and current students are impacting the scholarship on Tufts’ connections to slavery

Tufts’ connection to slavery, Part 2: The Royall Slave Quarters and the Tufts family

Tufts’ connection to slavery, Part 1: The Ten Hills Farm

Perils, pessimism and panic: American democracy in 2022

Breaking the dichotomy, part 2: The meaning of bipartisanship in a fragmenting America

Breaking the dichotomy, Part 1: Nuance in an unnuanced and volatile politics

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