Background
Emerging as a response to social justice issues occurring around the nation, Black HMS staff members created a weekly Black Community Forum – A Time for Reflection and Dialog – first held on Juneteenth (June 19th) in 2020. Encouraged by the profound advocacy born out of the national response to racial inequity, BSC founders, a group of regular participants from the Black Community Forum, began to focus on addressing institutional challenges that Black Harvard staff face in the workplace. Read more about our origin story (HarvardKey login required).
