Kent Garrett

The Last Negroes at Harvard

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The podcast is about being Black in America for more than 80 years... as seen through the eyes of The Last Negroes at Harvard. There were 18 of us. We were in the Class of 1963. Before we leave the planet, we have a lot to say and people we want to talk to.

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Kent Garrett

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Latest episode

Jun 30, 2026

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Episodes

Bob Moses (1935 - 2021) 12.08.2021

Civil Rights leader and educator Bob Moses died on July 25,2021. We speak with his daughter, Maisha Moses. She carries on his work and is Executive Director of the Young People's Project... so that we all reach our full human potential.

Critical Race Theory 04.08.2021

Gary Peller is a Professor of Constitutional Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. He is an expert on Critical Race Theory. He is a contributor to and co-editor of: Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement

Professor David Greenberg is writing a biography of John Lewis 28.07.2021

David Greenberg, Professor of History and of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University, is currently writing a biography of the late Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis.

Caleb Scharf talks about his new book: The Ascent of Information 19.07.2021

Caleb Scharf, Director of Astrobiology at Columbia University, argues that information is alive in a very real sense. All the data we create-- all of our emails, tweets, selfies, A.I.-generated text and funny cat videos-- amounts to an aggregate lifeform. Indeed, we must start to be concerned about our "information footprint."

America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s 30.06.2021

Elizabeth Hinton... Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Yale University and Professor of Law at Yale Law School ... talks about her new book.

Urban Universities are ruining our Cities! 11.06.2021

Professor Davarian Baldwin from Trinity College talks about his new book... In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering Our Cities

The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 03.06.2021

Dr. Karlos K. Hill from the University of Oklahoma talks about one of the worst incidents of racial violence in U.S. history.

Ancient African History: Nubia 19.05.2021

Debora Heard... PH.D. candidate specializing in Nubian Archaeology at the University of Chicago... sets the record straight about ancient African history.

Soul City 06.05.2021

This is a book about the 1970 visions and dreams of civil rights leader Floyd McKissick... who would attempt to build a new, predominately black city in North Carolina

Black Republicans 21.04.2021

Black Atlanta businessman and political activist Leo Smith explains why he is a Republican

Harvard Klansmen 12.04.2021

Harvard Klansmen in 1924 pose for a graduation photo at the foot of the John Harvard statue in Harvard Yard... a look at undisclosed racism at Harvard.

The History of Race 07.04.2021

  In the late Middle Ages, Christian conversion could wash a black person's skin white—or at least that is what happens when a black sultan converts to Christianity in the English romance King of Tars . In Black Metaphors , Cord J. Whitaker examines the rhetorical and theological moves through which blackness and whiteness became metaphors for sin and purity in the English and European Middle Ages...

Black Panther Lynn French talks about the murder of Fred Hampton 02.04.2021

Lynn French was a Black Panther from 1968 to 1973. She was in Chicago when Fred Hampton was murdred by police. She was an advisor on the movie Judas and the Black Messiah

Harvard Forward vs The Harvard Board of Overseers 27.02.2021

Harvard Forward is an alumni group that is working to elect three candidates to the Harvard Board of Overseers in 2021 on a platform that pushes Harvard to live up to the University ideals: becoming a climate leader, tackling racial injustice, aligning our investments with our values and making governance more inclusive.

Khary Polk talks about his book Contagions of Empire: Scientific Racism, Sexuality, and Black Military Workers Abroad, 1898 - 1948 04.02.2021

Dr. Khary Polk is an Associate Professor at Amherst College. He talks about his book: Contagions of Empire: Scientific Racism, Sexuality, and Black Workers Abroad, 1898 - 1948

Craig Hickman'90... talks about Politics, Being Black, Being Gay & Okra 19.01.2021

Craig Hickman... a black member of the Harvard College Class of 1990. He is a Democratic politician serving in Maine and openly gay. He is also an organic farmer.

Ezra Griffith talks about his book: Race & Excellence: My Dialogue with Chester Pierce & Belonging: Did we feel that we belonged at Harvard? 11.12.2020

Race & Excellence: My Dialogue with Chester Pierce Belonging: Did we feel that we belonged at Harvard?

... Post-Election Politics 30.11.2020

Marxist-Leninist writer and blogger, Greg Godels and former Fox News anchor, Larry Sparano join us to talk about what happened in the 2020 Presidential Election.

... A conversation with Coleman Cruz Hughes 25.10.2020

We have a sometimes heated conversation with critical thinker and podcaster, Coleman Cruz Hughes about police brutality and the morality of the Black Lives Matter movement.

A conversation with classmate Lance Morrow about his new book 15.10.2020

Lance Morrow has a new book out about the drama of money in America. It is titled God and Mammon: Chronicles of American Money

The First Presidential Debate... and more 03.10.2020

A debate about the debate... and racism in the year 2020

Can Donald Trump be stopped from appointing a new Supreme Court Justice? 28.09.2020

Can the Democrats stop Donald Trump from appointing a new Justice to the Supreme Court seat of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg?

Is it deja vu all over again for the Democrats in Michigan? 21.09.2020

Michael Moore says that Joe Biden's ground game in Michigan is worse than Hillary Clinton's. John Woodford, who lives in Michigan agrees!

Women from the Harvard/Radcliffe Class of 1963 18.09.2020

A conversation with four women from the Harvard/Radcliffe Class of 1963

A conversation with journalist Larry Sparano 08.09.2020

A conversation with former long-time Fox 40 News (Binghamton, New York) anchor Larry Sparano. He says he is a liberal Democrat... but, we have some doubts about that!

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