Executive Committee

    Lawrence D. Bobo
    W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Studies
    Harvard University

    Caroline Elkins
    Professor of History and of African and African American Studies
    Harvard University

    Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
    Alphonse Fletcher University Professor
    W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research (Director)
    Harvard University

    Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
    Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and African and African American Studies (Chair)
    Harvard University

    William Julius Wilson
    Lewis F. and Linda L.Geyser University Professor
    Harvard University

Photographs by Marcus Halevi