Topic: Harvard University

A report from Harvard University's Hutchins Center reveals a long history of white supremacy being taught in American public education textbooks. Authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman are cited as having used language that dismissed people of African descent. The segment explores how the royalist political model of Europe was adapted into a color-based hierarchy in the United States to maintain power.

Alain Locke, the first Black Rhodes Scholar and a Harvard-educated philosopher, is known as the "Godfather of the Harlem Renaissance." Locke promoted the concept of the "New Negro," encouraging Black artists to transform folk traditions into high art to gain international respect and understanding.