Haiti
Claudine Gay speaks of her mother’s immigrant journey from Haiti in first public remarks at Harvard since resigning as university president
Gay — who resigned in January amid controversies stemming from the Israel-Hamas war, campus antisemitism, and allegations of plagiarism in her scholarly works — spoke during Wednesday morning prayers at Memorial Church in Harvard Yard.
Claudine Gay’s first public remarks at Harvard since resigning as the university’s president in January came not from lecture notes in a classroom, but from her heart in a chapel on campus.
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