“We are investigating and the investigation is active and ongoing”, said Steven Catalano, the public information officer for Harvard University police.
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Photos taken by Harvard PhD candidate Clint Smith show the portraits of tenured African American law professors, which are displayed in the law school’s main building, marked by black slashes of tape across their faces.
Harvard Law School is reporting that portraits of black faculty members have been defaced. A few student speakers directly criticized Minow, arguing that she does not do enough to support minority students.
Robb London, an assistant dean at the school, said that Law School Dean Martha Minow would hold an open forum with the campus community on Thursday. In photos posted online by one student, it appears that the vandal specifically targeted the portraits of black people, rather than every portrait of a person of color.
She said she would meet with law school students and staff at noon Thursday to discuss the incident, The Globe reported.
“I was shocked. I was shocked, and I was obviously disgusted”.
The incident came after a demonstration on Wednesday supporting black activists on other campuses, WCVB reported. “Especially because it seems to be in response to yesterday’s day of activism”, Wall said.
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Scores of students from area colleges and universities met at the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common earlier in the week in support of a national movement stemming from unrest at the University of Missouri. “Their faces were covered with a single piece of black tape, crossing them out of Harvard Law School’s legacy of legal scholarship”.
