It must drive the White House crazy to know that “I’ll Make Me A World: The 100-Year Journey of Black History Month” is on this afternoon in Harvard University. I’m so glad Trump has been unable to erase Black History Month from the American calendar.
In case you didn’t know, Harvard University is named after John Harford, a clergyman who left it £780. Today it is the wealthiest University in the world with assets of more than $50 billion. Hadley Freeman shared those details in a Sunday Times article that I read in 2024. Tonight my Readwise dashboard served up the snippet.