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Twenty-five years later, the University still has no Third World Center. Instead, the campus today looks to the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, which Director S. Allen Counter calls the “conscience of interracial relations at Harvard.” With staples such as its writers’ series and the annual “Cultural Rhythms” performance and food festival, the Foundation has set the tone for campus dialogue about diversity since its inception...
With a budget of less than $10,000 for its first year, the Foundation hosted a commission hearing on wartime relocation and internment of Japanese-American citizens and invited a prominent black physicist to speak, Counter recalls...
...summer of 1981, a search committee headed by former dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. ’60 appointed Counter, an associate professor of Neuroscience at the Medical School to become the first, and so far only, director of the Foundation...
...that the University initially allotted for the Foundation, Counter spent much of his time in his first years as director raising funds to support programming, he told The Crimson back then...
Martin Terrazas Jr. and his younger brother Miguel used to work the counters together at Ben's Tacos, the combination eatery and convenience store owned by their family on Delta Street in El Paso, Texas. For $3, you get half a dozen tacos; a dollar gets you a comb or a pair of die. It was Terrazas tradition to stand behind the counter at Ben's: Martin and Miguel's father, uncles and cousins worked there, wearing the store uniform, a full-length orange apron. There was another family tradition: the military. Grandfather Jorge is an Army vet. Uncle Luis...