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But Reeves was less interested in being a poster child for Harvard’s gay community and more interested in giving back to the Boston community. He and Johnson became particularly close during their work with the Columbia Point Program at the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), but while...
As an undergrad, Reeves focused his activities on race rather than sexuality. The History and Literature concentrator was an active member of PBHA, worked on the Journal of African and African- American Studies, sang in the Glee Club, and was one of the original Kuumba singers. Reeves sang a tenor...
A defining moment for Reeves came when he rallied for an African-American Studies Department. According to Reeves, he and his contemporaries were some of the first black students to be critical of their Ivy League school. Told by professors that such a department could not be considered an authentic...
On some issues, Reeves took a more forceful approach. He and his roommate and best friend, Doug Harris ’72 (the two believed they were the personification of Lorraine Hansberry’s play, “To Be Young, Gifted and Black”) fought for Harvard...
Harris did not enter the building, having been arrested once before for a separate protest, but Reeves was one of a handful of students who did. Reeves remembers when the students occupied Mass. Hall, with thousands of students marching around the Yard day and night to make sure the police...