New Logo for Hutchins Center for African and African American Research by Bruce Mau Design

Established last month after a $15-million donation from the Hutchins Family Foundation the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University “supports research on the history and culture of people of African descent the world over.” The center is comprised of six individual, existing institutes, chief among them the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, established in 1975 and named after William Edward Burghardt Du Bois — the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University (in 1895). The Hiphop Archive & Research Institute, Afro-Latin American Research Institute, Image of the Black Archive & Library, Program for the Study of Race & Gender in Science & Medicine, and History De