The central questions at the heart of this year’s annual Hutchins Forum were shorter than in past years — but no less complicated.

This year's forum, titled The Rise and Fall of Affirmative Action, comes less than two months after the U.S. Supreme Court released decisions declaring the consideration of race in college admissions unconstitutional.

The 2022 Hutchins Forum brought a discussion of race and the American culture wars to the Old Whaling Church on August 18.

Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. opened this year’s Hutchins Forum by speaking about the past in order to draw parallels with the present state of division in American.

The discussion at this year's Hutchins Forum ranged from the state of race relations in America to the role of the media in politics.

This year's forum presented by the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University was the largest in its 23-year history.