Artist Janiva Ellis, Art Historian Rizvana Bradley Cancel Harvard Event, Citing University’s Decision to ‘Repress Academic Freedom’

Artist Janiva Ellis said on Tuesday that she would pull out of a talk she’d been scheduled to give at Harvard University amid scrutiny over a variety of recent developments at the school, including reported attempts at conciliation with the Trump administration, which earlier this week threatened to pull billions of dollars in funding from the school.Ellis is currently the subject of a solo show at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, a contemporary art museum run by Harvard and locat