Claudine Gay speaks of her mother’s immigrant journey from Haiti in first public remarks at Harvard since resigning as university president

Claudine Gay’s first public remarks at Harvard since resigning as the university’s president in January came not from lecture notes in a classroom, but from her heart in a chapel on campus. Gay, who resigned amid controversies stemming from the Israel-Hamas war, campus antisemitism, and allegations of plagiarism in her scholarly works, remains a professor at the Ivy League institution. She said her mother emigrated from Haiti “buoyed by a clear and urgent vision for her future,” and an agency placed her with a family in the Boston area, for...