At its Commencement ceremony on May 26, 2022, Harvard University honored William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor Emeritus, with an honorary Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) degree. Wilson co-founded Harvard's Inequality & Social Policy program in 1998 and is best known for his books
The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions (1978),
The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy (1987), and
When Work Disappears: The World of The New Urban Poor (...
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