After pacing across the stage, iPad in hand as he delved into the relationship between education and underserved communities like where he grew up in Atlanta, Jaylen Brown took questions.
Two long lines were formed behind microphones in the aisles of Longfellow Hall, and the 21-year-old Celtic, seated in front of the crimson banner of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, made his compelling case for why the “shut up and dribble” side of American sports should be shut up.
But he went much deeper than that, talking especially about how education has left people — some of them his friends — behind.