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...students at the Queen’s Head Pub on Wednesday, Faust fueled optimism among black leaders that her presidency will be a turning point for the black community at Harvard. After former University President Lawrence H. Summers’ tenure, which was marked by tension with some African-American scholars (see story, left), some black leaders say they see Faust as the antidote. “The fact that she is in this room provides a striking difference from some past presidents,” Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies J. Lorand Matory...
...Lorand Matory ’82 is professor of anthropology and of African and African-American studies...
...Since the day they left, it has been my dream to get them back,” said Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., the former chair of the African and African-American Studies Department and the Fletcher University Professor...
...husband and wife left Harvard’s African and African-American Studies Department in 2005 for Stanford, where they both held tenure-level positions. At Harvard, Bobo had been a full professor, while Morgan held an untenured associate professorship...
...Republican National Committee has said it will also sanction early-acting states--there are as many as seven--but it has been less strict in reining them in. What's more, on the Democratic side, the DNC granted exceptions to Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada (pleasing African-American constituencies in South Carolina and Hispanics in Nevada), and these "first four" have coaxed pledges from all the major candidates to refrain from campaigning in any of the rogue primaries. In swing states like Michigan and Florida, the absence of major Democratic political activity for four months could severely damage...