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...victory party for Minnesota's first African-American congressman, Keith Ellison, took place at a trendy nightclub in Minneapolis's downtown warehouse district. Down the block from a glitzy sex shop, Trocaderos is the kind of place where both gays and straights look to get picked up, either at the bar or on the dance floor. But on this occasion, the floor was packed with enthusiastic supporters of Ellison, who also happens to be the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Congress...
...audience in the atmosphere of the characters who face those challenges,” says Christian I. C. Strong ’09, one of the co-producers of the performance.The play chronicles the life of a modern Hester—re-imagined by Parks as a homeless African-American woman living under a bridge with five illegitimate children—and her interactions with various figures of society who exploit her for their own gains.The decision to perform “In the Blood” came after director Faith O. Imafidon ’07 and several other...
...reputation,” Slater said. S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, commended Harvard’s commitment to diversity, but said that the University could do more to support minority students once they arrive on campus. “African-American students complain to me regularly about the paucity of African-Americans in visible positions here in the administration and otherwise,” Counter said. “Outside of African-American Studies, we see very few African-Americans here who are available to give the African-American students the kind...
...Banaji said, adding that putting aside prejudice is much harder than it seems because conscious knowledge of the prejudice is not enough to erase it. Approaching the subject from a moral philosopher’s standpoint, panelist Tommie Shelby, the Loeb associate professor of social sciences and of African and African-American studies, pointed out that society relies heavily upon the impartiality of police officers, judges, and jury members. “Does such research warrant deep skepticism towards our criminal justice system?” Shelby asked. In her discussion, Banaji pointed to studies that show hope for overcoming...
...formulating their own ideas and questions, it treats them as vessels to be stuffed with a certain body of knowledge before they leave. The Core is terrified of the genius of, say, the black girl from a predominantly black community who comes here to study race, concentrates in African-American Studies, and only participates in black student groups. According to the curriculum today, this is unacceptable; do please dilly dally a while, Harvard student, if you would, in something less important...