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...Mason’s all-male followup two decades later. Both plays deal with the intersection of gender and race: put together, as they have been in blackC.A.S.T.’s inspired adaptation “rainbow/streets,” they bring to life many common themes of African-American experience, from community to the innocence of youth to the power of love. Director Jon E. Gentry ’07 first proposed combining the two plays on a hunch that adapting them to work together would produce a work just as powerful, and more comprehensive as to gender...
Last week, a group of white lacrosse players at Duke University were accused of raping, sodomizing, robbing, kidnapping, and strangling a local African-American college student who had been hired as a dancer at one of their parties. In the following days, several national media outlets covered the story, and Duke turned into a full-fledged circus. Reporters swarmed Durham, N.C., articles flooded newspapers, the region was blanketed in extensive television coverage, and vigils and protests abound in the state. District Attorney Michael Nifong has not helped the situation and has exacerbated the atmosphere by making public inflammatory remarks about...
...speech in January meant to commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr., Nagin called New Orleans a “chocolate” city. “This city will be a majority African-American city,” he said, according to The Times-Picayune, the city’s newspaper. “It’s the way God wants...
...liked Alan Dershowitz. I liked also a guy who subsequently passed away named Clyde Ferguson, who was one of the only African-American professors there. He was always willing to take students over to the Faculty Club and have cocktails, so we developed a friendship with...
...incident has increased the underlying friction that exists between Durham and Duke over the issues of race, gender and class. The timing of the scandal also inflamed the fervor: the weekend of March 25 was the Black Student Alliance Invitational, in which prospective African-American students visit the Duke campus...