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...There is, perhaps, another factor as well. Instead of coming up through Harlem's political machine, the newest batch of African-American leaders - stars such as Obama, Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Alabama Representative Artur Davis, Rangel's colleague on Ways and Means - have risen through the traditional channels of the U.S. meritocracy, says David Bositis, an expert on black electoral politics at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington. "These guys are Ivy league, corporate-law-firm types," Bositis says. "You're talking about a very different political system than what Basil Paterson, Dinkins and guys...
...Stick Fly”—a Huntington Theatre Company production which plays through March 28 at the Boston Center for the Arts’s Calderwood Pavilion—rises gracefully to the challenge. The show provides a snapshot of the wealthy, African-American LeVay family as it starts to head over the edge of an unseen precipice, while wittily examining class, race, gender roles, and familial relations in America. “Stick Fly” is an exercise in sharp gasps, nervous laughter, and shocked silences, culminating in a disappointingly anti-climactic ending...
Previous members of both clubs had been part of study groups for a few years to gain support for such a field, but their progress picked up dramatically last spring. About a year ago, students such as Roman-Salazar began meeting to collaborate with professors in African-American Studies, History, and other disciplines and to discuss the prospect of an ethnic studies program at Harvard...
...introduced his most famous character, the wisecracking, God-fearing granny Mabel (Madea) Simmons - played by Perry in a plus-size print dress and silver wig. Since then he's turned out a steady stream of plays (on which his films are based) that tour the country, playing to African-American audiences on a modern-day version of the "chitlin' circuit," the segregation-era venues for black theater and vaudeville...
Home to 27 fraternities, 6 sororities, and an African-American brotherhood called Chocolate City, MIT has an array of social spaces and groups. According to a friend, their frat parties are generally less restricted than some of the final club gatherings at Harvard and there’s a shuttle that connects the frats on main campus and the ones in Boston. It’s been said that MIT students p-set during the week and party during the weekend; nerds know how to throw down like the best of them...