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...think that in the first place there should be fact-finding, there should be an audit, there should be an investigation to find out what taint, if any, Harvard has from slavery and the slave trade,” said Gerald C. Horne, a professor of African-American studies at the University of Houston.Horne said that Harvard’s stature gives the University a unique influence on the national scene, and that Faust’s tenure would provide an excellent opportunity to conduct an investigation of some sort into its past. “Your president...
...Salamishah Tillet, a professor of African-American literature at the University of Pennsylvania, does not see hip-hop as a problem in itself, but as an easy target for those concerned with the flaws of American society...
...raising more than $1 million a day for several months now, with more than a third coming in small amounts from people who can give again. He also has some home-court advantages: up to 30% of Indiana's Democratic voters live in the Chicago media market. The heavily African-American city of East Chicago is actually in Indiana...
...weeks, the American people learned that he was a member of a church whose pastor gave angry, anti-American sermons, that he was "friendly" with an American terrorist who had bombed buildings during the Vietnam era, and that he seemed to look on the ceremonies of working-class life - bowling, hunting, churchgoing and the fervent consumption of greasy food - as his anthropologist mother might have, with a mixture of cool detachment and utter bemusement. All of which deepened the skepticism that Caucasians, especially those without a college degree, had about a young, inexperienced African-American guy with an Islamic-sounding...
...relatively small—jazz does not constitute a substantial portion Harvard’s academic offerings, like classical music, nor is it as prominent outside the classroom as pop or hip hop. Everett used to teach a course co-listed in the Departments of Music and African and African-American Studies that, like his extracurricular offerings, had strong ties to the jazz world outside Harvard. The class met twice a week for two hours and alternated Everett’s lessons with guest lectures. Everett cites pianist Teddy Wilson, who played with Benny Goodman, as an example...