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Gates, who is the director of the W.E.B Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research, said he wanted to channel this barbershop atmosphere in “The Root,” an online magazine he launched Monday...
Professor Emmanuel K. Akyeampong said that with recent immigrants from Africa trickling into the older black population, “the African-American identity is becoming more nuanced and more complex...
Gates, who holds one of Harvard’s prestigious University professorships, taught the introductory African and African-American Studies course in the fall, the only class that he will teach this year...
...while the division among the veterans is dramatic, the generational divide is even more stark. Just ask William Jelani Cobb, an associate professor of history at Spelman College in Atlanta. Shortly after Obama's resounding victory in the South Carolina primary, he asked his African-American history class what it thought about the presidential election. Of the 26 students in his class, he said 25 supported Obama and one was undecided. "When I pointed out what the Clintons had done vis-a-vis black issues, one of my students said 'Oh, you do something nice for us and then your...
...days before the South Carolina primary, Obama linked arms with Rev. Raphael G. Warnock - a representative of the younger cohort of African-American community leaders - and sang, "We Shall Overcome" before parishioners at Atlanta's historic Ebenezer Baptist Church. Warnock was careful not to issue an endorsement; nevertheless, he introduced Obama to congregants in a manner fit for a king: "Giants have stood here so we don't take this pulpit lightly, but we invited this brother because he's committed and brilliant," Warnock said. "We had to fight, bleed and die just to be able to vote," Warnock added...