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Marcus G. Miller ’08 has dreadlocks that tell a story. After discovering African American literature his sophomore year of high school, he started to think for himself for the first time and grew ’locks to commemorate the development. But more than just matted spirals of hair, Miller’s dreads symbolize the connection between literature and his appearance, art and his life...
...with a Harvard Medical School psychiatrist to discuss “Race and Female Body Image” in Emerson Hall last night. The event, sponsored by the Harvard Foundation and the Harvard College Women’s Center, featured author Sil Lai Abrams, of mixed Chinese and African ethnicity, and Anne E. Becker ’83, director of Mass. General Hospital’s Eating Disorders Program, along with a panel of Harvard students. The speakers discussed issues ranging from female body image insecurities, stirred by media glamorization of picture-perfect models, to the role of final clubs...
...There he was introduced to black liberation theology, which in the late 1960s was emerging as a more rigorous, if not radical, reevaluation of the role of African Americans in the country's history, with the church as confessional, refuge and bully pulpit. Much of it was a reaction to the Black Power Movement and the Nation of Islam, which questioned the compatibility of blackness with Christianity. "Blacks coming out of the '60s were no longer ashamed of being black people, nor did they have to apologize for being Christian. Because many persons in the African-American community were teasing...
...Side with barely 90 members. The church adopted the slogan "Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian." A light-brown-skinned man with an Afro, Wright regularly wore dashikis, and laced his Sunday sermons with a level of political rhetoric that over the years has often proved too political for some African Americans. Nevertheless, Trinity's congregation grew to some 8,000 (Oprah Winfrey and the rapper Common have attended services there). Wright's prominence in Chicago soon gained him national attention and won him entry into the White House during the Clinton Administration. Trinity became the largest congregation in the United...
...should consider imposing sanctions on Zimbabwe unless the violence ceases. Unions, civil society and church groups from around the region have also rallied to support Zimbabwe's opposition, successfully preventing a Chinese weapons shipment bound for Zimbabwe from reaching the landlocked country by refusing to offload it in southern African ports. And the reunification of the opposition has supporters hopeful. "This was the moment for them to reunite, because the disagreement between them was always about how to get rid of Mugabe," says Sisulu. "So now that the electorate has spoken, there's no reason for their differences." Still, whatever...