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...addition to grants received from the Department of African and African American Studies and the W.E.B. DuBois Institute, the group hopes to raise an additional...
...group will also establish a scholarship fund named after Harvard Professor of History and African American studies Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham...
...Though “The Wire” focused on the open-market drug trade as a phenomenon of urban black communities, Simon disputed the notion that it was a commentary on race. “‘The Wire’ is not a depiction of the African-American experience in America,” he said. “Nor is it a history of white folk in America.”Canada disagreed, arguing that racism had played a role in making the drug trade such an integral part of American life, and black life...
...victories of South African President Thabo Mbeki's year-long backroom mediation between Robert Mugabe's regime and the opposition in Zimbabwe was an agreement that election results be posted outside polling stations. It was that concession to transparency by the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) that prevented a centralized rigging of the March 29 general election, and allowed the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (M.D.C.) to unofficially claim victory in both the parliamentary and presidential elections. Now the fear is that those same lists will guide pro-Mugabe mobs on a campaign of violence...
...teaching English and American literature and language. Rather, it teaches about the structure and works of the English language. While the department’s current name implies that only works from the Anglo-American tradition would fall within its purview, in fact authors from backgrounds ranging from South African to Polish are routinely taught in its courses. What unites these authors is English—not the nationality, which is implied by its placement alongside “American” in the current department name, but the language. This may appear insignificant, but there are larger principles...