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Forty neighborhood middle school and high school students will spend a semester working with Encyclopedia Africana, a program developed by Gates and Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah...
Appiah said that Time Warner, the media giant that owns CNN, Warner Brothers and Time Magazine, is a perfect partner for the site because of the wealth of intellectual property it owns in all areas of Africana...
Gates and Appiah launched the site on Martin Luther King's birthday in 1999, largely to sell copies of the Africana encyclopedia on CD-ROM and in print...
...What this does is basically ensure that Africana will be the leading black portal on the Internet," Gates said. "We thought that would take years to realize...
Gates's own projects--Encyclopedia Africana and a series of television documentaries, have been labeled as self-promoting or trendy by scholars within the field of Afro-American studies...