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DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. spoke about the motivation and tribulation behind his "Encarta Africana" encyclopedia to a packed room at the sigma Chi fraternity house last night...
Gates then showed the audience an audio-visual sampling of the final Encarta Africana, released several weeks...
According to Gates, "DuBois decided what we needed was an Encyclopedia Africana," he said. His hope was to combat racism by eliminating ignorance about black culture around the world...
...Encarta Africana includes video footage of riots both in the Los Angeles and South Africa's Soweto township, as well as videotaped lectures from celebrities ranging from Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West '74 to Whoopi Goldberg...
...Encarta Africana features video tours of important sites in black culture, including Timbuktu and Harlem...