Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...African-American History Month Film Festival...
This summer, James hopes to be working in Zimbabwe on a documentary about the African nation with a fellow honoree whom she only met this past weekend...
...year was 1959. Location: the central African city of Leopoldville, now called Kinshasa, shortly before the waves of violent rebellion that followed the liberation of the Belgian Congo. A seemingly healthy man walked into a hospital clinic to give blood for a Western-backed study of blood diseases. He walked away and was never heard from again. Doctors analyzed his sample, froze it in a test tube and forgot about it. A quarter-century later, in the mid-1980s, researchers studying the growing AIDS epidemic took a second look at the blood and discovered that it contained HIV, the virus...
...really thank people like [Leverett House Master] John [E.] Dowling ['57] for becoming a mentor to me when it wasn't that popular to mentor African-Americans. I want to pass [the tradition] on," Counter says...
...table tents are created weekly so three new scientists can be profiled each week. Last week, when the table tents first went up, they featured Madame C. J. Walker, a hair-care product inventor who became a self-made millionaire; Edward A. Bouchet, the first African-American to receive a doctorate from an American university with his physics Ph.D. from Yale; and Granvile T. Woods, who invented the steam boiler furnace and an automatic air brake used to stop trains...