Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University announced last month the first endowed chair honoring an African-American woman...
Lawrence-Lightfoot, a GSE professor, was the first African-American woman to receive tenure...
...University will hold a memorial service for Professor of African History H. Leroy Vail this afternoon at 2 p.m. in Memorial Church...
Vail, who was born in Cambridge and was known as a leading scholar of African colonial history, died on March 27 after a long battle with lymphoma...
...PASS THE SALT Researchers reported last week that they may have found a gene that makes some African Americans more likely to suffer high blood pressure when they consume salt. The gene in question controls how much the blood vessels widen, which lowers blood pressure, or narrow, which raises blood pressure. As little as half a teaspoon of table salt can raise blood pressure levels five points (mm Hg) in those who have the gene...