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Glenda R. Carpio, professor of African and African American Studies and English, moderated the discussion...
...Blood” is Yeasayer’s first release since their 2007 breakout LP “All Hour Cymbals.” Where “Cymbals” haphazardly imitated everything from West African rhythms to Middle-Eastern pop, “Odd Blood” is decidedly paired-down, although not without foreign influences. The abundance of pop hooks on this album suggests that Yeasayer spent most of their recent downtime in a trashy European discothèque, and loved absolutely every moment...
...matter what the laws were in the daytime, no matter how societies tried to enforce sexual segregation, when the lights came down, everybody was sleeping with everybody,” Gates, a professor and director of the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, announced to a charmed audience at “The Colbert Report” on Thursday night where he appeared to promote the series...
Gates said that he was inspired to create the show when he received a letter from a woman of Russian descent in response to his series “African American Lives” that focused on tracing the family histories of prominent African-Americans. The woman wrote to him asking if he would do a follow-up, exploring the genealogies of Americans of all races, not just African-Americans...
...original version of the Feb. 8 news article "Skip Gates Traces Ancestry of the Famous" misstated the name of Elizabeth Alexander—the African-American poet who read at President Barack Obama’s inauguration—as Elizabeth Adams...