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...with new energy, popping, locking, and spinning upside down. In the subsequent interview with Aykroyd, one member explained that he was one of four choreographers to assemble the piece, reminding us that the talent possessed by the members of Harvard dance groups is not simply limited to execution.The Pan-African Dance and Music Ensemble sustained this vibrancy with choreography representative of many national cultures accompanied by skilled drumming. The dancers of the Harvard College Gumboots Troupe, which originated stylistically from the mines of apartheid South Africa, presented a more specific African heritage. Members danced in rubber boots while creating...
It’s true that the XOs are not survival essentials. At the unveiling of the laptops at the World Economic Forum in 2006, Marthe Dansokho of Cameroon declared that African women who work in the countryside don’t have time to sit with their children and research crops, assuming they’re even literate. But the XO is not a gimmick cure-all. OLPC is not even a laptop program. It’s an education and communication program: the key to smashing cycles of strife. In the long run, this is the right...
...black community’s music and fashion. “Over time, there has been a misalignment between Eleganza and BlackCAST,” says Christian I.C. Strong ’09, former BlackCAST co-president. “Originally Eleganza was a means to put African Americans on stage and present them in a positive light. In past years, other board members and I have seen that there is discrepancy between that and what we see onstage. It’s not something that past board members thought really represented BlackCAST. ”But Mason deems...
...Ozzy and Harriet, Lucy and Ricky, Leave it to Beaver. In September 1958, Bank of America tested its first 60,000 credit cards (later named Visa) in Fresno, Calif. Within a decade, Americans had signed up for more than 100 million credit cards. Today, the number tops 1 billion. African Americans were able to pull themselves into the middle-class bracket through the social gains of the civil rights movement, though a disproportionate number still live below the poverty line. (Read the 1974 TIME article "America's Rising Black Middle Class...
...Grose, Dean • allegedly amusing e-mail depicting watermelons on White House lawn is sent by to fellow Orange County citizens, among them an unamused black woman • unawareness that the alleged affinity of African Americans for watermelon is one of the basic tenets of racial stereotyping is claimed by • why the - okay, Dean, have it your way - non-racist image of watermelons on the White House lawn is supposed to be funny goes unexplained...