Word: afro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dorothy Porter, whom colleagues called a "legend" in the field of Afro-American bibliography, has been appointed a fellow at Harvard's W.E.B. DuBois Institute for the 1988 academic year...
...wasn't that long," jokes McCluskey, now a professor in the Afro-American Department at Indiana University. "You've got to remember that Harvard has only been playing football since the turn of the century, so it had actually been only 70 or 80 years...
Nathan I. Huggins, DuBois Professor of History and Afro-American Studies, said the award couldn't have come at a better time to bring attention to the U.N.'s ability to make peace...
...writing error, an editorial column in the Sept. 28 edition of The Crimson, "A Return to Racial Sensitivity" by Michael J. Bonin, misrepresented the views of Camille Holmes '89. While Holmes said she feels the University is responsible for the problems with the Afro-American Studies Department and the low number of minority faculty, she recognizes the University has made efforts to address these problems...
...Holmes explains, the continued neglect by the University of the Afro-American Studies Department and a failure to significantly increase the number of tenured minority faculty play a role in this problem. "It sends a message" to white students "that racial concerns are not a top priority," she said...